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Texas residents face new evacuations, overflowing rivers

BEAUMONT, Texas - As some Houston residents Friday faced the heartache of evacuating their homes again due to water expected from reservoir releases, parts of Texas south of the city were bracing for potentially deadly flooding from overflowing rivers.

The coastal city of Lake Jackson, about an hour south of Houston, Friday issued emergency mandatory evacuation orders for two subdivisions threatened by the overflowing Brazos River. Voluntary evacuation orders were also extended to thousands of other residents along the Brazos and San Bernard rivers, said Brazoria County spokeswoman Sharon Trower.

"The deal is that we're at the end of the line, everybody else's rainfall is pouring into our rivers, so we're being

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