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No Problem, Picaro. I understand that fatalities are now up to 6 with 3 of those in the Houston area. I have seen TNG Blackhawks flying over several times today so the Guard is now involved. The Cajun Navy is also here, so things are looking up. Still raining though, been doing so steadily all day.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.I thought I heard some news passing by the radio that so far only one death from Harvey in Texas? Is that true?
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Thanks for the update. I heard it was up to 5 confirmed this morning. That is still far less than I expected, given the numbers of people who always believe they can stay and get by, only to cause many to risk their lives trying to rescue them.
Hello to you ,Stasha_Sz I am happy it is a good thing that your daughter is safe.Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.I thought I heard some news passing by the radio that so far only one death from Harvey in Texas? Is that true?
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Hi Dalia, thank you for your concern, really appreciate the kind thoughts. My daughter is good, the waters have receded slightly in her area and they were able to get out. In fact, they are out rescuing a friend of theirs even as I type!
Yes, floods do tend to bring out snakes in droves here in the Houston area, flushes them out of their holes so they seek drier ground, like in oh, the living room of nearby houses. Red ants can be bad too, as well as skunks.
Houston had a voluntary evacuation notice in place, leave if you want to. The Mayor did not want to cause a panic and clog up the roadways with a mandatory evacuation. Probably a bit short-sighted in hindsight. Many parts of SE Texas are built on lower ground and all the development has spoiled the drainage and limited the amount of water the ground can absorb. Still, a lot of folks have nowhere else to go and the waters rose a lot faster than anticipated. It was pretty evident that the local authorities did not have sufficient resources in place to handle the demand. Fortunately, Texans being Texans, many volunteers have come forward with their private boats and have filled the shortfall nicely. Churches have opened as refugee centers and task forces have been sent by the Governor. President Trump already has FEMA on the ground.
Despite the images you may have seen on the news, this is NO Katrina event, the death toll will be minimal, civil society will not break down and the damages will ultimately be repaired.
Wow. Just wow.Virtue signalling is so cool!!
You are a jaded SOB.
My friends on the left actually DO care.
When that Flint water crises happened, one of them started a fund, gathered water, and took it to Flint. Then when those tornadoes wiped out families in Appalachia, they drove down there to assist. Some people actually do care.
I am a realist that has no tolerance for the pretend world of the online leftists.
If you or anyone else gives a fuck about the people suffering from the hurricane. get out and do something to help. Or donate some money.
Don't start a fucking thread that says "hang in there". That's just lame!
Hello to you ,Stasha_Sz I am happy it is a good thing that your daughter is safe.Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.I thought I heard some news passing by the radio that so far only one death from Harvey in Texas? Is that true?
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Hi Dalia, thank you for your concern, really appreciate the kind thoughts. My daughter is good, the waters have receded slightly in her area and they were able to get out. In fact, they are out rescuing a friend of theirs even as I type!
Yes, floods do tend to bring out snakes in droves here in the Houston area, flushes them out of their holes so they seek drier ground, like in oh, the living room of nearby houses. Red ants can be bad too, as well as skunks.
Houston had a voluntary evacuation notice in place, leave if you want to. The Mayor did not want to cause a panic and clog up the roadways with a mandatory evacuation. Probably a bit short-sighted in hindsight. Many parts of SE Texas are built on lower ground and all the development has spoiled the drainage and limited the amount of water the ground can absorb. Still, a lot of folks have nowhere else to go and the waters rose a lot faster than anticipated. It was pretty evident that the local authorities did not have sufficient resources in place to handle the demand. Fortunately, Texans being Texans, many volunteers have come forward with their private boats and have filled the shortfall nicely. Churches have opened as refugee centers and task forces have been sent by the Governor. President Trump already has FEMA on the ground.
Despite the images you may have seen on the news, this is NO Katrina event, the death toll will be minimal, civil society will not break down and the damages will ultimately be repaired.
It is awful that the snakes are at liberty, a horror there is also a risk that alligators free themselves.
29.08.17 Hurricane Harvey could set loose 350 alligators in Texas
The Houston Mayor said on CNN stay at home on August 27 and if the water goes up go on the roof avoid going into your attic as you are going to be stuck make a 911 call and we will come to rescue you but some people have called and no one Have come to help the poor people.
Thank you Stasha_Sz, humanity should have compassion in times of disaster and even at all times.Hello to you ,Stasha_Sz I am happy it is a good thing that your daughter is safe.Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.I thought I heard some news passing by the radio that so far only one death from Harvey in Texas? Is that true?
