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Old 08-27-2017, 08:11 AM
 
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Not only has KHOU news had to leave their first floor studio to a second floor conference room earlier this morning, they're now having to leave the building itself.

Yikes.
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:16 AM
 
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Cockiness in time of disaster can be falsely assuring...Have friends just north of Braes Bayou off Chimney Rock just outside the boundaries of Meyerland area...
Their street is totally flooded...water up to her front door...she said her house had never taken water before
Tried to get her to evac yesterday afternoon before the rain bands started but they thought they would make it ok...
THIS storm is worse Houston has seen in decades...I imagine there are going to be way more homes flooding than any other event...

Statistics mean crap if YOU are the person on the negative outcome...
Found that out when my son became ill when he was 10... Symptoms pointed to Hodgkin's Lymphoma...but his pediatrician and the ENT pediatrician referred us to both said "kids his age don't get Hodgkin's...it is SO unlikely we won't do a chest X-Ray cause those aren't good for kids"...
Needless to say it was Hodgkin's and he could have started treatment a month or more sooner (and before a dangerous/$$ surgical biopsy) if the doctors were not too cocky to listen to a mother's concerns...
Thanks to great doctors/nurses at the H/O clinic at Cook's Children's in FTW he was treated successfully...
Can't rep you again right now. But I agree!
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Center City
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What is the reason for going in the attic? (Serious question.) Is it just so you stay dry? I'm sounding stupid, but it's because both kids slept on the floor of my bedroom last night and my rate of going mental has been accelerated in the past 48 hours.
People who are seeing flooding in their downstairs will migrate up to the next story. At some point, that may be an attic for some. The problem with that is that should water begin to enter an attic, there is no exit. Please be careful.
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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They should go on the roof, so they will be visible and rescued. Going up to attic makes less sense.
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:42 AM
 
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You poor folks in Houston are getting DUMPED on.
Prayers up!
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:49 AM
 
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Just one word: Katrina

In Katrina it was the Corp of Engineers' flood control measures that failed and caused flooding to be so severe in the French Quarter and elsewhere
The hurricane was not the danger event itself for NO but the rains and flooding it caused were

And I lived in Houston and have friends there...
In a massive flooding event like this there really are NO safe havens because of the secondary and tertiary effects...

There are not enough thanks in the world to give credit to the first responders in situations like this...

And everyone who hears Cruz and Cornyn taking credit for getting Trump to sign the disaster announcement for aid, just remember these are the same two guys who voted against Federal,p aid for Sandy's victims and the Flint water crisis....
Their chest-thumping is political in nature -- not compassion generated-- or they would have demonstrated it in other instances, for those NOT in their state...
And let Trump stay away and just send all the money saved NOT coming to the Gulf to disaster relief...
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Looks like cBach controversial post was spot on, and hope that no one is viewing it as trolling and "false news" anymore....
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:50 AM
 
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10:49 AM Eastern/9:49 Central time. Watching the live feed from KHOU, which can no longer broadcast from the studio. Horrifying. I've already made donations to the Red Cross and Salvation Army, but feel so helpless otherwise. Keeping everyone in Houston and the other areas affected by Harvey constantly in my thoughts. Just an awful situation.
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:51 AM
 
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One of the news stations stated this is predicted to be the most catastrophic event in the history of the United States - hope this was an exaggeration. My niece, her husband and daughter have had to move to their attic; unfortunately, her husband is going through an aggressive chemo treatment which compounds their already dire situation.
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Old 08-27-2017, 08:51 AM
 
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They should go on the roof, so they will be visible and rescued. Going up to attic makes less sense.
How soon people forget that in Katrina, a similar flooding event, people who went into the attic were still trapped by rising water...could not get out...and many drowned in their attics...

Emergency management in Houston area has posted warnings NOT to go to the attic...
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