Disaster Hurricane Harvey Megathread - The Before, The During, and the Chaotic Aftermath.

Put all the shit relating to Hurricane Harvey in this thread and pray for your Texan Kiwis, especially those like myself that live on the coast and are going to get the full brunt of the storm.

Still no word from Steve Harvey on the hurricane.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Hobby airport closed until further notice due to damage.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I'm afraid the media would end up burying this over after a while despite the Ragnorak-scale of it. You have to be really selfish to do that.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I haven't been following this outside of hearing it became a Category 4 hurricane, so reading through this thread has been one hell of an emotional ride, I honestly don't know what to say here (at least it ended a little happier for the Texan Kiwis, that was the biggest worry, may you all recover quickly). I'm about fifteen twenty minutes or so into to Jeff's livestream and it's interesting, yet horrifying to see. Man, this is making me wonder if Katrina got this much personal coverage when it happened--social media wasn't as big at the time as it is now, so there's no way this can be buried by the news that quickly ().

Godspeed, Texas. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be another post-Katrina/post-Sandy and that aid comes quickly and smoothly. It may be worse financially, but the biggest hope for that is there aren't any bigger snags than that.

 

[Deinonychus]

George Brown Convention Center has been opened as a shelter for people about 15 minutes ago. This is where many of the people who are being rescued right now will probably be taken to. Red Cross services are in place, so that's good to hear.

 

[Pistachio]

I wonder what we're gonna be like as a state after this. How long you think it'll take to recover for Corpus Christi? When will the water recede? I have no idea what to even expect after this is all over. And it might come bac over Houston on Wednesday ;;

We're near Sugar Land and there was a street that collapsed near by... I've backed up some clothes and electronics in plastic bags in a backpack in case we need to get the fuck out of here.

I hope we recover fast, man.

 

[neverendingmidi]

I wonder what we're gonna be like as a state after this. How long you think it'll take to recover for Corpus Christi? When will the water recede? I have no idea what to even expect after this is all over. And it might come bac over Houston on Wednesday ;;

We're near Sugar Land and there was a street that collapsed near by... I've backed up some clothes and electronics in plastic bags in a backpack in case we need to get the fuck out of here.

I hope we recover fast, man.

Depends. In New Orleans you had the joy of 120+ years of corruption and shit building practices plus imbeciles in charge. Compare that to Japan after the tsunami, where getting shit cleaned up and done was the priority, to the point that I think they had most of the wreckage cleared in a month or two.

This will probably fall between the two extremes. At the very least the govenor will probably give permission for the National Guard pretty quick, assuming it hasn't already been granted.

 

[Super Collie]

I wonder what we're gonna be like as a state after this. How long you think it'll take to recover for Corpus Christi? When will the water recede? I have no idea what to even expect after this is all over. And it might come bac over Houston on Wednesday ;;

Corpus Christi is apparently operational somewhat now. Power is being restored and there wasn't a ton of flooding it seems. AEP Texas went to work immediately on the power grid. HEB and gas stations are open in Corpus and Portland, and the HEB relief crew has brought entire tanker trucks full of water to places like Rockport. They also have semi trucks that have been converted into food trucks that can serve up to 2,000 meals a day, so HEB along with the Red Cross and other humanitarian groups already have it covered. The residents who stayed have also been helping out, too. Our neighbor told us they got some free BBQ from another resident who had no choice but to cook it all (no power, meat will go bad) and drove around giving it out to people.

It's still too early to tell how it's all going to unfold and there's already been minor blips here and there (Aransas County, where Rockport is located, was accidentally left off of FEMA's list of disaster areas for example) but it seems people are on top of it.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I have to move into a new place in about a week so I hope the management isn't going to be caught up in the aftermath of this (they shouldn't be anyways) but all the same praying for a miracle guys.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I'm afraid the media would end up burying this over after a while despite the Ragnorak-scale of it. You have to be really selfish to do that.

Usually when a disaster happens I see a lot of information posts on my Tumblr dash, stuff like emergency numbers and places to send donations. Over the weekend there's been barely any of that. The posts that do make their way onto my dash only have around 1,000 notes. Something doesn't feel right.

 

[Muttnik]

My dad in Houston is telling me the water's almost reached the house. To make things worse, they had a pretty scary tornado the other day that was pretty close nearby. They might have to evacuate if the rain doesn't take a break. I was born in that house and grew up in it. Losing it would be painful but that's the price of keeping my family safe, even if there's no way I could reach them from where I am right now. The highway is in shreds and lots of it has caved in.
It's bad, folks. It's real bad. The people towards the city have it even worse right now. All the furniture and hardware stores in the area are acting as makeshift shelters. I hope everyone makes it out safe and can ride out the last of it.

 

[Without A Gout]

If anybody tries to bring politics into this shit, I will kill them. Nature doesn't care for such shit. And neither should we. This looks fucking terrible.

 

[glass_houses]

Usually when a disaster happens I see a lot of information posts on my Tumblr dash, stuff like emergency numbers and places to send donations. Over the weekend there's been barely any of that. The posts that do make their way onto my dash only have around 1,000 notes. Something doesn't feel right.