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Hi Dalia, thank you for your concern, really appreciate the kind thoughts. My daughter is good, the waters have receded slightly in her area and they were able to get out. In fact, they are out rescuing a friend of theirs even as I type!
Yes, floods do tend to bring out snakes in droves here in the Houston area, flushes them out of their holes so they seek drier ground, like in oh, the living room of nearby houses. Red ants can be bad too, as well as skunks.
Houston had a voluntary evacuation notice in place, leave if you want to. The Mayor did not want to cause a panic and clog up the roadways with a mandatory evacuation. Probably a bit short-sighted in hindsight. Many parts of SE Texas are built on lower ground and all the development has spoiled the drainage and limited the amount of water the ground can absorb. Still, a lot of folks have nowhere else to go and the waters rose a lot faster than anticipated. It was pretty evident that the local authorities did not have sufficient resources in place to handle the demand. Fortunately, Texans being Texans, many volunteers have come forward with their private boats and have filled the shortfall nicely. Churches have opened as refugee centers and task forces have been sent by the Governor. President Trump already has FEMA on the ground.
Despite the images you may have seen on the news, this is NO Katrina event, the death toll will be minimal, civil society will not break down and the damages will ultimately be repaired.
It is awful that the snakes are at liberty, a horror there is also a risk that alligators free themselves.
29.08.17 Hurricane Harvey could set loose 350 alligators in Texas
The Houston Mayor said on CNN stay at home on August 27 and if the water goes up go on the roof avoid going into your attic as you are going to be stuck make a 911 call and we will come to rescue you but some people have called and no one Have come to help the poor people.
Thank you again for your concern about our well-being, seems we have a lot of folks on this side of the pond that could learn a lesson from you.
Well, Mr. No-Shoulders, (snakes), are always around and part of things we just deal with when necessary here in Texas, though having one in one's house can be a bit disconcerting. Getting them back where they belong is just going to part of the clean-up effort.
Alligators eventually will go back to the bayous once the water recedes, or those that got loose from reservations will have to be recaptured. We have professional alligator wranglers well versed in doing that job here. Just another annoyance to be tended to during clean-up.
As Pete mentioned above, the mandatory evacuation for Rita turned into a deadly fiasco that no one wanted a repeat performance of. If anything, it may have been worse this time around as there are more people here and more road construction, (destruction?), than there was back then. Still, we have had enough recent floods to be able to identify the most vulnerable spots and THOSE places should have been evacuated.
As far as the rescue effort goes, everyone that has said they needed to be rescued either has been or will be soon. I have not seen any of the Katrina-style rooftop helplessness on any of the local broadcasts, so you may be seeing rehashed Katrina footage. (I would not put that past the low-life national media).
The city of Houston has issued a 10PM~5AM curfew, due to looting. Anyway, the sun was out briefly today and the rains have ceased, things are looking up!
People were talking about this on the news last night. There is a National Flood Insurance Program that is run by the government, and it is in a lot of debt. One of the problems is that people are rebuilding homes in areas that are flooded regularly. Two or three times in ten years. And they continue to be insured.Thank you Stasha_Sz, humanity should have compassion in times of disaster and even at all times.Hello to you ,Stasha_Sz I am happy it is a good thing that your daughter is safe.Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Hi Dalia, thank you for your concern, really appreciate the kind thoughts. My daughter is good, the waters have receded slightly in her area and they were able to get out. In fact, they are out rescuing a friend of theirs even as I type!
Yes, floods do tend to bring out snakes in droves here in the Houston area, flushes them out of their holes so they seek drier ground, like in oh, the living room of nearby houses. Red ants can be bad too, as well as skunks.
Houston had a voluntary evacuation notice in place, leave if you want to. The Mayor did not want to cause a panic and clog up the roadways with a mandatory evacuation. Probably a bit short-sighted in hindsight. Many parts of SE Texas are built on lower ground and all the development has spoiled the drainage and limited the amount of water the ground can absorb. Still, a lot of folks have nowhere else to go and the waters rose a lot faster than anticipated. It was pretty evident that the local authorities did not have sufficient resources in place to handle the demand. Fortunately, Texans being Texans, many volunteers have come forward with their private boats and have filled the shortfall nicely. Churches have opened as refugee centers and task forces have been sent by the Governor. President Trump already has FEMA on the ground.
Despite the images you may have seen on the news, this is NO Katrina event, the death toll will be minimal, civil society will not break down and the damages will ultimately be repaired.
