Hurricane Harvey 2 years later: Buffalo Bayou time lapse (Credit: Teddy Vandenberg)

It was two years ago that Hurricane Harvey dropped a historic amount of rain on the Houston area, causing flooding like we've never seen before. (Credit: Teddy Vandenberg) www.khou.com/harvey-anniversary

[@emilymaldonado8490]

That storm was a freaking monster. :/ I remember when we all cheered when the sun came out.

[@DarthVantos]

Were you effected by a big flood like this video? I CAN"T Imagine.

[@emilymaldonado8490]

DarthVantos We are 25 mins from bayou/downtown but my town is elevated compare to other parts of Houston. Thankfully, we were fine but when we tried to rescue some family with our big truck and boat, we had to turn around. :/ Flood was just way too risky. Plus, we had a few tornadoes. Tbh, it was a stressful week and now we have Hurricane Laura. Houston dodged this storm but we are still tropical rain and winds.

[@ThatGirlJD]

@@emilymaldonado8490 Harvey was the first hurricane I rode out. Thankfully I was at work. I remember it rained for what felt like four straight days non-stop. I've seen major Houston floods, it was crazy seeing 610 underwater on the news, watching the bayou turn into a raging river and seeing flood water cover cars and landmarks out the window. We didn't realize how high the water got in the medical center until the water receded revealing vans and busses that were previously fully submerged.

[@84chevyguy1]

@@emilymaldonado8490 I live close to Port Arthur and I’ve seen a lot of floods, but nothing like Harvey. It was so devastating and sad. I felt so bad for all the people my crew rescued, the looks on their faces was so heartbreaking. What’s even more heartbreaking is having to see that same look on the faces of some of the same people we rescued during Imelda 2 years later.

[@GSM92]

I remember harvey. It was my first hurricane. I went swimming in the bayou it was fun :)

[@i_am_gohan9232]

That’s just scary as shit, watching it as it surpasses the freeway height.

[@i_am_gohan9232]

@Endi • 3 years ago it just has an allure to it, to watch as it rises like that, and imagining being on that freeway with the water that high.

[@That_guyVII]

Hurricanes kills hundreds but damit they make a hell of a time lapse

[@specterx2135]

Cheers to that 🥂

[@ecshady14]

*they

[@djboo7779]

I still don’t understand how my house didn’t flood.

[@1Gam]

lmao

[@adelaidesobsessions6452]

no seriously same...

[@nicolasgarza3540]

Same

[@checkadime8779]

the ditch probably wasn’t full of water before the hurricane so the water flow was quicker

[@ItsReload1]

Same, my house was 2 inches from getting flooded

[@BreeziDeezi]

It was so terrifying. I’d just moved into my first apt alone after graduating undergrad- right by a bayou … the storm was loud. Vicious. I lost everything.

[@loveVanity6]

What bayou did you live by? I’m so sorry to hear that. It was super scary

[@Banyo__]

I used to go 3x a week for a pre-dawn run on these trails, and seeing this was just jaw dropping. It took like a full 2 weeks for me to be able to physically come back 'just to look' because of all the flood damage and the fact that they had to close off so many parts of the trails because they became dangerous or unsteady due to the loose soils underneath or cracked concrete. Guess what happens when you get this much water, combined with trash, tree debris, dirt, and whatever else----you get trails just covered in feet of thick muddy sludge. The city spent months with heavy equipment hauling the mud out, draining water from nearby buildings, power washing steps, and removing things like whole trees that had come up from the roots and lodged themselves under bridges and through the bayou walkway overpasses.

[@zyonel87]

My mom is brave at anything because she had bravery to go out while it was flooding to save our drowning kitten.What a moment to remember

[@Atrulyblessedguy]

What’s not a moment to remember is your profile picture. Like seriously are you kidding me? Wow, smh how awful.

[@Nowieissuperskibidi]

⁠@@Atrulyblessedguywhat’s wrong with it? (I’m not trying to be rude)

[@erikag7334]

Why would your kitten be outside ? Tf

[@TJC-ru1pi]

Sounds fake and gay

[@graysons3079]

We're new to Houston and visited the aquarium (pictured to the right) and took their tour but could never visualize the scale of what 27 feet of floodwaters looks like. This is insane

[@jobuck879]

It was insane. I had just moved back to Houston about a month before Harvey. Water was every where. We lost everything including the Tahoe my father left me after he passed away. 2017 was a rollercoaster of a year for me. Early 2017 I moved away, got married in Kansas, moved to Alabama, returned to Houston in time to lose every thing I owned and in November I had a heart attack and 3 days afterwards I had a stroke.

[@jobuck879]

@UnitTrace Lol no. It may sound like I had nothing but bad luck here but I’m glad I am here. I moved here originally back in 2008, found a great new career and great new friends. This is also where I met my husband. I was here when Ike hit too. We were without power for 8 days. But all in all I’ve had a pretty decent life here. So far the good has outweighed the bad.

