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'GET OUT NOW': Levee at Columbia Lakes breached

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'GET OUT NOW': Levee at Columbia Lakes breached

By ABC 13 staff | 12:42 AM Aug 30, 2017 CDT

  BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Officials in Brazoria County are telling Columbia Lakes to evacuate immediately after a levee was breached. Cell phone use should be limited to emergency calls only at this time. Emergency officials said cell phone lines have become jammed since the breach. Stay with ABC13 Eyewitness News for more on this developing story.

The levees at Columbia Lakes CC have ruptured. If you are still in that area to GET OUT NOW! #Harvey2017 #BrazoriaCounty pic.twitter.com/9Q60rnR3eq

— Kristi Hoss Schiller (@kkschiller) August 29, 2017

#BREAKING: Levee at Columbia Lakes breached in Brazoria Co. | 'Get out now,' officials say https://t.co/QnrjQL7hAH #HarveyFlood pic.twitter.com/ooto2wDuRg

— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) August 29, 2017
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