yeah, i mean, you know, in katrina, we didn t actually go down in the floods. we did drive the day after to go and rescue some family members who and, you know, of course the wind damage, we noticed like driving down to katrina, it looked like an atomic bomb went off. down in houston, we didn t see maybe one or two trees or whatever. so it s just flooding. and of course the city of houston, you know, or the greater area is laid out like you have a lot more hills, even though it s a flat area, you have more hills. new orleans is almost a bowl. yeah. the geography, the to ppography. thank you and your dad and friend for hopping in your car to try to help the good people of texas. we appreciate that and i m sure they do as well.
example, that area, some of the people had to be rescued as of yesterday, but the situation in that area is starting to stabilize so that s a plus. we want to make sure that especially if there are seniors or people who are disabled, who are in their homes that need to come out of their homes, we re going to attend to them, but we can do multiple things at the same time. for people who need to be rescued, we re going to rescue them. for people who are able to get back into their homes, we re going help them to get back in their homes and start the rebuilding process. for people who are in the shelters, we are registering them, we are assessing their needs, we re asking fema to come in, in a major, major way, so we can quickly process them and transition from the shelters back into their normal routine. this is one city that can do multiple things at the same time, but we are not a city that says, woe is me, and then we re just going to stay and allow this storm to conquer our spirit. i
here. a lot of them have been pulling out and going to other areas. the problem right now is in these sort of areas, is that the water is high in other reservoirs around the area, and they are letting that water run off, and it s going into places like this. in most places in town, the water is receding very, very rapidly. in places where they re not getting that runoff from other reservoirs. boats have a difficult time operating in some of these conditions in part because they re very it s very shallow water, so bigger boats can t get in there. those airboats that are very effective in shallow water, sometimes the current is very strong and it s hard for them to get around. three members of a civilian boat crew, their boat capsized overnight. two of them are now missing. one of them hung on for dear life to a tree and was rescued but this is dangerous work that these people are doing and they are doing it willingly and they are coming in from all over the state. brooke? that s inc
since. who have you been rescuing? and has anyone turned you down? the area we were in yesterday was grand mission. it was really it was unbelievable. like, i ve never seen a whole neighborhood submerged under water, and if you could imagine, it s a lot of volunteers. i partnered with the fire department out there, so imagine street by street, the whole neighborhood s filled with water. and how you would see cars coming to stop signs, you re actually seeing boats coming to stop signs. it s a lot of people who were rescued yesterday, but it was a lot of people that decided they re just going to wait it out and, you know, it gets kind of frustrating because it s like, you don t want to be the one to leave and know there s a chance you might not be coming back that way, but i mean, at the end of the day, you have to respect everyone s wishes. that s right. that s right. and you pointed out the water. you don t know what you re, you know, boating in, walking in. did you see any cro
it sounds like he wants to have a ball game friday night. he wants folks to start picking up the pieces. tell me where you are. tell me what it looks like. reporter: well, look, i mean, the you can see sunlight today, and that is a huge improvement and that is lifting everyone s spirits and no rain is coming down. there s a little bit of rain possibly for this afternoon, but nothing like we ve seen in recent days. this is state highway 6. this is one of the areas that has stubbornly stayed high. the addicks reservoir area. the reservoir is about a mile down this road on a normal day, so it is way, way up. i want to show you what they ve set up here in terms of a command post. they have boats that are able to get in and out of here. there are still people in the neighborhoods here. most of them have refused to leave, so they did evacuate a hotel a short time ago just up down the road here, down the river here, because the people there had been there for three days, not wanting to le