Special Reports & Tweets - Hurricane Harvey Flipping Mobile Homes
Aired: 2017-08-26
Duration: 05:51


=== Mobile Homes Flipped (05:14) ===

[00:00:00]  We're in Eagleside, Texas and we're in what looks to be like a mobile home trailer park And we're just documenting some of the most serious damage that we've seen yet on our way to Rockport.
[00:00:16]  This mobile home has been completely full.
[00:00:19]  As you can see, this mobile home has been completely full.
[00:00:28]  What type of wind?
[00:00:29]  how strong the wind must be to completely uplift.
[00:00:34]  I'm going to smash this window.
[00:00:38]  I hope you have insurance.
[00:00:39]  That's a nice scenario.
[00:00:39]  And I don't think it's going to work anymore.
[00:00:41]  As you can see, folks, just completely overturned.
[00:00:46]  Now, as we approach the area, you can kind of see it.
[00:00:51]  Maybe not from here, but these power lines are down here.
[00:00:55]  And they're actually blocking the road.
[00:00:58]  The wires were like this.
[00:01:00]  You can't drive through.
[00:01:02]  There's police addressing that right now.
[00:01:04]  We're going to take you through this mobile home.
[00:01:07]  So again, they're completely flipped.
[00:01:10]  Now, it does appear that this area has been evacuated.
[00:01:14]  They're not seeing any signs of life.
[00:01:16]  It looks like most of the areas where they would park their cars and hitch up, Their mobile home has been removed.
[00:01:24]  There's only a few cars left.
[00:01:26]  You can see that, I mean, look at all this damage.
[00:01:28]  Debris everywhere.
[00:01:29]  That's not the only mobile home in front, folks.
[00:01:32]  Here's the second one.
[00:01:34]  You got another one over here.
[00:01:42]  Totally overturned.
[00:01:43]  Look at the power lines, completely down.
[00:01:46]  How you doing?
[00:01:52]  Nice.
[00:01:53]  Did you shoot some video, doing some reports?
[00:01:55]  How you doing?
[00:01:56]  Here we go.
[00:01:58]  We're at an independent news outlet.
[00:02:01]  We're just trying to document some of the damage.
[00:02:04]  I hope that's not an issue.
[00:02:10]  That would be no good.
[00:02:11]  So, thank you.
[00:02:12]  Thank you for watching.
[00:02:13]  So, we've got some local neighborhood watch here, making sure that people aren't looting, obviously, with all the damage.
[00:02:21]  I'm not even sure what this is.
[00:02:22]  Here, let's just walk back here.
[00:02:25]  It looks like just in front of you can really see why the debris is blowing this way.
[00:02:33]  So I guess all of this debris is blowing out of this field.
[00:02:36]  And you can just see these fences are down.
[00:02:40]  Over there, there's just nothing but fences down and debris everywhere.
[00:02:44]  I mean, let's look at all the debris here in this field.
[00:02:47]  And if you can actually see, there's a herd of cattle.
[00:02:50]  About 200 yards out there that actually look like they're doing okay today.
[00:02:54]  But that barn over there, completely destroyed.
[00:02:57]  Here's another mobile home that's been completely flipped.
[00:03:01]  Just totally flipped, folks.
[00:03:03]  I mean, that is amazing.
[00:03:05]  That's the third one we've seen here just in this local community, and I'm seeing a few more.
[00:03:08]  Look at the damage here.
[00:03:10]  We just got a siding from a house or siding so something is completely torn off, ripped, and then it gets impaled by that hole.
[00:03:22]  We got more damage here.
[00:03:26]  So this is the Country Villa Mobile Old Park.
[00:03:29]  They were just driving through here to make sure that we weren't looters.
[00:03:31]  So we obviously respect that.
[00:03:33]  But actually this tree has been severely damaged.
[00:03:37]  This garage...
[00:03:39]  We're hearing now more...
[00:03:42]  I don't know if you guys have a strip or a chain out here.
[00:03:45]  That's a little bit.
[00:03:46]  Did you get that ground?
[00:03:47]  Look at this garage.
[00:03:48]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:03:49]  Totally down.
[00:03:50]  So I'm not sure if those cars in there are okay, but that's good to be fine.
[00:03:55]  Two more mobile homes.
[00:03:57]  Flip.
[00:03:58]  Continuing to flip.
[00:04:00]  That's the way it has to be sustaining at least 100 miles per hour if you're going to be flipping.
[00:04:08]  Flip.
[00:04:16]  I can't even think of the word right now.
[00:04:19]  Foundation, thank you.
[00:04:21]  These ones' foundations look like they're still there.
[00:04:25]  That one's falling off its foundation.
[00:04:28]  This one has been completely destroyed.
[00:04:30]  You can just imagine what it would be like to be in one of those.
[00:04:32]  God, I hope everybody got out safely before that happened.
[00:04:35]  Hopefully everybody here evacuated.
[00:04:37]  It looks like that's the case.
[00:04:38]  I'm not seeing any signs of life other than the people that run the community here.
[00:04:43]  More siding just completely destroyed there.
[00:04:45]  Another mobile home just completely flipped.
[00:04:48]  I mean, these are huge, huge vehicles.
[00:04:51]  Just totally flipped.
[00:04:51]  More damage sustained over here.
[00:04:54]  Really quite incredible.
[00:04:55]  I'm guessing that this is some of the siding that we're seeing.

=== Continuing Into Rockport (00:51) ===

[00:05:00]  As you can see, this place has had the siding completely ripped off.
[00:05:04]  There's a busted out window.
[00:05:07]  The power lines are down over here as well.
[00:05:09]  All the shingles, all the shingles on that roof.
[00:05:13]  Completely gone.
[00:05:14]  So this is just one little neighborhood we decided to stop here and document all the damage from the hurricane.
[00:05:22]  We are still probably 30 miles outside of Rockport, which is where they got the worst of it.
[00:05:28]  So we're expecting as we continue to head towards Rockport to see more damage like this and we will continue to document it for you.
[00:05:36]  Our thoughts and prayers are with all the people from this community.
[00:05:39]  Hopefully everyone was safe here.
[00:05:41]  Hopefully people don't go around robbing and looting people in these tragic times because that's really sad that that's the state of some people.
[00:05:47]  But we're going to sign off for now.
[00:05:49]  We're going to continue to head to Rockport.