It is awful that the snakes are at liberty, a horror there is also a risk that alligators free themselves.
29.08.17 Hurricane Harvey could set loose 350 alligators in Texas
The Houston Mayor said on CNN stay at home on August 27 and if the water goes up go on the roof avoid going into your attic as you are going to be stuck make a 911 call and we will come to rescue you but some people have called and no one Have come to help the poor people.
Thank you again for your concern about our well-being, seems we have a lot of folks on this side of the pond that could learn a lesson from you.
Well, Mr. No-Shoulders, (snakes), are always around and part of things we just deal with when necessary here in Texas, though having one in one's house can be a bit disconcerting. Getting them back where they belong is just going to part of the clean-up effort.
Alligators eventually will go back to the bayous once the water recedes, or those that got loose from reservations will have to be recaptured. We have professional alligator wranglers well versed in doing that job here. Just another annoyance to be tended to during clean-up.
As Pete mentioned above, the mandatory evacuation for Rita turned into a deadly fiasco that no one wanted a repeat performance of. If anything, it may have been worse this time around as there are more people here and more road construction, (destruction?), than there was back then. Still, we have had enough recent floods to be able to identify the most vulnerable spots and THOSE places should have been evacuated.
As far as the rescue effort goes, everyone that has said they needed to be rescued either has been or will be soon. I have not seen any of the Katrina-style rooftop helplessness on any of the local broadcasts, so you may be seeing rehashed Katrina footage. (I would not put that past the low-life national media).
The city of Houston has issued a 10PM~5AM curfew, due to looting. Anyway, the sun was out briefly today and the rains have ceased, things are looking up!
Heros Houston police Sgt. Steve Perez drowns in flood while heading to work during Harvey
Houston officer Steve Perez drowns while heading to work
Unfortunately there is a family that has disappeared.
Devastated Family Mourns 6 Relatives Missing in Houston Floods
'I'm Sure They're Gone.' Family Mourns 6 Relatives Missing in Floods
May I ask some questions: Would not it be more reasonable not to rebuild in areas at risk of storm and flood? can all this people still be assured? Does not have another solution for this people I ask because I am not American and I would like to understand.
Thank you for your explanations OldLady, especially as the hurricanes seem more and more violent in this section of the united states, I remember it had a hurricane that was heading towards New York but i don't recall wich year, it came close to New York and left and the problem is That they are increasingly in size and that they seem to sometime changed direction as for Harvey.People were talking about this on the news last night. There is a National Flood Insurance Program that is run by the government, and it is in a lot of debt. One of the problems is that people are rebuilding homes in areas that are flooded regularly. Two or three times in ten years. And they continue to be insured.Thank you Stasha_Sz, humanity should have compassion in times of disaster and even at all times.Hello to you ,Stasha_Sz I am happy it is a good thing that your daughter is safe.Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Hi Dalia, thank you for your concern, really appreciate the kind thoughts. My daughter is good, the waters have receded slightly in her area and they were able to get out. In fact, they are out rescuing a friend of theirs even as I type!
Yes, floods do tend to bring out snakes in droves here in the Houston area, flushes them out of their holes so they seek drier ground, like in oh, the living room of nearby houses. Red ants can be bad too, as well as skunks.
Houston had a voluntary evacuation notice in place, leave if you want to. The Mayor did not want to cause a panic and clog up the roadways with a mandatory evacuation. Probably a bit short-sighted in hindsight. Many parts of SE Texas are built on lower ground and all the development has spoiled the drainage and limited the amount of water the ground can absorb. Still, a lot of folks have nowhere else to go and the waters rose a lot faster than anticipated. It was pretty evident that the local authorities did not have sufficient resources in place to handle the demand. Fortunately, Texans being Texans, many volunteers have come forward with their private boats and have filled the shortfall nicely. Churches have opened as refugee centers and task forces have been sent by the Governor. President Trump already has FEMA on the ground.
Despite the images you may have seen on the news, this is NO Katrina event, the death toll will be minimal, civil society will not break down and the damages will ultimately be repaired.
It is awful that the snakes are at liberty, a horror there is also a risk that alligators free themselves.
29.08.17 Hurricane Harvey could set loose 350 alligators in Texas
The Houston Mayor said on CNN stay at home on August 27 and if the water goes up go on the roof avoid going into your attic as you are going to be stuck make a 911 call and we will come to rescue you but some people have called and no one Have come to help the poor people.
