Horrifying drone footage shows Texas underwater after catastrophic flash flooding that forced 400 people to be evacuated and destroyed more than 100 homes

Horrifying drone footage has captured Texas underwater after catastrophic flash flooding took over the Lone Star State in recent days. 

The intense flooding forced 400 residents to evacuate and destroyed more than 100 homes. 

On Friday, heavy storms in Houston left drivers stranded and a school bus of children in need of high-water rescues due to floods.

The following day, high waters flooded neighborhoods in Houston as forecasters warned residents that additional rainfall could come on Sunday, causing further flooding for Harris County. 

The aerial shot showed parts of Harris County, one of the biggest in the country, almost completely covered in brown, murky flood water. 

'We're just preparing for the worst,' Miguel Flores Jr., a resident from Kingwood, a neighborhood in Houston, said.

People are seen walking through murky floodwaters in McDade, Texas on Thursday 

A woman is seen making her way through brown floodwater as she heads to check on an elderly resident inside his RV in Channelview, Texas

Homes were mildly visible as most of them remained under water on Sunday morning. 

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo cautioned: 'This threat is ongoing and it's going to get worse. It is not your typical river flood.'

She further described the surge of water as 'catastrophic' and said several hundred structures were at risk of flooding. 

As of Saturday, Hidalgo said that 122 pets and 178 people were rescued from the treacherous conditions. 

Schools in the path of the flooding canceled classes and roads remain jammed as officials have closed highways. Authorities have yet not reported any deaths or injuries.

'It's going to keep rising this way,' Flores said. 

'We don't know how much more. We're just preparing for the worst.' 

He told The Guardian that water from the San Jacinto River has consumed his backyard. 

'It’s sad, but what can I do,' Flores said.

The state has been pounded with brutal weather conditions since early April as dozens of tornadoes have hit the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast. 

Certain parts of Texas have been smacked with 'softball-sized' hail and the relentless rainfall has caused rivers to see levels that have not been seen since the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. 

A Conroe firefighter is seen carrying an elderly woman to safety after her home flooded in Conroe, Texas 

An SUV is seen almost completely submerged in flood water on Thursday in Spring, Texas 

A utility worker is seen tying to fix power lines after a massive tree fell on a home in Spring, Texas 

On Thursday alone, some Texan communities saw more rainfall than they normally would in a two month period. 

Friday's downpour left Texas officials scrambling to take cautionary efforts and issue evacuation warnings - worrying that the worst was yet to come. 

Shocking footage captured the moment a huge white tractor trailer plunged into the deep floodwater in San Jacinto County as bystanders watched in shock and horror.

The driver was seen in bright neon yellow clambering out of the window in a frantic bid to escape the doomed vehicle. 

As the truck continued to sink deeper and deeper, another truck zoomed past it - sending water gushing on both sides, as a different vehicle also managed to wade through.

After escaping amidst the chaos - the driver perched on the hood of the vehicle, stuck in the middle of the body of water formed by the catastrophic flash flood. 

For weeks, drenching rains in Texas and parts of Louisiana have filled reservoirs and completely saturated the ground.

Floodwaters started to partially submerge cars and roads this week across parts of southeastern Texas, north of Houston, where high waters reached the roofs of some homes.

In the rural community of Shepherd, Gilroy Fernandes said he and his spouse had about an hour to evacuate after a mandatory order. Their home is on stilts near the Trinity River, and they felt relief when the water began to recede on Thursday but things worsened overnight.

'Next thing you know, overnight they started releasing more water from the dam at Livingston. And so that caused the level of the river to shoot up by almost five or six feet overnight,' Fernandes said.

Neighbors who left an hour later got stuck in traffic because of the flooding.

A woman is handed her child after being evacuated by boat from her homes with the help of deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office on Friday 

A man is rescued by the Community Fire Department in New Caney, Texas on Friday 

A close-up of the terrifying tornado that was spinning on U.S. 277 west of Hawley on Thursday

Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough claims there have been more high-water rescues than he was able to count.

'We estimate we've had a couple hundred rescues from homes, from houses, from vehicles,' Keough said.

On Thursday, a ferocious tornado ripped through a Texas town, injuring two and damaging six homes in its wake, weather officials reported. 

The tornado was first spotted west of Anson around 6.35pm before it moved south east toward Truby and the community of Hodges and Hawley, a city in Jones County.

The funnel whipped its way toward Abilene in Taylor County, located approximately 180 miles west of the Dallas-Fort Worth, before a spectator saw it near Highway 277 and 605 near Clear Fork Church.

Terrified motorists were seen trying to get out of harm's way as the tornado followed close behind, causing downed trees and power lines, as per the National Weather Service.

By 7:23pm, the tornado hit County Road 494 and Fulwiler Road in Tye before it spun up into the cloud formations, as hail, described by one witness as 'baseball size' fell from the sky.

The area hit with the most destruction was located in the Hawley area, population 579 in 2024, according to World Population Review.

Mike Castillo, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Angelo, told local KTAB/KRBC of the damage the tornado caused.

It is unknown what injuries the two people sustained.