(08-29-2017, 08:58 AM)TurndownforWatt Wrote:

(08-26-2017, 06:37 AM)Treestone Ice Wrote: I work in the Bahamas, and have friends that recently left here to go live in a mobile home on a large piece of land in Corpus Christi. They are diehard Jaguars fans. I feel terribly for them and everyone else up there right now. This is worse than hurricane Matthew, and that storm actually made landfall on the island I live on (Andros), even though it didn't technically make landfall in the States I don't believe. 

I hope everyone in the affected areas remains safe. I like to jab my tinhorn brethren as much as the next Jags fan, but this crap is way bigger than football. Prayers for you guys!

Thanks, we appreciate it. I've lived here my entire life..I thought the flooding could never and would never get worse than Tropical Storm Allison...this storm has been 5x worse. The mass area of flooding has been biblical, the greater city of Houston was pretty much under water and it's still raining.

Our Mayor has drawn criticism for not calling for a mass evacuation before the storm, but people outside of Houston simply don't understand the logistics involved and difficulty of evacuating the entire greater Houston area... In a few years Houston is expected to pass the city of Chicago as the 3rd largest city in America and the population of the greater Houston area is almost 7 million people..it's simply not possible to do a mass evacuation. 

In 2005 just weeks after Hurricane Katrina devestated NOLA, Cat 5 Hurricane Rita was forecasted to make a direct hit in Houston (it didn't) and the Mayor freaked out and ordered a mass evacuation of the greater Houston area, telling them not to wait GET OUT!.. 3+ million panicked people jumped on the road to flee and it created the largest traffic jam in United States history..people were stuck in a traffic jam from here all the way to Dallas and there was 107 evacuation related fatalities before the storm even got in the area. 20 assisted living citizens burned alive on a bus alone. Many more died of heat exhaustion. 

You simply can't mass evacuate the city...it's best to ride it out. We've only had 9 Harvey related deaths so far (6 died in one incident) and 7 of those 9 fatalities were people trying to drive during the storm....So despite the criticism the Mayor made the correct decision.

We'll be okay though, we'll come back stronger than ever..the city just needs basic supplies right now..food, blankets, baby supplies (formula/diapers), and dry clothes.