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My wife traveled down there on Monday and arrived in Houston last night. She said pictures are one thing but to see the devastation first hand brought her to tears.
Certain rivers have not crested yet. Addicks is supposed to still hit 109 again.
I think we're mostly in the clear as far as new rainfall. There could be a few places where runoff from upstream is still coming in.
didn't mean to get you caught up in this unimportant stuff, gb.
If you're not getting any money from insurance, I would wager that most people don't even have the money to replace sheetrock and flooring. Tearing it all down and rebuilding from the slab just won't be an option for most people.
They are shutting down Oyster harvesting in Louisiana because of issues you describe due to the storm runoff.
I don't know what's shocking about that really. I'm not sure what your budget is, but I've seen reports of people getting bids of 200-250K to lift houses 5-10 feet.
Well shocking may be the wrong word. Suprising? I have never lived thru a flood event like this.
And if you were going to build a new house, wouldn't you build it somewhere higher?
I have heard a number of people mention the 'issues' with the drainage, but I just don't think that's an issue.
This time next week, there could be a bunch of people on the East Coast having to make a decision. From what I have heard, there is so much indecision as to its route, but it's supposed to be a sizable hurricane.
Damn man. Hoping for the best for you. I know there a lot of people out there with still-rising water levels.
I just saw a quote from Jeff Lindner this morning that he doesn't expect any new homes to be flooded by the releases. It looked to me like the section of Westheimer had water coming out of the storm drains rather than going in. I might head down in another hour or two and see if the situation has changed.
I frankly didn't understand the issues facing Houston in general (I've been there a couple of times 15 years ago and even then how they developed with seemingly little if any urban planning seemed strange), but it's pretty evident development in areas that shouldn't have development has played a role in past flooding.
Not that it really matters, but I believe that is the number destroyed and the number damaged is not estimated at this point.
Not seen the interview or a direct quote, but all the media on it I've seen have said "damaged". Also it was 30,000 to 40,000 but went with the top end.
I saw a report estimating this count at 400,000 - 500,000 vehicles that suffered flood damage. And a lot of people in the Houston area do not carry any type of auto insurance or else are way under-insured. I know it's too early to tell and a lot of people are always asking for totals on something that are sometimes just wild guesses, but I do think there are a LOT of vehicles that are going to be flooded out.
It's the biggest rain storm in US history. I can't imagine there are any cities in the US that could handle 50+ inches of rain in that amount of time.
That reminds me of the Katrina turnout. I went down to drop off supplies at the Astrodome shelter, and the Red Cross was no longer taking them. Whole area was full of cars with stuff to donate and nowhere to take it. Some firemen had set up this huge bbq in the lot of a Toys R Us near Kirby and S Main that I stopped at. Others like me who just stopped to help had started taking the supplies from people who had nowhere to drop them off, sorting the items, and then as Katrina refugees came in we'd load them up with what they needed. We had an entire rental truck full diapers and another with water show up, two college girls made like 100 PB&J sandwiches, there were two mountains of cases of bottled water. A number of FBGs paypal'd me donations that among other things we used to resupply the firemen's grill when they ran out of meat to cook for the refugees. Seeing how many people were helping, and how much it was appreciated by those who received it, is a memory I'm always going to cherish. This city has a big heart.
It is not. (At least not for my sanity).
According to the google, nobody has heard anything about the lab. Hopefully no news is good news.
no report that I can find, but here is some info for those that don't know about it (I had heard the name but wasn't sure exactly what it was). Let's hope they were prepared and protected.
They have backup generators to keep the Ebola in, but someone has to refuel them. Last I'd seen, no one could get to the lab through flooding.
