East Texas residents are warned river levels could rise to 82 FEET as the Army is forced to open reservoir floodgates

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[size=38]East Texas residents are warned river levels could rise to 82 FEET as the Army is forced to open reservoir floodgates after Harvey's trail of destruction leaves 38 dead and destroys 48,700 homes[/size]

• Residents in a county of Beaumont, Texas, have been told to evacuate or face certain death from Harvey
  
  
• Authorities warned anyone staying behind to write their social security number on their arm to later be identified
  
  
• Two explosions at a flooded chemical plant in Crosby have released toxic chemicals in to the air and water 
  
  
• The entire city of Beaumont, which has 118,000 residents , is now without running water
  
  
• Harvey is still thundering on and is making its way towards Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky 
  
  
• It will bring heavy rain to those states but is not expected to cause the same devastation as it has in Texas 
  
  
• So far 38 people have been confirmed dead but the final death toll will be exponentially higher as the flood waters recede and more bodies emerge
  
  
• The governor of Texas has warned that it could take weeks for some flooded districts to become dry again
  
  
• More than 48,000 homes have been destroyed by the storm and the estimated cost of damage is $160 billion
  
  
• To donate to the Red Cross Hurricane Harvey relief fund, click here or call 1-800-435-7669
  
  

By JENNIFER SMITH and ANN SCHMIDT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:07 EDT, 31 August 2017 | UPDATED: 09:08 EDT, 31 August 2017


Residents are being warned to 'get out or die' as waters in a nearby reservoir rise in an east Texas county and Harvey continues to move northeast towards Louisiana, bringing more rain and floods as people continue to evacuate and fill already overcrowded shelters. 
Officials in Tyler County, where river levels were expected to rise to 82ft, told residents bleakly that if they did not leave, their chances of rescue were slim. 
'Anyone who chooses not to heed this directive cannot expect to be rescued and should write their social security numbers in permanent marker on their arm so their bodies can be identified. 
'The loss of life and property is certain. Get out or die!' an ominous late night post on the county's emergency department's Facebook page read on Wednesday. 
There have been two explosions at the Arkema Inc. chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, which flooded earlier in the week, releasing toxic substances in to the area which have already sent one police officer to hospital. 
There is no clean water in Beaumont, which has a population of 118,000, after the failure of two storms.  
So far 38 people have been confirmed dead but the final death toll will be much higher. More than 48,000 homes have been destroyed.   
Beaumont was one of the areas suffering the most from the aftereffects of Harvey on Wednesday, with many people still in need of evacuations. 
Harvey - which has now been downgraded to a Tropical Depression - has moved out of Texas and is gradually crawling up and out of Louisiana. 
It will bring heavy rain to parts of Mississippi and Tennessee and lighter showers will be seen in Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas but it will not come close to the 51 inches that fell in Texas.  

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