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Residents Survey Harvey Damage in Victoria as Rain Keeps Falling

Flooding and electricity remain problems

Residents were out Saturday to survey Hurricane Harvey damage in Victoria as the rain kept falling.

Electric service was out everywhere and the steady precipitation from the lingering storm made some roads impassable.

And widespread wind damage created some remarkable sights.

Remains of a metal building sat beside one street.

“It blew in from somewhere. I don’t know where it was,” resident Delbert Miller said.

Miller is a retired power company employee who lived in Victoria when the last Category 4 Hurricane blew in. That was Carla in 1961.

“I was here, like 9 years old when Hurricane Carla came through,” he said. “There was a lot of damage then.”

Not far away, resident Clarence Ross was taking pictures of the badly damaged medical office building where his fiancé used to work.

“I’m glad she wasn’t here,” he said.

After what he experienced as Harvey made landfall, Ross said he was not surprised by all the damage.

“It was the wind, the rain, all kinds of trees breaking, just all kinds of noise,” he said. “It was crazy.”

Ross noticed street signs from the other side of town.

“I’m trying to figure out how they got way over here,” he said.

A Sheriff’s Department spokesman said there were no reports of serious injury or death in Victoria County but officials are watching rising water in some creeks and roads.

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