On 8/30/2017 6:31 AM, Spalted Walt wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:
On 8/29/2017 9:15 AM, Spalted Walt wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:
Just touching in, we have been busy watching the news and hunkering
down. This has been an event. While this is nothing to take lightly
there are some of us that are doing just fine.
I have personally emptied our rain gauge of 31.25" since Saturday
morning. This link shows my house and Tundra from a neighbors house
just about an hour ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb112...posted-public/
So far we have no friends or relatives that have gotten any water in
their homes. There is a lot of luck involved in that but before
building our home I studied the flood plane maps before choosing a lot
and even then I chose a lot on the high point of the street.
I just heard on NBC nightly news that we can expect 20+ more inches. I
seriously doubt that wee will get even close to half that. We have
received 6" since 10:00 last night and local forecasters expect this to
mostly be done by early tomorrow evening, at least in the immediate
Houston area. The areas you are mostly seeing on the news are the south
east side of Houston. That area got rain at a rate of 5" per hour.
This is a tragic event for millions of Houstonians and it will take
years to recover. I have lived through events like this and it is life
changing.
Anyway, thank you to all that have called and texted, I appreciate your
concerns but this time around I believe my wife and I, our relatives,
and friends have dodged the bullet.
A mile north of our neighborhood and a mile east of our neighborhood we
have been listening to air boats, yesterday and most all of today,
evacuating residents from their neighborhoods. This hit close.
Leon
It's good to hear you and your neighbors remain pretty much
unscathed! Looking back, do you think a mandatory evacuation should
have been issued by Houston's mayor before Harvey made landfall?
Absolutely not. In 2005 just weeks after the Katrina disaster that hit
New Orleans Houston was faced with hurricane Rita. Needless to say
images of Katrina were still on all of us Hustonians minds. Evacuations
might be ok if you have a few weeks to do so. A certain Dr. Neil Frank
weather guy on TV indicated that this storm was going to be worst than
Katrina and the Houston was going to be a direct target. Houston would
be "devastated", get out NOW.
IIRC some two million residents began evacuation 3 days before expected
land fall. The highways were so over loaded that most people sat in a
bumper to bumper parking lot that probably stretched 100 miles in some
places. Vehicles ran out of gas on the highway while sitting 24-48
hours waiting to get no where. Many people died in their vehicles as a
result. Unnecessary deaths that today I point the finger at the good
Dr. Yo do not flee winds. If you have time you flee rising water.
We did not have time.
I've not heard _anything_ on the news as to metro Houston's tap
water, is it safe to drink or bottled water only?
With the exception of a very few cases the water is good. A couple of
days before Harvey hit here our MUD president informed me that they had
a back up generator for drinking water and one for the waste water plant.
Thank you, Leon and Robert for your detailed reply. Clearly, the
logistics of evacuating that many people in such a short period of
time would be imposable.
It's also clear reporters need to stop this crap with pushing a
microphone in the face of victims of this disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnNohhMXNk
A few reporters are doing a good job but most are just taking up space
on the boats and are of no help at all. This is an extremely bad time
for the people being evacuated and they don't need to be asked what they
think.