"He said if a category-five storm hit Galveston, Clear Lake could be under 25 feet of water."
Everyone here claims the sea wall makes all that impossible. There are neighborhoods in Houston that flood whenever an ant spits. I can't imagine 18 inches of rain in an hour.
I'm a weenie. I "evacuate" if there is even the potential of my electricity going out for more than 24 hours.
On NBC one of the reporters rode along in a dump truck with a guy who was going in to flooded area to check on his boss's house. They came upon a flotilla of neighbors helping each other, but who needed rescue. The dump truck driver didn't want to stop for them. But the reporter pressed him to help. So he did and the people were taken to dry ground.
Wow, what is it with people who don't want to help other people? Is this really America? Sigh.