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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 5:10:53 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 5:19:51 GMT -5
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Post by haebar on Aug 27, 2017 7:37:06 GMT -5
Sheesh! I hope you don't get flooded out!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 8:11:04 GMT -5
I am 20 miles north of Conroe on the lake but we are getting plenty of rain. I back up to Lake Conroe but can pull up the hill if needed. So far the lake is playing nice and staying below the bulkhead. Our fifth has a generator so any place dry can be home.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 27, 2017 15:43:31 GMT -5
Watching the reports on The Weather Channel. Does not look good for Texas.
So many volunteers out with their own boats attempting to rescue others. Encouraging.
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Post by TwelveAMnTX on Aug 27, 2017 16:00:21 GMT -5
I will keep y'all in my thoughts, hope all is well.
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Post by TwelveAMnTX on Aug 27, 2017 16:06:56 GMT -5
Watching the reports on The Weather Channel. Does not look good for Texas. So many volunteers out with their own boats attempting to rescue others. Encouraging.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 16:10:43 GMT -5
Watching a young lady right now, doing a live cast to DW News. She and her neighbors are okay (relatively) but trapped in their subdivision by surrounding waters.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 1:42:50 GMT -5
Telling people to evacuate now that all the freeways are impassable. FEMA waiting in Dallas for Houston to call before they act. You can't make this stuff up. Sage advice from the mayor of Houston don't hide in attic we won't be able to see you. Now that is classic comedy he deserves his own HBO special. Lmao
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Post by antb on Aug 28, 2017 2:30:37 GMT -5
Stay safe, all of you affected!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 8:14:50 GMT -5
Telling people to evacuate now that all the freeways are impassable. FEMA waiting in Dallas for Houston to call before they act. You can't make this stuff up. Sage advice from the mayor of Houston don't hide in attic we won't be able to see you. Now that is classic comedy he deserves his own HBO special. Lmao Of course, we who do not live there ask, why would you not evacuate? But then 99% of the people do not have anywhere to go, or the money to do it with, living paycheck to paycheck. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 15:30:21 GMT -5
After we went through IKE may daughter said, What are we going to do! my reply, We have Coleman lanterns, stoves, fresh water, food, frozen milk jugs of ice we are not victims. 99% percent of the people waste money on phones, cable TV, eating fast food. If you can afford those things you can afford to be prepared. YMMV
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Post by toshtego on Aug 28, 2017 17:54:54 GMT -5
After we went through IKE may daughter said, What are we going to do! my reply, We have Coleman lanterns, stoves, fresh water, food, frozen milk jugs of ice we are not victims. 99% percent of the people waste money on phones, cable TV, eating fast food. If you can afford those things you can afford to be prepared. YMMV Preparation when the warning comes. Those adds for dried food such as "Wise" brand. Even MREs. Water. Batteries. Lanterns. Fuel. I doubt Houston area could be evacuated fast enough. Too many people, too few roads. People would be trapped in their vehicles. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 18:20:31 GMT -5
We had a home in Missouri City, Texas during tropical storm Frances in 1998. It rained 20" in 24 hours in our neighborhood. Much of south Houston drains through Oyster Creek. We lived two blocks from it. It is normally a couple of feet deep and maybe ten or twelve feet wide in the bottom of the levied channel. At it's fullest, it became probably 15-20' deep and filled the entire channel bank to bank, probably 80' wide. Almost came over the top. Scary to watch. The winds gusted to 60mph and took off a 15x20' section of shingles on my top floor. I was lucky to have a full attic, that I could move around in. I spent a full 24 hrs in my attIc catching water in every container we had, mopping and wringing with towels and then dumping it in the water heater drain pan which had a pipe running to outside. I was fortunate to have a water heater in the attic of that home. My wife kept me fed and supplied with towels as fast as she could dry them. The wind drove water behind flashing and damged some of my ceiling, but I mitigated much worse damage. If I had left town ahead of the storm we would have probably had catastrophic damage to walls and ceiling. I had a tree fall into the house, but it did it slowly enough, that I could get a rope on it and pull it down into the yard. We had a foot of standing water in the back yard that almost came into the first floor. Another day of that kind of rain and we would have been moving everything to the second floor. I could not wait to move back to Colorado and did so a couple of years later. I will never live in a flood prone region like that again. Be safe, all you people down there. I hope the rains stop soon.
