Hurricane Beryl's flooding reaches into inland Texas

Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby, who was in Surfside Beach as Beryl arrived with damaging storm surge, highlights flooding caused by the storm in Houston.

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00:00East Texas is at risk for severe weather and you know we've checked in with storm chaser an extreme storm chaser Aaron Rigsby

00:07Multiple times over the course of this storm from the islands and now into Houston, Texas said Aaron

00:14You've been with this storm for quite some time. What's the flooding status there in Harris County?

00:21Yes, good evening Jeff as you can see right here behind me

00:23This has been a situation all across Houston this morning afternoon and unfortunately into the evening hours

00:28Right here is just two of over a dozen vehicles stuck on this street alone

00:33This is the exit 58 at I-45 in downtown, Houston

00:37This is it's it's remarkable to see a lot of the people still trying to push those limits and drive through this flooded water

00:44Even with all of these cars sitting here

00:46No trucks are working their way in to try and keep up with all the cars moving through

00:50But as you can imagine with this busy Monday evening, it's kind of an impossible task

00:55Absolutely, Aaron, can you talk us talk to us about what you experienced earlier this morning when the storm made landfall?

01:02Where were you and what was that like from your perspective?

01:06Yeah, absolutely

01:07So I was in Surfside Beach, Texas this morning where we rode out the northeast quadrant of this hurricane

01:12Which is the most powerful part of the hurricane as far as wind speeds go and we were targeting the storm surge

01:17Which is exactly what we got and unfortunately it took a really big impact

01:22Into the city there in the island

01:24There was multiple homes that were completely destroyed by the winds and those that survived the winds were heavily damaged

01:30especially in the lower areas by that storm surge in the waves that rolled through and I tell you this hurricane in particular was

01:36One where it just proves how different it is when a hurricane is intensifying upon landfall versus weakening

01:42This may have only been a cat one, but it packed a punch with winds well over 90 miles an hour

01:47We'll wait for NHC to confirm it

01:49But I'm pretty sure we had winds over a hundred miles an hour or several occasions through that eyewall

01:53We talked a little bit about that with chief meteorologist Bernie Reno when you and I were on with him on Friday morning

01:59About sometimes it's about kind of the vector of the storm in terms of is it in a strengthening or a weakening phase?

02:05We saw this under punch in places like Mexico

02:09But it may have exceeded its true category one rating in some fashion in some forms in parts of Texas

02:17There at least with the gusts of wind

02:19So thanks again for that report there Aaron Aaron Rigsby joining us live from Houston, Texas with the ongoing flood situation

02:25And Aaron we're going to check back in with you again later on

02:29I guess that we have lots to talk about here with the flooding and the storm surge and also a lot of power outages here