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		<p>HOUSTON &mdash; The remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation&rsquo;s fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.</p><p>Helicopters, boats and high-water vehicles swarmed around inundated Houston neighbourhoods, pulling people from their homes or from the turbid water, which was high enough in some places to gush into second floors.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey_58663540.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Precinct 6 Deputy Constables Sgt. Paul Fernandez, from left, Sgt. Michael Tran and Sgt. Radha Patel rescue an elderly woman from rising water on North MacGregor Way, near Brays Bayou, after heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston.</span>
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</figure><p>The flooding was so widespread that authorities had trouble pinpointing the worst areas. They urged people to get on top of their homes to avoid becoming trapped in attics and to wave sheets or towels to draw attention to their location.</p><p>As the water rose, the National Weather Service offered another ominous forecast: Before the storm passes, some parts of Houston and its suburbs could receive as much as 50 inches (1270 millimeters) of rain. That would be the highest amount ever recorded in Texas.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey_58663594.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Neighbors are using their personal boats to rescue flooded Friendswood residents Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Friendswood, Texas.</span>
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</figure><p>&ldquo;The breadth and intensity of this rainfall is beyond anything experienced before,&rdquo; the National Weather Service said in a statement.</p><p>Average rainfall totals will end up around 40 inches (1016 millimeters) for Houston, weather service meteorologist Patrick Burke said.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/aptopix_harvey_58660096.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Two kayakers try to beat the current pushing them down an overflowing Brays Bayou from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Hurricane Harvey brought as much as 50 inches of rain to America’s fourth-largest city.</span>
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</figure><p>The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said the government expected to conduct a &ldquo;mass care mission&rdquo; and predicted that the aftermath of the storm would require FEMA&rsquo;s involvement for years.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/aptopix_harvey_58663762.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Wilford Martinez, right, is rescued from his flooded car by Harris County Sheriff’s Department Richard Wagner along Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas.</span>
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</figure><p>&ldquo;This disaster&rsquo;s going to be a landmark event,&rdquo; Long said.</p><p>Rescuers had to give top priority to life-and-death situations, leaving many displaced families to fend for themselves. The city&rsquo;s main convention centre was quickly opened as a shelter.</p><p>Gillis Leho arrived there soaking wet. She said she awoke Sunday to find her downstairs flooded. She tried to move some belongings upstairs, then grabbed her grandchildren.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey-21.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Residents wade through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas.</span>
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</figure><p>&ldquo;When they told us the current was getting high, we had to bust a window to get out,&rdquo; Leho said.</p><p>Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez used Twitter to field calls for assistance. Among those seeking help was a woman who posted: &ldquo;I have 2 children with me and the water is swallowing us up.&rdquo;</p><p>Some people used inflatable beach toys, rubber rafts and even air mattresses to get through the water to safety. Others waded while carrying trash bags stuffed with their belongings and small animals in pet carriers.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey_58663744.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Residents are rescued from their homes surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas.</span>
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</figure><p>Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said authorities had received more than 2,000 calls for help, with more coming in. He urged drivers to stay off flooded roads to avoid adding to the number of those stranded.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t need to tell anyone this is a very, very serious and unprecedented storm,&rdquo; Turner told a news conference. &ldquo;We have several hundred structural flooding reports. We expect that number to rise pretty dramatically.&rdquo;</p><div id="pn_video_264985"></div><script type="text/javascript">( function() { pnShowVideo( "0_6f2e3xoa", 264985, "", "", false, "", "", "kaltura", "video", null, null, "", false ); } )();</script><p>The mayor defended his decision not to ask residents to evacuate before the heavy rain from Harvey swamped roads and neighbourhoods. He said there was no way to know which areas were most vulnerable.</p><p>&ldquo;If you think the situation right now is bad, and you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare,&rdquo; he said, citing the risks of sending the city&rsquo;s 2.3 million inhabitants onto the highways at the same time.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey-31.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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Residents sit on a fence surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas.</span>
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</figure><p>Rainfall of more than 4 inches per hour resulted in water levels higher than in any recent floods and higher than during Tropical Storm Allison in June 2001, said Jeff Linder of flood control district in Harris County, which includes Houston.</p><p>Rescuers came by land, water and air.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey1.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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A family evacuates their Meyerland home in Houston, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help Sunday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey rose high enough to begin filling second-story homes, and authorities urged stranded families to seek refuge on their rooftops.</span>
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</figure><p>On Interstate 45 south of downtown, television video showed people climbing over concrete dividers to get to a high-wheel dump truck that appeared to be wheels-deep in water on a service road. They clambered up the side of the truck to get into the dump box.</p><p>In Friendswood near Houston, authorities asked people with flat-bottomed airboats or fuel for them to help rescue people.</p><p>Jesse Gonzalez, and his son, also named Jesse, used their boat to rescue people from a southeast Houston neighbourhood. Asked what he had seen, the younger Gonzalez replied: &ldquo;A lot of people walking and a lot of dogs swimming.&rdquo;</p><div id="pn_video_860720"><span itemprop="name" content="Rescue Boats Fill Flooded Roads in Texas"></span>
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</figure><p>Rainfall totals climbed by the hour. Since Thursday, South Houston had received nearly 63 centimetres and the suburbs of Santa Fe and Dayton got 69 centimetres.</p><p>President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he would visit Texas &ldquo;as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption. The focus must be life and safety.&rdquo;</p><p>The rescues unfolded a day after the hurricane settled over the Texas coastline. It was blamed for killing at least two people.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:640px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/harvey_58663584.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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D’Ona Spears, center, reacts as she is told that she cannot bring her dog Missy into the shelter for flood evacuees with her daughter Natalie, left, at the convention center in downtown Houston, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Spears and her family walked to the shelter after her home was flooded with water from the Buffalo Bayou.</span>
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</figure><p>One person was killed in Aransas County in a fire at home during the storm, county Judge C.H. &ldquo;Burt&rdquo; Mills Jr. said.</p><p>Another person &mdash; a woman who tried to get out of her vehicle in high water &mdash; died in flooding in Harris County, where Houston is located, though authorities had not confirmed a cause of death, said Gary Norman, a spokesman for the Houston emergency operations centre.</p><p>The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 48 kilometres northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 209 km/h winds.</p><ul class="related_links"><li><a href="http://nationalpost.com/news/world/harvey-grows-to-major-category-3-hurricane-as-refineries-shut">‘A very major disaster’: Harvey hits Texas as Category-4 storm, draws comparisons to Hurricane Katrina</a></li></ul><p>Harvey weakened Saturday to a tropical storm. On Sunday, it was virtually stationary about 65 miles southeast of San Antonio, with maximum sustained winds of about 72.42 km/h, the hurricane centre said.</p><p>The system was the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961&rsquo;s Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.</p>		</div>
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