>> i'm good, man. i'm an expert swimmer. >> reporter: thank you. >> i'm like a fish. >> reporter: you're like a fish? >> yeah. >> reporter: okay, sir. he is heading back. he said he was hoping he was coming out here and that he would see the highway water trucks. ed he did see them at one point. apparently they didn't see him or maybe they had to turn around and come back because the water was too high. he and his son are going to go back. he is telling us that his wife and his other child are back home a good ways away. he is telling us the water was rising into his house chest deep and still rising, making it very difficult. this whole walkway here, this whole road you're seeing the current is strong and getting stronger. just a really dire situation at this point. the other group of people telling us that there were still others in the neighborhood that couldn't get out.