A year later and our house is still destroyed. We living in drywalls and holes in our roof. Our kitchen and bathroom destroyed. We pray we don’t get any hurricane this year. FEMA only gave us $1500 to fix our house. Lord please help Houston and surrounding cities.
That is the most terrible thing have seen :18 seconds. Very old people sitting in water. Cold, and wet with no help for their poor old bones. When your old you are already in pain and discomfort, so this is terrible for them. And some will die from it, not from drowning but from too long in the water.
We don't need plastic actors when there are hundreds of Citizen journalists. We have witnessed incredible acts of love and Humanity which transcends any type of race or gender that you can possibly imagine, but not on the major networks.
I've been helping people (along with tens of thousands of others) here in Houston that have been flooded and lost most if not everything they own. It's an incredible feeling to help a complete stranger knowing the only thing you'll receive is a very heartfelt thank you. I've worked alongside Black people, White people, Latino people, Korean people, Vietnamese people, Indian people. I've actually seen bikers put aside their "patch or colors" and work side by side because they were big enough to know what it meant to the elderly couple they were helping. I saw just about every race represented. It was awe-inspiring. I then noticed something interesting. It donned on me that of all the people present, I could not see a single Black lives matter or antifa member. I thought that out of everyone, surely these groups that march, scream and fight so passionately on main streets across America would be there to support and help the people they are always calling attention to. I was wrong. It turns out that (mostly rich white kids) have hijacked the plight of the people they claim to stand up for and help. Their actions and inactions seem to bear this out. They have somehow sold this lie to a lot of Americans and others worldwide. Truth is, they don't care about black people, they never have and probably never will.
Obviously neighbors must help each other now since those in charge had very little foresight as to the magnitude of the disaster. Someone should have ordered evacuation.
Lib Rom "This was passed on by my friend Pat Rosenberg, a real civic leader in Houston. This is interesting. Cort Murray Things non-Houstonians need to understand: 1. The streets and many of the public parks here are designed to flood. We sit just 35 feet above sea level, and most of the city is as flat as a pool table. We average about 50 inches of rain a year. The streets and parks serve as temporary retention ponds, accommodating slow, steady drainage through our bayous. 2. We average about 50 inches of rain a year, but in the last 48 hours, many areas of greater Houston received 25 to 30 inches of rain. That's six to nine month's worth of rain, in two days. The drainage system, which works well in normal conditions, was overwhelmed. Officials are calling this an "800 year flood": that means there was a one in 800 chance of its occurrence. Even with advance notice, there was little means of preparing for this. 3. It is impossible to evacuate a city the size of Houston. Harris County is 1700+ square miles, with a population of 6.5 million people. How do you evacuate 6.5 million people? During the hours leading to Hurricane Rita's landfall, tens of thousands of Houstonians attempted evacuation. The traffic jams lasted for days. One hundred people died. So far, six Houstonians have died in Hurricane Harvey, all of them (as far as I have heard) drowned in their automobiles. For more than a decade, the local mantra has been "shelter in place and hunker down." That's hard, but it's the right approach. 4. Some outsiders are treating this disaster with schadenfreude: Texans helped elect an anti-big government president, and now we're going to need big government help. Houston is the bluest spot in Texas, and voted Clinton in 2016. Suggesting this is karmic payback for backing Trump is as inaccurate (and offensive) as Pat Robertson's suggestion that Hurricane Katrina was God smiting sinners. We really aren't thinking Red or Blue right now. We are taking a royal beating, all of us. Disasters don't care about ideology. 5. You are going to feel this. Gas prices are going to skyrocket. Oil refined products, everything from PVC pipe to dry cleaning fluid, will rise in price. The stock market will take a hit. New Orleans is a fantastic city, but it's not a major economic force. Houston is the center of the nation's energy industry. It's home to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. And 85% of it is under water. It may be this way for weeks. The aftermath of Katrina captured the world's attention. The aftermath of Harvey is going to grab you by the lapels, and shake you 'til you're cross eyed."
