Houston - On Monday evening, Houston's Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed three deaths in Houston.
Three other storm-related deaths occurred in La Marque, East Montgomery County and the coastal city of Rockport.
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| PHOTO: Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carries Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after rescuing them from their home surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP) |
Houston,
the country’s fourth largest city, has been inundated with flooding as
result of Harvey, which made landfall late Friday as a Category 4
hurricane and lingered as a tropical storm over the weekend.
The National Weather Service deemed the deadly flooding, which forced evacuations and wiped out homes, "epic and catastrophic."
Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott has activated the entire Texas National Guard. The
total number of guardsmen available to the state is roughly 12,000, and
all of them will be used in support of recovery efforts in southeast
Texas, according to Abbott.
"These
guys have saved our lives," one woman rescued by Texas National Guard
soldiers said in a video by Staff Sgt. Tim Pruitt. Her husband and dogs
were also rescued. "We’ve been in water all day, actually since last
night, and we didn’t think help was coming. ... Thank you so much."
Abbott
told ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Monday that he expects the
aftermath of Harvey to be "horrific," leaving a mess that will "take
years" to rebuild.
Crews and good Samaritans conduct rescues
Capt. Kevin Oditt of the Coast Guard, which has performed more than 2,000 rescues by air and water, said, “Our crews have been operating non-stop.”
“This is an all-hands-on-deck event bringing crews from all over the nation to help with our response,” Oditt said.
GMA
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