Rockport Residents feeling the effects of flooding Rockport residents react to flooding and last updated 2021-07-07 18:43:58-04 ROCKPORT, Texas â Residents in Rockport say they have never experienced flooding quite like this, not even during Hurricane Harvey. Heather Hendrix said her parents did not get this much rain in 2017. "I asked my parents if it was like this during Harvey and they said it never got this bad during Harvey," Hendrix said. She had to stay with her parents because her house flooded. "My parents are very concerned, they sent me and the children over here so we weren't standing in the water at the house, " she said. "So they're staying there to do what they can."