This video doesn't communicate that the back of Kingwood, where the most severe flooding occurred, was largely spared after Harvey itself. The San Jacinto River Authority released water from the dam in Conroe without telling anyone who lived downstream. Our home was spared, but our neighbors who didn't flood during the storm received 10 feet of water in their homes. We knew people who barely escaped with the belongings they could carry before their home was completely engulfed and carried away by the flood. They lost everything, and they lived more than a mile from the river, where flooding should have been minimal. Some of the damage was storm-related, and some was negligence. According to a report from 2019, Lake Conroe had already peaked and could have risen another 3 feet before the river authority needed to release water for safety reasons. The scuttlebutt was that prominent people who had vacation homes on Lake Conroe (Did you know that Dan Patrick has a house there?) didn't want to risk the possibility of minor flooding.

I live here in Kingwood and I experienced all of this. I pray Houston & surrounding area doesn't get hit again this year. We've lost so much just can't do it again!!!!

Omg... I know that area. I live there. (I'm only 13) I remember whenever it stopped raining, my dad took my family and drove to the bridge on top of the San Jacinto river. Everything was covered by water, it was so high that some of the tallest signs were close to being fully covered. In the thumbnail, that's the area where we go out to eat a lot. One of the restaurants, Joe's Crab Shack, never opened back up from the flood. It took almost a year for everything to be opened back up there. And even so, people today are still trying to rebuild. In school, hearing the phrase "Did you get flooded?" Is normal. Luckily, I was one of the few families who didn't.

I live in kingwood too! I lived in Houston during the hurricane hit. I remember driving in a truck, and it was like driving through a river! This was just a horrible event. I don’t think I will ever forget about hurricane Harvey.

This is overwhelming to watch.. at 4:28 that was my home, or what was left of what’s standing next to the red truck. That’s forest cove townhomes where I looked around and see remnants from my life and toys that my daughters squeezed tight at night. I can only thank God for pushing me to move my family the night before and putting so much pressure on my heart to let me know that this was not a safe place to stay.

It has been almost a year & I still remember this.

I live in Kingwood. Thankfully, my neighborhood didn’t flood. But when it stopped raining, my family drove through everything and saw the damage, and I wanted to cry. Edit: Also, I know this is a serious video, but that target in the background (3:16) is now like the best target in the world 😂. BESIDES! This shows how much my town went through, and I appreciate it

Just thinking about this 3 years later. Hoping Louisiana is going to be okay during Ida. Never want to see this again.

Thank you for sharing....I continue to pray and donate!

Awesome footage and an awful situation. Thank you for sharing this. Keep everyone safe brother.

Awesome video to reflect on. Thank you for sharing!

I feel so sorry for those people who’s houses got flooded. I can’t imagine going through something like that. God bless them. I pray that they can rebuild and never have to go through this again.

Mike, great job on producing this video.

I’ve never seen so much rain in my life, and I’ve been in Houston for over 50 years. I was 47 in 2017 during Harvey. Days upon days of nonstop heavy rain. Luckily for me, me immediate area wasn’t flooded, but just about all surrounding areas were. I’m just glad it wasn’t an electrical storm and we didn’t lose power.

Costco in Humble just reopened. The water flooded over the roof of the building.

And he isn't kidding, we had 3ft of water in our home, and rescue was like... seriously, wasn't till it finally got to about 8 feet that they dispatched a crew to pull us of our roof, the problem was that while our home only had about 3ft of water when this started getting bad, our driveway was so much lower than our home, both vehicles were already flooded completely, but I've got to say, these men and women were absolutely amazing.

Very nice thank you. Sort of hard to watch as my home was in that flooded forest. I could go on for another 10,000 or so characters about how wonderful people were. I had dozens of strangers, all from the local churches, helping me demo my walls, tear up my floors and haul out furniture, appliances and debris. Every day people were bringing us food, water & cleaning supplies. People from as far away as Louisiana drove over with those cooking trailers and made thousands of pounds of food right there in the old HEB parking lot and just giving it away to people who walked up. No one sat on the curb crying and waiting for the government to come help them. We all just got bust and did what needed to be done. These were all just people there to help mainly organised by the localchurches. No government was there and all the Red Cross did was come by and ask how deep the water got in the area. I would also like to say that the FEMA process worked flawlessly for me. I was very, very impressed. The thing is, you have to be proactive. You can't wait for them to do it all for you. While this situation really devestated me and my family, I did get to see the good side of humanity. To all of those who helped me, THANK YOU!

