Posted on 02/27/2017 5:07:46 AM PST by davikkm
Some officials failed to act until people were scurrying to flea their homes without any notice. They had no time to get anything packed, but did grab their pets…thank God for that, as pets are a vital life force for humanity. Whether they realize it now, they can make a home from scratch with their family, pets, and the kindness of strangers. Praise God for the Red Cross and other charities. We must stress the kindness of strangers in this world of a failing humanity, as those strangers represent the best in us.
Nguyen and his family had spent all Sunday in a daze, discarding by the armload his soaked, muddy possessions, when a helpful volunteer held up a waterlogged, red photo album, as thick as an old phone book. “Do you want it?” volunteer Alan Supan asked. “Toss it,” answered a relative helping Nguyen discard his hopelessly damaged possessions. In this Rock Springs neighborhood of apartments and immigrants along Coyote Creek that flooded knee-deep last Tuesday, people who lost everything were coming to terms with what that really means. “What am I going to do?,” said Nguyen, who is in his 70s. “I have nothing left.”
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Yes. No matter where you live you're going to have some type of risk for a natural disaster. I've lived here for 25 years and only had to evacuate once. I lived in CA and had my house destroyed in an earth quake. Lived in Albuquerque and went through a dust storm and had my house flooded in a flash flood. I grew up in New England and spent two weeks snowed in during a blizzard. I lived in Illinois and saw several tornadoes.
I'm retiring in two years and plan on moving. I just haven't decided where yet.
"While this low-lying neighborhood may have been destined to flood when the rain-soaked Anderson Reservoir spilled over its dam, the city of San Jose is coming under scrutiny for not evacuating the neighborhood before residents were knee-deep in water."
Buzz Kill here.....Fleas don’t fly but fly’s flee.
Thank you for the clarification.
Funny you mentioned Albuquerque. One of the reasons we moved to this area is - after going through Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma - we wanted someplace with good weather and no natural disasters.
Yeah, the wind blows sometimes, but it is really nice here, especially compared to South Florida.
Note to self: Read the article!
I was thinking more of the 1957 WWII movie with Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jurgens; “The Enema Below”
Palm Springs/Cathedral city or Vegas?
The headline didn’t make sense to me. I knew that there were problems with the spillway, I had not read any articles about a lot of homes being flooded because of it. I knew though that there had been flooding in San Jose because of a water release. The author might have been equating the spillway with the flooding from the water release and got it wrong.
Yeah, the wind blows sometimes, but it is really nice here, especially compared to South Florida.
I lived on Kirtland AFB for four years. We were in the process of moving out of base housing to go overseas and had all of our belongings boxed up and on the floor when the house started flooding.
In the four years that I lived there that was the only time I remember having a flash flood.
I loved the weather there. Not too hot in the summer and not terribly cold in the winter. Just wind storms in the spring.
Ok. I missed parts of the story so thank you.
Thank you. I missed that part.
I live up on the mesa in Rio Rancho. If I got hit by a flash flood I would expect to see an old guy with a bunch of animals in a boat going by...
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