A record 30in of rain (75cm) has fallen on the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, transforming streets into streams.
The region is relied upon to have gotten a year's precipitation inside seven days. Five individuals are accounted for dead. Helicopters have culled casualties from housetops.
With save administrations overstretched as the rain proceeds, many individuals are fending for themselves.
Harvey made landfall as a classification four sea tempest late on Friday. It was later downsized to a hurricane.
Up to 2,000 individuals have been protected in and around Houston, the fourth-biggest city in the US, where around 6.6m individuals live in the metropolitan zone.
In Washington, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said it was focused on aiding the safeguard exertion.
Fema head Brock Long said giving sanctuary to 30,000 individuals in require was "going to be a substantial lift". He included that the organization was likewise attempting to reestablish control and basic framework.
A large number of homes are without power. Many schools are shut - similar to the two fundamental airplane terminals, with runways totally overflowed.
An immersed mind home in Dickinson, around 30 miles (50 km) south east of the city, has now been emptied by helicopter after a picture of a few elderly ladies sitting in a parlor in midriff profound water turned into a web sensation via web-based networking media.
A city in emergency - James Cook, BBC News, Houston
Whole rural areas are submerged, shops and organizations are closed and, with the motorways around the city cut off and the two airplane terminals shut, travel is everything except unimaginable.
A marooned healing center has been cleared while, over the city, engineers are beginning a crisis arrival of water from two swelling dams.
They are cautioning families who live next to one of the dams to get ready for flooding inside hours.
A few occupants have been reproachful of the arrangements for this tempest, which strengthened quickly in the Gulf of Mexico a week ago.
In no less than one neighborhood confronting serious flooding, individuals are irate that they were advised to stay put just to acknowledge, as night fell, that the waters were rising quick and they couldn't get out.
The specialists are being extended to limit. It is hard to perceive how they could oblige President Donald Trump, who intends to visit Texas on Tuesday.
In the event that he decides to go here, he will locate an intense oil city on its knees.
Is flooding hinting at facilitating?
No. As the tempest keeps on battering south-eastern Texas, swelling streams are causing a surge that is setting out toward Houston.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told inhabitants: "Don't get out and about. Try not to expect this tempest is finished."
A huge number of individuals have been were requested to leave parts of Fort Bend County, around 35 miles (55 km) south-west of Houston, where a waterway is set to peak this week.
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ouston specialists, in any case, have not issued a mass clearing request.
Why not?
Chairman Turner on Sunday shielded the choice by refering to the "insane" coordinations of arranging a clearing of 2.3 million individuals.
He refered to the bedlam Houston experienced when occupants were emptied in front of Hurricane Rita in September 2005. Individuals were stuck for over 20 hours on gridlocked street, bringing about many passings.
Rita, which had been anticipated to hit Houston, passed well east of the city.
Spectators additionally reviewed the terrible clearing in front of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in August that year. A great many individuals invested days in soiled conditions and constrained water at that city's stadium.
What are the financial results from Harvey?
The Texas Gulf Coast is a key focus of the US oil and gas industry, and a portion of the biggest refineries in the nation have ended operations.
This has raised worries about fuel deficiencies and higher costs at the pump.
The more extensive monetary harm from Harvey is being evaluated.
Protection specialists cited by Reuters news organization say it could square with the demolition exacted by Hurricane Katrina - supposedly the most costly cataclysmic event in US history.
Katrina caused about $15bn (£11.6bn) of surge harm in the conditions of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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