Harvey

[RandomGuy]

[RandomGuy]

Intresting. Street sign very clear. Out of curiosity:

Patterson road is apparently really close to the Ad s reservoir. just north of I-10. Only stop sign on that road is, per google maps at Bear creek.

Approximate address of picture:
15393 Patterson Rd

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President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but

his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.

The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess.

The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

It seems sure that GOP leaders will move to reverse the disaster aid cut next week.

The optics are politically bad and there’s only $2.3 billion remaining in disaster coffers.

https://www.apnews.com/83e6782d48e04...um=AP_Politics

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people not happy with Politico making fun of ignorant, stupid, bitter TX Christian/secessionist

[RandomGuy]

Texas Mother Dies Saving Her 3-Year-Old Daughter During Hurricane Harvey Flood: ‘The Baby Was Clinging to Her’

A Texas woman saved her 3-year-old daughter from drowning during a flood in Beaumont, Texas, on Tuesday.


Officer Carol Riley, a spokeswoman for the Beaumont Police Department, tells PEOPLE the unidentified 41-year-old was found floating in a canal with her daughter clinging to her.

Riley said the woman “absolutely saved the child’s life.”

“They were in the water for quite some time,” Riley says. “When the baby was found the baby was clinging to her. The mother did the best she could to keep her child up over the water.”

“The baby also had a backpack that was helping her float on her back and she was holding on to her mom,” Riley adds.

The mother was driving on the I-10 service road when the water reached high levels. According to a release by the police department, the woman pulled her vehicle into a Plaza 10 parking lot, where it proceeded to get stuck.

whew. hard to read.

[I. Hustle]

Texas Mother Dies Saving Her 3-Year-Old Daughter During Hurricane Harvey Flood: ‘The Baby Was Clinging to Her’



whew. hard to read.

Dude.


That is horrible. That's tough to even think about.

[spurraider21]

Intresting. Street sign very clear. Out of curiosity:

Patterson road is apparently really close to the Ad s reservoir. just north of I-10. Only stop sign on that road is, per google maps at Bear creek.

Approximate address of picture:
15393 Patterson Rd

Wild cobra would be proud

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Intresting. Street sign very clear. Out of curiosity:

Patterson road is apparently really close to the Ad s reservoir. just north of I-10. Only stop sign on that road is, per google maps at Bear creek.

Approximate address of picture:
15393 Patterson Rd

how about IN the reservoir?

https://goo.gl/maps/fKFbrQ6Y2HM2

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Police find van of family of 6 believed to have been swept away by Hurricane Harvey

Officials announced on Twitter they have located a van they believe may have belonged to a family of six who was swept away by raging flood waters brought by Hurricane Harvey on Monday.

Manuel Saldivar, 84, and his wife Belia, 81, along with their grandchildren Daisy Saldivar, 6, Xavier Saldivar, 8, Dominic Saldivar, 14, and Devy Saldivar, 16, were allegedly driving across a bridge in Greens Bayou, Texas, in order to escape rising waters when they encountered even more severe flooding.

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"At least two bodies that we can see in the front seat, but based on the angle and the type of van with no windows in the back, it is hard to look inside," he told reporters, according to BuzzFeed News.

The department is working with a local medical examiner's office and a police dive team to identify the bodies.

I have a feeling we are going to start hearing about stories like these in the coming days. Truly sad.

[DarrinS]

Wild cobra would be proud

[Pavlov]

how about IN the reservoir?

https://goo.gl/maps/fKFbrQ6Y2HM2

Hey, I ate at that Waffle House in January. Wonder how those buildings near I-10 fared.

[RandomGuy]

Wild cobra would be proud

Ouch, sir. You wound me to the quick.

[RandomGuy]

I have a feeling we are going to start hearing about stories like these in the coming days. Truly sad.

I have little doubt.

I have a terrible feeling that the death toll is going to be fairly large. Hopefully I am wrong about that.

[Pavlov]

Beaumont Civic Center shelter full. Lamar University arena opening for evacuees.

