Canadian expats living in Texas said they91裸聊视频檝e gone days without sleep as the remnants of hurricane Harvey continue to deluge the southeast coast Sunday.

Megan Giffin-Scheffers, who moved from Halifax to Houston four years ago, said 91裸聊视频渆verything is overflowing91裸聊视频� in the Texas city, which is the fourth-largest in the U.S., as rising waters force thousands of people out of their homes.

Giffin-Scheffers, a mother of three, said she hasn91裸聊视频檛 slept properly in two days as she and her husband take shifts on the lookout for signs of danger.

Every time her phone lights up with a tornado alert, her family has to hunker down in their pantry as wind gusts howl through the city like 91裸聊视频漟reight trains,91裸聊视频� she said.

91裸聊视频淎s Canadians 91裸聊视频� I don91裸聊视频檛 think we really understood the impact of a hurricane,91裸聊视频� Giffin-Scheffers said in a phone interview. 91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 homesick every single day, and when something like this happens, that91裸聊视频檚 just when I want to pack up and move back.91裸聊视频�

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, who is training in Houston, posted photos to social media of neighbourhoods flooded with murky waters that almost fully submerged a car.

91裸聊视频淔eeling like an ant in an anthill today, here by the grace of Mother Nature,91裸聊视频� he tweeted. 91裸聊视频漇ometimes we get stepped on.91裸聊视频�

Isabelle Dion, who is from Saint-C茅saire, Que., says her home in Houston has been spared from damage, but it91裸聊视频檚 scary not to know what will happen when night falls.

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Canadian engineer Raihan Khondker said his family safely left their home in southeastern Texas, but he returned to the Bay City area as part of a support team at a nuclear power plant.

For three days, Khondker, who is from Toronto, has been working tirelessly to manage 91裸聊视频渙ne thing after another,91裸聊视频� driving through water-choked streets to help out where he can.

Khondker said houses in his neighbourhood have been turned 91裸聊视频渦pside down,91裸聊视频� and rising waters in a nearby river threaten to send a potentially catastrophic flood into the area.

91裸聊视频淓very single creek in the neighbourhood is full,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频漈here is an imminent flood coming to Bay City, we just don91裸聊视频檛 know how much water we are going to see.91裸聊视频�

Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category-4 hurricane Friday and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, which is causing torrential rains.

91裸聊视频� With files from The Associated Press

The Canadian Press