Posted on 08/26/2017 4:39:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport TX about 10:00PM CDT Friday night. Top sustained winds were 130mph. Rockport High School sustained heavy damage when a portion of the roof collapsed. A senior housing complex collapsed. The Rockport courthouse sustained major damage with “a cargo trailer halfway in the building.” Multiple tornadoes reported in the Houston/Galveston areas. There are reports of scattered structural fires and a shooting was reported in Corpus Christi. Residents along the San Bernard River were advised to evacuate and most TX Gulf coast counties are under flash flood watches.
Many locations are under a boil-water notice. Power outages are widespread. President Donald Trump promptly granted a Disaster Declaration to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request. More than 700 members of the Texas Army and Air National Guards, Texas State Guard and the Texas Military Department have been activated and are positioning themselves throughout the state ahead of Hurricane Harvey and its anticipated landfall later this week. Ahead of the storm, FEMA sent supplies from its warehouse in Fort Worth to a staging point at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio.
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Severe Weather Watches and Warnings TX
NHC Discussions
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Corpus Christi
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Galveston
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Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
There was an interview on fox with the people involved. I was driving it was on the radio so I did not see photos. However the name of the ursing home has been released and family members of the owner have come forward. Pretty elaborate hoax if it is one.
CNBC: Police herd cattle to higher ground near Dayton, Texas as floodwaters continue to rise.
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/901981055615471616
Rescuers in a crisis don’t photo their work.and the people who would are themselves ‘being rescued’....
There’s a few news reporters but they can’t get to the rescue areas....
Fox News vetted the photo. They even did a live interview with the woman who posted it.
I really believe the photo is fake.Many news outlets ran with it.I guess it’s unbelievable to me.
What is next, you start tearing down statues?
Just post a link to one of several articles stating they were rescued. Easy to do and something you can do yourself. Much more productive than trying to be a self appointed news censor.
There were “grandfathers” also rescued from the same location. They don’t appear to be in that photo. There have been so many heroic rescue stories today. Why do so many people keep trying to make that one photo iconic for this horrific situation?
Can a please call a truce here? I initially posted this on Facebook. Then pulled it because too many people were calling it a fake. Then it turned it it was real. Can we please allow each other to understand why it could have been seen as a fake, as insane as the image was, and go back to covering the ongoing disaster from which these ladies were fortunately rescued?
Am ranting...
Hate the news reporters on the ground....trying hard now to play the blame game so they can feed THAT as the news once this is over....really hate them at this moment.
No one was “caught off guard”..... Had plenty of time ahead to leave,...the warnings were repeated over and over and over again.....Everyone was told to leave well in advance of landfall......So now they want to blame someone for not forcing them to go. ..
Government can’t save you from mother nature... it’s peoples responsibility to make sure they have common sense.....do their own thinking....if wrong decision then hopefully someone will help...and be grateful when they do!
They said up to 50 inches even ‘before’ it made landfill..so?.......You look at the RADAR yourself, see a MAGOR HURRICANE coming that is going to hang around for days.... and THEN think you need to ASK SOMEONE ELSE what to do???????
So tired of people blaming Mayors, Governors, and all the infighting about this.....it’s pretty apparent there were no favorable choices ‘the city’ could take .....but there were choices the people could make....
Note...:According to the Houston Chronicle, an estimated 2.5 million people fled the city during Hurricane Rita...... More than 100 people died while leaving..... The newspaper wrote that the evacuation created “some of the most insane gridlock in U.S. history!”...... More than 100 evacuees died in the exodus.
Drivers waited in traffic for 20-plus hours, and heat stroke impaired or killed dozens... Fights broke out on the highway. A bus carrying nursing home evacuees caught fire, and 24 died.”
Currently 5 have died....I think NOT forcing an evacuation was the best choice.....people on roof tops are way safer than people on highways.
Thanks for letting me rant....
"We thank God!": #Houston man holds on to his faith after he and his son crawled through a 2nd story window to be rescued, per ABC13 News pic.twitter.com/vKKjUN1Tqz— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) August 28, 2017
And also appreciate the resolve they showed while waist deep in floodwaters. I swear, the lady in the recline appears to be crocheting while half-submerged.
Western Metro is higher than East Metro? East side has all the water ways.
West goes up hill pretty fast, yet still much damage. Nothing like east Houston.
There is a massive flood every where in the metro and above. No fear mongering, but this is a big deal. It will get worse! Nothing is over!!!!! Only Buffalo Bayou??? This alone will destroy everything??? Please go drink a 5th, go to bed. We can talk in the morning.
Mmmmm...dinner
levee maybe overtopped north of Houston
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1026 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2017
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HARRIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 615 AM CDT MONDAY.
* AT 1021 PM CDT, HEAVY RAIN HAS PRODUCED CONTINUOUS RISES ON
CYPRESS CREEK AND WATER LEVELS NEAR I-45 COULD POSSIBLY TOP THE
LEVEE. AREAS IN THE INVERNESS FOREST SUBDIVISION ARE UNDER A
VOLUNTARY EVACUATION UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE. ALL RESIDENTS IN
THE FOLLOWING AREA ARE URGED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. ALL STREETS
NORTH OF KINGSBRIDGE ROAD INCLUDING EAST AND WEST GREENBROOK DRIVE
AND ALL OF KENCHESTER DRIVE. THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY NEED TO
BE EXTENDED DEPENDING ON DEVELOPING CONDITIONS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
INVERNESS FOREST.
Mmmm, leprosy.
Gotta take care of the livestock!
HCFC will be flooding 200 homes in the Inverness Forest neighborhood in North Houston to take pressure off Cypress Creek
Bless you!
From peoples memories do not come photos for proof of everything. You do not need them! Have a little faith in humanity and freepers. Not all of us are perfect, most of our hearts and intentions are right. There are some trolls......
Not for this thread!
Blessings and Favor to you!!!! Long fricking days!
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