there s a lot of water. the national guard has been senti senting sending boats out all day and they had to pull it out of the water because the water is starting to recede and the boat is now too big so they re sending out flat bottom boats to continue with the efforts and will continue in earnest tomorrow morning. flooding is a major issue in the region including beaumont with another major issue is the lack of running water. the main pump station and the secondary pump station both inundated overnight and they lost water for 120,000 residents of the city of beaumont. it forced a hospital to evacuate 200 patients at baptist beaumont. the first 16 taken out were elderly patients from a nursing
there s a lot of water out here, the national guards sending out boats from this location today to pull out people from homes. one bit of good news, they are using this big boat, they had to pull this out of the water because it started to recede. this particular boat is to make it now for this particular area. they are sending out zodiac s and a flat bottom boats to affect the rescues and that will continue overnight. again in earnest tomorrow morning. obviously flooding is a major issue in this region including beaumont or another major issue is the luck of running water. the main pump station and secondary pump station both inundated overnight. they lost water for 120,000 residents of the city of beaumont. that forced a hospital to then evacuate nearly 200 patients at baptist beaumont. the first 16 to be taken out were elderly patients who were taken out of a nursing home,