rock, insulation everywhere. about two feet of debris. our stuff was covered in it. we didn t expect the storm to get this big, so we only packed a couple changes of clothes when we came to corpus christi. it quickly got stronger, a category 4. so you can see our homes, they have been demolished. sadly we had tenants living in the other three. so they will have to come home to destroyed homes as well. completely gutted, you know. just debris upon debris. but we aren t the only ones that are experiencing this. our whole town, community is. what is the prospect for your house? it looks totally destroyed. yes. you know, i didn t really expect that to happen. we have the casual routine where i get home from work, rockport is a beautiful community, a lot
welcome back. thanks for being with us. i m cyril vanvanier. and i m natalie allen. texas is reeling from what has become tropical storm harvey as officials warn of potentially historic floods in the next few days. at least one person was killed in the town of rockport, the city s mayor reports widespread devastation. one woman was killed after being swept away by floodwaters in houston. a flash flood emergency has been issued in that area. and police say they are receiving multiple requests for high water rescues that has come in during the overnight hours. our meteorologist who is usually here with us is in victoria, texas right now. derek van dam. and you were saying earlier that the language you re seeing from the national weather service is
but rockport is such a small community. we all know each other. i know there are a lot of people asking for people to drive by their relatives home just to make sure they are still there, people that haven t spoken to their relatives in 24 hours. so we re really going to need aid, we will need aid to come and help us find our family members and hopefully they are okay. this is catcatastrophic. are you telling me there are family members that you have not been able to get in touch with yet? not personally. i ve heard from friends that there are family members that might be that they can t get a hold of and that might be because of the power or just i know when i was coming in, i couldn t get phone service. and it s hard because we can t really get into rockport. it s not safe for us to get into rockport right now. so we definitely are going to need as much help as we can get to get back on our feet and make
suburbs around houston like katy, sugarland, pearl land, galveston are looking at monumental flooding. they are saying the middle and lower clear creek, they have seen almost 21 inches in 24 hours and we re not done. and record flood along the buffalo bayou. i had to get those in. i know i m out of town. buffalo bayou runs right through houston and they are saying record flooding on that. so i ll be back towards the bottom of the hour and give you another update. i think we both can appreciate you were struggling for words to try to impress it upon you never struggle for words epic, we ll stick with that and what will happen. thank you. joining me now to share her story is shan tell cleveland, a rockport resident currently in corpus christi. she sent into us pictures of her home that has been largely