“…it’s horrific. I have lived here my whole life. I have been a cop for my whole adult life and I have never seen anything like this.”-James Singletary, Beaumont police chief, PBS Newshour interview 04SEP2017

Video Beaumont rail yard flyover, 02 SEP 2017:

“There were at least 150 adults and 1-hundred kids, along with 15 animals. That was the first day. The other vehicles were only able to carry three people at a time, and ours could transport twenty-five to thirty people at a time.”-Sergeant Ronald Allen, U.S. Army reserve

Texas Army & Air National Guard set up a field hospital in the parking lot of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Beaumont, due to the hospital being damaged by Harvey

By 02 SEP 2017 U.S. Army Reserve personnel assisted in more than 7-hundred evacuations of people, 170 pets, and transported more than 1-hundred emergency personnel to critical locations.

Texas Militia personnel hand out MRE (Meal Ready Eat) to flood victims in Beaumont, 03SEP2017

As of 04 SEP 2017 at least 3-thousand flooded Beaumont homes are still inaccessible.  Video of Texas National Guard searching Beaumont’s flooded neighborhoods, 03 SEP 2017:

U.S. Army and Navy personnel load-up a MH-60S SeaHawk with drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

Due to the unprecedented flooding, and the failure of Beaumont’s fresh water pumps, there is no drinkable water.  Video of Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook loaded with volunteers delivering 49 U.S. tons of fresh water (supposedly donated by an “anonymous billionaire”) to Beaumont, 02 SEP 2017:

U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules, from North Carolina, delivering drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

“We got the call to come over to east Texas, into Beaumont, Lumberton and Port Arthur areas. So we’ve been doing humanitarian missions, going out with the swift water rescue survival team and finding areas that traditional military vehicles cannot get in and out of. The amphibious assault vehicles help us get to those areas.”-Gunnery Sergeant Alan Daigle, USMC Reserve

Marines rescued almost 1-thousand-3-hundred people and countless pets/livestock from the affected areas.

U.S. marines confer with mayor of Rosehill Acres, a town just north of Beaumont

Video of USMC Reserve operation to deliver supplies to Red Cross warehouse in Beaumont:

BlackHawk flies over Beaumont, Texas, 03SEP2017