After the Flood - Page 4

ms traditional · ‎03-09-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
Picture on FB residents of nursing home sitting in flood waters💙

if it was the one in Dickinson TX (Kimberly Mcintosh daughter put on social media) they have been rescued. National Guard sent a helicopter.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

Many people forget in natural disasters like this,

so many of the First Responders themselves,

are under water & have to take of their needs & families.

It's dry as a bone here in Dallas...wish I could send them

some of our North Texas 'Dry'. Such a shame.

Poodlepet2 · ‎03-09-2010

@sidsmom, there was a lot of discussion this morning on many news shows this morning discussing the difficulty or impossibility of moving 6 million people out of harms way.

The scope of this is just made worse considering the huge geographic area concerned-and the training rains....on and on....

Getting thru Hurricane Charley was rough: we had devastation, but not decimation like we're witnessing in Rockport and Victoria.

Among counties affected, we were able to pool resources-doing things like sharing schools and services. The problem for poor Texas is such such a large swath seems to have been decimated, there are no resources to share....

Are there any reports of hotels being fully booked in Dallas or Fort Worth? It sounded as if officials were gently suggesting those might be safe places.....

Hugs,

Poodlepet2

ms traditional · ‎03-09-2010

@sidsmom wrote:
I've been seeing a few mentions about...
why didn't Houston have a manatory evacuation?

I'm sure, in time, as soon as everyone is secured & accounted for,
emotions will arise and 'Houston dropped the ball' accusations
will begin. I just hope they don't find communities of
deceased victims...especially when officials said to stay put.
This could legally get really ugly..hope not, but we'll see.

@sidsmomi think that when it became evident what the path would be close to landfall the logistics of evacuating 3 - 5 million people from the general environs were impractical. also it was pretty well known that it was going to be a very big deal - we knew here in Cali from Thursday on. people make their own decisions and Mother Nature makes hers.

mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

I live north of Houston in Montgomery County. We are getting the rain but no flooding...thanks to the bayou's around us. The words epic, historial are true. I've been here for almost 20 years and even with TS Allison, nothing compares! Prayers for those who have lost everything, including those who were hit when Harvey made landfall!

momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

This is an informative article that was published after Hurricane Rita was headed for Texas a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina. It does a great job of explaining the intracracies of a mass evacuation of this type especially since hurricane paths are so difficult to predict:

https://apps.texastribune.org/road-from-rita/taking-on-traffic/

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@Poodlepet2 wrote:
@sidsmom, there was a lot of discussion this morning on many news shows this morning discussing the difficulty or impossibility of moving 6 million people out of harms way.
The scope of this is just made worse considering the huge geographic area concerned-and the training rains....on and on....
Getting thru Hurricane Charley was rough: we had devastation, but not decimation like we're witnessing in Rockport and Victoria.
Among counties affected, we were able to pool resources-doing things like sharing schools and services. The problem for poor Texas is such such a large swath seems to have been decimated, there are no resources to share....
Are there any reports of hotels being fully booked in Dallas or Fort Worth? It sounded as if officials were gently suggesting those might be safe places.....
Hugs,
Poodlepet2

@Poodlepet2

I haven't been listening/watching much local news this weekend,

but I did hear DFW traffic was heavier on Friday...and our downtown

convention center & local shelters would be open for living resources.

Just seeing people walking on I-45 is sooo reminiscent

of Katrina. And then having Harvey, Part II hit all these same areas

again on Mon-Wed? Wow.

What else did the morning news shows say (without politics)?

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

I was just reminding my youngest daughter (she lives in Denver now) how when her Dad was alive, he and I took her to Houston for a week.

Our house had been hit by lightning and we'd been living in a hotel for (then 3 months, total time 5 months) and he said, "Come on! I've never been to Houston, let's go there". So we went to Houston.

It is a beautiful city. The people were wonderful. One thing that struck us was the way (it was probably in the summer) there were stores and things actually under the roads. I remember they'd had a lot of rain back then and many things were flooded. There were places we couldn't go in to because they were flooded.

We rode all of the way to the ocean (he wanted to see it). We live in Va and although we own property in Florida and have traveled extensively, we'd never been to Houston.

I just want to say I loved it there and I wish the people there the best. They have a lovely city. The people are kind and seemed to work hard to keep their city beautiful.

We will all be praying that GOD will look over them, their loved ones and keep them safe. I'm sure everyone feels the same way.

In this country, we argue and bicker and so on. But when help is needed we come together to help. That's what makes this country so great, it's people, all colors....period. That's why so many want to live here. They recognize it too.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@LTT1 wrote:
I shouldn't be harsh, but why do people stay after they are warned to leave.
Katrina brought to bear the disadvantages of staying for days/weeks in an area with no power or fresh water.
???
DD has friends in the H area who could have afforded to leave. We don't understand.

@LTT1

Having reached New Orleans just in time for the arrival of Rita, I can personally attest that no one should judge WHY people don't leave. First of all, not everyone owns a personal vehicle, some have relatives who are too sick to travel, some have no way to move their whole family + their animals, some simply can't afford it. And the predictability of this storm was not simple.

I learned many reasons and situations that had never occurred to me.

Let's say, 'there but for Grace go I'

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

@ms traditional wrote:
@LTT1 wrote:
Picture on FB residents of nursing home sitting in flood waters💙
if it was the one in Dickinson TX (Kimberly Mcintosh daughter put on social media) they have been rescued. National Guard sent a helicopter.

Timothy J. McIntosh‏ @DividendsMGR

La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients