The water was too high to pass through, officials said. Jefferson County Drainage District 7 closed the gates on Highway 365 because the Rodair Gully was overflowing its banks. Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick ordered an evacuation of Bevil Oaks. I couldn't believe it,' Ruby Trahan Robinson, 63 told the AP as she was settling into a shelter in the small town of China in Jefferson County. Neighboring Jefferson County was inundated, too. “Right now, as a Texas sheriff, the only thing that I really want is for people to pray that it will quit raining,” Hawthorne also said, according to the Associated Press.
Hawthorne told KTRK about 20 percent of the 2,500 homes in Winnie had water in them. I'm fearful for this community right now.' 'What I'm sitting in right now makes Harvey look like a little thunderstorm,' Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told KTRK. Patients were evacuated from Riceland Medical Center after 4 to 6 inches of rain entered the hospital in Winnie, about 60 miles east of Houston. A pair of men get into a boat to float in to rescue a family trapped by floodwaters as rain from Tropical Depression Imelda inundated the area on Thursday, Sept.
