TAMPA, Fla. — People living in the Houston, Texas area are assessing what damage they might have suffered after heavy rainfall led to massive flooding over the weekend.


What You Need To Know

  • Volunteers in Tampa are flying to Houston to help assist in the cleanup effort following major flooding in the area

  • Some parts of southeastern Texas experienced anywhere between six to over 20 inches of rain over the weekend

  • Volunteer Frank Hall has gone on nearly 30 deployments with the Red Cross and will help deliver supplies to various shelters around the Houston area

While the water is now receding, Texas’ Governor Greg Abbott said there have been at least three deaths.

In Tampa, a couple volunteers with the American Red Cross are heading out to southeast Texas to assist in the aftermath of the storm.

“Whenever there’s a hurricane or a tornado or flooding, fires, etc., I go out,” said Frank Hall, a volunteer with the Red Cross.

Hall has been a volunteer with the American Red Cross since 2011 and has gone out on nearly 30 deployments all across the country.

This weekend, he saw what all that rainfall was doing in southeast Texas and knew he wanted to help anyway he could.

“So, I let them know I was available and, here I am,” he said.

Parts of the Houston area received anywhere between six to over 20 inches of rain this past week.

As a result, Hall is flying to Houston and will spend at least the next two weeks delivering supplies, food and water to several shelters for people who were flooded out of their homes.

“I’ll be going on a route every day picking up supplies, delivering them to the various shelters,” Hall said.

Living in Florida, he’s seen what storms like these have done in his own backyard and understands what assistance like this means for people in those affected places.

“When people are at their lowest, they really, really appreciate the help that the Red Cross gives them,” he said.

Appreciation that goes a long way for volunteers, like Hall, as he goes to Texas to lend a helping hand.

Officials in Harris County, where Houston is located, say over 230 people in the county were rescued over the weekend while over 600 were rescued across the state.

Last weekend’s weather led Gov. Abbott to issue a disaster declaration for 91 Texas counties.