Houston Texas Underwater

[nivek]

The flood of a lifetime hits Texas - and there's another FIFTY inches of rain to come: Dramatic scenes across the state as Hurricane Harvey stalls over the state and dumps record-setting precipitation

• Two people have been reported dead in Houston and another three are feared dead in Aransas County
• The Category 4 hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm but the fresh concern is flooding
• In Houston, residents are climbing to their attics to escape rising flood waters in the floors below
• Emergency services completed more than 1,000 rescues across the state overnight on Saturday
• Galveston County estimates that up to 1,200 officials were rescued from their region on Sunday
• One woman's body was seen floating down the street and entire coastal communities have been wiped out
• The National Weather Service predicts another 50 inches of rain will fall and tornado warnings are in place
• FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said it would take several years to recover from Harvey
• Donald Trump celebrated the response from emergency services who have so far rescued thousands
• He vowed to visit the state once it was safe and said the 'good news is there is talent on the ground'
• Local authorities say the catastrophe is only now unfolding and others warn the agony has 'just begun'

Read more: Five feared dead in Hurricane Harvey as floods sweep Texas | Daily Mail Online

 

[Caeldeth]

Don't understand the people who stayed. They said it was going to be a biblical flood with 100% certainty. Mandatory evacuations were issued. Why stay? What are they trying to prove other than getting killed and putting emergency workers at unessessary risk?

 

[iwant2believe2]

If a C4 ever hits my Gulf coast line, it will be a catastrophic flood. The entire area being known as 'The Flats' with extreme shallow water depth. You'd have to walk about a mile out to get to 10' depth. As much as I love the ocean, I'm heading into the mountains the first opportunity I get.

 

[Caeldeth]

I love the ocean too. Just not an angry ocean.

 

[iwant2believe2]

 

[Toroid]

Before & after pictures of the flooding.
Houston Underwater! Before And After Photos Going Viral – Disclose.tv

 

[Kilburn]

Oh, shit!

 

[iwant2believe2]

There was will be no safe water for a long time. Even after the flood recedes, sewer waste will have contaminated the potable water.

It was asked about why so many people don't evacuate. Impoverished people often can't. Many have no transportation to leave and if they do then the $5 in their pocket might not get enough gas to get them out. If they get out, where do they go?

The loss here is catastrophic and the worst is yet to come. As always, the poor will suffer the worst.

 

[Toroid]

The no place to go applies to most of the world's population. In a major crisis roads would be quickly clogged and at a standstill. People would be lucky if they had friends or family in another city that would take them in.

 

[iwant2believe2]

The no place to go applies to most of the world's population. In a major crisis roads would be quickly clogged and at a standstill. People would be lucky if they had friends or family in another city that would take them in.

Indeed it does. Those living modernized countries like the US grow complacent in their false sense of safety. After all, catastrophic disasters happen elsewhere...in places with names so foreign we can't pronounce them...they don't happen here.
Or so thinks the average American citizen watching the news in their suburban home. That's the second reason why so many don't evacuate.

 

[Tate]

The no place to go applies to most of the world's population. In a major crisis roads would be quickly clogged and at a standstill. People would be lucky if they had friends or family in another city that would take them in.

That is why this Organization Exists FEMA.gov | Federal Emergency Management Agency It is better to camp out in a car for one night in the next town over and then use the Local libraries Wifi to contact F.E.M.A. to get a free vacation at a nice hotel. Instead, people stayed at home out of Bullheadedness. I know how Texan's are god bless em Bull headed Orny farts. Speaking of i need to call a friend of mine and see if Gainsville got hit hard.

 

[iwant2believe2]

That is why this Organization Exists FEMA.gov | Federal Emergency Management Agency It is better to camp out in a car for one night in the next town over and then use the Local libraries Wifi to contact F.E.M.A. to get a free vacation at a nice hotel. Instead, people stayed at home out of Bullheadedness. I know how Texan's are god bless em Bull headed Orny farts. Speaking of i need to call a friend of mine and see if Gainsville got hit hard.

That would be the 2nd reason. Hope your friend is OK!

 

[Caeldeth]

40 inches of rain is reported to have fallen in areas of Houston with 20+ more likely. If this continues there literally isn't going to be a Houston left.

 

[nivek]

These are amazing before and after images in Texas...

 

[nivek]

This was bound to happen too unfortunately...

Shell and Exxon say hazardous chemicals have been released from Texas refineries damaged in Harvey downpours

Damage from Hurricane Harvey caused a roof to sink in at the Shell oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas, and caused similar damage to other oil companies, releasing hazardous pollutants into the air.

Shell said in a statement this week that 100 pounds of benzene and 100 pounds of toluene were released due to destruction from the severe storm, which include cancerous chemical carcinogen and the less toxic solvent, the EPA reports.

Spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, David Gray, said Exxon Mobil Corp.'s refinery in Baytown, Texas also had 15 pounds of chemical compound benzene released from the oil and gas facility this week.

Shell and Exxon say Harvey caused chemicals to be released | Daily Mail Online

 

[Gambeir]

Don't understand the people who stayed. They said it was going to be a biblical flood with 100% certainty. Mandatory evacuations were issued. Why stay? What are they trying to prove other than getting killed and putting emergency workers at unessessary risk?

I just think people don't understand what it can be like unless they have gone through something like this before. I went through a storm in Washington on Whidbey Island with 90 mph winds and rain. We lost power for an entire week, the road to town was washed out in two places, and the entire neighborhood had to pitch in just to cut a path to the main highway through the fallen trees. Thank God the joint had a bunch of loggers living close by, because without big chainsaws, 4x4 pickups, and chains we would have been stuck 10 miles from the closest store and on foot.

 

[Gambeir]

The no place to go applies to most of the world's population. In a major crisis roads would be quickly clogged and at a standstill. People would be lucky if they had friends or family in another city that would take them in.

Bicycles, Atv's, or dirt bikes, or as a last ditch....the riding lawn mower, especially if it has a garden cart attachment. Naturally I assume you will prominently be displaying your glistening stainless steel colt 45 auto in a belt holster as well, or at least a machette which is usually pretty convincing to most desperate people or other pirates.

 

[Gambeir]

40 inches of rain is reported to have fallen in areas of Houston with 20+ more likely. If this continues there literally isn't going to be a Houston left.

I hear they say the roads are now crumbling.