Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6 world win Mph free june 2001 torrential Rains swamp Houston several deaths blamed on storms As neighbourhoods Are inundated by Alan Bernstein at least nine people were believed to have been killed yesterday As a result of catastrophic storm Waters that flushed thousands of peo ple out of their Homes and crippled hospitals and emergency ser vices and tortured the Houston area with countless other for a Flat Urban area that has always been Wise to spotty flooding from rain yesterday was a punishing Les son about some neighbourhoods took on More rain and Runoff than anyone could other areas scarred by floods of past years were invaded again by the to familiar Stinky while hundreds of abandoned trucks and cars sat in water that turned Lowling free Way corridors into the source continued to be the remains of tropical storm which drifted near the Gulf coast and Gener ated thunderstorms for the fifth consecutive most of the rain moved offshore last with bands of rain stretching toward the weather which forecast ers said could Reform into a tropical storm and hit Houston posed a 60 per cent Chance of rain in Southeast Texas Liberty county officials said major flooding was expected today along the Trinity River Northeast of they told at least residents of 16 subdivisions to evacuate As soon As the storm Waters in Houston brought panic yesterday to Veronica Watts and her daughter Aziza they woke in the darkness of the Early morning in their House near flood prone Sims Bayou and discovered water seep ing they called 911 and heard a Busy signal a Symbol of the havoc that Over whelmed Rescue teams across the hous ton relatives and friends came to help Watts and they waded through Chest High water on Alkay Felt the sting of ant helped carry Chil Dren from neighbouring Homes and eventually found some dry we were holding hands to support each Watts at in the you cant see president George spending the weekend at his ranch in Central declared a disaster for the 28 counties of Southeast the declaration makes residents Eli Gible for Low Cost Loans and Grants to repair the Federal government sent medical supplies and army medical teams to the spokes men the coast guard and Texas National guard used helicopters and other military equipment to Pluck people from flooded four coast guard hh65 Dolphin Heli copters and one coast guard hh60 Jay Hawk helicopter rescued More than 50 people since Rescue operations started around among those rescued were a pregnant 15yearold a paraplegic suffering from a Burn victim from a Pasadena refinery and Many others pulled from cars and other two premature infants in incubators were flown from memorial her Mann which had lost to another a Hospital that still had about Homes were flooded in unincorporated Harris county about residents in incorporated areas of the county were evacuated from their authorities nervously watched bayous that approached flood Levels yesterday As they carried Runoff eastward and southward to Galveston the bayous were White Buffalo and damage to buildings caused by the Force of the but not by was Worth million according to Jerry the president of the South Western insurance information the circumstances of one death Down Duero press Taylyn Pillard rides on her father James pillars shoulders As he and wife Debra Cross flood in town were ghoulish la firm employee Kristie Lee Tautenhahn spent Friday night at work in the towering Bank of America building at 700 she took an elevator Down through the buildings underground parking garage about after being warned by Security guards that water was collecting she drowned when water rushed into the elevator at the third underground police spokesman Robert Hurst about three hours Bank employees noticed the elevator was maintenance Crews were called and they pulled the elevator to the lobby level by hand and discovered Tauten hahns the body of an unidentified Man was found 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