[@starisgone]

imagine falling in to there

[@gicraft6461]

God bless you all Jesus Loves you and The Blessed Mother too

[@nikkinicklus7587]

Ya no

[@ryanspencerlauderdale687]

See you on the other side.

[@starisgone]

@@ryanspencerlauderdale687 e

[@TheColorOfCaramel]

I live by the Ship Channel now since 2001, would always visit my grandmother who used to live in that area when I was a kid back in the 80's to 1999.....and I had never [and I do mean NEVER ] seen the freeways flood like that! We were literally trapped on all sides in our community cause the freeways on the surrounding sides had high water. Everyone was starting to run out of food because it was impossible to leave to get to a grocery store!

[@bullwinkle2380]

I lived in Houston for just over 16 years from 1963 to 1979. If I had a dollar for every time Buffalo Bayou and Hibury Street flooded, I'd be a multi-millionaire!!!

[@erikag7334]

Interesting! Where do you live now ?

[@bullwinkle2380]

@@erikag7334 Ignacio California some 10 to 12 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge!!!

[@barryrahn5957]

Isn't this the hurricane that dumped 60" on Cedarwood? I know Houston didn't get that much, but dang! Didn't Houston get like 30 something inches? How was the cottonmouth problem? I imagine quite a few washed up where usually don't live.

[@cagonzal13]

I lost my car in Hurricane Harvey at Galveston thinking I was okay I parked in the dead center of the town and it's still surpassed my door handles to my car. The insurance company couldn't find my car the city towed it to a football field in Houston, it took about 2 months for my insurance to find the car to finish the claim.

[@MegaManic64]

damn, not only the light post next to the side was completely underwater, but the road too. it also looks like chocolate milk and sewage that probably smells like rotting corpses.

[@oofsaid1304]

Yeah the water from here is dirty asf, even the beach is all brown, but people still go swimming there

[@StylistecS]

@@oofsaid1304 It's not dirt. It's silt from the Mississippi River. But yeah, Galveston beaches aren't pretty at all. If it was, it would be one hell of a resort town.

[@oofsaid1304]

@@StylistecS i didnt say it was dirt, i said it was dirty, as in not clean

[@ItsIdaho]

Seeing videos like these always make my jaw drop. It's a miracle only 68 died.

[@ryanspencerlauderdale687]

Wow. In spite of all the damage that was done, and the lives that were lost, Houston was very lucky in terms of death tolls. If this storm were to go through New Orleans, it would have been Katrina 2.0.

[@cairrean2412]

It's surreal to think back on how many different news channels criticized the mayor for ordering everyone to shelter in place.

[@Ro6entX]

I am surprised that road way running parallel with the river wasn’t blocked off sooner than it was due to how quickly the water was raising: Not sure the height but the level looked to be good 25 feet if not more.

[@thesaintlcfr]

the power can stay on for all this.. but if it snows one day😳

[@nottawa86]

I live southeast outside of houston down in webster and we didn't flood and neither did quite a bit of town although towards friendswood and especially down in dickinson got it bad, the water rising up to about 15-16ft on the clear creek and dickinson bayou where it meets the freeway. it was flooded about half a mile on either side and about half of challenger park flooded and 3/4 of walter hall park. about 13 foot high water at clear creek at highway 3 and maybe 10 or less feet in seabrook. over in friendswood, the water was much higher as there are less low areas so the water is concentrated in the creek and swells up. places as high as 30ft above sea level in friendswood got flooded and places as high as 40 feet in houston and maybe 70 soemthing feet upstream. water height is usually higher further upstream and lower downstream. makes me glad i live at 32 feet above sea level and about a mile from clear creek where its high and dry. just know that 30-35 feet in webster is high and 20-25 is average and 15 or less is low but if you are in downtown houston 30 doesnt have as much value and is considered low 40-45 is average and 50 or more is high. and for seabrook, 15 ft is high, 10 is average and 5 is low. weird how water works

[@myesha2924]

I didn't go to sleep until that Thursday. Apartment was surrounded by water but never got in the house.

[@RatusMax]

I was getting off of work at 10... I never seen that much rain fall down so fast. It was like curtains of rain falling down. NRG in like 10-20 mintues the roads were flooded. I was near NRG stadium. Kirby flooded, main flooded, 610 at highway 90 super flooded. Only the first 10-20 minutes... So we just parked. Then there was a little break in the rain and we had to slowly navigate home everything was flooded. ALL Bayous were at it's peak already in the southwest area. My biggest regret was not owning a phone. I got my first phone after Harvey. It was then I knew how people die in flash floods. We went down kriby when it was still raining but then stopped once the water got to high. When we turned around the path we took was already flooded out. We were able to find a different path luckily. Now I am still trying to find a way out of Houston. I can't trust the city anymore. After living somewhere else during this pandemic, I noticed something. I was watching the local news and houston news. Houston has a HUGE gun problem. The youth are getting their hands on guns easily. They also have ruiend their minds with social media and don't value life anymore. These generations with guns now, if they have a spat, instead of a simply talking it out or going for a 1 on 1 fist fight. They lure the person or find the person and just shoot bullets at them with not a care in the world. Houston, we have a problem.

