{"id":256572,"date":"2026-04-19T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:02:08","slug":"motorists-struggle-through-floodwaters-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256572\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists Struggle Through Floodwaters in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Motorists navigated severe weather in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, April 18, as heavy rain and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2045589242404081819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:flash flooding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;flash flooding&quot;}\" class=\"link \">flash flooding<\/a> impacted the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by @StormChaserHTX shows motorists drive through a flooded Harrisburg Boulevard. Other footage shows a car stranded in a flooded underpass on Interstate 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The severe weather lead to the closure of a section of Interstate 10, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/east-end-flooding-saturday-22213854.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2045589242404081819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;warned&quot;}\" class=\"link \">warned<\/a> of showers and thunderstorms in Houston and surrounding areas. Forecasters said the storms could produce heavy downpours and may lead to flooding in urban and low-laying areas. Credit: @StormChaserHTX via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists navigated severe weather in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, April 18, as heavy rain and flash flooding impacted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13365,14400,56,58,57,4375,58279],"class_list":{"0":"post-256572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-flash-flooding","9":"tag-heavy-rain","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-severe-weather","14":"tag-the-national-weather-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}