Where is Houston's Sheila Jackson Lee?
Posted on 08/28/2017 6:32:35 AM PDT by davikkm
LOL,I see what you did there!
Dem mayor..and republican Judge will be on the hotseat for this
Lesson: Don’t rely on Government.
Having worked 911 & police/fire/EMS dispatch radios during a hurricane & in the aftermath (& one no where near as catastrophic as Harvey), I can tell you that everyone is working as hard as they can and dealing with stuff you would never imagine having to deal with. When I was dispatching fire resources (lots of downed power line calls in addition to everything else), my ‘alert’ to dispatch calls was constant - I ended up standing the whole shift with a battalion chief sitting across from me telling me what was out there to send ... brush trucks, stuff I’d never had to dispatch. One of my trainers, when I started the shift, was on a nearby tac radio and he looked over and said very calmly “one call at a time - one call at time” and that kept me calm as the alerts were going off constantly.
Lots of IDIOTS call in and tie up the lines, just unbelievable. One guy called in to complain that an ice cream truck was in his neighborhood playing repeatedly “When the Saints Come Marching In”, it was driving him crazy & he wanted a police officer out there. Our officers were handling emergencies & even the plain clothes guys were in uniform, directing traffic at major intersections because all the traffic lights were out. Then you had people calling in with situations where there are bodies being discovered (had that call & remarkably ended up talking to the deceased’s brother when he called in the next day) .... people who cannot get medical help for some reason and then you have the run-of-the-mill (so to speak) heart attacks, strokes, injuries, etc.
Best advice I can give - be prepared to take care of yourself. Have supplies for a minimum of a week, two or more is better. Have medicines on hand, extra gas, water, etc. Have a first aid kit so that you can handle minor medical emergencies. If it’s going to be bad and you can evacuate to friends/family, please do it. If you absolutely HAVE to call 911, be patient and realize that the people who are answering the phones are under EXTREME stress, they’re likely lacking sleep, the calls are overwhelming (emotionally at times, too) & that’s one job you don’t do for the money.
If you search on comments from Emmett and turner for Thursday and Friday you will see them telling people to listen to your local officials..ignore rumors about weather..etc
Some even said ignore Abbott...dont know if those two said that
They own this
Not surprised.this is the age when you call 911 over mcnuggets
There is a shark on the freeway in Tx
FEMA moved hundreds of trailers into the area to serve as temporary shelter for people displaced by the flooding.
None of the trailers was ever used. People just figured out how to deal with their situation. Imagine that.
And you've spent the last 1-2 days b!tching that "Trump will be blamed by the MSM for all this" here on FreeRepublic.
You're probably the last person with an IQ over 80 (and I know that's an assumption on my part) who gives a sh!t about what the MSM has to say.
Those of us who were defending the mayor yesterday were simply pointing out the obvious problems with evacuating hundreds of thousands of people from one of the largest cities in the U.S.
According to the Weather Channel, it is the “International” Guard...
The “all benevolent government” sometimes has to perform triage......I’m all for letting folks make their own decisions about whether or not to evacuate, but they should be prepared to fend for themselves if they opt to stick it out. Plan to get to higher ground, food, water, guns and ammo and first aid kits.
Bring a hammer along with the potato salad.
Everyone knew it would be bad. Those who stayed knew they were taking a risk and were willing to do it.
Where is Houston's Sheila Jackson Lee?
“Where do Democrats think 3 feet of rain is going to go?”
The same place where it goes when the government money bombs the cities, no one knows.
Houston was under voluntary evacuation. It was yesterday, when everyone was trying to navigate flooded streets and rescuers couldn’t get out that the mayor told people to stay put.
But, yes, he should have made mandatory evacuations in the worst areas.
That said, people in Houston vote demonrat every time. Heck, they voted in a white guy because they thought he was black. The guy played his campaign as a joke and they fell for it. The Katrina trash that washed into Houston has never left and sadly didn’t lower the city’s IQ. Heck, Houston doesn’t have zoning laws. Let me repeat, NO ZONING LAWS. What could possibly go wrong?
Everyone knows if a bird tinkles, Houston floods. If your house flooded during Alicia or Rita or any of the other bazillion weather events over the past 50 years, you should have gotten out. But nooo, they all have the mentality of that muzzie woman who was blaming Trump because the grocery store didn’t have bread at the last minute on Friday.
I’m nowhere near Houston and our 911 has been off and on all summer. But these morons are surprised the service doesn’t work in the middle of a hurricane and flooding up to the street lights. Obviously, it’s Trump’s fault.
Local gubment does earthquake preparedness exercises Occasionally. Never mind that city hall and fire assets are built on landfill and will be destroyed when liquefaction occurs. No roads, nothing. Gas stations are all down low.
When this is over, there may not be that many left.
I’m not going to LOL
But I have a notice that moved to Houston to be with her husband - it was a job related move.
Quite sensibly, she looked at past flooding - and Houston floods a lot - they found an apartment that featured views of the bayou in the back yard.
Flooding?
The apt building is all concrete and the first two floors are resident parking. She lives on the fifth floor - great view of all the flooding.
Had plenty of water, food, a small camp stove fro cooking and they were able to park their auto at hubby’s workplace - and high ground. After all, any sensible person would realize that hurricanes are a problem anywhere on the GoM.
She did say they would be glad to leave when hubby’s contract is up - and leave behind the crime (Houston is #4 for crime in the US) and the horrible traffic.
As someone noted earlier o the board, the first hurricane prep is to NOT buy a house in a flood area.....
Sadly, the State and FedGov will - once again - pour billions into the area and enable folks to rebuild just in time for the *next flood*. I wonder how much the developers paid to get zoning approved for flood prone regions...
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