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View Poll Results: What percentage of homes in the Greater Houston area do you think were flooded either during or afte
Nearly 100% 3 3.61%
About 75% 3 3.61%
About 50% 4 4.82%
About 25% 20 24.10%
About 10% 27 32.53%
Less than 5% 19 22.89%
Less than 2% 5 6.02%
Mystery guess or the question is too difficult to answer.. 2 2.41%
Voters: 83. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-06-2017, 11:21 AM
 
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Houses don't have to flood to create chaos,
my house didn't flood, but I couldn't drive very far from my house without losing my car
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Old 09-07-2017, 05:22 AM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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Houses don't have to flood to create chaos,
my house didn't flood, but I couldn't drive very far from my house without losing my car
Despite what agenda the homers on here have, anyone who was involved in getting the city back on its feet knows this flood crippled the entire city. WTF I did't get see my family/home for a freaking week (my neighborhood didn't flood).
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Old 09-10-2017, 10:04 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Despite what agenda the homers on here have, anyone who was involved in getting the city back on its feet knows this flood crippled the entire city. WTF I did't get see my family/home for a freaking week (my neighborhood didn't flood).

Most Hurricanes/Tropical Storms will bring the area they hit to a screeching halt for their duration. The "agenda" as you put it, of the poll, is to point out that property losses were less wide spread than what most people believe.
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Old 09-10-2017, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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Most Hurricanes/Tropical Storms will bring the area they hit to a screeching halt for their duration. The "agenda" as you put it, of the poll, is to point out that property losses were less wide spread than what most people believe.
Wrong, it was wide spread.
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Old 09-10-2017, 06:48 PM
 
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I thought the percentage of Harvey damaged homes in Houston would have been closer to 100% rather than less than 10%. The way the media reports the story, they will have most of their viewers believing that the entire city of Houston was submerged in at least knee deep water and badly flooded everywhere.
Amazing that people think this way
At church, the pastor was going to ask people if they were directly affected or that knew somebody affected by the floods to go to the front for everybody to pray for them

He asked how many people were affected, one couple raised their hands
He asked how many people knew somebody affected by the floods.
Almost every single person raised their hand.
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Old 09-10-2017, 08:01 PM
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Wrong, it was wide spread.
It wasn't even close to being widespread. SEVERAL areas did not flood. I live by memorial park and it was "dry" outside of the low lying areas that typically flood. I drove around the loop Friday, Saturday and Sunday and was shocked that TV coverage was so misaligned.
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Old 09-12-2017, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Wrong, it was wide spread.

Please read my post. I said "not as widespread" as most people think...
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Old 09-12-2017, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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It wasn't even close to being widespread. SEVERAL areas did not flood. I live by memorial park and it was "dry" outside of the low lying areas that typically flood. I drove around the loop Friday, Saturday and Sunday and was shocked that TV coverage was so misaligned.
East side of the loop was flooded on Saturday(night of the storm) https://twitter.com/DB_Out_Front/sta...od-underway%2F

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Old 09-16-2017, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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We're starting to get some hard data as to the scope of residential flooding in the Houston area due to Harvey. As per an article in todays Chronicle,

"The tally of flooded apartments in complexes across the Houston area is inching up, but it's still far below what some expected.

"I'm amazed at the results. It just seems small," said Bruce McClenny, president of Apartment Data Services, which has been collecting data from individual properties on whether they were damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

As of Friday, ADS had surveyed close to 80 percent of area apartment complexes. Of those, 177 properties have reported damage to 9,662 units. That's a rate of less than 2 percent.

After Tropical Storm Allison 16 years ago, the Houston market lost 5 percent of the supply, which at the time was 20,000 units, according to ADS, which is gathering new information daily."

Fewer flooded units than feared - Houston Chronicle

At least when it comes to apartment flooding the news seems better than expected..
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Old 09-16-2017, 02:05 PM
 
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In a metro area the size of Houston, a little is a lot. The vast majority of homes did not take on water but because we are such a big area with so many homes, percentage is deceiving. I went to help a friend clean out her apartment today near memorial and Eldridge. It was horrible to see so many homes and businesses so destroyed.
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