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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Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
I know some boats arrived in Houston. But I think everyone in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma who owns a boat needs to be on their way to Houston tonight!
Louisiana folks with boats better stay home and take care of their own for the next few days.
With so much water, the Army Corps of Engineers is working a delicate balancing act between releasing water into the already flooded Buffalo Bayou downstream and permitting the reservoir pools to flood a fixed area around the perimeter. I listened to the press conference, and heard several weeks that the homes would be inundated.
Fire Ants Form Island In Flooded Water pic.twitter.com/Tjfhi0iKYq— Breaking911 Nature (@B911Nature) August 28, 2017
Sad. Where will they all go?
the pic of the woman with the little sleeping toddler....wow...heart strings....
One of the evil bitches on MSNBCCNN earlier in the afternoon had tried her best to bait conservative Texas governor Abbott into castigating the Houston mayor with a couple of nasty, loaded questions why he didn't order ME...but Abbott neatly and smartly fielded the question and she didn't get to first base with him.
The evil commentators on MSNBCCNN aren't wasting a minute politicizing the hurricane and flood...and they're just getting started.
Today the mayor, tomorrow FEMA, then the next three months....President Trump.
Leni
Just horrible.
People might not put up with the political crap regarding this storm.
That one is OK.
Mother Nature can reak havoc anywhere. You are in charge.
I would have booked Brownsville a week ago.
Good observations, Leni!
Oh my..... Dear Lord, thank You for such good hearts in these hard times. And please, keep them all close, until the Cajun flat boat Navy does indeed arrive.
Tatt
new GFS model just in stalls in just off the coast south of Houston then moves it back onshore just south of Houston and dumps 10-20 more inches over the metro the next 60 hours
Fire Ants RESCUE their own.....The colony is literally floating on the bodies of dead ants that have sacrificed themselves for the better good....flotillas of fire ants are a real thing that happens in Houston when it floods...... you don’t want to encounter them, and you do want to stay indoors at all costs while the rains from Hurricane Harvey continue to keep the city swamped......
Noah probably dragged them BEHIND the ark. What a great lesson the fire ants are.
Without a safety belt how does one sit submerged in a chair? Photo shopped you think? It is an unusual photo. Shocking if true.
When are they going to blame global warming?
Fox even had a reporter on the ground asking people being rescued ...and the rescuers.... if they thought or not an evacuation should have been called....
Enough saying....You literally cannot put 6.5 million people on the road...let alone where are you going to put them?
People on roof tops are safer than people on flooded and backupped highways nobody can get to....
Don’t look at twitter. They were blaming GW before Harvey even made landfall.
The Guardain already did that earlier today....
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