Thank you again for your concern about our well-being, seems we have a lot of folks on this side of the pond that could learn a lesson from you.
Well, Mr. No-Shoulders, (snakes), are always around and part of things we just deal with when necessary here in Texas, though having one in one's house can be a bit disconcerting. Getting them back where they belong is just going to part of the clean-up effort.
Alligators eventually will go back to the bayous once the water recedes, or those that got loose from reservations will have to be recaptured. We have professional alligator wranglers well versed in doing that job here. Just another annoyance to be tended to during clean-up.
As Pete mentioned above, the mandatory evacuation for Rita turned into a deadly fiasco that no one wanted a repeat performance of. If anything, it may have been worse this time around as there are more people here and more road construction, (destruction?), than there was back then. Still, we have had enough recent floods to be able to identify the most vulnerable spots and THOSE places should have been evacuated.
As far as the rescue effort goes, everyone that has said they needed to be rescued either has been or will be soon. I have not seen any of the Katrina-style rooftop helplessness on any of the local broadcasts, so you may be seeing rehashed Katrina footage. (I would not put that past the low-life national media).
The city of Houston has issued a 10PM~5AM curfew, due to looting. Anyway, the sun was out briefly today and the rains have ceased, things are looking up!
Heros Houston police Sgt. Steve Perez drowns in flood while heading to work during Harvey
Houston officer Steve Perez drowns while heading to work
Unfortunately there is a family that has disappeared.
Devastated Family Mourns 6 Relatives Missing in Houston Floods
'I'm Sure They're Gone.' Family Mourns 6 Relatives Missing in Floods
May I ask some questions: Would not it be more reasonable not to rebuild in areas at risk of storm and flood? can all this people still be assured? Does not have another solution for this people I ask because I am not American and I would like to understand.
The Houston area is growing right now and people need space to live. They probably won't limit where people can build, because the entire Houston area is flat, low lying and prone to flooding. However, if people can't get flood insurance in a flood prone area, they might think twice about living there.
I agree with you, it would make sense not to allow building in areas that flood all the time, but apparently they need the space?
Hello, I hope your daughter will be rescued , Stasha_Sz, I saw on CNN horrible images of people having evacuated their house testifying their seeing snakes everywhere in the house and having water up to their neck and a man with his son looking for his wife and other of his children and his dog.Three is the last figure I heard, one in a fire and two swept away by currents when they had to abandon their vehicle. There are of course some areas where rescuers have not gotten to as of yet. For the most part, the actual storm hit a fairly low populated area and the folks evacuated well ahead of it. It is the ceaseless rains that are the problem & they are well away from the center of the storm.I thought I heard some news passing by the radio that so far only one death from Harvey in Texas? Is that true?
I just made an orbit around my area, so far we have had it pretty easy, no major damage, no downed trees or power lines, only flooded roads, including, unfortunately, the main road in & out of my area, (FM 529). My daughter who lives south and west of me is trapped in her house, the neighborhood & the roads leading to it are all impassable due to high water. They are dry & safe.
Looks like the worst of it so far, at least in the Houston area is east of I45 & south of I10 where the storms freight-trained an already vulnerable low area. The city of Dickenson is completely cut off except by boat.
Why the mayor of houston did not ask the peoples to evacuate? He said better staying at home and of going up to the roof that the help would come to evacuated the people. I do not understand why those peoples were not evacuated before the rain come ?
Yes it is a rather nasty situation....I have great emotive interest involved...Hang in there.
People were talking about this on the news last night. There is a National Flood Insurance Program that is run by the government, and it is in a lot of debt. One of the problems is that people are rebuilding homes in areas that are flooded regularly. Two or three times in ten years. And they continue to be insured.
The Houston area is growing right now and people need space to live. They probably won't limit where people can build, because the entire Houston area is flat, low lying and prone to flooding. However, if people can't get flood insurance in a flood prone area, they might think twice about living there.
I agree with you, it would make sense not to allow building in areas that flood all the time, but apparently they need the space?
They showed the water level on I-10 I believe in the Houston area and the water had white caps!
and they are capitalist.They showed the water level on I-10 I believe in the Houston area and the water had white caps!
White caps? That's racist!!
Send tankers, I am sure you can have as much as you can carry.If you guys could send some of that moisture to Denver, we would LOVE you, we are so in the middle of a drought.I would trade you your record rain for our record drought. It's been months since we have even heard a mere echo of a slight chance of a ghost of rain here. It sprinkled once for three minuets a week a ago. Before that, it was May when we had measurable rain.
