Expect a brief break today from the recent storms before showers return on Sunday, potentially exacerbating flooding across the region.
The Coast Guard helped a 12-hour-old baby girl move hospitals after flooding in Cleveland prevented her from being transported by ambulance.
A report came in Friday morning to the Coast Guard saying a recently born baby girl had low oxygen levels upon delivery at Texas Children’s Hospital in Cleveland. The facility doesn’t have a neonatal intensive care unit and flooding made traveling by vehicle to a different hospital impossible.
Instead, a helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Houston took the baby and mother to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where the baby’s condition was stabilized, Coast Guard officials reported Friday night.
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management said they are bracing for the worst of the flooding Saturday and Sunday on the east and west forks of the San Jacinto River.
Residents in Houston and its northern suburbs, including The Woodlands, Conroe and Huntsville, can expect to see continued widespread flooding as rivers and creeks continue to rise.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the surge of flood water heading toward Lake Houston remains unpredictable.
“You may think, if you live in those neighborhoods, that the things have leveled off and you’re good to go, but this threat is ongoing and it’s going to get worse,” she said.
“It is not your typical river flood,” she said. “This is much worse.”
Harris County, Montgomery County, Waller County and Liberty County, along with other counties north of the Houston area, are all flood watch until at least Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service said Saturday morning.
