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[bd popeye]

This is a great image that speaks volume about Houston.

I love this picture of Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carrying Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after rescuing them from the Meyerland area surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey

Greatest post in the history of this forum.

My wife and I have been praying for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and all of Texas since before the storm hit. I'm relieved that the loss of life is so minimal...The Gulf coast of Texas will come back!

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"For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'

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"then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you".

 

[vesicles]

We survived the storm of the millennium! Yes, they say this is a once-in-800-years-event.

Some people are criticizing our mayor's decision not to evacuate the entire city ahead of the storm. I, for one, absolutely supports his decision.

Even a day after Harvey landed, experts were having trouble predicting where it was going. Given all the unpredictable elements, telling 6.5 million people to get on the roads would be a terrible and almost certainly catastrophic idea.

Last time in 2005, everyone in Houston was told to evacuate. We ended up stuck on the roads for 15 hours. Just imagine the same thing happened again when Harvey hit Houston. We would be all stuck on the highways totally exposed. Then the storm hit and multiple sections of almost all major highways were and still are under 15-20 feet of water. Even as of last night, there were close to 400 high water sections just on major highways. The thousands and thousands of cars stuck in those sections would be submerged. Can you imagine the death toll? And what about those who survived the initial onslaught? They would be completely exposed without shelter, without medicine. Rescue teams would be unable to reach any of them because all the roads would have been jammed with vehicles and flooded. We then got millions of people left on the sides of roads without shelter and food and medicine for days, maybe even weeks. Just imagine how you can transport millions of evacuees...

I think not evacuating is the absolute correct thing to do. With even the worst storm in the history of the entire US, we got only about ~10 death. Last time in 2005 when the storm completely missed us and the weather condition was totally normal, we had hundreds of deaths, most of which was directly linked to the evacuation.

 

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Greatest post in the history of this forum.

My wife and I have been praying for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and all of Texas since before the storm hit. I'm relieved that the loss of life is so minimal...The Gulf coast of Texas will come back!

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"For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'

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"then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you".

Thank you Test BD for your kind words and prayers.

 

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We survived the storm of the millennium! Yes, they say this is a once-in-800-years-event.

Some people are criticizing our mayor's decision not to evacuate the entire city ahead of the storm. I, for one, absolutely supports his decision.

Even a day after Harvey landed, experts were having trouble predicting where it was going. Given all the unpredictable elements, telling 6.5 million people to get on the roads would be a terrible and almost certainly catastrophic idea.

Exactly your right ! when the danger is so close the worst more dangerous is to get on the roads ! and in addition many vehicles are still more vulnerable stay to home and closed all make the more sense, the more safe

 

[Air Force Brat]

Greatest post in the history of this forum.

My wife and I have been praying for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and all of Texas since before the storm hit. I'm relieved that the loss of life is so minimal...The Gulf coast of Texas will come back!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you".

Wow! High praise indeed from the Chief! I love it too,, makes you thankful to be an American, to be human, and experience the blessings of human kindness and God's Love. I think we'd have to say that Houstonians are awesome, and a wonderful blend of many cultures. Praying for Texans and Louisiana and Mississippi..

 

[FORBIN]

We survived the storm of the millennium! Yes, they say this is a once-in-800-years-event.

Some people are criticizing our mayor's decision not to evacuate the entire city ahead of the storm. I, for one, absolutely supports his decision.

Even a day after Harvey landed, experts were having trouble predicting where it was going. Given all the unpredictable elements, telling 6.5 million people to get on the roads would be a terrible and almost certainly catastrophic idea.

Last time in 2005, everyone in Houston was told to evacuate. We ended up stuck on the roads for 15 hours. Just imagine the same thing happened again when Harvey hit Houston. We would be all stuck on the highways totally exposed. Then the storm hit and multiple sections of almost all major highways were and still are under 15-20 feet of water. Even as of last night, there were close to 400 high water sections just on major highways. The thousands and thousands of cars stuck in those sections would be submerged. Can you imagine the death toll? And what about those who survived the initial onslaught? They would be completely exposed without shelter, without medicine. Rescue teams would be unable to reach any of them because all the roads would have been jammed with vehicles and flooded. We then got millions of people left on the sides of roads without shelter and food and medicine for days, maybe even weeks. Just imagine how you can transport millions of evacuees...

I think not evacuating is the absolute correct thing to do. With even the worst storm in the history of the entire US, we got only about ~10 death. Last time in 2005 when the storm completely missed us and the weather condition was totally normal, we had hundreds of deaths, most of which was directly linked to the evacuation.

In more If the boss is gone the thief may invite !

 

[FORBIN]

This is a great image that speaks volume about Houston.

I love this picture of Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carrying Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after rescuing them from the Meyerland area surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey

A request i would like have you more fair about USA where you live as for this post, it is not always the case... ofc you have your point feeling for China for others reasons and it is normal despite it i don't think it is necessary consider US/Westerners naysayers as you say regularly... as some others which live in Western countries ! and when i see your post sometimes by ex on F-35 topic recently !and after here all the contrary, i don't understand.

 

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A request i would like have you more fair about USA where you live as for this post, it is not always the case... ofc you have your point feeling for China for others reasons and it is normal despite it i don't think it is necessary consider US/Westerners naysayers as you say regularly... as some others which live in Western countries ! and when i see your post sometimes by ex on F-35 topic recently !and after here all the contrary, i don't understand.

Well to clarified things up for you I love China and I love the USA. I detest the USA foreign policies and the mantra about keeping the status quo all because certain American's thinks that they are the exception and the peace keeper of the world given to them by "God", which is of course not true. I hate the naysayers and doom mongers about China from the western press (which is not free press at all) that keeps on prescribing the narrative that China is bad because it is simply Communism. I spend time in the Army Reserve for a short time to protect this country but I am NOT going to do anything just to keep some stupid status quo that some people deem it as critical to peace. That's just my view and feelings.

 

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I heard less than a hour ago on BBC Radio 4 a program called 'More or Less' in which they considered the costs of the damage caused by the flood. Americans build houses where there is danger of flooding because other considerations point to those places and insurance is made cheap by government subsidy. They gave the example of a house in Houston that was inundated sixteen times in eighteen years and for which inundations compensation was paid out which together amounted to a large multiple of the value of the house. They considered this insurance to be a large factor in the increasing costs of inundations in US. Any comments?

 

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I heard less than a hour ago on BBC Radio 4 a program called 'More or Less' in which they considered the costs of the damage caused by the flood. Americans build houses where there is danger of flooding because other considerations point to those places and insurance is made cheap by government subsidy. They gave the example of a house in Houston that was inundated sixteen times in eighteen years and for which inundations compensation was paid out which together amounted to a large multiple of the value of the house. They considered this insurance to be a large factor in the increasing costs of inundations in US. Any comments?

Unless that homeowner has flood insurance to be able to afford all that fixing.