Hurricane Harvey

[Alaskan]

My sister in Conroe is taking water in her house. They were trying to get upstairs a few minutes ago.

Sheesh!!!

I thought that "they" said that Harvey had stayed further away from Conroe than they thought it was going to... in other words that it wasn't going to get too terrible there...

So sorry... water in the house is a royal pain.... so much of what we build with now a days is completely destoyed when it gets just a bit of water on it (carpet, sheetrock, etc.)

 

[Baymule]

@greybeard I pray that you and your wife are safe.

 

[Baymule]

That nursing home picture is so sad but it sure looks like they are coping.

They were rescued shortly after that picture was posted. Most had to be hospitalized.

I lived 75 miles from Houston for 30+ years and was there when Houston evacuated for hurricane Rita. A 1-2 hour drive took people 24-28 hours. They got to Livingston and ran out of gas. The whole town turned out to shelter people in schools, churches. I was a Red Cross volunteer and spent nights in a school, we sheltered people in our home. No power, no nothing. It was awful. We moved 170 miles away.

The governor told people to leave, the mayor of Houston refused to issue an evacuation order and told people to stay home. He should have to spend the night standing in flood waters in a dark house all night praying for rescue like the people he condemned to such a fate. Rescues have been suspended until tomorrow when it gets light.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They have suspended air rescues...I'm still watching water rescues.

I'm not upset that a mandatory evacuation was not ordered. Can you imagine over 2 million people on the roadways with all the closures and flooded roads that there are? It is a royal pain to be in a flooded home... the monetary cost of this flood will go on and on and on....but there hasn't been excessive loss of life (not that any loss of life is ok). I believe it would be higher if people were trying to evacuate...trying to drive through areas that they are not familiar with...trying to 'make it' through that next puddle...

Nothing about this is ok - but we are fighting Mother Nature - and she will always win.

I might be in the group of flooded people within the next few days. I don't blame anyone and I will do my best to mitigate any damages that might be forthcoming. It sucks...!
edited to add: I wouldn't have left even if there were an order...

 

[Baymule]

From channel 13 news in Houston. The Livingston dam is getting ready to release 50,400 cubic feet per minute. if you live down stream on the Trinity river, please take precaution.

Great. Now the people down stream of Livingston are going to flood big time. But I have been there when the dam released over 80,000 CFM, it flooded all the way to the Gulf.

FEM people could have got out of known low lying areas. Yes, remember Rita? 3 million people hit the roads and it was a mess. But had he issued an evacuation order earlier, I don't think 3 million people would have hit the roads, they remember Rita too. But maybe at least some people could have escaped the floods.

FEM I hope and pray that you do not take water in your house. Praying for you my sister!

 

[greybeard]

We won't be going anywhere any time soon.
That pic I posted of that little stretch of water on my road is now running back toward the right, (into the Natl Forest) and is 5 feet deep and 40 ft long.
Being fed by the river that came up to what is now historic levels.

Power was off, then restored, now off again and Entergy last stated Tues 8Pm as the earliest restore time.
I don't think I have enough generator fuel to last that long.

I honestly no longer have any inkling just how high this water will get.
It is now a river driven event for me instead of the localized rain.
Water is in my yard, and in my shop, but just barely.
Tomorrow morning may be quite depressing.

Taken from my back steps, just before sunset, Sun Aug 27. water is just at the outside corner of my yard fence. Cows are in a pasture to the opposite direction.

 

[Alaskan]

Greybeard, I take it that it is still raining upriver from you?

That is horrid.

I want things to start subsiding!!! Enough already!

 

[Latestarter]

Truly sorry GB... Thank you for letting us know that you're still OK (at that moment anyway)... Can you get to the shop and move stuff "up" to maybe save some of it? It's not looking good for a break in your area any time soon...

 

[babsbag]

Well that is just depressing.

 

[Alaskan]

Yep... yep, that it is.


On a happy note, since Harvey decided to skip out on playing in the hill country, my sister's seeds are still in place. She just got nice steady rain....maybe six inches.... but good and slow and gentle. Nothing washed away or around, and nothing got broken.

She had just planted all of the fields with good dirt (she didn't plant dirt... but some of the pastures have horrid dirt, mostly just rock), some had had all of the mesquite newly removed...giant production...

This rain and the continuing slow rain and clouds (where she is anyway) might mean that even the little bluestem that was planted will grow like gangbusters! (That stuff is picky... it needs lots of moisture for the sprouting and starting of growing)

(Not trying to belittle the horror.... just tossing out a positive )