Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Rockport, Texas, on Friday night. Port Aransas and surrounding coastal towns, like Rockport, were under mandatory evacuation order, and those who chose to stay — like Bill and Paulette Rogers — were told to write their Social Security numbers on their arms for easy identification of their bodies. Bill and Paulette and their two dogs spent Friday night in their Port Aransas house, then their car, then finally up to their shoulders in water in their floating Ford F-250 truck. "This is the dumbest thing I've ever done," Bill told The Dallas Morning News afterward, when the storm surge had receded. This is the scene they woke up to, in Rockport and Aransas County.
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