Nice video man, I live 10 mins down 1960 by the lake while we were fortunate enough not to flood I had to get out there and help too, this is why I love where I live.

Our home in Kingwood got flooded with 4 1/2 feet of water during Harvey. I was amazed at the rapid response of neighbors in getting effective help to those of us who were flooded out. It was a powerful reminder to me that the ideological and political differences that separate us can evaporate in the face of obvious need from neighbors. I will be forever grateful to those selfless people who came with tools, water, food, and strong backs to sweat and bleed with us in those first days. I wish we were as good at seeing the needs of people whose everyday lives are filled with the same kind of hopelessness and desperation. I can't recommend it as a way to meet people, but you meet some of the best people in times like that.

I live in Huffman and I couldn't leave my apartment because Harvey had flooded both ends of where I was. It flooded the competition gym at my school and flooded the restaurant not even a block away from where I was. It was traumatizing to see the neighborhood down the street because all the cars were lined up on the tiny hills alongside the road, the houses were being emptied and all you could see were just gallons and gallons of water rushing through the doors and windows. It took people months to get their house fixed. To this day, people are still trying to get their house together. It's completely ridiculous and yet traumatizing at the same time.

Outstanding video! Great footage.

Just moved to Houston June 27 and 2 Months later... this happened... Texas Strong...

This is a well made video, and hard to watch. I've driven through or shopped at most places shown in this video. I made a good decision about 2 years ago to buy a house in Newport rather than waterfront on LH.

I still get scared whenever it rains hard. Harvey was certainly a hard time.

Both fascinating and terrifying. Looking at the view of the intersection of Kingwood Drive and Woodland Hills Drive--until last year, my mother lived on Rolling Meadows Drive just a few streets over--I wonder if her house flooded?

I lived less than 15 minutes away from Addicks Reservoir, it was horrible watching the news while they needed boats to get those people out of their homes... Once Clay Rd opened, i saw the aftermath. The way the air smelled afterwards was saddening, seeing the belongings of people out on the side was heartbreaking. Not because materialistic things matter, but because they had to go through that! Also, going through Clay Rd the very first time it opened, I saw a red car stranded, with the trunk wide opened, I can't imagine what they went through!!

The coastal bend got hit hard! It’s been tuff but we have pulled together as a community as TEXANS!!! It’s not perfect and we have a very long way to go. PR you local government has let you down!

The sound of the fan boats give me anxiety. Nightmare of a time.

Thanks for this nice video

Being in it still seems unreal to this day. I'll never get back what i lost.

I really couldn't believe it but we was in that area. But didn't get flooded beltway 8 69... Last year was crazy

Omg!!! So sad. I hope everyone has over come or at least have tried to over come from their loses. May you recover from the heartache and pain you suffered from!

I live in Kingwood omg, the damage was so bad in Humble, I couldn’t believe it flooded up to the Hobby Lobby.

Still makes me cry every time I here Harvey. I and so many people lost so many things.

...and to this day, nothing at the lake Conroe dam 20 miles northwest of Kingwood has changed in it's operations for the San Jacinto river purge. My house in Kingwood was under 18 feet of water in the 1994 release for 2 days and there was no warning, and it came overnight. We had less than an hour to swim out. 450 homes and businesses were submerged...and nothing came of it after years of denial and bickering from the San Jacinto River Authority and it's still that way today. I had flood insurance because we were told it was a flood "plain" in our contracts and it would get maybe a foot in a worse case. Found out it was a floodway and the homes weren't even supposed to be built there. Everyone lost everything and went away after years in court in favor of the builders and the city of Houstin who own the river rights. That's why the annexation of Kingwood was delayed until 1996...let the county take care of the mess, then come in and tax them 5 times more for less services and now subpar in every category. We tried to warn people. I tried to warn everyone it would happen again....nobody listened. It will happen again, and it will be worse. Most of the rain fell in the upper watersheds. Spring creek, cypress creek and many other watersheds flow into the West Fork of the San Jacinto and ALL converge right at the highway 59 bridge between Kingwood and Humble...as you can see in the video. Nothing is different except the fact there are 4 times as many people and 200,000 more homes and businesses that will get hit again in the future. And this time...the city will be involved in lawsuits alone, and maybe the dozens of sand mines that go all the way up the river...the ones that clear cut the forests and dump the fine sand silt into the river and fill it up....to a water level of just a few feet. It's not a river...it's a beach.

