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2.3 million in Houston and 6.9 million in Houston metro. Where would they go? Then what? So many have or will lose everything.
Houston accepted about 200,000 evacuees from Louisiana after Katrina and was strained to meet their needs.
Media is reporting Dallas has agreed to accept 5000 evacuees.
Maybe it's time for Texas to consider imposing a state tax to take care of damaged infrastructure and disaster recovery sites throughout the state.
They already do in Houston, but with this much flooding it doesn't make any difference. Still, my neighborhood recently had municipal trucks outside working on our drainage system from our neighborhood to Mason Creek (about four months ago). It seems to be better than it was during the Memorial Day 2015 flood.
The death toll is up to five now. The fake news networks have been going on and on about trump's speeches and tweets and have treated the Hurricane as a minor afterthought. Maybe if the they had been covering actual issues and dangers, people would have taken the threat more seriously.
Nursing Home Residents Seen Sitting In Waist-High Water Before Rescue
An alarming photograph shows several women sitting in the murky water, one of them apparently knitting.
As for why the residents weren’t evacuated before the storm, Kim McIntosh told the New York Daily News that her mother was advised not to because the facility had never flooded before.
Bad premise for topic. The local news covered this throughly andpeople born and raised in the gulf coast area know all about this. National news coverage had nothing to do with the lack of an evacuation. However, a huge densely populated area like Houston would be very difficult to evacuate. The gridlock caused by such an evacuation would cause more deaths than if most people stayed home and only those who know their home area may flood had evacuated. While hurricanes path and point of impact can be predicted reliably, what can't be predicted is the exact amount and location of flooding. All one can do is take what they feel is reasonable precautions for where they live and hope for the best.
They already do in Houston, but with this much flooding it doesn't make any difference. Still, my neighborhood recently had municipal trucks outside working on our drainage system from our neighborhood to Mason Creek (about four months ago). It seems to be better than it was during the Memorial Day 2015 flood.
I wonder if it is possible to roll tanker trucks in there to suck up the water and dump it elsewhere? I know it would take like 1000 trucks working overtime to do it, but i think it would be worth it
I wonder if it is possible to roll tanker trucks in there to suck up the water and dump it elsewhere? I know it would take like 1000 trucks working overtime to do it, but i think it would be worth it
Why does America's 4th. largest city continually flood?
I was watching Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel interview a gentleman tonight who moved to Houston in 1963 and said this is the 4th. time he has been in a major flood since then and said why hasn't the city of Houston prepared for such events.
He also went on to say that infrastructure is lacking including lack of sidewalks and it was embarrassing.
The death toll is up to five now. The fake news networks have been going on and on about trump's speeches and tweets and have treated the Hurricane as a minor afterthought. Maybe if the they had been covering actual issues and dangers, people would have taken the threat more seriously.
Thoughts?
If the "fake news" media had told people to evacuate Houston, you would have called it a liberal "fake news" ploy and ignored it. . DUH! Your phony blame game is funny.
The bottom line is...Nobody has a crystal ball that works. Hind sight is meaningless until the next disaster, but only if we learn form it....No two hurricanes are the same.
Why does America's 4th. largest city continually flood?
I was watching Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel interview a gentleman tonight who moved to Houston in 1963 and said this is the 4th. time he has been in a major flood since then and said why hasn't the city of Houston prepared for such events.
He also went on to say that infrastructure is lacking including lack of sidewalks and it was embarrassing.
What's wrong with Houston?
They're next to the Gulf of Mexico where massive hurricanes sometimes make landfall. Can you point to a place in the world that's set up to take 50" (1270 mm) of rain in 4 days and not flood?
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Houston...We have a problem !
Can you point to a place in the world that's set up to take 50" (1270 mm) of rain in 4 days and not flood?
