Sabine River creeping into Newton neighborhoods

Flood waters are rising, homes are threatened and classes are cancelled... that's the situation tonight along the Sabine River near Deweyville.

It is an ordeal homeowners there have dealt with in the past and will probably face again in the future.

In some places, the water is seeping onto the streets of Deweyville..

In others... it's rushing toward homes as the Sabine River continues to rise in Southeast Texas.

Some are walking home.. others are riding. And most know they'll be boating to their front doors before the end of the flooding, but they say that's just life on the river.

"You live out here, you gotta expect it..."

Harvey Powell, who's a five-year resident of the river, says despite the flooding due to the water-release at the Toledo Bend reservoir, homeowners in the River Oaks area are ready.

Powell said, "It's coming up slow and we've got plenty of time to prepare.. everybody had time to put everything up with plenty of warning."

Powell says that preparation includes transportation, essentials and each other.

He said, "Whenever the river floods, we're like a family."

And the River Oaks family says come a small stream, or rushing river, they won't be run off from their home on the Sabine.

Classes in Deweyville have been cancelled for Thursday and Friday.

The river will crest in Deweyville about four feet above flood stage.. but that won't happen until Friday.  The river has already crested in Burkeville and it is about six feet above flood stage in Bon Wier, but is expected to begin falling.