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Beaumont Enterprise:

Knee-deep water streamed through Sabine Pass streets Sunday as an 11-member crew of the Edmund Task Force 1 rescue team from Oklahoma went house to house looking for anyone who might still be left in the flooded coastal community.

Practically every building had some sort of damage in what was one of the hardest hit areas of the county when Hurricane Rita barreled through Saturday morning.

Water flowed through Gabby's Hardware store. The car wash awning was twisted, and telephone poles were scattered along the side of it. The brick walls on the storage facility next to the car wash were reduced to rubble, baring the studs and ruined belongings inside. Windows were knocked out on the fire station garage door.

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The water in some places here was up to 5 feet on Saturday, task force members said. On Sunday, they saw alligators and water moccasins swimming through the water. And then, high tide would be coming in later in the night.

Texas 87 to Sabine Pass was practically impassable, with debris covering the highway.

Sabine Pass residents shouldn't try to come home now, said Port Arthur Police Officer Mike Hebert, who was patrolling the community.

Entergy officials told him that power might not come back on here for two months, Hebert said.

Sabine Pass is outside the seawall and levee that protected Mid- and South Jefferson counties from catastrophic flood damage, officials said.