Texas flooding: Neighbors warn of rising flood waters

Live in the Hill Country, that's where meteorologist Berkeley Taylor is in Kerrville, where neighbors are not wasting any time starting that cleanup. Berkeley. Yeah, Shannon, Lauren, we arrived in Kerrville yesterday afternoon. And really, as soon as you hit the Kerr County line, you can see the damage that was left behind from Wednesday overnight into Thursday. All that rain falling in just a matter of days, estimates of over 20 inches. And yes, the Guadalupe River surged along with the Perdonals, the Llano River, all the major river basins. They hit well above major flood stage, so that caused damage along the riverbanks. But this time around, the biggest difference is the damage to residential areas like you see here. We're right along the banks of Town Creek. It's just behind this house you see here, and that is what surged up overnight and has left houses just completely devastated. You can see a pile of rubble here in this front yard. It's everything from drywall to carpet. Everything that was in the houses has that had to come out. Furniture trying to salvage what they can by cleaning everything up. But what they can't again. It's had to be removed and piled along the streets. You can see from this group of houses, mattresses, couches, everything in between again. Anything that hasn't been salvaged, they've had to put on the curve because it's completely destroyed from what they imagined is several feet of water that entered into a lot of these homes. And again, as we looked at the river, the sirens were sounding their emergency alerts went out on everybody's cell phones around here. But for one resident in this neighborhood, it was a knock on the door that made all the difference. Letting you know it is flooding really bad. I think you can get your car out right now if y'all can, but y'all need to leave. It's almost to our porches. My neighbor here came knocking at my door and saying she and she didn't give up. She kept bringing the doorbell kept knocking until me and my Children woke up and we were able to evacuate with them. My car was already too deep underwater so we couldn't escape with my vehicle. So that truck that they said that they were going to sell and something told them not to sell it was how we escaped. And so they called 911 and they told us that we do need to evacuate and we were able to get out safely. Now this is the truck that Sarah mentioned. This is what she and her two Children were able to get in and escape their neighborhood safely from the rising waters again from Town Creek. They then huddled at a local elementary school to be safe and make a plan as what do we do moving forward since then? Now we're on day four of cleanup. We spoke to her and many of her neighbors and the challenge here is just they need more hands. They told us they need volunteers but they also need water, ice, anything to keep them cool because temperatures today set to rise into the mid and upper nineties. The rest of the week we're talking triple digits and when you factor in all the moisture at the low levels, the water that's in all of our soils, the humidity is going to be off the charts today. So battling the heat, trying to work against time too because we spoke with a contractor that was out here and he said it's just a race against the mold to try to save these houses, which is why again all the drywall, the carpet has already been removed from the home. So again, it's gonna take quite some time to clean up, but it looks like this community is really rallying around each other to help each neighbor out. As again, you saw evidence from that ring camera. It's just neighbors helping neighbors all across the hill country.