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weather to do it. do you have any idea how many people evacuated or did most people stay in rockport? not real sure. not enough. not enough. okay. we don t want to keep you on this land line too long considering this is the only line that you have to communicate with people in rockport. fire chief there steve sims in rockport, which is getting some of the worst of what we ve seen over the last few hours. thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us. take care and do stay safe and very best to all of the folks there in rockport. a cnn affiliate crew was staying in that rockport hotel, as you saw there, as they were riding out the storm. their building was hit. they say there s some serious damage there. they stepped outside to take a look during a moment of calm as the eye of the storm passed over that. i want you to watch what happened as they were out there. this is incredible. this is kind of our first look,
severe flooding, and the rain and the winds are expected to continue over the next several days. rockport, texas, one of the areas hardest hit there on the gulf coast. mm-hmm. just north of corpus christi and port arancas. that s where you can see some of the water floating. this is a hotel and that s some of the water coming into the hotel. the extensive damage is downtown. that s what the fire chief is hearing as well. there are emergency calls that have been rolling in, we do have the fire chief on the phone with us, i believe, chief sims. chief sims, can you hear me? yes. thank you so much for being with us. we understand at one point you were getting emergency calls in, but nobody could respond obviously because of the weather situation there. what is it like now? it is beginning to slack off some. we re still unable to respond to anything being it s still dark.