CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper May 26, 2015 20:07:00
Is this kind of flooding rare? does it happen -- has it happened before? have you ever seen anything like that? that? >> no not to this magnitude. we have flash flooding in the hill county but not to this magnitude. we had a 3.5 surge come through, the highest in record and this was topped out at 44.5 feet before we lost communications with the gauge. >> mr. mayor, is there anything that you town needs right now that you're not getting? >> i can't think of a thing. we've had tremendous response from the city, the county and the state and now president obama declared a national disaster area fo...