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Hurricane Harvey Live Thread Part II
Various ^ | 8/26/2017 | Various

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: harvey; hurricane; hurricaneharvey; livehurricaneharvey; nautinurse
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To: fatima

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.


1,081 posted on 08/27/2017 8:36:28 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: fatima

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.


1,082 posted on 08/27/2017 8:37:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: fatima
Breaking911 Nature‏ @B911Nature 12m 12 minutes ago More Fire Ants Form Island In Flooded Water Mike Hixenbaugh

Fire Ants Form Island In Flooded Water pic.twitter.com/Tjfhi0iKYq— Breaking911 Nature (@B911Nature) August 28, 2017


1,083 posted on 08/27/2017 8:38:11 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: caww
RESCUES.....Brave and Great men at work!


1,084 posted on 08/27/2017 8:38:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: fatima

Sad. Where will they all go?


1,085 posted on 08/27/2017 8:38:59 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Texas)
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To: RightGeek

the pic of the woman with the little sleeping toddler....wow...heart strings....


1,086 posted on 08/27/2017 8:40:03 PM PDT by cherry
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To: NautiNurse; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; seenenuf; ExTexasRedhead; Bob Ireland; ...
The mayor of Houston was on the tube today explaining why there was not complete mandatory evacuation in the city and surrounding area. His explanation, later backed up by experts, made sense.

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

1,087 posted on 08/27/2017 8:41:29 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: NautiNurse

Just horrible.


1,088 posted on 08/27/2017 8:44:38 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: MinuteGal

People might not put up with the political crap regarding this storm.


1,089 posted on 08/27/2017 8:44:47 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Houston, Texas)
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To: caww

That one is OK.

Mother Nature can reak havoc anywhere. You are in charge.

I would have booked Brownsville a week ago.


1,090 posted on 08/27/2017 8:44:49 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: MinuteGal

Good observations, Leni!


1,091 posted on 08/27/2017 8:45:45 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: RightGeek

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


1,092 posted on 08/27/2017 8:48:18 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: All

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


1,093 posted on 08/27/2017 8:48:39 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: fatima

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......


1,094 posted on 08/27/2017 8:49:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Noah probably dragged them BEHIND the ark. What a great lesson the fire ants are.


1,095 posted on 08/27/2017 8:53:25 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Houston, Texas)
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To: dirtboy

Without a safety belt how does one sit submerged in a chair? Photo shopped you think? It is an unusual photo. Shocking if true.


1,096 posted on 08/27/2017 8:53:44 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: MinuteGal; NautiNurse; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; seenenuf; ExTexasRedhead; ...

When are they going to blame global warming?


1,097 posted on 08/27/2017 8:55:17 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: MinuteGal

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....


1,098 posted on 08/27/2017 8:55:34 PM PDT by caww
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Don’t look at twitter. They were blaming GW before Harvey even made landfall.


1,099 posted on 08/27/2017 8:55:45 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The Guardain already did that earlier today....


1,100 posted on 08/27/2017 8:56:17 PM PDT by caww
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