You can not safely, nor efficiently evacuate millions of people in a day or two. It would have ended up with hundreds of thousands of people stuck on roads in the middle of the storm, which would have been infinitely worse.
Houston needs to engineer some major drainage canals to avoid this in the future. If they can build skyscrapers and major highways, they can build canals to empty this back into the ocean..they could have avoided this. This is a bid deal, but Houston has smaller floods about every other year seems like.
Cole Tanner The problem is, we already have infrastructure in place that is meant for flooding situations. Houston has multiple bayous, creeks, rivers and reservoirs, not to mention numerous retention ponds in newer neighborhoods. Nonetheless, if one bayou floods, then all the surrounding streets and homes get flooded. Perhaps a pump or vacuum of some sort could more effectively move water to the gulf, thus relieving the major resivoirs.
O great dark lord Satan, please rescue the people of Texas from this great flood sent by Jesus the Deceiver, so that they may know the glorious power of your infernal majesty!
Why does it take a disaster to bring people together ? Prior to this all I've seen the news talk about is war and politics and protests and divisions .Even though this is terrible as well I'm sure the press is almost glad in a way to show how much people actually care for each other. It doesn't matter if it's Russian or Chinese or American people ,we all have a strong will to survive and need to stop focusing on what divides us and focus on what unites us. I've been saying this for awhile ,the Earth doesn't care about our squabbling or who is to blame for increasing severe weather .While we argue about arranging the deck chairs,the Titanic is still going to sink. It should be obvious by now we need to stop fighting and start preparing for what's coming our way and get serious about making changes.This is going to keep happening nomatter our political or spiritual beliefs .
Houston, like all municipalities receives federal EMA funding and training for Emergency Management Response. They have a working plan for Emergencies including orderly evacuation if necessary by local EMA, LEO, CERT, CAP, and National Guard units who all have resources, and the city also has resources for emergency transportation. The EMA plan is federally mandated, planned, well organized, coordinated and rehearsed so that participating groups and individuals are prepared for the call...which came from President Trump and Governor Abbot Aug. 25. Governor Abbott clearly called for Corpus Christi and Houston to evacuate, and that plan should have been implemented by Mayor Taylor on that same day. Mayor Taylor instead ignored Gov. Abbott's call for evacuation and chose to tell Houston residents to weather the storm in place, even though he noted that the storm was unprecedented. I wonder if Mayor Taylor's family "weathered in place" or evacuated...
Just few weeks ago 40 million people were flooded in South Asia, but entire world was in silence and now you are in the same situation. Only the differenceis is that, if even just few people dies in western world, it's become the headline for every news paper, but more then 2100 people died in South Asia no one had any interest. We south Asians did nothing for this all the situation. Even today we are just consuming what I really need, the western countries are responsible for this all, now it's time to pay back. Otherwise the nature will late you payback.
Abomination est trot sa prouve ke Dieu vous a oublier repenter vous et vous aurai la grande main de Dieu sur vous sa protection . Dieu est amour il n'oublie jamais ses enfants
God created the hurricane to show us what really matters. Houston is one of the most prosperous cities in the world and Inauve watched year after year the people of my city turn to idols and worship their stuff. Their cloths, their house, their trucks, their cars. They worships their things rather then God and spent more time with thugs rather then the people they loved like their family and goriness and neighbors. I am guilty of that as well. I did not at first know why God sent this hurricane but now I do. He has taken the stuff away from many people so now all they have is their family and friends and they now can start their lives all over again focused on them. That is why God has sent this hurricane. May God bless Texas and you
MY, MY. HARD TO BELIEVE ITS 2017? even tho it's the bible belt, can't believe all the ppl thinking god will save them cause their Christian. with all our knowledge, we still haven't evolved.
