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City hall to my home, i didn't find anybody open, so there's no reason for people to be out on the street, there's nowhere to spend money. and we are just waiting it out. >> neil: how many did evacuate, mayor? >> it's hard to tell. we really stressed evacuation, obviously, north beach here in corpus christi, where the big drain goes into the lagoon. but anybody in the city was certainly welcomed and encouraged if they wanted to leave to leave, so i don't have a good number of that. there is a considerable amount of people still here, but -- >> neil: was there in order, mayor, to leave or was i...

Storm drain. some of them made it, others were swept away in the rushing water. chad myers, our severe weather expert, is in el reno, oklahoma. this happened in oklahoma city about 30 miles to your east. so what happened to those people? >> reporter: they went under the ground in the storm drain, a big drain, to seek shelter from the tornado. a good place to go unless you get a flash flood right after. and that's exactly what happened. ten people were in that shelter, or in that drain. the wind and tornado went over. they didn't get out in time before the rain really gushed in, and then it was...

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