beaumont. i know you had some trouble getting there, what are you seeing? what is the latest there? casey, well, i m sure as you guys have been talking about, beaumont officials say that city has become an island and we certainly are seeing that out on the streets. we have been trying for close to 24 hours now to try to drive to beaumont and every route that we take ends in a flood. a significant flood. in a lot of places there are rescues, but the real crisis right now is in beaumont itself. over a 24-hour period, more than 26 inches of rain and concerns that the flooding there in that city is worse than what we saw in houston. and it is cut off. they can t get supplies in there. they can t get people in there. there was according to the police department there, an 18 wheeler they were hoping that they would get in overnight with at least some supplies for the
compared to what houston was able to bring to the table? well, you know, obviously talk about the size of the cities themselves, houston is the city of millions of people. beaumont has about 100,000. and it is obviously going to have a much smaller, local force. but you can t overstate the importance of them being cut off from supplies and resources and if you think about it, the boats that came in, the state resources that came in, even the federal, though miguel had an opportunity with the military to do some incredible things there, they re limited by helicopters. you need boats and you need a lot of them and they just aren t they don t have access to those numbers of resources. so you can imagine a situation where they really have to prioritize between the kind of life and death emergencies that we heard officials talk about in houston first, and then move on to the less dire situations.