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  <h1>Hurricane Harvey: Floods leave Houston looking like a &#039;city of islands&#039; with another metre of rain still to come</h1><div class="byline">
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  <p>An Australian emergency service worker on the ground in Texas says Houston looks like a 'city of islands' as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to bring torrential rain to the region.</p><p>Justin Back is the regional vice president of Acadian Ambulance, a privately owned company that provides emergency assistance during natural disasters.</p><p>He has lived in the state of Louisiana for five years, but has been sent to Houston to help deal with the skyrocketing demand for help.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"[Conditions are] tough and getting worse. The problem is it's not moving, or it's moving only very very slowly," Mr Back said.</p></blockquote><p>"So there's just huge amounts of rain being dumped in one concentrated area at a time."</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>Mr Back is the son of former West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back, and served in the Australian Army for eight years before moving to the United States.</p><p>"Texas has a bigger population than Australia, and a huge part of that is concentrated along this coastline," he said.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"So when you have a storm of this size hit then it's obviously going to impact millions of people."</p></blockquote><div class="inline-content photo full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>As rain continues to fall, Mr Back said it was becoming increasingly difficult to reach people in need and the state had declared a state of emergency in affected areas.</p><p>"Everything that can be done is being done," he said.</p><h2>Civilian-led Cajun Navy head to the rescue</h2><p>Forecasters say they expect another metre or more of rain to fall in the Houston area in the coming days, adding to an already catastrophic flooding situation.</p><p>"This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced," the National Weather Service said on Twitter.</p><p>Mr Back said already a number of <a href="/news/2017-08-28/tweeted-photo-of-nursing-home-residents-sitting-in-floodwaters-/8847816" target="_self" title="">hospitals and nursing homes had been evacuated</a>, and members of the public were banding together to help with water rescues.</p><div class="inline-content right">
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        </a></div><p> </p><p>"In Louisiana, where the Cajuns are from, we have a thing called the Cajun Navy," he said.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"It's just a big group of people with powered watercraft who respond voluntarily, at risk to themselves certainly.</p></blockquote><p>"They come to areas of impact, and I think this may be the first time they've deployed to Texas — but it's a godsend certainly."</p><p>Mr Back said he expected conditions would worsen in the coming hours.</p><p>"It's all hands on deck," he said.</p><p>"As we speak, this is a very violent weather system.</p><p>"The building I'm in, we're sandbagging up the entryways as we speak and there's a very, very intense system about to hit us again from the south — it only builds and builds.</p><p>"We expect a very rough night tonight and it's just going to be this way until this weather system moves off us onto somewhere else, or back over the coast. </p><p>"The mood at the moment is one of survival and organisation and response and recovery, the rest of it will follow as it does.</p><h2>Economic impact from hurricane</h2><p>Houston is considered the "energy capital" of America and the site of US headquarters for Australian companies including BHP, Santos and Woodside.</p><p>Texas is also key to the US agriculture industry with extensive farmland across the state.</p><div class="inline-content wysiwyg right">
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  <h2><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title="">In pictures: Harvey hits Texas</a></h2><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title=""><img alt="" class="float--none" src="/cm/lb/8845666/data/rough-seas-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-data.jpg#Rough seas in the gulf of mexico as hurricane harvey looms"/> </a> <br/><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title="">Category four Hurricane Harvey brings heavy rain and damaging winds to communities in southern Texas.</a></div>
</div><p> </p><p>Mr Back said the storm would likely have a significant economic impact that could spread well beyond Texan borders.</p><p>"This could create a squeeze on the availability of the energy supply — the oil based energy supply," he said.</p><p>"That's obviously going to have an impact on prices."</p><p>He said while it was difficult to forecast the overall impact as it was impossible to know how long the recovery would take.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"I mean, Houston looks like city of islands at the moment.</p></blockquote><p>"[The] whole coastal areas have been just so severely damaged, that it will be months, not weeks, before they make a full infrastructure and economic recovery."</p>


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