Nightmare in Houston, after over 11 inches of rain fell in some spots overnight and into the next day -- inundating byways and highways, slowing first responders, knocking out power and generally bringing the southeast Texas metropolis to a standstill.



Two people in Houston died because of the bad weather in the city, Fire Department Sr. Capt. Ruy Lozano told CNN. That raises the overall death toll from the storm system that's been ravaging the area as well as parts of northern Mexico to at least 22, according to officials, with a dozen more people still missing.



"We got hammered," Houston's emergency management coordinator Rick Flanagan told CNN's "New Day," echoing sentiments by many others in the region in recent days. "We had cars that were stranded, mobility was stopped, ... signals didn't work. It was just a madhouse."

It still is. While the sun made appeared Tuesday, more rain was possible as well, which certainly would only worsen the predictions of minor to moderate flooding in waterways such as the San Jacinto River, Cypress Creek and Greens Bayou.



Even without more rain, some roads in the United States' seventh-biggest metropolitan area transformed into rivers and lakes. Still, some people drove into high water anyway, because the visibility was so bad, they didn't know what they were getting into, according to Flanagan.


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