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Hearing from YOU - one listener shares their experience of the Houston floods

A state of emergency has been declared in Houston, Texas. The fourth largest city in the US has seen unprecedented flooding, with homes destroyed, highways closed and at least 5 people killed. Xavier Wooten in Houston was watching Outside Source on the live streaming app Periscope, and when we started talking about his city, he wanted to let us know what was happening where he was

(Image: A man holds onto a fence as he wades through chest deep water along a flooded street in Houston Credit: AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
Video credits: Periscope, APTN, Reuters, EVN) )

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