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With Houston's Brazos River headed for an off-the-charts flood, a neighborhood is on the run

RICHMOND, Texas - They had less than 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, their neighborhood would be under water.

The Brazos River, less than 100 yards away, surged toward a record crest.

The river, gorged by rains from Hurricane Harvey, was coming for them.

It was the kind of flood that authorities said happens only every 800 years. Roughly 100,000 people, or more than 20 percent of the population of Fort Bend

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