trucks that did work through the darkness but it is quibt hind us. as you point out, it might look like i m standing at the edge of a lake with lights in a background. this is a subdivision. river stone is a huge community. there s hundreds of homes back here and many of them have water right up to their doors or inside of their homes and this was the area of intense evacuation over the past two days. people were told they were given a mandatory evacuation but by the time they received that order, the water had had already cut off their escape routes. you had hundreds of families trapped inside their homes. through the night as they saw the water continuing to rise, today many of them hit the panic button. what they were using was not so much 911, a lot of them were using social media and there s a very intricate plan where they
area? are they expecting another round? what are you seeing? reporter: not by a long slot. there could be another round of heavy flooding because they anticipate not till maybe thursday in this area will the rivers begin to crest. and they re going to be keeping an eye on the rivers and reservoirs, as well. they ve had problems with overflow. this community here has about, it s hard to say how many homes in particular. hundreds, let s leave it at that. river stone is the name of it. it is one of those planned communities but the water goes all the way back. i don t know how far you can see. it goes about a mile and a half to the brazos river. it is all flooded. most of the families got out in a similar way what paul was showing you there. the pros, state and local fire departments and water trained rescue people, but then you had the civilians. those who just showed up with a boat or high profile truck or some of people had a high lift truck. they drove in, floateded in. but they wen