Hurricane Harvey

[nlinecomputers]

@Your PCMD is in Gainsville TX. That is NORTH of Dallas. Like me, he is hundreds of miles away from all that.

 

[Markverhyden]

Saw in the news a couple of hours ago that the Houston area had some 50". Given how much bigger Houston is than NOLA I'm thinking this will be worse than Katrina in costs.

 

[NYJimbo]

If you are interested in live on the ground updates, download the broadcastify app, then go to metro areas, then Houston and look for the popular channels with listeners in yellow. The Harris county sherrif frequency has been going nuts 24/7. "high water rescues" every few minutes. Shelters are full to overflowing. People who are calling for help are running out of cell phone battery power so they are ending up sitting on roofs in the dark with no way to call for help. Really sad situation.

 

[Your PCMD]

@Your PCMD is in Gainsville TX. That is NORTH of Dallas. Like me, he is hundreds of miles away from all that.

Wondering how you are doing now @Porthos and if it affected @Your PCMD as well.

I was actually on a flight to Tennessee when the Hurricane hit. Though were I am located, it would not affect me, however, my daughter goes to University of Texas in Austin and was hit by it, though she thankfully is fine.

 

[Moltuae]

That is because so much of it is unoccupied. They only have a population of 24 million.

49 million if you count the Kangaroos.

 

[glennd]

49 million if you count the Kangaroos.

60 million if you count the camels.

 

[Kitten Kong]

75 million, counting all the deadly spiders and snakes.

 

[glennd]

275 million if you add in the bunnies.

lots and lots of bunnies!

I apologize for hijacking the thread but I had to insert this:

 

[E Bell]

These were taken South of Houston on 08/27/2017. Before 10 more inches of rain had fallen in less than 24 hrs. They are projecting we will get 60" of rain in our area before the storm moves out of the area on Wednesday/Thursday.

 

[nlinecomputers]

These were taken South of Houston on 08/27/2017. Before 10 more inches of rain had fallen in less than 24 hrs. They are projecting we will get 60" of rain in our area before the storm moves out of the area on Wednesday/Thursday.

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Is that your home? Damn. That is awful. I've lived in the desert all my life. I just can't fathom that much rain.

 

[cypress]

These were taken South of Houston on 08/27/2017. Before 10 more inches of rain had fallen in less than 24 hrs. They are projecting we will get 60" of rain in our area before the storm moves out of the area on Wednesday/Thursday.

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Oh my goodness! So sorry to see you are going through all this.

 

[E Bell]

This is my Dad's home, but technically our second house. He didn't want to "shelter in place" by himself. So, my wife and I (with our two children) decided to come shelter in place with him. My home is on into Houston.

The silver truck is mine along with some furniture we have [had] downstairs.

The interesting part is we still have electricity and Internet.

 

[E Bell]

Oh my goodness! So sorry to see you are going through all this.

Thank you.

It has been an experience. This house had only taken on less than 10" of water in a sunken living room since being built. So we were surprised to receive 5+ feet of water.