{"id":955757,"date":"2026-07-24T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955757\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:01:12","slug":"motorists-navigate-flash-flooding-near-houston-as-bertha-makes-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955757\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists Navigate Flash Flooding Near Houston as Bertha Makes Landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tropical Storm Bertha brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Fort Bend County, Texas, on Thursday, July 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video captured by @StormChaserHTX shows motorists traverse through inundated roadways in Sugar Land and Missouri City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:issued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2080431052024062170\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> a flash flood warning for Sugar Land, Missouri City, and nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bertha <a data-ylk=\"slk:made its second landfall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/tropical-storm-bertha-heads-texas-after-making-landfall\/story?id=135011934\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">made its second landfall<\/a> in Texas on Thursday afternoon &#8211; a day after it made landfall in southeast Louisiana &#8211; and was <a data-ylk=\"slk:downgraded;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/tropical-storm-bertha-weakens-to-a-tropical-depression-no-threat-to-south-florida\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">downgraded<\/a> to a tropical depression after moving inland. Credit: @StormChaserHTX via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Fort Bend County, Texas, on Thursday, July 23.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":955758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[8774,59251,4345,125057,7170,358,183669,381901,3187,381720],"class_list":["post-955757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-flash-flooding","tag-fort-bend-county","tag-houston","tag-missouri-city","tag-sugar-land","tag-texas","tag-the-national-weather-service","tag-tropical-storm-bertha","tag-tx","tag-video-captured"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116973907949207489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}