there was nothing but air coming out. you couldn't brush your teeth. that is going to add to the misery factor for the 118,000 or so residents in beaumont. plus all evacuees. not much of beaumont left. so all of those people are here. and all of those people are dependent on the water supply. here's -- here's the issue. the main pumping station is in the natches river. they can't get to it because of a flood. they don't know if the pumps are broken there, if repairs need to be made because they just can't get there until the daylight hours. it's still dark here. they're going to take a boat out to there and see what's wrong. if any repairs need to be made, if this is more than just a quick fix, then they are going to have to wait until, as karen said, the river goes down. and that could be a long, drawn-out, extra misery in this event. so far the power and water were