Well... support for the community in general has been focused on 'civil rights'. It's easy to get hysterical over statues and parades, but disasters on this scale will take years of back breaking labour to fix. I'm guessing that a massive percentage of the people who'd ordinarily jump on board are confused that here is a problem that won't go away no matter how they scream and hiss at it. As soon as the flood waters subsid within a week they will be back in action and terrorising clean up crews who don't head straight towards the nearest street with a large percentage of minorities, and build entire new houses complete with manicured gardens before they work on unimportant shit like sewerage mains, water mains, electricity lines and roads.

I sincerely wish that I'll be proved wrong here. Please, please prove me wrong and make a liar of me.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Well... support for the community in general has been focused on 'civil rights'. It's easy to get hysterical over statues and parades, but disasters on this scale will take years of back breaking labour to fix. I'm guessing that a massive percentage of the people who'd ordinarily jump on board are confused that here is a problem that won't go away no matter how they scream and hiss at it. As soon as the flood waters subsid within a week they will be back in action and terrorising clean up crews who don't head straight towards the nearest street with a large percentage of minorities, and build entire new houses complete with manicured gardens before they work on unimportant shit like sewerage mains, water mains, electricity lines and roads.

I sincerely wish that I'll be proved wrong here. Please, please prove me wrong and make a liar of me.

No, I think they get it for the most part. I think the quiet is because Texas went red (as it always does) and is therefore comprised entirely of Neo-Nazis.

 

[Super Collie]

No, I think they get it for the most part. I think the quiet is because Texas went red (as it always does) and is therefore comprised entirely of Neo-Nazis.

Except for right on schedule, South Texas (and the larger cities) are all pockets of blue. These idiots just see "Texas" and immediately default to "racists" negating the fact that closer to the border there's obviously a much higher concentration of minorities and Mexicans.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Ugh idc where anyone leans when people right now are homeless, severely injured, or dead.

Fuck these media outlets to hell that bait a bunch of exceptional troglodytes to make fun of this situation.

I just want the politics to take a nap for now, even though it sort of comes up in tragedy anyways.

 

[Deinonychus]

Except for right on schedule, South Texas (and the larger cities) are all pockets of blue. These idiots just see "Texas" and immediately default to "racists" negating the fact that closer to the border there's obviously a much higher concentration of minorities and Mexicans.

People also seem to forget that Houston had one of the first openly gay mayor from 2010 to 2016, Annise Parker. Houston is a pretty damn blue city, and it's amazed people who have come to visit how diverse the place is. There really is this idea that Texas is backward redneck land.

 

[Cosmos]

Apparently people are seeing pets that have been left to die/separated from their families

Thankfully this one was rescued!

 

[glass_houses]

Apparently people are seeing pets that have been left to die/separated from their families

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Thankfully this one was rescued!

I'm guessing that the majority of them weren't abandoned willingly. If I've been reading correctly, there are many thousands of people who were in low alert areas that had to emergency evacuate very suddenly, and shelters and relief centres can barely cope with the number of humans who need shelter and pets are being turned away because there is just no room or resources for them. It's awful but in a life or death crisis, the welfare of people comes first always. A lot of owners would have either locked their animals up in the roof of the house, or realised that the only option they had was to turn their animals loose and hope they can make their own way to safety, as being locked in yards is effectively a death sentence right now. This comes on top of the animals who would have panicked and escaped during the hurricane itself. I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them were fostered out to friends and family on higher ground just in case, and the fosters have ended up having to evacuate themselves as well. Absolutely many animals have been abandoned deliberately by their bogan owners, but for the majority they had no other options.

 

[Dorsia.Reservation]

If anybody tries to bring politics into this shit, I will kill them. Nature doesn't care for such shit. And neither should we. This looks fucking terrible.

People already are.



TX Kiwi's if you guys need basic stuff, care packages.... ETC... post here!!
I don't have much but I sure as fuck can help out some!

 

[glass_houses]

People already are.



TX Kiwi's if you guys need basic stuff, care packages.... ETC... post here!!
I don't have much but I sure as fuck can help out some!

Anything to slither out from something that requires compassion or at the mere scraps of personal integrity. Not to mention that it's hard physical work and if they attempt to whine about having to help people who need help, regardless of how few woke points it brings will be cracked across the back of their head with a shovel. If the ones who really need the most help are the ones who have the least SJW status, fuck 'em, it's not like they're anyone who're important. SJW is a cult, and like all cults, anyone who is not a member is just unenlightened vermin.

When the Queensland floods in 2010 hit, the calculations for cleaning up and repair were billions of dollars and a number of years. That's when the Mud Army arose. Basically, many thousands of people who weren't flooded out grabbed a shovel and started shovelling. They ended up clearing up a fuckton of places in less than a week. Tbh I've always been a bit confused that the same thing didn't happen with Katrina. Think Houston will raise its own Mud Army, or is there too big a culture gap? And the sheer scale of the disaster too big?