Posted on 08/27/2017 6:34:30 AM PDT by SMGFan
Woodshadow street. Water almost to roof line one story
Nursing home pic on ttwitter
Woman knitting in recliner with water to her waist.
Cat in pic...several elderly that should be eevacuated
That nursing home pic is too much..gotta go do something else right now..cant look at any more pics
I just turned on FNC and they are desperately trying find complaints that they have no federal help and now a Katrina expert, LOL, saying they need the TX National Guard there now.
“Dont go to attic unless you have an axe”
and the strength and stamina to quickly chop a human-sized hole in plywood between 16” centered rafters (or worse roofs made with prefab trusses).
I take it those local officials folks are supposed to trust didn’t make exceptions to the shelter in place advice for assisted living/skilled nursing facilities...?
Yes, you should have a reserve and I’m no bleeding heart but it is what it is. The entitlement class, the kept class are people that there are not enough resources for in these conditions. There are so many of them and they are so unprepared at all. They are a liability on society. Always have been.
Even if the mayor had been honest the numbers and the depth of their need is overwhelming. You just can’t do enough fast enough to help them. The same thing happened in NO when they went to the super dome. That was a disaster in itself. Just think of the sewage problem alone.
I still don’t know where you evacuate a goodly portion of the third largest city in the US to let alone a goodly portion of the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast. If you have an answer for that I’m sure somebody would like to know it.
I’m not a gloom and doomer or alarmist only a realist, just think of the sanitary problems that will arise in the coming days. Just about every waste treatment plant in the area of millions of people, except for the mini-plants in subdivisions and MUDs will be non-functional. Ditto for a lot of water treatment and even wellheads for municipal water wells. It has happened many times before and preparations have been made just not on this scale. Things nobody expected to be flooded will probably be flooded.
I don’t live along the Texas coast and the Houston area any more and I’m very happy I don’t. I could not wait to leave there as soon as I was able just because I expected this type of disaster was coming. I remember Carla in ‘61 that affected the area around Clear Lake and Pasadena and the people on roof tops and people that drowned.
The Houston area has to be one of the worst places in the world to have developed a city so large. The closest next best choice might be between Huntsville or College Station up above the Galveston Bay Escarpment. The lack of zoning is a contributing factor to the size of this disaster but it is not the real reason. The real reason is this is just a horrible place to build a city. NO is worse just not nearly as big.
It is too late to abandon the city site of course so it will be rebuilt and cleaned up, life will settle into the normal sweltering air conditioned pattern and the area will unknowingly wait for the next time this happens or worse.
Of course this is just my two cents worth of things I said and was concerned about in living around Houston for nearly 30 years while I made a living. Fortunately, the last 21 were spent at an elevation of 220 feet on the edge of the city and a good 40 feet above the invert of the closest drainage where I made ever longer commutes as the city grew out to meet us. If that house ever floods we’ll need an Ark.
“Everything is destroyed by the water and its aftermath. Afterwards, unless it’s total disaster, you’re stuck with drying things out and the repairs, in an area where houses have lost a lot of their value.”
and typical homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover flooding. the best you can do is try to prove rain damage because your roof was ripped off but before flood waters take your house.
If I could post pics from my phone I would post it. Really heartbreaking. You can see it by using houston nursing home as search terms
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Sewage treatment down for long? Is there any doubt it will be out for a long time?
This is probably early in the flood event and there are days of rain ahead according to forecasts. The water will probably rise and stay high for some time. The good news is though that as it spreads it won’t get as deep as fast but it will continue to flood more an more areas. Eventually the whole area will be under a sheet of water of varying depths.
One lady in back of that photo by the cat is hunched over looking like she is about to fall in water
Saw where if it keeps raining to west houston will ccontinue to flood
Three things people living in a disaster zone HAVE to be able to do: Eat, drink, toilet. If locals can’t guarantee they can make that happen, they should have encouraged the evac of high risk areas and folks who can’t take care of themselves. The fewer the number of people you have to take care right away, the better. This isn’t rocket science.
The mayor that asked residents to put their SS# on their arm for people who stayed refused to was brilliant. Gets the point across. Many folks will die to high winds and torrential flooding(known as CAT 4 hurricanes). Liberals will blame Republicans.
Agreed as to basic necessities.
Are you familiar with Houston, the surrounding counties and the Texas Gulf Coast? Do you appreciate the size of the high risk areas and the number of people in them?
High risk on the ground is pretty much most of Harris, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Chambers, Liberty, Galveston, San Jacinto and about half of Montgomery County. It is an area of about 7,000 square miles about 100 miles in diameter. There is no sum of population centers within a hundred miles that could provide basic services to even 1/10th of the affected area’s population.
That was down the coast at Rockport or somewhere near that.
I’m familiar with the FEMA maps. I also know what it’s like to live in a natural disaster zone. I’d have respect for the locals if they’d attempted to triage the evac. Any people you can get to leave is still a help.
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