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Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters o...

Skills with first responders. so we're trained to respond to chaos. we're ready to go. so our folks got on the ground monday. we've been doing boat operations since monday. we'll continue to do those until the community doesn't need it. >> you're focused on long-term. >> we expect we'll be here for a few months. what we generally do is wait for the waters to recede, so it's safe for the volunteers to come in and then start working on long-term operations. >> that's the thing, general. obviously, there's the adrenaline now for folks that are here, that gets you through for a couple of days. but...