Massive water main break floods parts of Houston

A massive water main break flooded parts of Houston and caused major highways to be shutdown. City officials are advising residents to boil their water. Janet Shamlian reports.

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[Tovek]

And the only thing all the kids heard was that School was closed on Friday. Long weekend!

[rageme]

California on water restrictions... Texas be like, "meh, lets create a lake in the middle of town'.

[thuggedwhiteboy]

$2.03 a gallon is pretty dang good. You gotta take the good with bad, Houston.

[dontsubscribetothischannel]

Hurricane: Hey, im going to flood you
Pipes: Nah, bro I got this.

[TheyForcedMyHandLE]

Oh boy, up to 50% of drinking water flows through just 1 pipe

[niconachozstudio]

"It's time for flex-tape!"

[kevinneutzling]

I used to live in Houston. Trust me they don’t need more water the airs humid enough.

[quisp]

WELL ITS FLOODING DOWN IN TEXAS... ALL OF THE TELEPHONE LINES ARE DOWN

[Tiberius]

I'm not liking 2020, can we bypass it and go to 2021, very strange year, doesn't feel right somehow, call me crazy.

[really]

That's so sad and so much work to be done😞

[dustinstafford]

Voting centers closed huh imagine that.

[cattigereyes]

Infrastructure issues? Like auto shutoff? Why bother,

[lifeismagical]

I just moved from Houston Texas thats east Houston going towards Pasenda, my daughters are in south west they said no flooding over there God bless yall Fam

[tomareani]

And to think, everyone laughed when I started building my arc...



WELL WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, HUH?!?

[PureBlackGenius]

I think these things are done on purpose.

[pmag]

First day of work and last day of work for a pipefitter and the supervisor🤪

[jmoo]

Scotty Kilmer is gonna have a lot of new customers

[Melody]

In Houston when drivers see water over any road it's kinda like "Hey, hold my beer".

[lovetina]

UNDERGROUND PIPES ARE A MAJOR PROBLEM THESE DAYS. THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE GROUNDS FOR YEARS. WE NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON REPLACING AND REPAIRING THAT.

[DeathwingsYOLO]

Omg I was randomly watching videos of main water pipe breaks 7 hours before this happened