if you ve seen the projected path, it looks so funny because it goes on to the mainland and then adjust parts and it starts to back up. it goes back out in the ocean. make it a little stronger. a little moisture. it could even slide up into louisiana. and all the while, it s just dumping inundating rain. this entire time. just dumping rain. and it s raining for four or five days. if they re going to get rain like this, that s how you get feet of rain. it s an unimaginable amount of water when you really think about how much that could be and what that can do. we are in south texas. they are used to rain. they had some terrible floods last year. these people know how to handle this kind of a storm. it s hot, it is sticky. it reads on most every day. they get big-time storms down here. like south florida.
it s estimated we could see somewhere between 37 and 40 inches of rain and, of course, if we see that much pertain rain, we have flooding problems, it would be a historic amount of rain in this area. and, you know, as much as everybody would like to think that hurricanes are typical, that they hit, they pass through and move on, harvey is going to defy that norm and really become a nuisance with a lot of wind and rain and the rain and the flooding is going to be the real final story here in this community. francis. a lot more ahead for the people there. i know you had mentioned that there were two shelters where a lot of people, a lot of families have taken advantage of those shelters, as well. any indication that there will still be room in those shelters in the next couple of days for those people who haven t yet? they were actually at capacity. in fact, they turned people away. i haven t really seen that before. they were so at capacity, they turned people away telling them,
it then makes its way to galveston and up the eastern coast of texas. that s a big, big that s a big problem that is not going away anytime soon, sir. as a reporter noted despite what you are able to see because of all that wind, the worst problem probably will be the flooding. from feet of rain coming down. and just stacking up. we ve dealt with this on several occasions across the gulf coast. it can have a dramatically horrific effect. you also asked about the coordination we ve had with the white house. i got to tell you, it s been very impressive. i got a call from the president himself a couple of days ago. the health and human services secretary, home insecurity, the head of fema. also in our region.
then corpus christi, things calmed down a bit there. but obviously, as the storm moves more, we still get these heavy gusts sometimes. it s clear that the this is not just a wind event, but a rain event. and as this rain continues to fall, there is a huge concern of flooding. but, again, right here where we are in sinton, texas, it seems to be quite dark here. there are police officers making sure people are off the roads. it has been a harrowing experience throughout the night to drive through this part of texas. we re about 30 minutes away from daybreak there in texas. can you give us some perspective, gabe, where you are. is this a strip mall where you are, is this an isolated business? yeah. no, it s a relatively small town, francis. this is actually the main street if we can look around. you re not going to see much. it s pretty dark here. here is our suv. you see just a little further
federal government will capture back those expenses for overnight. an exhausted firefighter and exhausted policemen is just like you and men when they re exhausted. they have to pace themselves. some of them have experience, but many of them don t. it s been years since we ve seen a hurricane like this make landfall in had this area. for many of them, it s a new experience. as the experience corresponded, there you are standing. we ll check back in with you. we ll hear from you a little bit later on. kerry, thank you. i want to turn now to gabe gutierrez in taft, texas. gabe, it doesn t seem like you have too many winds whipping around like kerry, but certainly the rain. hi there, francis. yeah, actually, we moved from taft, texas, where we were a short time ago. we wanted to move inland for