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We had to walk. shin deep. then knees. neck deep into the water. while families carrying babies. families carrying, dogs, we have, floats where the dogs are, on top. getting scared. never been like, they don t, don t now how to swim. and stuff. we had the women, children. tie rope around their waist. they could stay together. there was an electric pole that fell. and they had the kids put one arm over, so they can float. because the kids, definitely like it was not any way they would stand in the water. the video you first saw. that was me. and, a lot more behind for my parents. because they had evacuated. the fire marshals came up to our door. told us hey, this is mandatory evacuation. you need how to gout of your house right now? so you were eventually rescued by boat, right, where ....
Taking shelter from a hurricane is it going to be a repeat of katrina. a repeat of the super dome situation. and the chaos that took place there. i can tell you, my team and i went in here, not long age talked to a lot of people. it its not that situation, don. it is very come posed. orderly. it is very organized. there are a lot of people in here who are stressed. devastated. and exhausted. but they are, just, you know they re really acting in a very, graceful manner. and there are a lot of police officers and volunteers helping to shepherd people in the right direction. give them meals so. far, what we have seen. pretty impressive, don. talk to me, brian, about some of the rescues you witnessed earlier today. just incredible scenes. we went out to an area in the northeastern section hufston. lakewood. a poor section of town, a lot of single family homes, these houses had water up to past the window levels. and when we were there with a ....
On? hopefully not long. get more out of there. and get resources to get them out. waters are dangerous. you have sewers leaking into the waters. it is nasty walter. soef it is going to maybe, you know, over the next few days they can get everybody out of there. coachfully. with more rain coming. water getting higher. going to be schalen jes. no doubt about it. there are things in the water. grew up. dangerous things in water. animals, so on. talk to us about that. well you have snakes. and i heard earlier. eight inches over the high fence. there tis, there is, mock sans, i saw a guy catching catfish in his living room the other night. so it s it s just a dangerous situation for people wading through the water. you got waste, chemicals as well. absolutely. ....
Ranch. calling our neighborhood out, since last saturday before the floods started. they said hey you might have to do a, a voluntary evacuation. so, whoelt time they have been telling us, voluntary evacuation for the past come of, come of dates, couple of hours. even today, too. and then, justen a matter of a second, they changed it to a mandatory evacuation. in a maerlt of a second. because me and my dad. we expected that we would be able to stay upstairs. then suddenly told us no you have how to get out of the house. you lad to get out right away without any warning. yes. right. we had how to. how many people were there. was it your family? there? our entire family. when we got out. like the water just started to seep into our house. we got out. all our neighbors were out there. evacuating together. my neighbor, neighbor, took a rope, and about like, then it was like 15 people. tied each other with ropes. all tied on a represent together. walking in a line together. so w ....
Ask them if they wanted to leave. so many people gave us the thumb thousands up. and, as we continued to go around the houses, some of the people would then, stop us, because they would notice the water was still rising. and for all of the listeners out there. i know a lot don t have electricty. it is, or tv s, but, it s, if they see somebody coming to, you know, rescue them, please, please, take advantage of it. get out of the, the water. yeah. and what about at night? tell also but, what happens at night there? well we started last night. you know, a little after midnight. and you know, the people, at night, are, are much more panicked and terrified. that we can see, i mean they were, they were opening up. they would be on the second story, screaming out loud at us. we could hear them over the loud motors of the air boats. and trying to get to these people. you know, you could just, seat panic. in their eyes. and going to, going to today, you ....