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being used as evacuation centers. we ve been to an evacuation center in friendsworth. the halls were lined with families, elderly folks, pets, they had an auditorium where people with pets slept. another auditorium where people without pets slept. and all of it was community-driven. somebody asked a teacher if she could open a school and they went in, and it s almost packed now. all of the food, clothes, diapers, everything. it was all donated by people who just heard about it. of course, you have more official things happening, but that a lot of it like that is community-driven. i want you to watch as a last thing, because i don t know how much time we have. but this truck come back. i don t know if this is national guard or what. if you can spin over and show us that. go ahead. so they ve been in and out a couple of times. and they re doing the same thing. chris? you know, one of the things we heard in the press conference earlier today was even some of these big trucks are not
this is expected to go up to 59 feet. this is 5 fight higher than the previous all-time record flood at this area. so water is going to be going places they have never seen before. so for that reason, the ft. bend county sheriff, office of emergency management, has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for pecan grove. it was voluntary and now mandatory because it s going to flood areas it never flooded before. and that s about 12,000 people. you start to look, and they re trying to recommend where to go. because these people really can t flee now to areas like dallas or san antonio. it s too late for that. so they re headed to the shelters and some of the shelters are filling up. they said that terry high school is still open. they re accepting pets. they said please bring food and medications. they re also saying the sacred heart shelter is full and at capacity. they re not taking anyone there. and they re saying that the terry high school is not accepting pets, but only in the crates,
who had called them and were waiting was, you know, we will get to you. obviously under these terrible circumstances, it s very difficult to be patient. there s a lot of fear involved. i just wonder, because the right before you, we had a young couple who were in a car, and they said they basically came out because they didn t know what was going on. and then you spoke to the woman who said she was keeping up with stuff on social media. so is there power there? they re able to charge their phones? reporter: you know, i don t know if there s power in this area. kind of looking for signs of that. there has been power in most places where i ve been. i ve seen lights on and gas stations and even if they re out of gas and they don t do gas, but they sell water and other things. the school across the street, looks like there is power. i think they have power. i could be wrong, but i haven t seen a lot of that. which would make sense, given the fact she said she was following social m
use the phone have no way to make phone calls. and you mentioned a kroger, and the difference between this sort of community-based what is it, a school that sort of opened up as a shelter, and suddenly it s packed with people. is that kroger a place where people are just going to for food or sheltering there? reporter: they re being dropped off there. so these big trucks so we just pass by on the way here, just before we got here. i haven t talked to people there. i ve just been told by a couple of the people that were rescuing folks that they dropped them off there, and then somehow they get from there to the schools, evacuation centers with food. i know you ve had a chance to talk to a lot of people. and it is amazing to me that there are quite a few people who just are relieved to be alive and seem to be pretty calm in the face of what s a very devastating situation. how are you finding the people you ve talked to to be handling all of this? reporter: i talked to a family
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