Video shows parking lots become lakes as heavy rain moves through NW Houston Cars stranded as floodwaters take over shopping center parking lots near the Heights Flooding at NW Houston shopping center parking lot (Click2Pins)
HOUSTON – Heavy rainfall turned parking lots into lakes in Northwest Houston Friday.
Video shared to Click2Pins captured the moment a police officer helped get a stranded motorist out of their car in a parking lot of a shopping center near 43rd Street and Oak Forest.
Video shared by Nancy Weed from the same area shows cars stranded in the flooded parking lot.
Nancy Weed West 43rd and Oak Forest Heights.
Trying to get home to Cypress. Yes made it home waited it out ate lunch. But other people were not as lucky. Turn around don't drown.
Radar estimated rainfall totals show nearly two inches of rain fell in the area in the past six hours.
Rainfall Totals Parts of Northwest Houston were under a Flash Flood Warning as heavy rain moved through the area Friday. That warning has since expired.
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About the Author Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.
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