NEW CANEY. Texas – Officials’ warnings could be heard loud and clear throughout the Idle Glen neighborhood in New Caney Tuesday morning.
Tuesday night and Wednesday, the residents who stuck around saw the reasons why.
“Water got up in the air intake, shorted my battery out,” said a resident named John Gray.
Gray recorded video trying to drive his jeep through flood waters before it stopped. It’s something he says he’s done before but this time, it had to be pulled out by a Good Samaritan with a truck.
Margarita Miranda has lived on that same street for 34 years.
She says nothing happens when it rains a lot, its only when the Trinity River Authority opens the dams such as the one in Lake Livingston, that it floods. People in the community live near the East Fork of the San Jacinto River that is close to the Trinity River which along with rain, is fed by Lake Livingston.
Miranda says this year the area has already flooded twice. The first time in January and then now.
“The people that live here are low income anyway so we hardly can afford to rebuild as it is,” Gray said
Officials say while they expect flooding by opening the dam, it’s done in a effort to prevent more widespread disaster.