Posted on 08/30/2017 9:43:25 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- Authorities found a shivering toddler clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas after the woman tried to carry her child to safety from Harvey's floods.
Capt. Brad Penisson of the fire-rescue department in Beaumont said the woman's vehicle got stuck Tuesday afternoon in the flooded parking lot of an office park just off Interstate 10. Squalls from Harvey were pounding Beaumont with up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain an hour at the time with 38 mph (60 kph) gusts, according to the National Weather Service.
Penisson said a witness saw the woman take her 18-month-old daughter and try to walk to safety when the swift current of a flooded drainage canal next to the parking lot swept them both away.
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This.
How is the survival of your child at any cost only a Texas thing? That’s pretty much shared everywhere in the western world.
Very heart-rending, but ultimately, happily, she achieved her primary objective successfully.
Bless this mother that saved her child.
Yes, mothers in other parts of the country don't really love their children or protect them at all. Only in Texas.
There are several people on this thread who seem to want to pick a fight or nitpick or otherwise show their ass. How very pathetic.
The other replies are right. That’s a pretty dopey theory.
Give me a break. Yeah, the rest of the country would not understand/ sarc
Why?
Reminds me of Elian's mother.....if only it weren't for the Evil Clinton Regime.
You evacuate a week ago, not today. Where was the mayor a week ago. There was no doubt this was coming. Lives were lost because there was not a voluntary evacuation urged by the mayor who froze in fear.
“It’s a Texas culture thing that many others would not understand except for some in the lower two-thirds of the Midwest.”
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That is,without a doubt,one of the dumbest posts that I have ever seen on FR.
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I disagree. Certain areas of Houston will flood from the torrential rains and certain areas will not. The flood prone areas are well known and defined. These areas should of been evacuated but not all of Houston should have been evacuated.
Unless you are in imminent danger, you are almost always much safer in place at home (or in a shelter) than you are on the road evacuating under duress. If an evacuation order had been issued, you would have had thousands of people getting stuck in massive traffic jams ... with the flood waters rising around them.
2. Nothing stopped anyone in Houston from evacuating on their own a week ago.
3. Go back and look at the clusterflock that happened when they tried to evacuate Houston and Galveston before Hurricane Rita back in 2004.
Did the Houston police stop anyone from evacuating the flood-prone areas on their own?
“How do we know they were white?”
Leave to the village idiot to throw race into the story. You’re contemptible.
That is an excellent point. I seem to remember reports of jams and running out of gas in TX probably from Rita or Wilma or something.
A huge city being evacuated is very touchy. People would probably run out of gas if they were able to fill up in the first place, which probably not because the stations would run out quickly.
I agree with the possibility of ordering evacuation of high-risk sections, generally. Again, weighing the risk of jams and depletion of gas.
Are you serious?
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen regarding attempts to portray Texas and/or Texans as sort of mythological entities.
We get it. TEXAS IS GREAT!!!
But if you think anything having to do with "Texas" is required for a parent to struggle to save their child's life you are a fool.
Give the Texas chit a rest.
Okay, that just made my eyes swell up.
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