Hurricane Harvey

[buffalobo]

Reported loss of life has been pretty low so far. Looks like property damage will be huge.

Wonder how much thought about this type of thing folks put into the decision to reside along the coast lines where hurricanes are not uncommon.


If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[Great-Kazoo]

Some things could have been avoided, like the massive evacuations under way. Had the Mayor not done a New Orleans mayors stance. While i agree a massive evacuation might put some in danger. Had the mayor stated (numerous times) An Orderly Evacuation must be followed, the over taxed ERS may not have been in the position it is now.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/as-...-plans-9734833

At a 4 p.m. press conference, Mayor Turner and County Judge Ed Emmett re-emphasized that there has not been nor will be any evacuation order for Houston, nor would they recommend voluntarily evacuating. Turner had recalled the disaster that a mandatory evacuation order during Hurricane Rita created in 2005, when people died of heat exhaustion on the highway and had to be rescued during the immense gridlock. At the presser, he and Emmett said that, given Houston is not in Harvey’s hurricane path and is dealing instead with a large rain event, this is not the type of storm that would prompt evacuations.

“In the City of Houston, this is a rain maker,” Turner said of the tropical storm that Harvey is bringing to Houston. “There’s no need for people to be thinking about leaving, getting on the road and putting themselves in danger. Quite frankly, you can be putting yourself in more danger by getting on the road.”

[BladesNBarrels]

Houston Evacuation Plan B after 20 hours:

[glenncal1]

You are the lowest form of scum, trying to rob people who are already in a world of hurt. I hope that some of you come across home/business owners that take the approach that a lot of Korean shop owners did during the LA riots. Special place place in hell for you asshats.

[buffalobo]

You are the lowest form of scum, trying to rob people who are already in a world of hurt. I hope that some of you come across home/business owners that take the approach that a lot of Korean shop owners did during the LA riots. Special place place in hell for you asshats.

Care to expand on this? I can usually ferret out the point posters are trying make. No clue on this one. Throw me a bone.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[Not_A_Llama]

He put the initial portion of the post as a subtitle: "Open Message to Harvey looters"

I was also confused.

[ray1970]

Having grown up and lived the first 28 years of my life just southeast Houston I can tell you events like this aren't as big of a deal to the people living there as they are to the outside world. It's not like the people living down there aren't aware that this type thing happens. If you live anywhere along the coast anywhere on the Gulf of Mexico or the southeast coast of the Atlantic Ocean you can expect this sort thing. Just like earthquakes in California or blizzards in the northeast. Just part of life.

[BushMasterBoy]

Moved here from Cocoa Beach. After a few hurricanes, most insurance companies refused to write home owner policies. If you live near the beach, the house needs to be made of reinforced concrete. You almost have to evacuate every time they warn you. If you stay, then expect no power for a week at least. No clean water either. If you leave the city limits after, the police might not let you back in the city. Some people come back to find their house is nothing but a slab. No trees have foliage, no stores have signs on their facade. Dumpsters behind grocery stores full of rotting meat. The poor suffer the worst. I remember the evacuees of Homestead AFB after hurricane Andrew. They all had the thousand yard stare. Homestead AFB was so badly damaged they basically closed it. If I had a lot of money, I would love to live there.

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[cstone]

I just drove through Homestead, FL this past January. The AF closed the base and moved, but that just made room for development. I don't know if it has already happened or when it will happen, but there are or soon will be more houses in Homestead than there were in 1992.

People are a lot like ants living in their colonies. Regardless of how many times the colony is destroyed, as long as there is a desire by people to live there, we rebuild. It isn't often that we don't rebuild and we have an amazing ability to work around or ignore the difficulties involved with living in some very precarious locations.

I wonder how many Katricians are living in hard hit parts of Houston today. My prayers go out to the people affected.

Be safe.

[Teufelhund]

Grew up in Santa Fe, just south of Houston. My parents and sisters are still there. My parents' house is on relatively high ground, so they're still dry, if somewhat stranded with road closures. One of my sister's house and cars flooded, but they're all ok.

Growing up with this kind of thing, you just prepare the best you can when it comes along, but it really doesn't happen that often. Alisha back in '83 is the only major one I remember going through. We lived in a trailer home at that time, and rode out the storm in a friend's house down the street, but no major damage occurred and we went home the next day. Every region is prone to some natural disaster or another, be it hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or blizzards. You learn how to prepare and how to adapt.