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Article snippet: 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. For the second day in a row, 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. 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. 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.” For many here, the last few days have been spent on a series of roads to nowhere. 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 F... Link to the full article to read more