{"id":2924,"date":"2016-04-19T04:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/houstons-flood-of-biblical-proportions-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T04:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:10:56","slug":"houstons-flood-of-biblical-proportions-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/houstons-flood-of-biblical-proportions-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston's flood of biblical proportions, in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heavy rains, nearing 2 feet in some places, swamped the Houston, Texas metro area, causing significant flooding<\/a> and forcing evacuations.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Houston reporter saves driver from submerged car during flood<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By 10:30 a.m. local time on Monday morning, the city of Houston had requested<\/a> disaster declaration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Richard Lopez and Allie Hairford-Siemens hold the reins of three horses as they lead them from the back of truck through flood water along Cypress Rosehill Rd. in Cypress, Texas on April 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Image: Melissa Phillip\/Houston Chronicle\/AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

As flood waters have covered roadways and more than 1,000 homes have reportedly flooded, authorities have responded<\/a> to more than 1,200 flooding emergency \u2014 and that number is rising along with the flood waters.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Flooding<\/a>, Houston<\/a>, and World<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heavy rains, nearing 2 feet in some places, swamped the Houston, Texas metro area, causing significant flooding and forcing evacuations. SEE ALSO: Houston reporter saves driver from submerged car during flood By 10:30 a.m. local time on Monday morning, the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1192,2102,1112],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-flooding","tag-houston","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}