[@oofsaid1304]

Ending part sounds like you a boomer

[@RatusMax]

@@oofsaid1304 Nah just the last generation to play cops and robbers, play with action figures, have saturday cartoons, furbees, slinkys, yoyos, cassette, CD, mp3 player, VHS, DVD, HDDVD, UMD, BLU RAY (yeah but it was on the PS3 and that was before the YT and FB smartphone era) myspace, ipod, marbles, .... if 88 is considerd boomer....

[@nbc2039]

I don't think that is a problem that is contained to Houston only

[@willgordon5737]

It is scary to see how to water level just reached the freeway.

[@carmelo1966]

That was a lot of water my friend

[@hebneh]

During the day on August 26 people and dogs are strolling along the path at lower left. By midnight it's submerged, and it never reappears in this video.

[@jchavez9449]

Didn't know I could get PTSD from watching a video lol,

[@gicraft6461]

God bless you all Jesus Loves you and The Blessed Mother too

[@bestabothworldz2766]

What's crazy is seeing the roads in the background still being used looks like red lights

[@victoriadeleon2107]

U went throught my birthday was aauguest 24th the day it happened i didnt get tp celebrate it that year :(

[@isaaccollazo2874]

Awww they dint cebrate this chils birthday awwww

[@jaypolas4136]

Thats why my city has the river a small section at the bottom, then a big field, and then big walls. And why it has breach-dams which can be detonated to fill up a large area

[@joedellinger9437]

You are saying if your entire region got 1.5 meters of rain in just a couple of days, you’d have no problems? Houston has a lot of experience with heavy rainfall. 10 inches of rain in a few hours… generally no problems. But at some point any flood defense system buckles…

[@theforest8882]

It's honestly not our fault that anyone is prepared for any storm in any place

[@ChristMinistries4]

About 4 days of rain… 200billion tons of water.

[@somethingsomethingsorrows]

20 feet wicked

[@bullwinkle2380]

Sandalwood/Lakeview sure got hit!!! Buffalo Bayou and Patti Lynn Lake became one!!!

[@iantempleton313]

Why ANYONE lives in Houston is beyond me

[@RealMatthewMorgan]

Read the description. It’s not like this happens every day.

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

Because we are a resilient bunch, especially those of us who have lived here most of our lives, and a hurricane ain't 💩 to us. I've been through 3, and Allison in 2001, and that was a tropical depression, that dropped rain for 12 hours, and I was standing under a freeway overpass, as I watched the the water rise under a train trellis that read 14 and 1 and 1 quarter inch. I said stand. I had to stand up and watch that train underpass fill up to the top, for 8 of that 12 hours. It's nothing new to us. Ever seen a oak tree pulled up by the roots? I have😂. Yeah we are tough bunch. A hurricane is a just another rain storm to us.

[@jasonmicron]

Please link to the original source. KHOU did not record this. That said... The night of August 26th... one of the worst nights of my life.

[@Lt_Chloe]

I'm jealous of the ferris wheel

[@v1nigra3]

I’m a bit lost...is there like not much night or day

[@v1nigra3]

Alexandra Zimmermann wow that’s crazy

[@ohhimark-of9lq]

Its a Fucki ng timelapse...

[@rosyebbasta3441]

😟 Santo cielo... 😢

[@LogicOutlast]

I was 1st like much love noti Gang

[@amaralynnette9794]

bro the concrete under our new floorboards still stink from that damn sewer water. also we had like 4 gutters or sewer thingies (idk what they are called) in our neighbour hood sooo 🤪

[@bratbabyp9370]

A few nights a year geez

[@JohnFleming-sw7hn]

Just like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans aftermath eh!

[@MrSymbolic7]

Yep that's Houston ,a couple of Mason's got together one Day and said " This swampy area would be a great place to lay endless concrete and name it after our Brother Mason Sam Houston " and this is what happened !

[@bullwinkle2380]

Memorial Drive under water! Imagine that!

[@VidClips858]

I would be cool if they could have left the lights on while they were submerged.

[@niymir2765]

Okay so I went to my idk but went to his house it was in Houston and we saw the water it was brown it was big

[@FONTSCHAMPIONS]

Wwoooooow

[@user-yu8sp9ne8g]

There was a hurricane in 2024

[@markrenselagujetas2605]

Escape from flood cities Dangerous Warning:⚠️⚠️ Drown flood ☠️🏊 Don't swimming

[@RealMatthewMorgan]

Most obnoxious music ever.

[@jak834]

Terrible choice for music