Houston braces for even more flooding By webdesk Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Evacuees wade down a flooded section of Interstate 610 as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. The remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into Houston Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Susie Williams, a volunteer from Memphis, Tenn., speaks with a young girl at a temporary shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. On Sunday, Harvey, now a tropical storm, pounded the region with torrential rains, and the National Weather Service forecasts additional rainfall of 15 to 25 inches through Friday, with as much as 50 inches in a few areas. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times) Andrew White, left, helps a neighbor down a street after rescuing her from her home in his boat in the upscale River Oaks neighborhood after it was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in Texas over the next couple of days. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Local resident Kathy Neihaet walks through her damaged neighborhood after Hurricane Harvey hit Port Aransas, Texas on August 27, 2017. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) People walk through the flooded waters of Telephone Rd. in Houston on August 27, 2017 as the city battles with tropical storm Harvey and resulting floods. (Thomas B. Shea/AFP/Getty Images) A man dodges a wake in flood waters during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) A woman looks out from a door at a shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Flood victims are seen at a shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Vi Tran uses a blanket to shield her daughters Olivia, 4, and Eva, 2, from the rain after being evacuated from Houston’s Meyerland area, Aug. 27, 2017. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times) Iban Martinez, 7, holds a Red Cross blanket as his mother looks for new, dry clothes for their family at a temporary shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times) A man walks through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey as he evacuates his home on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Wilford Martinez, bottom, grabs the median as he is rescued from his flooded car along Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Neighbors used their personal boats to rescue Jane Rhodes, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Friendswood, Texas. Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday night as the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade. By Saturday afternoon it had been downgraded into a tropical storm, but it had dumped over a dozen inches of rain on some areas and forecasters were warning that it could cause catastrophic flooding in the coming days. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP) People push a stalled pickup through a flooded street in Houston, after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped heavy rains, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) After helping the driver of the submerged truck get to safety, a man floats on the freeway flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, near downtown Houston. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Related Wide View