personal water crafts, anything they had, we saw people with canoes launching into creeks to try to get to these people who needed their help. as you can imagine the rain here has been relentless. it s been raining continuously for hours upon hours. you can see the creeks rising, you can see water rushing over the roads, moving very, very quickly in some places and it doesn t take much to move a car just about six inches of water. it s hard to even get across just how many roads are completely impassable because of the water at this point. we re talking major thorough fares, arteries, small streets. we ve been on awfully those today and there is so much water on so many of them and what s worse is that we know it is going to get worse because there is so much more rain expected in this area anchsz we look back over time and compare this to what the most recently happened in terms of tropical systems and hurricanes with tropical storm allison, from june of 2001, this