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Post by peteguy on Aug 28, 2017 19:02:05 GMT -5
Holler if you need anything or know of anybody that does. I don't know if Amazon could get it there but I would send whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 19:14:46 GMT -5
Currently watching the Colorado River running through downtown Lagrange. Newscasters are running out of adjectives. I was in a flood once in Florence, Oregon, but it was nothing like this.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 28, 2017 20:23:26 GMT -5
I lived in Schwartz Texas in 1976, and immediately at the end of our back yard was a drop off of what seemed like 60-70 feet. After the Guadalupe river flooded, the water was level with our backyard and looked like we had lakefront property. Double wide mobile homes floated by...it was crazy.
Still, nothing like what these people are facing.....A hurricane parks over you for a few days, backs up just enough to pull more water from the gulf to do it again.... friggin nuts.
One reason I am glad I left California... if any of the major faults break loose it will be insane.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 20:23:51 GMT -5
Frog I heard Lagrange was getting flooded. They are starting to call this storm a 500 year event. Have not seen a lot of coverage for any other areas. When the water recedes we will all be in awe of the damage.
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Post by herbinedave on Aug 28, 2017 20:50:15 GMT -5
Stay safe Igward!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 21:29:57 GMT -5
In the two clubs I am in so many from Texas. You've all been in my thoughts and prayers. Hope you can all let us know how each of you are doing
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 6:46:07 GMT -5
Waking up after this morning after my first night of good sleep in a while. Yesterday was spent moving helping other people move to higher ground in the RV park. My buddy Dan is sound asleep on the couch with his dog laying on a thick throw rug dreaming. Gave away all the powdered milk to neighbors with kids, milk is the first thing that disappears after a storm. My daughter is freaking out her husband is a fireman and he does a lot of water rescues. The hospital he was working out of had to be closed down and everyone transferred. Not real sure what the day will bring but everyone is helping everyone in any way they can. Major storms always bring out the best in everyone when everyone is reduced to the same level the human spirit rises. No sign of FEMA .
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Post by toshtego on Aug 29, 2017 6:55:45 GMT -5
So many people affected. So much loss. An event so far off the scale of planning for natural occurrences. I am so very sorry for these people.
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Post by pappyjoe on Aug 29, 2017 7:22:03 GMT -5
It saddens me that the "Cajun Navy" travels to Houston and Dickerson to help and wind up being shot at by thugs trying to steal their boats.
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Post by just ol ed on Aug 29, 2017 8:15:11 GMT -5
our good thoughts to anybody affected by this Harvey-monster.
Ed/Nancy Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 11:32:58 GMT -5
Waking up after this morning after my first night of good sleep in a while. Yesterday was spent moving helping other people move to higher ground in the RV park. My buddy Dan is sound asleep on the couch with his dog laying on a thick throw rug dreaming. Gave away all the powdered milk to neighbors with kids, milk is the first thing that disappears after a storm. My daughter is freaking out her husband is a fireman and he does a lot of water rescues. The hospital he was working out of had to be closed down and everyone transferred. Not real sure what the day will bring but everyone is helping everyone in any way they can. Major storms always bring out the best in everyone when everyone is reduced to the same level the human spirit rises. No sign of FEMA . We've had some pretty serious floods in Louisville in my lifetime but nothing like y'all are currently experiencing. I've sent some small monetary contributions which is the best I can do from here - It all matters. With all due respect, FEMA is primarily an administrative organization without any boots on the ground capability. What's the best way for the rest of us who are not there to help now? |
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Post by trailboss on Aug 29, 2017 13:16:40 GMT -5
I lived in Texas, all too familiar with fire ants...these guys suck!
Everyone has their hands full, but it would be nice to see boaters with backpack sprayers filled with Tengard.
Mold is going to be a huge issue post flood, I think the temps are in the 90's, if it stays that way any length of time, anyone with respiratory issues should probably stay away from the rebuilding.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 15:28:26 GMT -5
I didn't need to see that fire ant video.  Right after getting attacked by them 3 years ago, that's what triggered my body's immune system to attack my nerves and destroyed 90% of them in my arms and legs. They inject Formic Acid, which was used by Congo natives with blow guns to kill the early Explorers back in 1899. They mixed together crushed up fire ants and coconut palm oil |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 19:28:12 GMT -5
In regards to FEMA they couldn't coordinate pouring p... out of boot with the directions printed on the heel. All of the help for the victims up to this point has come from regular people and local donations. If people waited for FEMA to coordinate they would be dead. The USCG has been on the job since day one as have the local citizens. The largest shelter at George R Brown, food HEB Grocery mobile kitchen, Clothes, Blankets and Lakeland Church. Bags of personal need items Target, Four truckloads of bottled water HEB. That is one shelter almost all the rest local churches. National guard base camp Mattress Mack. Water rescues, local people and La navy, TXDOT. So you see the real heroes are the local first responders and regular Joe's. The sun is showing today so it just might be safe enough for ...............
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