i'll keep your shot up while you're in it but talk to joe flores who you can see on the top right, he's in cyprus texas, due north. the northwestern corner of houston. he joins us now by skype. for a moment of levity, joe, we don't have much levity in the story but you i believe own a flower shop that is called mamamia which gave me a situation that's not giving me smiles right now. are you stuck in your house? >> yeah, i am actually stuck up here in my house. the water has receded out of the house but my street is flooded to where you can't drive out of it. they have been rescuing people here. the army, there's been helicopters going over us. you know, it's just -- it's a pretty bad deal here. >> you've got communication obviously because we're talking to you. have you got running water, water that you bought? have you got sewage -- are the toilets flushing? >> i have a lot of bottled water. the water is running. and since the water is backed out of my house it's actually -- the toilets have starting flushing, they were backing up last night. but now it's gone down enough to where i ca