LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Residents along FM-2090 in Montgomery and Liberty counties have begun cleaning up their homes after flooding from the nearby San Jacinto River devastated many of them.
With the help of her church, Rose Green has already ripped out the sheetrock in her home and is working on cleaning the mud off of her floors.
“It got to everything,” Green said. “Like I said, it got up above counters. That’s about 4 feet.”
Green lives with her husband and two granddaughters. The family lost all their appliances, furniture and anything stored in a lower cabinet.
She has managed to spread out their clothes in her front yard to dry out and prevent mildew until she can take them to a laundromat to be washed.
On Friday, Green woke up at 4:30 a.m. like normal, and saw how high the water had gotten around her house. She said she woke up her …