Originally Posted by Tractionless

The more I watch this coverage (starting 3 days before landfall) the more I feel officials were reckless in not evacuating inland flood prone areas. Some residents don't need to be told to leave but like the TX officials others were overly optimistic only the best will happen. Now they're all in a very sad situation that may have been avoided with pre-planning, unfortunately efforts are only made after the fact now a days.

I hear Houston area residents calling radio talk show's stating friends houses were just rebuilt from the "tax day" flood and 8 years before that they flooded too. All know the issues, saw forecasts of 5"-36"+ of rain, yet all officials keep whining about the difficulties of pre-storm evacuation. So......this post-storm evacuation in chest deep water is the easy way out huh?

Here I thought our civil servants learned from Katrina, sadly they did not. Think for yourselves in these situations folks as you cannot rely on those supposedly in the know to provide you with potentially life saving information.

And yes I did do something to support the recovery effort.

Keith

Originally Posted by Tractionless

I hear Houston area residents calling radio talk show's stating friends houses were just rebuilt from the "tax day" flood and 8 years before that they flooded too.

Originally Posted by Bad Ass TA WS6

I have friends all over the Houston area. Some are ok and inland/high enough they are dry so far. Other friends I've contacted homes/cars are under water. Not good, really sucks to hear. My buddies vaca. home in Rockport is OK but they are unsure about their boats at this point. Reports of looting, as well as some firing off rounds at rescuers I'm told are 100% true. Insane that people would do such a thing

Originally Posted by phragle

It may sound heartless, though I worked in fire and ems for years, but if your house keeps getting flooded and you keep rebuilding and you get flooded again.....