East Houston homeowner wakes up to huge water leak in yard

And only OK to you 11 tonight. Another busted pipe leads to problems for some Houston homeowners. Hello, I'm Lynn Cannon and good early evening to you. I'm Mia Grady. Water spewed from that busted line in an East Houston neighborhood, prompting a homeowner to reach out to us. Jason Miles is live on Crystalwood Drive near Maxie Road with how things are looking right now. Jason, hey there guys. Yeah, the water right now, not dramatically shooting up into the air like it was for most of today. That's thanks to these guys who showed up a few hours ago, but there's no telling how much water spewed from that geyser like leak for some nine hours. A site reminiscent of something like Old Faithful in Yosemite. Actually. I think I emailed somebody that. This morning, Old Faithful sprang up today in Richard Greene's front yard shortly after he woke up and then I heard what sounded like heavy rain and looked on my camera and saw the guys are out here. Is that the best way to describe it? That's a pretty good way to describe it. That's a pretty good description, I think. This is video of the eruption shortly after Green believes it set off his motion activated camera more than a week after he first reported a small leak bubbling up in the same spot and they elevated the call the original call. City crews and contractors showed up shortly after our arrival this afternoon and released water from a fire hydrant to reduce pressure from the so-called geyser which soon stopped spewing. This is the latest in a long line of water related issues over the last few months, partly due to the drought and resulting impacts on underground infrastructure resulting in more than 4000 reported leaks in the city of Houston alone. If you don't say anything, small problems become bigger problems, and even when you report it, if they don't address it when it's small, it becomes large like it did today. But at least this geyser was relatively short lived and Green hopes it's permanently repaired. And I reached out to Houston Public Works this afternoon. It confirmed that repairs were made out here today, but obviously some workers are still here on the scene. No telling how long they will be here and no exact indication right now of what caused the initial eruption. Reporting from East Houston, Jason Miles KHOU 11 news. I'm sure he's happy they got it under control. Jason, thank you.