(WBAP/KLIF) HOUSTON, TX — Houston businesses and schools were shut down, Thursday, after a main water line burst, submerging vehicles on a flooded freeway and prompting the nation’s fourth-largest city to deploy tanker trucks to handle fire hazards.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said the major break had been valved off, but water would continue to flow for hours. The flooding submerged vehicles on an eastern section of Loop 610, a highway that circles the city. Harris county sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted that all occupants of those vehicles were safe.
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