Residents drive down Austin Parkway across Sweetwater Boulevard in the Colony Bend neighborhood of Sugar Land, Texas, on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Residents have been surprised that the water has not receded more quickly as it has in the past when the rain has stopped. In a video released Wednesday morning, the mayor of Sugar Land told residents that levees to the Brazos River had been closed, and that water was now being pumped over the levees into the Brazos, making the water recede much more slowly. More rain is forecast for the coming days.