I remember going out for food and water cuz we were almost out, just to find out that most stores were closed, and those that weren't, didn't have enough for everyone...

Hurricane Harvey didn't flood my parents house at the time but I couldn't drive any further than 3 miles away from my parents house it was really bad

We lost our home too. I still get scared when it starts storming hard.

The river level gauge on the highway 59 bridge quit around 69.8 feet reporting. I believe it went higher. According to the Harris County flood warning system website. Hamblen road was a disaster area. My area wasn’t in any known floodplain, but got 8 inches in my place. Others in my area got as much as 14.

Haaaa I still live here!! Took a lot of work to get it up and running

I live in forest cove near hamblen road I will never forget those days

A year later and we still got people who have trash from tearin up their houses lined up on the side of the road

Yo its crazy cause i drive through that highway everyday and i live in kings manor....literally less than 4 miles from there

I lived at fry dr and north of 529 in cypress and our st did not get any high water.....the tax day flood was the only time i saw water cover the street once. Ive moved back home to Tempe AZ ...never again do i want to see rain like that! and here in AZ we are lucky to get rain every 5 months.....

Why is the music so loud?

i remember seeing all of the cars, houses, that Uhaul place, all got destroyed in there the was also a food place that got flooded 8 times by Harveys rainfall

what housing area in kingwood got major flooding …???? I know the scenes in this video seems to all just be Northshire and the shopping area on 59

Hurricane Harvey didn't flood my street like it did during tax day back in 2016 and my lights weren't off for a whole month like it did during Hurricane IKE back in 2008 but I couldn't go any further than 10 miles away from my house because it was still flooding right off the highway and surrounding neighborhoods

I didn't remember the other 3 floods here in Houston. Crazy for sure.

scary knowing that my tiny town is well-known now thanks to this hurricane

Now we're fighting the Herons Marina in Kingwood. That was bad back in 2017, but this new development will only make things more of a nightmare.

Place gets flooded... Proceeds to rebuild everything at same height 😭

The new Sonic adventure 1 remake is looking great!

For your information there was subdivision next to Deerbrook Mall that was devastated with water. Kingwood wasn't the only one I think 2 streets in North Shire didn't flood

God bless Texas 💓

also the thunder storm that is happening in kingwood right now is exactly like hurricane Harvey

I live in Kingwood. Thankfully my neighborhood did not flood.

Hello My Dad lives on the San Jacinto River And his whole house went underwater prays Please That's all we need

music goes gud wit this video

The flood to end all floods

Lol I thought the hurricane was called Harvey kingwood.i thought how very formal.giving last names to hurricanes.

I live in kingwood here my house got flooded by hurricane Harvey

I live inside beltway 8 nothing got flooded here

Preparation time again folks. Please bring your pets with you🙏 bring a tent and fencing for them if you can, just in case you cannot bring them inside a facility and instead of bringing them to SPCA. (They do get overwhelmed and some pets got lost during Harvey😢). Just a suggestion. If anybody can think of something else please comment.

I live in Kingwood!

My old stomping grounds, how horrible.

I live neaf deerbook mall

HOUSTON STRONG

i live in this bih

I was there and got my own footage

My bday is august 22

The music is so frikken unnessacary

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Pronounced "umm-BOWL".

Surprised they didn't make the indie - contractors buy looters tags.

Kingwood high got flooded and it sucked

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This would have been a great video, without the music

National, Weather, Irma is worst.

Amazing video, but it would have been nice to show other major parts of Houston that were flooded way more than kingwood. Which is the surburbs. I have lived in Houston all my life and I stayed in the downtown area. Which was flooded big time.

Expensive homes that got flooded. You paid how much for your home in kingwood? Just to have it easily flooded? Pfft.