Images show waves rolling over Texas highway

The first image, taken near Winnie, shows an otherwise unremarkable stretch of highway, rolling out into the horizon.

But the photograph taken Tuesday looks like it came from another world.

Although it's hard to judge quite how deep the water is from this distance, it looks to be at least eight feet high - certainly over the roofs of most cars.

Not far from this spot, convention centers in Houston were overloaded with tens of thousands of evacuees.

More than half of those were crammed into the city's convention center - which was only planned to take around 5,000 people.

The George R Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people, but Monday night 9,021 people stayed in the center, many sleeping on chairs and on the floor because of a shortage of cots.

Others were being sent to the Toyota Center, the arena that is home to the Houston Rockets NBA team.

Houston mayor Sylvester Turner said the convention center would remain as the primary shelter in Houston.

In Cedar Bayou, Texas, rains reached 51.88 inches Tuesday afternoon.

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