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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="254" data-total-count="254">BEAUMONT, Tex. — Carrie Chambliss climbed into her husband’s truck on Friday and drove a winding route some 70 miles, plowing through deep water, to get from her home in Mauriceville to a grocery store in Beaumont that had “barely anything” left.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="392" data-total-count="646">For the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/harvey-texas-flooding.html">second day in a row</a>, Beaumont is without running water. With the city choked off by the floodwaters that have swamped smaller towns surrounding it, its grocery stores are quickly running out of staples like bread and eggs while lines of cars snake around a park where officials were handing out bottles of water. Residents are being urged to boil their own water — if they have any.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="373" data-total-count="1019">Ms. Chambliss was among the many in this part of southeast Texas who, if they had not fled for drier ground, have gone days without electricity or water. She also has not been able to get to her job, as an X-ray technician in Orange. And her family was worried about her son, who has a brain tumor. He was to have surgery in Houston on Friday, but it had to be rescheduled.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="240" data-total-count="1259">But at least she still had her home to return to, unlike many in her husband Cecil’s family. “His parents’ house had never flooded, and it’s gone,” Ms. Chambliss said. “His sister’s house has never flooded, and it’s gone.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="81" data-total-count="1340">For many here, the last few days have been spent on a series of roads to nowhere.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="176" data-total-count="1516">About 1,000 people were evacuated from the towns surrounding Beaumont on Thursday night and more evacuations are expected, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news conference on Friday.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="232" data-total-count="1748">He also said that the Neches River was about seven feet above the previous record, and “it will continue to remain at or near that high for about the next week.” The flooding “poses an ongoing threat” to the region, he said.</p><figure id="media-100000005405933" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005405933 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/02/us/02Beaumont3/02Beaumont3-master675.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="530" data-total-count="2278">Hundreds who live along the swollen rivers were ordered to evacuate — “Get Out or Die!” warned the announcement from the Tyler County government. And so shelters in churches and high school gyms opened up across the counties just inland, a welcome network of impromptu sanctuaries. Or they were until a huge power failure across several counties left the shelters without light or air-conditioning. They were never meant to be long term, and so bus by bus, the migration of hundreds to towns farther inland began once again.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="262" data-total-count="2540">Volunteers, many coming with their own trucks and boats, have been making the opposite trek, swarming on Main Street in Vidor, across the river from Beaumont in Orange County, where the water was deep enough to stall buses and launch fishing boats from the road.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="292" data-total-count="2832">It was there, in the parking lot of a carwash, where Melissa Bergin loaded her “menagerie” on to the back of a military-style truck, along with the rest of her family: her pigs, Parker and Penelope, a 15-year-old Boston terrier named Diva and a parrot. Another passenger brought a poodle.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="387" data-total-count="3219">The water had climbed to about five feet in front of her house by the time she had left, she said, and it had started seeping inside her house around sunrise. “We’ve never seen it like that,” she said as her terrified pigs let out piercing squeals. “None of our neighbors have. A lot of them have been in the neighborhood a good 30 years and they said they’ve never seen it.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="237" data-total-count="3456">Like many other residents, her family left with whatever possessions they could carry stuffed into garbage bags. “We just left it all there,” Ms. Bergin, a retired accountant, said, “and we’ll go back with a hope and a prayer.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="242" data-total-count="3698">For some, the ride to a shelter was just the latest stop. “We’ve been evacuated four times,” said Aleceia McClendon, who first evacuated on Monday and whose extended family in the area all had their homes flooded. “We have nothing.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="369" data-total-count="4067">As she and her family were dropped off at a shelter in Vidor, there was so much uncertainty. She did not know where she would end up that night. Hours later, she sent a text message saying she was on a bus headed for Lake Charles, La. “This has been one of the worst times of my life,” she wrote, “but I am humbled by all of the volunteers that have helped us.”</p><figure id="media-100000005405924" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005405924 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/02/us/02Beaumont-2/02Beaumont-2-master675.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group">
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