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Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
/Dori from Nemo movie's voice
As this event progresses in Houston please be aware of the incredibly desperate have-nots looking to take food, water, shelter, and valuables of the people who have prepared and are not flooded. Your neighbors may be your only police force or they may be the ones coming for your goods. I fear such things. Be safe, be secure.
The guy who sits right next to me at work grew up in Friendswood, which apparently got 50 inches of rain. His parents' house had 4 feet of water in it. It's just now starting to recede.
As this event progresses in Houston please be aware of the incredibly desperate have-nots looking to take food, water, shelter, and valuables of the people who have prepared and are not flooded. Your neighbors may be your only police force or they may be the ones coming for your goods. I fear such things. Be safe, be secure.
There's definitely some of that going on, especially in the hardest hit areas. Although by far I've seen more instances of people helping people. Pretty awesome really. We're pretty much good here now so we took as much as we could to a couple of the bigger shelters.
I want to find the guy/gal who designed our levees/lock system and shake their hand and buy them a beer. The civil engineers are unsung heroes. It could have been way, waaaay worse if you can imagine that.
The guy who sits right next to me at work grew up in Friendswood, which apparently got 50 inches of rain. His parents' house had 4 feet of water in it. It's just now starting to recede.
My impromptu rain gauge measured 8.5 - 11 inches per day since Friday. Water got to be 2-3 feet in the street but didn't make it in the door thankfully. I was here for Allison in 2001 so unfortunately I know the next phase -- mosquitoes so thick you can walk on them.
Glad you Houston guys are doing alright - My hometown of Rockport didn't fair so well against the wind. However all family is safe. My Father's home in the boonies didn't flood from surge or get knocked down.
Glad you Houston guys are doing alright - My hometown of Rockport didn't fair so well against the wind. However all family is safe. My Father's home in the boonies didn't flood from surge or get knocked down.
Very good to hear, very thankful, Rockport was hit HARD. something like 30 percent of buildings gone and maybe the same amount more likely unusable.
I was with Houston Fire in 2008 for Ike and although I slept there for 6 days straight working, it's going to seem like a cake walk compared to this.
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- My hometown of Rockport didn't fair so well against the wind. However all family is safe. My Father's home in the boonies didn't flood from surge or get knocked down.
