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Catastrophic Flooding in Houston. America's 4th largest city is a disaster area. It is Katrina/New Orleans all over again.
I am not providing links because a simple search will give you plenty.
New thread because the Hurrican Harvey seems to be dead.
Once again, it is a case that the rain is the killer, not the Intial high winds.
 
It's hard to know how to react to things like this without seeming insensitive to the suffering of millions in Texas, not to mention those who have died and yet might die.

But this storm was all over the news in the last few days, while relegated to the inside pages and barely getting a mention on TV was -

Floods kill over 1,200 in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

What's more, the subsequent sickness and (probably) starvation will probably kill many more.

Houston has my sympathy but it's somewhat down the list, to be brutally honest.
 
GlennB said:
It's hard to know how to react to things like this without seeming insensitive to the suffering of millions in Texas, not to mention those who have died and yet might die.

But this storm was all over the news in the last few days, while relegated to the inside pages and barely getting a mention on TV was -

Floods kill over 1,200 in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

What's more, the subsequent sickness and (probably) starvation will probably kill many more.

Houston has my sympathy but it's somewhat down the list, to be brutally honest.
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Can't pass up the chance to make political points, can you?

lets be frank:Houston is one of America's biggest cities. Of course it is going to dominate the news.
 
For the moment, no politics, and best wishes to those facing natural disasters in Houston and anywhere else. You have to worry about how the elderly and very young are doing, especially.
 
Hlafordlaes said:
For the moment, no politics, and best wishes to those facing natural disasters in Houston and anywhere else. You have to worry about how the elderly and very young are doing, especially.
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Horrific scenes of an elder care facility that seems to have been left behind.
Not sure what the outcome of that one is yet. :(
 
I guess we'll get to see if FEMA learned anything from Katrina.
 
casebro said:
I guess we'll get to see if FEMA learned anything from Katrina.
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You do know Obama's appointee to head FEMA cleaned the whole agency up, right?

What we'll see is Trump taking credit for Obama's work. But that's a minor issue and it's preferable the agency hasn't been decimated by Trump yet.
 
Yeah, this isn't going well...
 

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sylvan8798 said:
Yeah, this isn't going well...
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Yeah, that's the one I mentioned a bit ago.
Haven't seen an update, but it's Sunday and usually all but Fox switch to other than news (I'm allergic to FoxNews).

If there was an explanation of how it happened in the first place, I missed it.
 
Shepherd said:
http://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_e1ffff8e-435d-5c78-ab46-57d6bc7dc6a5.html
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Skeptic Ginger said:
That can't be real. Can it?
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Like you I thought that picture looks unbelievable. I'm not saying it is definitely fake, but it is pretty remarkable.

A group of old women, one of them apparently doing her sewing, waist deep in water, and yet not wet above the waist, with a cat sitting on the sofa and a popcorn machine (?!), a floating bedpan...(?!)

It is a pretty extraordinary composition if it is real. Are there any more photographs from different angles of the same scene?


Anyway, that said, I can only hope for the best for everyone in Houston. I hope this does not go as horribly as Katrina did in New Orleans.
 
From what I heard on the news this morning, that elder care facility has since been evacuated and the residents moved to safer quarters. The daughter of the owner was apparently contacting emergency management in Texas (they were based in Tampa and could not call 911) and kept calling until they were able to mobilize a response. Last I heard, all the residents were alive and safe.
 
Where the hell were the local care workers? Was there some reason there was nobody there to help them move to a second floor? Where was the local management to do the 911 calling?
 
When I lived in Houston, the remnants of a tropical storm dumped 10 inches of rain in about 2 hours. I got my first experience of flash flooding...and I do mean flash. I was driving my car and the water went from being a couple of inches deep to a couple of feet deep in a matter of minutes. I was stuck on the road, and couldn't get off, because the water was deeper in the right lane than the left. Eventually, my car started floating and deposited itself on the sidewalk. I couldn't open the door, so I had to escape through the hatchback.

It was bad then...I can't imagine how bad it is with 3 times as much rain with more to come.
 
Beerina said:
Where the hell were the local care workers? Was there some reason there was nobody there to help them move to a second floor? Where was the local management to do the 911 calling?
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If the pic wasn't shooped... I'm going with the idea that the building doesn't have a second floor.

But I've testified in an elder abuse case, so I really wasn't in the mood to look closely at the moments of the TV report I clicked past.
Basically checked my skepticism, and everything else, at the door and tried not to think about how horrific people can be. :boggled:
 
angrysoba said:
Anyway, that said, I can only hope for the best for everyone in Houston. I hope this does not go as horribly as Katrina did in New Orleans.
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New Orleans was a bit of a special case, the city lies under the water table and it was a broken levee that let the ocean in that resulted in flooding. In Huston it's torrential rains that are causing the flooding. The upside is that the water in Houston will drain through gravity alone over the course of a few hours when there is no torrential rain.

The downside is that the rain is also forecast to last for a few days. It could be comparable to Katrina, but on a city fifteen times the size of NOLA.

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