Hurricane Beryl leads Houston mayor to call for FLOOD GATES for highwater prone roads

Damn, Greg, don't stand so close to the road. All it takes is one distracted driver. Be safe.

I have a workmate whose husband works for a power company up here in N-TX. Last week, he was in OK dealing with power outages - then he got the call over the weekend to go to Houston. So he drove 8 hours to your city to help get things up and going. Why am I telling you this? Because his wife got a video from him today of people cussing at him, throwing rocks and bottles at his crew members and having a hissy fit because someone brought these linemen some cold cut sandwiches. Really? Why? I understand the frustration and the heat, I spent two of the worst years of my life in Houston. I also understand that living on the coast means you better be ready to take care of yourself for a week or so while hard working linemen struggle to get your AC back on. These men sleep in their trucks because the hotels nearby are filled to capacity. They don't have the option of searching out a cooling station for some respite from the heat. And they don't see their families for weeks on end. So you want to throw things at these men, maybe make one of them lose their balance and fall into one of those power lines. Would that get your lights on faster? Shame, shame, shame on these folks who are so wrapped up in themselves that they can't find some way to help the others around them, especially the crews that are working 16 hours per day, trying to help Houston. BIG, BIG black eye for some of Houston!!!

Who drives down into an UNDERPASS when you can't see the pavement? Turn around, don't drown.

What HOUSTON DRIVERS.....just like KIDS....where is the common sense people !!??

Around here we have signs that say do not travel when water is over the road. By the time a tow truck has your car out, a deputy is there to hand you a ticket.

So, some fire departments don’t have backup generators? Well, guess it’s not that important. Not like it’s a big city, and prone to major natural disasters. What could possibly go wrong?…

Seriously, this should have been done long before now...

Preach! It's been 7 years since Harvey, wtf are city leaders doing to protect people?

Oh wait. Are we admitting it actually is getting worse?

UNLESS YOU NEW TO TOWN YOU KNOW TO STAY AWAY FROM ALLEN PKWY. IT FLOODS IN EVERY RAIN. EVERY RAIN

Houston: Let's pour concrete everywhere, tell businesses to come to Houston, but have no drainage plan, like, ever. Also Houston: It's flooding again!

Do these Texans live in the stone age or what!? This is so incomprehensible to think their road engineers didn't think of this sooner! Prayers for all affected 🙏🙏

Odd to call Memorial Drive at Shepherd “Southwest Houston” when it is due west of, and only a couple of miles from, Downtown.

So glad I left houston. They can't handle a category 1 hurricane. They never are prepared. Every year always a whoops. The flooding is never fixed. After that ice storm back in the days I called it quits with houston

Hurricane Chris is right around the corner folks 👀

Houston should already have flood gates !! Especially in summer time it's hurricane season and your next to gulf of Mexico warm waters cmon now problem is they put wrong people in mayor of cities

How about people quit being stupid & driving into low water areas. As I watched tv during the hurricane I saw people out driving even though mayor was begging people to get off the roads

It’s about time!

288 @ 610 has not been finished that long but it still floods. Why? Why wasn't that problem addressed when the engineering plans for the area updated to fix the flooding not just put in the tollway.

I notice Joel Olsteen's church is right there in the background. I don't suppose he could fork over some of his millions for some floodgates...