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Houston is Flooding....

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Dabop said:
MIght be in American news, but this thread was the first I'd actually heard about it
Got online friends there, might email em to make sure they are ok
Stay safe anyone who is there
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It was the #1 story on the BBC broadcast this morning.
 
Tony said:
Thanks Rolfe. So far things are ok with us. We have power, food and water. The flooding still has a bit to go before it is in our house. But if it keeps raining, it's only a matter of time before we will have to be evacuated like a lot of other people around the city. Like I said, I've lived in Houston my entire life. I've seen a lot of rain, but I've never seen rain come down this hard, this long, and sustained over this many days. The bulk of the hurricane didn't really even hit us here. We had no wind, no branches or trees down, no power outages. Just a ton of rain. It's sort of the opposite of Ike.
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Yeah, my family in the area are all commenting that it is much worse than anticipated. I think everyone assumed it would hit Corpus Christi square on and linger down there more. It really seemed to dodge to the northeast of CC and put Houston in the cross hairs of the wet side of the storm. Because of that forecast it really seems to have caught Houston flat footed.

I remember a tropical storm back around 2001 that really messed up the downtown area, flooding parking garages and basements of buildings. I think a woman died when the elevator she was in opened up to a flooded basement. This looks to be much worse.

Looks like you are on the north side of town with all those nice pines. I hope you guys weather it as well as possible.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Was there a second floor? ANd how would they do that if the elevators were not working?
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If there were, and the staff had half a brain between them, they'd get the vulnerable old people upstairs before the elevators stopped?

But it raises the point of who might need evacuating, if anyone. Upthread there was discussion about the impossibility of evacuating the whole of Houston, and I'd agree. But how many people live above the maximum conceivable flood level and can just wait it out? The people in everyday one or two storey homes are clearly the ones who might need evacuation.
 
GlennB said:
If there were, and the staff had half a brain between them, they'd get the vulnerable old people upstairs before the elevators stopped?

But it raises the point of who might need evacuating, if anyone. Upthread there was discussion about the impossibility of evacuating the whole of Houston, and I'd agree. But how many people live above the maximum conceivable flood level and can just wait it out? The people in everyday one or two storey homes are clearly the ones who might need evacuation.
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It just depends on where and when the house was built. I've lived in a house that backed up to levee but never had flood water come close to the levee. I lived in a very nice neighborhood that had street flooding all the time but never in the houses. I lived in a more mixed neighborhood that never even had street flooding. My lat office building in Houston was good through a big storm, the building next door had their basement breached. You have to weather a few storms to really get a feel for where it floods and where it doesn't.

One large problem is that Houston has grown so much since the last big storm. There are lots of people in Houston who have never seen a big storm and won't know what to do or how bad their are can get.
 
Is President Goldfish still planning on visiting the area tomorrow? Seems like it would be a good idea to delay the visit as to not interfere with ongoing rescue efforts.
 
Stacko said:
Is President Goldfish still planning on visiting the area tomorrow? Seems like it would be a good idea to delay the visit as to not interfere with ongoing rescue efforts.
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He will be going to Texas, but not to the disaster area. Probably Austin so the GOP Governor can continue his butt kissing in person
 
dudalb said:
He will be going to Texas, but not to the disaster area. Probably Austin so the GOP Governor can continue his butt kissing in person
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I want to thank your Governor Greg Abbot for all the work he has done to make this the best hurricane. Go ahead Greg, stand up and uh, . . .
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
... Might also be a good time to remind people about Trump's infrastructure rule change that will allow even more of this kind of flooding.
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That's important information that I'd like to catch a broadcast segment about.
So I've switched over to FoxNews and I'm waiting to see.





What? :confused:



:p
 
angrysoba said:
A group of old women, one of them apparently doing her sewing, waist deep in water, and yet not wet above the waist, with a cat sitting on the sofa and a popcorn machine (?!), a floating bedpan...(?!)
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Looks like a half dozen pieces of dry cat food arranged in a semi-circle on the table next to the bottled water.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
If there was deep water in your home, would your power still be on?
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You would hope not. Typically you lose power first. Then you wait to see how high the water will get. If it messes up the water treatment system at all you then have to boil water for a few days. Sometimes you would lose water pressure all together.

I remember that we always prepared for a week without power or clean water. I don't think we ever had to deal with more than four or five days. This may be a bit worse.
 
Dr. Keith said:
You would hope not. Typically you lose power first. Then you wait to see how high the water will get. If it messes up the water treatment system at all you then have to boil water for a few days. Sometimes you would lose water pressure all together.

I remember that we always prepared for a week without power or clean water. I don't think we ever had to deal with more than four or five days. This may be a bit worse.
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Notice the ceiling light is on in that flooded nursing home picture.

Could be emergency battery powered but there's still a lot of light in that room if the power were off.

And calm I can understand but they would all be freezing and they don't look cold.
 
It's hard to say what the light source is, but there are several lamps out. Wall outlets must be submerged.
 
I notice that the temperature in Houston is relatively cool right now but it is predicted to increase. With the power out, no air conditioning, no fans- even more discomfort to add to the current horror.
 
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