Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reports live from Sargent, Texas, as residents assess the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.
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00:00Aaron Jay Jack joins us now live from Sergeant Texas with what he's seeing there. Now we checked
00:06in with you earlier Aaron and now you're back in Sargent. What's the situation there now?
00:13Yeah so things here in Sargent, specifically south of Sargent on the Sargent Beach have
00:20changed considerably since I was here a few hours ago. When I was last here a few hours ago
00:25water was still over the road. The winds were still strong. People that are on the beach or
00:30wanted to get onto the beach couldn't get on the beach or off the beach due to that flooding over
00:34the roads and now this afternoon all that water has moved off. It's moved off the road. Traffic
00:41is flowing onto the beach and residents are starting to clean up. I've spoke to a few
00:46residents down on the beach there who rode the storm out. You know some of them even have been
00:51here for quite a long time. You know this was a category one storm but it was a strengthening
00:55category one storm so it packed a significant punch for just a category one storm and some
01:00of those residents have rode out other tropical storms or weak category one hurricanes and they
01:06were saying that this was the strongest one they've experienced here. You know they've been
01:09here for a long time. They've had obviously there's been stronger hurricanes that made landfall in
01:13here and thankfully they've heeded caution for those and evacuated for those storms but for the
01:18weaker ones you know I think it caught some of the residents here by surprise just how strong
01:23those winds are and you know I've been in a lot of hurricanes and I will say that a strengthening
01:29category one storm is going to be a much stronger seemingly stronger storm than let's say a weakening
01:36category two storm. Every hurricane is different and you know this one unfortunately for
01:42some people here has caused a lot of damage along the beach and south of Sargent. So cleanup is
01:47underway power is out and it'll probably be out for quite some time here in the Sargent area.
01:52It's wild what can change in just a matter of hours in the weather world Aaron. Now is there
01:59anywhere else that you plan on going? I know you said that the water has cleared out of here. Do
02:04you plan on trying to stake out other areas? Yeah actually my next stop is I'm gonna go you know I
02:13started off my day yesterday in Port Lavaca and with the storm I continued to shift myself east
02:19with the storm shifting to the east make sure I could get into those into the eye of the storm and
02:24even specifically more more specifically on that eastern eyewall which is you know generally going
02:29to be the stronger part of the storm. So I shifted east yesterday I ended up in Palacios and then
02:35also Matagorda and as you mentioned Matagorda was near ground zero for where the landfall occurred
02:42earlier this morning. So my next step is I'd like to go check out the western side of the eye
02:47or even you know more towards the center western center eye and see how things fare there in
02:52Matagorda. It's a slightly bigger little town than here in Sargent so it'll be interesting to see how
02:58people are doing there what the situation is on the ground there so that'll be my next stop this
03:02afternoon. Okay Aaron we will be sure to check back in with you. Please stay safe I know you
03:08always do but of course we will continue to check back in with you as we head throughout the day.
03:14All right thank you. Thanks Aaron. All right we're gonna continue to track Beryl because
03:20unfortunately it's still here and it's still going and it's still going pretty strong.
03:24Still tropical storm status where we are tracking some pretty gusty winds as it does continue to
03:30make its way north and east. If we do look at the peak wind gusts here over the past 24 hours
03:36Houston impressive.