Posted on 08/28/2017 6:32:35 AM PDT by davikkm
At this time 911 is not responding, and pleas for help are going out on social media.
https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqOnSF?m=en-us
When the rainfall turned torrential late Saturday night, and water began pouring into his living room, KeRon Hooey sloshed down the block to the highest ground in the neighborhood: his neighbor’s two-story house.
He and 10 others, including two elderly neighbors, spent the night on the second floor, watching the waters rising out of the nearby Buffalo Bayou and spreading across their quiet subdivision, Wood Shadows II.
All night, Hooey dialed emergency numbers – 911, 311, the Coast Guard, local police stations – only to find wait times of more than two hours, or lines so busy that his calls were dropped. So he turned to Twitter.
“Entire Wood Shadows II neighborhood is under water,” Hooey wrote in a Tweet posted at 4:23 a.m. Then he shared his address.
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You mean the all-benevolent government isn’t around when most needed?
Who’da thought?
I’m still trying to figure out why people don’t just take a week’s vacation out of the path of Harvey. I heard plenty of....”Oh no...we’re ataying” like it would be some kind of afternoon shower.
When you live in a city of 2.5 million people, don’t think you will be rescued in a cataclysmic situation without having to wait hours or days. Plan ahead for the survival of yourself and your family. Store an axe in your attic, for example. Spend few bucks and hope you never use it. There is no system in the world that could handle hundreds of thousands of incoming calls that may not be necessary but every 50 or 100 years.
God bless the intrepid boaters who filled the breach and Gov. Abbott, who had 300 Texas National Guards men ready to roll in their high-water vehicles.
Guess what, boys and girls? 911 is designed to work when only a tiny fraction of the population is having an emergency at any particular instant. When the number of people needing help exceeds the number of available responders, then you are out of luck.
Correction: 3000 TX National Guardsmen
Mayor of Houston did not order a mandatory evacuation, so many people thought that they were safe.
Army Corp of Engineers is releasing water to protect dams. That water will wipe out new developments around Houston. With communications out, the people living there do not know it is coming.
Ping.
Many on FR were defending the mayor yesterday.
Of course, Trump will be blamed by the MSM for all this by mid-week.
I just dont get why people on this site ignored that a dem mayor might lie..and that you might get 50 inches..and not 20. Some places in houston are already at 35 inches...another foot on the way.
It just blows my mind. A law firm who wont say a warning post was fabricated...just might have been telling the truth about a city council meeting
So, Mr. Hooey trudged through Dark Shadows II in a flood that he knew was coming, to high ground, the location of which he knew, in order to dial emergency numbers that he knew would be utterly slammed in order to complain about it on Twitter because... wait for it...
Trump’s Fault!
FEMA or some part of effort announced that they were trying to transfer incoming into the federal system in some way to help out local 911. i don’t know timing.
How bad is the flooding/damage to Galveston? We have a reunion there in October.
Keep voting for Democrats to run your city, idiots!
Leni
There were people here on friday defending him and couldnt conceive that public officials might lie and downplay severity of storm
Is the mayor a dem?
Mayor of Houston did not order a mandatory evacuation, so many people thought that they were safe.
Did the Demonut Mayor leave ?
I thought I saw/heard the message that went out, if you didn’t get out, you were on your own... no 911 and no help would be available. Everyone was warned ahead of Harvey.
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