Houston Flood

Need I remind everyone (post-Katrina):

https://i2.wp.com/img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/55d67f3414000077002e38df.png

public statements very much in character xp

This guy.

Let me clear this up–we were w/police who had discovered a dead body & mentioned we saw ppl w/faces covered going into a supermarket nearby pic.twitter.com/bfM5WCCO1e

— Tom Llamas (@TomLlamasABC) August 29, 2017

Do you feel like a hero, snitch?

— Nicole Russell (@nicolerussell91) August 29, 2017

i can't believe that shit. his explanation makes no sense, either. and yeah did he learn nothing from the way Katrina was covered?

seriously

Llamas went to our private Catholic high school rivals.

I hope HPD and the Coast Guard are only rushing to the "looters" to rescue them or at least help them carry their groceries.

Jesus Christ

Just unbelievable.

ON THE TOP: Downtown Houston yesterday.

ON THE BOTTOM: Downtown Houston today. pic.twitter.com/FjGstrZXEy

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) August 27, 2017

Listening to the radio just now, this is the among the most heartbreaking moments of any natural disaster, when shock gives way to exhaustion and people are just struggling to keep it together, the reality of their situation finally settling in and much as it can. What are the best charities to donate to right now? My wife said diapers are still a pressing need.

Hey y'all. Texas Monthly Magazine has a list of different organizations accepting charities. The list includes help for kids, pets, the homeless, food banks and a bunch more:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/ways-can-help-people-hurricane-harvey/

accepting *donations*

BREAKING: National Weather Service: Cedar Bayou, Texas, records 51.88 inches of rain from Harvey; new continental U.S. record.

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2017

and the flooding isn't even supposed to peak until wednesday or thursday. jesus fucking christ

spacecityweather.com has been posting some measured analysis of the storm. My family all lives there (are safe at the moment) and one of my brothers has sent this link out to friends and family residing out of the Houston area. It's given me some comfort to counter the horrible footage coming from other sources since I live so far away

Beaumont/Port Arthur currently getting hammered by the remains of the storm.

Big problems in Houston area currently down to rising bayous and rivers.

Mandatory evac notices are still coming down as well.

yeah, through the weekend my dad's place didn't flood, but now all that rainfall is draining into the reservoirs and they're doing the controlled releases from the west side dams... water's encroaching slowly on his house. could be much worse. subdivision across the way from him nearer the bayou (and surrounding a manmade lake feature) had to be evacuated by boat.

Brazo River expected to crest 2 1/2 feet higher by Thursday/Friday, for those in the Fort Bend Co. sprawl. The newer, lower lying neighborhoods have one of the largest South Asian immigrant communities in the nation, and they've been [getting bad news from back home](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/30/mumbai-paralysed-by-floods-as-india-and-region-hit-by-worst-monsoon-rains-in-years), too.

I checked my FB feed yesterday for the second time since the election so I could do a little commiserating with the folks back home re:Katrina PTSD flaring up over all of this and saw that a friend had posted an article about how Harvey is a result of climate change and that we need start to take drastic measures. One of her in-laws (from Belle Chasse, LA) responded with something along the lines of "I have to respectfully disagree. It's not climate change, it's all because of wind patterns and the water temperature in the Gulf" and it took every ounce of self-control to not soak myself in kerosene and light a match.

Well, they're both right!

"It's not arson - it's all because of that guy who lit all the oily rags on fire and ran away!"

another one of those "I told you so "moments for someone with no feeling of pleasure

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/why-cities-flood/538251/

well drown the federal government in a bathtub, this one's gonna be $$$$$$$$

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/08/what_it_means_for_the_economy_when_a_city_like_houston_shuts_down.html

"At the conclusion of his brief remarks, Mr. Trump thanked Abbott, promised to get Texas "back and operating immediately"..."

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21192934_10156199513727137_7049456761141816261_n.jpg?oh=f1c3cface581260357b48c37fd65e26a&oe=5A129F4A

if not sooner!

Back and operating as a port.

Trump Hotels for Everyone!

I'm kind of boggled by seeing traffic on the I-610 webcam that Ste posted three days ago when it was covered in water halfway up the highway signs.

CEO of @Arkema_Inc says no way to prevent explosion at its Crosby, TX chemical plant because of massive flooding. #TexasFlood

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 30, 2017

They lost electricity and their generators failed, which will cause some must be refrigerated chemicals to get hot and go boom.

Texas Man Uses Massive Inflatable Dam to Save House

national guard guy on the news says its the largest deployment since world war one.

I heard they were literally all deployed.

That inflatable dam story is from 2016 - I wonder if it wouldve held back this years waters?

Those things usually do better when the water's creeping in on you, not pouring directly out of the sky four inches every hour.

xp thanks for factcheck and sorry!

Eh its easy to miss these things I do all the time.

Either way it is a neat idea! (and expensive i would imagine)

awesome emergency plan

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/harvey-danger-major-chemical-plant-near-houston-likely-explode-facility-n797581

are these just robots posting this stuff? also, why?

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21230758_10212833830614248_5910740196543957452_n.jpg?oh=7a003f75df086fb5ad9c90a6d5400f1d&oe=5A19A380

three words: "trump tower moscow"

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/obama_trump_harvey_katrina.html

Lol scott, I had the same reaction over in the politics thread. Yeah, I still don't get it.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57276/harvey-longterm-effects/

Pierce referencing the many long-term environmental problems:

Houston, part of the "Chemical Coast," presents a huge challenge in a major flooding event, said Mathy Stanislaus, who oversaw the federal Superfund program throughout the Obama administration. Typically the EPA tries to identify Superfund sites in a major storm's path to "shore up the active operations" and "minimize seepage from sites," Stanislaus said. "This is not the time to dictate; it's the time to work together well with state and local officials to think about needs that need to be met."

....Item: Repeatedly over the past 15 years, the Texas legislature refused to pass any plan to adapt the affected infrastructure as long as that legislation contained any reference to climate change. (The climate crisis, of course, is the thing that makes storms like Harvey the most predictable of all)

jfc

Oh great, plague is in the fucking mix now?

(Re that link)

v Planet of the Apes

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/08/galveston_lab_that_houses_dead.html