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In Houston Area 911 Not Responding – Pleas For Help Over Social Media
IWB ^ | Ruby Henley

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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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: 911; emergency911; harvey; houston; hurricaneharvey; preppers; socialmedia; texas
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To: bgill

Do the have blue helmets?


41 posted on 08/28/2017 7:58:11 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Prayers for Gods People! Salvation & Restoration!)
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To: ASOC

Re-#40 - notice = niece. Auto-correct is not your friend...


42 posted on 08/28/2017 7:58:58 AM PDT by ASOC (Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Deport him and you never feed him again.)
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To: davikkm
Too bad the Mayor isn't a Repub. The media would have someone to blame for that.

Oh, heck. go ahead media, blame Trump!

43 posted on 08/28/2017 8:01:13 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: jeffc

They’ll blame Governor Abbott and Trump.


44 posted on 08/28/2017 8:03:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: foundedonpurpose

No, it was just more stupid reporter tricks.


45 posted on 08/28/2017 8:09:22 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: davikkm

Smart phones and social media, in the case of such emergency happenings in the hurricane impacted areas, are very similar to Ham radio’s and are an effective way to go around a bogged down/overloaded official emergency (911) system.

Being an amateur radio operator (N0CUO), I was actually involved in the use of my equipment some years back, due to a flood in a local city (Tomah, WI). I expect there are “Ham” operators down in Texas using their services in a similar capacity. The only difference, Ham operators need to be licensed while not so with a cell phone. “Any port in a storm” seems appropriate due to the current happenings in Texas.


46 posted on 08/28/2017 8:12:44 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: davikkm

Smart phones and social media, in the case of such emergency happenings in the hurricane impacted areas, are very similar to Ham radio’s and are an effective way to go around a bogged down/overloaded official emergency (911) system.

Being an amateur radio operator (N0CUO), I was actually involved in the use of my equipment some years back, due to a flood in a local city (Tomah, WI). I expect there are “Ham” operators down in Texas using their services in a similar capacity. The only difference, Ham operators need to be licensed while not so with a cell phone. “Any port in a storm” seems appropriate due to the current happenings in Texas.


47 posted on 08/28/2017 8:12:44 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

Don’t these systems operate on the same basic plank as any cell-phone system, though? Get clogged when too many use it? Not sure how it works. But usually, everything related to phone systems gets clogged and useless as much as 911 itself.


48 posted on 08/28/2017 8:28:29 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: davikkm

This is why everyone should have a portable inexpensive Ham radio that also allows the 14 FRS (Family Radio Service) channels. One can’t use Ham frequencies unless it’s an emergency involving property or life which this situation does rise to. They are great to keep in the trunk and in a Faraday bag in the even of an EMP burst. At a starting price of just $25 shipped right to your home; it really is a good deal. There was a complete kit for sale with a lot of extra accessories but I see they sold out.

https://www.amazon.com/Baofeng-136-174-400-480-Dual-Band-Transceiver/dp/B009MAKWC0/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1503934153&sr=8-8&keywords=baofeng+uv5r

These even receive FM radio stations in your area and NOAA, the weather service, reports.


49 posted on 08/28/2017 8:33:41 AM PDT by Boomer (Have RINO republican pols been radicalized somehow?)
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To: Paulie

GOVERNOR, MAYOR SPLIT...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-governor-mayor-split-over-if-houston-needed-evacuations-1503880263


50 posted on 08/28/2017 8:49:21 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Damage may match Katrina...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/texas-flood-damage-harvey-may-match-katrina-insurance-210940685—finance.html


51 posted on 08/28/2017 8:50:16 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...)
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping - Mass Flooding ( S. E. Texas)

When emergency services are needed, they might not be available; services
Emergency Services in Houston generally receive 7000 calls per day, but recently are averaging 56,000 calls, most recently now over 70,000 per day.
Thank goodness for "the Cajun Navy" and volunteers with boats !!
The official Evacuation routes are already flooded out, and are unusable even if you can get there.
When living near a major river, it would be wise to include a life preserver near your "go bag",
an axe if you plan on staying in place so that you don't get trapped in an attic
and food , water, spare glasses, cash and credit cards, and extra medication along with personal identification papers.
The 'continuing crisis' comes in a few days when those who have run out of food and water supplies at home,
amid additional rising waters, become more desperate for emergency services.

H/T TADSLOS

52 posted on 08/28/2017 8:50:56 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: Jim Robinson; davikkm; LS; Impy; RoosterRedux; Whenifhow; Rusty0604; LucyT

I’m not convinced that manditory evacuations are constitutional, but they are legal.

The democrat mayor did very little to get his democrat city ready. [Katrina all over again.] You can see it in the posts here by Texas FRiends.

Related headline:

GOVERNOR, MAYOR SPLIT...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-governor-mayor-split-over-if-houston-needed-evacuations-1503880263

They are trying to set up Trump, but I believe that Trump’s marine-heavy administration is going to ROCK this rescue effort. It will make history — that’s my prediction. Even so, there will [of course] be an effort to malign whatever he does.


53 posted on 08/28/2017 8:57:39 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...)
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To: davikkm

No government on earth can protect its citizens and their property from a hurricane.

That is a fact.

No government on earth can protect its citizens and their property from climate change.

That is a fact too.

Puny humans.

5.56mm


54 posted on 08/28/2017 8:59:28 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: davikkm

Just got off the phone with someone in Dallas who was talking with people in Houston. He stated that there had been only around 1000 rescues required - compared to 10-100X that required for Katrina. Basically felt that Houston population was much better prepped.

Felt the news was blowing the rescues way out of proportion.

Of course property damage is what the property damage is, but from a human danger perspective I though this was an interesting view.


55 posted on 08/28/2017 9:40:25 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: DaveA37

BTW, I wasn’t talking about ham radio. I’m talking about the subject of the article - tweeting. Since “everyone” (except me) does it, wouldn’t it just clog up just like all the other phone systems in that locale?


56 posted on 08/28/2017 10:51:52 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

2 meter ham radios are a must


57 posted on 08/28/2017 11:09:29 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Sasparilla; DocRock
Sasparilla :" 2 meter ham radios are a must"

True that !
There used to be an active Ham Radio list here among the FReepers
Is that list still active ?

58 posted on 08/28/2017 11:14:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

....There used to be an active Ham Radio list here among the FReepers
Is that list still active ?...

I’ve been here 8 years and have never seen it. If you find it, let me know. 73


59 posted on 08/28/2017 11:29:52 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

In the current scenario it probably would be wise to bug out rather than but in. But if you do bug in don’t forget enough ammo to ward off looters.


60 posted on 08/28/2017 11:42:21 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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