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<blockquote data-quote="kim75062" data-source="post: 718332" data-attributes="member: 20727"><p>Made it back to dallas last night. We helped a lot of people (a few hundred from a neighborhood that turned into an island) make it to safety from the flood waters. We spent 20 hours in waist to chest deep waters from the crested neches river and the water was still rising.</p><p></p><p>I meet up with a paramedic in Houston that works with reach out world wide, a charity I've never heard of before but there pretty great people. She knew the areas well and knew how to get us back to where we needed to be. And we meet her team of 2 more boats and 4 paramedics.</p><p></p><p>We worked with the national guard, coast guard and marines. It was amazing to see everyone working together so well! There was no "I'm higher then you" rank ego crap that I really was expecting. The marines cleared us a path to the neighborhood with there tanks, launched our boats with us and then unloaded the people we brought back. The coast guard had 2 helicopters over us waiting to pull people that couldn't be transported by boat. And the national guard got us from where we were to the neighborhood via the flooded highway, driving on the wrong side of the road in a convoy with them.</p><p></p><p>The pictures on the news don't even come close to showing the devastation that is there. We were literally driving out boats over people's houses .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kim75062, post: 718332, member: 20727"] Made it back to dallas last night. We helped a lot of people (a few hundred from a neighborhood that turned into an island) make it to safety from the flood waters. We spent 20 hours in waist to chest deep waters from the crested neches river and the water was still rising. I meet up with a paramedic in Houston that works with reach out world wide, a charity I've never heard of before but there pretty great people. She knew the areas well and knew how to get us back to where we needed to be. And we meet her team of 2 more boats and 4 paramedics. We worked with the national guard, coast guard and marines. It was amazing to see everyone working together so well! There was no "I'm higher then you" rank ego crap that I really was expecting. The marines cleared us a path to the neighborhood with there tanks, launched our boats with us and then unloaded the people we brought back. The coast guard had 2 helicopters over us waiting to pull people that couldn't be transported by boat. And the national guard got us from where we were to the neighborhood via the flooded highway, driving on the wrong side of the road in a convoy with them. The pictures on the news don't even come close to showing the devastation that is there. We were literally driving out boats over people's houses . [/QUOTE]
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