he went missing yesterday. he was driving the truck that you see on your screen. he s the 77-year-old man on your screen. he was going to check on his home. that s the last time his family heard from him. i spoke with mickey s granddaughter. her name is kristin riley, just a few minutes ago. here s her plea. tell us about your grandfather. we re showing a picture of him right now. what s his name? what do you know about his last whereabouts? his name is mickey riley. his last known location was on i-10 westbound in orange county, texas. and that was at about 5:30 p.m. last night. we still have not heard from him. his phone is off. and currently my father is out on a boat with a local man going through the floodwaters to see if they can t find his truck and if anyone s pretty much seen him. efforts are being made to find him and we still have not heard from him. why was he on the i-10?
somewhere else, that s not the case? you re not in an evacuation area? no, our area is not an evacuation area but the area he would have to travel through to get to our area was very flooded. certain areas it was upwards of seven to eight feet of water. so that has my concern, is that every direction to get towards our county is completely flooded and that is our concern, is that he was, you know, caught up in the floodwaters. all right. kristin, i know you re at work. i don t want to take up too much of your time. the people have heard the information and we ll have it on my social media threads. please try to keep your spirits up and you can get us any time you want. yes, sir. thank you so much and god bless you. god bless you as well and your grandfather. thank you. all right. so you have the emergency situation trying to rescue people like you re hearing about right now, trying to deal with where this water is going to go. then you re going to have the bigger issues of