Houston is seriously fucked today

[BlondGirl]

Sheesh. Houston is under water. The medical center has only 2 hospitals open--the Cancer center and the pediatric hosp.

I-10 has 16 1/2 feet of water. The over passes are at water level.

A 4 foot gator has been captured (roped) and tied to a tree.

Rescues are being done on jetskis.


I called the hospital where I quit a few months ago and offerred my services in case large volumes of people rush the hosp and overload it (the regular staff is caught in flooding in some areas). My sister told me that if they call, I should tell them I'll only do it for 45$/hour (The current going rate for a temp worker doing my job.) LOL

Now they are showing the grocery stores that are being rushed. It makes me hungry.

Anybody here living in Houston? What are your conditions?

(My little truck got me around my neighborhood with no problem. I am tempted to go fishing.)

 

[MrBates]

Fishing....

If ya go out in your truck again, can I ride in the back and troll? <grin>

 

[Texan]

I live in Tomball

on the far north side of Houston. All three of my teenage boys was "out" last night when the storm got bad. They all had to spend the night with friends because a street required to get to our house was under three feet of water. My house sits on high ground, but things are pretty tough nearby.

I'm listening to Dr. Neal Frank on the tube right now. He's supposed to be the ultimate authority on hurricanes and tropical storms. He says that there is a serious chance that this storm will move out over the gulf and strengthen again. On the radar screen, he's showing a serious bad of rain heading back toward the city right now. This may get even worse... .and that's hard to imagine.

We got about 14 inches of rain here at my house in the last 24 hours, but that's nothing compared to parts of the city.

I hear the fish are biting on I45......

keep dry

 

[p_p_man]

Oops - I thought you meant...

Houston the Porn Star.

creeps quietly away

 

[CoolCucumber]

Oh...See, and here I thought we were talking about the porn star trying to break another gang bang record or something...LOL!!! Hope the waters go back down for y'all.

-CoolCucumber

 

[Tabby432]

Damn!

My sister lives in Conroe.

 

[fgarvb1]

if the call would just go out.

All afternoon as soon as arrived home from work, I've had the strongest urge to load up our 12 ft. flat bottom boat w/6 hp motor and hook up to our 17' center console boat ; load up with two 55 gal. drums of gas and oil and go to houston to help.
but the news people say if your not all ready there to stay away.

As of six thirty this morning my wife's sister and family are ok. they live in la porte on the east side of houston near galveston bay and bay city. They did say they went to a nearby supermarket for food. They changed their minds because people were fighting over the food. They then went to where my neice works to score some food and they put my neice to work.!

Some places in houston and north of houston has received 25 to 35 inches of rain in the last twenty four hours. people down their are in a world of shit.

 

[Chuckus]

Well to all of you who have family or friends in or near Houston, I hope all are safe and out of harms way.

 

[Tabby432]

My sister is fine for now I'm relieved to say. I hope everyone else is too.

 

[BrainyBeauty]

This puts my complaining about the weather here to shame. We may have had rain for 25 days out of the last month, but it is nothing compared to getting deluged all at once.

Having lived in Houston for a couple of years, I remember the constant flooding every time it rained. The pictures on television don't do it justice. It is a terrible thing to live through. Not to mention the added bonus of all the snakes popping up everywhere!

Good luck to all of you Texans - and people in Louisiana too, as it may be heading your way next. I worry about you folks.

 

[Cheyenne]

Not to mention the added bonus of all the snakes popping up everywhere!

EWWWWW! Adding insult to injury!

You have more mail, by the way.

 

[OUTSIDER]

We in the UK know just what your going through, we had a huge flood problem here not long ago and some people are still trying to put their lives back together, now tel me there's no such thing as global warming.

 

[Texan]

global warming????

there may.... or may not ... be global warming..... BUT... a flood in Houston doesn't have anything to do with that.....

This was a fairly typical tropical storm..... the only thing that caused all this rain was the fact that the storm just sat here for a couple of days. The jet stream was way up north (as is typical this time of year) so the storm had no reason to move.

The worst storm to ever hit Texas was in 1900. A hundred years before the "global warming" scare. That huricane killed 6000 people on Galveston Island. (yes, I know they had no warning). But you can't blame every little weather event.... even this one... on global warming....