[vy65]

That is what I wonder. "no tax increases, government spending bad" is not really workable when you have really huge problems that require a lot of pooled resources, i.e. government.

I am not so sure about Houston. This is just too huge. It will recover mostly, but never get back to where it was before the storm.

That all depends on what you mean by what "it was before the storm." I don't see the energy, medical/technical, education, or transportation/logistics sectors of the Houston economy moving. I also don't s

What I do see is movement from the southeast and north suburbs (Missouri City, Sugarland, Katy) that got butt ed from the storm. Those areas are filled with middle to lower-middle class people who probably will never recover financially (likely levered entirely in a 250k-500k home with no flood insurance). You'll either see those people leave or move closer into the city. There's already a large push here towards the urban core inside the loop -- which has been relatively unharmed other than select pockets along the bayou or low-laying areas.

The burbs are in the flood plain. And that's why they got ed. I don't see those parts of town recovering; but to say that Houston won't be what it was is ing stupid considering most if not all articles that have come out in the past couple days are expecting a speedy recovery.

I.e., https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/b...ic-impact.html

[vy65]

What will happen next (Katrina is a mild model, but this is bigger):

7.6 million people in the affected area. Even if only 5%, that is 350,000+ people need to be immediately relocated that will swamp the 10,000 beds here and there that are being set up in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas. Hundreds of thousands of people will need some place to go.


Houston has no power, and it will take a long time for that to change. Hazardous waste will be everywhere. Power company can't even get into places to see what needs to be fixed yet.

The waters will slowly go down, but the heat is projected to go up to normal for this time of year. 90+ degrees, on the coast with all the humidity keeping things from drying out.

The city will be hot, humid, and a LOT of structures are going to be wet, that will make mold instantly take root, and houses will be rotting almost immediately. I have seen first hand flood recovery, and in my tiny neighborhood, that took months. This is going to be 1000 times larger, and vastly more problematic, especially as the sanitation infrastructure (power/water/waste) is going to be out of operation.

Best thing that anyone can do is be ready for that stream of people needing to be relocated, IMO.

They are going to find a lot of dead people, some of which may never be found as they were quite possibly swept out to sea.

There will be no running water, no power, no food, mosquitoes, mold, poor sanitation, etc. People will get sick.

We have improved our response to such things since Katrina/Rita, but this has, by all accounts overwhelmed current efforts. Once the water goes down, we will know more, but it looks bad.

Just out of curiousity, what are you basing this off of? Have you spoken with people actually in the city?

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That all depends on what you mean by what "it was before the storm." I don't see the energy, medical/technical, education, or transportation/logistics sectors of the Houston economy moving. I also don't s

What I do see is movement from the southeast and north suburbs (Missouri City, Sugarland, Katy) that got butt ed from the storm. Those areas are filled with middle to lower-middle class people who probably will never recover financially (likely levered entirely in a 250k-500k home with no flood insurance). You'll either see those people leave or move closer into the city. There's already a large push here towards the urban core inside the loop -- which has been relatively unharmed other than select pockets along the bayou or low-laying areas.

The burbs are in the flood plain. And that's why they got ed. I don't see those parts of town recovering; but to say that Houston won't be what it was is ing stupid considering most if not all articles that have come out in the past couple days are expecting a speedy recovery.

I.e., https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/b...ic-impact.html

That's it, that's the killing ground, right there.

[DMC]

Sandra Bullock just donated 1M.

shes hot

[DarrinS]

shes hot

For being in her 50's, I'd say so.

[DarrinS]

Kevin Hart donated 25k tho. Lol

[Pavlov]

Jesus Christ, Darrin. Give it a rest.

[DarrinS]

Jesus Christ, Darrin. Give it a rest.

J.J. Watt raised over 6M.

[Pavlov]

J.J. Watt raised over 6M.

You hate black people.

We get it.

[DarrinS]

You hate black people.

We get it.

Yeah, you've stated that numerous times. Doesn't make it true.

I just pointed out that some celebs are cheap.

[DarrinS]