Ikenna Iteogu Official I just don't understand how when things like this happens we're so quick to say God had something to do with it. Why is it that he always shows up here when babies being murder all the time and millions all over daily dying of hunger but some how he never shows up? ijs
And people have lost homes and jobs. People will be displaced for months, even years. Communities are destroyed and may never recover. Yes, it is catastrophic.
What about the lives lost? The children traumatized? Their memories, their family members missing. I was only able to get my mother air rescued an hour ago thank god. Shame on you.
Frederick Giordani Still not so sure on that one. Not every home got 4 feet of water. 7 million residents on flooding roads in low visibility conditions would have been dangerous and unnecessary.
We tried to evacuate for Rita, the traffic jam lasted days and people died. That would have been the worst thing to do, would have had millions of people sitting in their cars with no where to go when the flooding started. Almost 7 million people live in the Houston area, you can’t evacuate that.
Be safe everyone in Texas n especially for all the people assisting others🌺
God help texas
Glorious E thanks for the love I have not flooded yet.
+Jordy Lunkhead Verrill indeed
I evacuated from Rockport to a little north of Houston and now the city's completely underwater
Thanks Lester!!!!!!
My home town is so flooded! Be safe my people!
Support, Love 💖& Prayers for Texas!
I pray that all of these people get help. I also hope that our Government has learned it's lesson from Hurricane Katrina.
Tammy Goulet
Apparently they learned nothing, no ordering and helping people evacuate seems lame.
No. And No.
Lib Rom You live here in Houston? Didn't think so. We're doing great! Better than anyone could hope for under these circumstances.
The gift of life water.This is normal and has been happening for millions of yrs
Prayers from London. I have never seen anything like this
God bless the people of texas
Chantina Dejesus well if they're waiting for god to help,they better not hold their breath!!!!!!
God is fake.
Mika Korhonen you is fake. Lol
Mika Korhonen no He is not
Did you just assume god´s gender?
Be safe H town. My prayers for you.
Imagine seeing a fish swimming through the streets
I never realized how many really huge ppl lived in Houston !!
Tammy Wines You'll be surprised
Tammy Wines well they have to live somewhere 😁!!!
A year later and our house is still destroyed. We living in drywalls and holes in our roof. Our kitchen and bathroom destroyed. We pray we don’t get any hurricane this year. FEMA only gave us $1500 to fix our house. Lord please help Houston and surrounding cities.
Maryland would have enjoyed this with their "rain tax".
Omg the first clip😢 prayers for the elderly
"huston, we got problem tango, alpha, bravo, harvey over"
That is the most terrible thing have seen :18 seconds. Very old people sitting in water. Cold, and wet with no help for their poor old bones. When your old you are already in pain and discomfort, so this is terrible for them. And some will die from it, not from drowning but from too long in the water.
Humans coming together, this is love :-)
praying for Houston Texas wow
We don't need plastic actors when there are hundreds of Citizen journalists.
We have witnessed incredible acts of love and Humanity which transcends any type of race or gender that you can possibly imagine, but not on the major networks.
Corpus crispy haha 😂 but no really I hope everybody is ok.
Didn't a lot of the people from New Orleans who were displaced by hurricane Katrina get _relocated_ to Houston? *Weird*
Why anybody would build their house along the ocean is beyond me.
I've been helping people (along with tens of thousands of others) here in Houston that have been flooded and lost most if not everything they own. It's an incredible feeling to help a complete stranger knowing the only thing you'll receive is a very heartfelt thank you. I've worked alongside Black people, White people, Latino people, Korean people, Vietnamese people, Indian people.
I've actually seen bikers put aside their "patch or colors" and work side by side because they were big enough to know what it meant to the elderly couple they were helping.
I saw just about every race represented. It was awe-inspiring. I then noticed something interesting. It donned on me that of all the people present, I could not see a single Black lives matter or antifa member. I thought that out of everyone, surely these groups that march, scream and fight so passionately on main streets across America would be there to support and help the people they are always calling attention to. I was wrong. It turns out that (mostly rich white kids) have hijacked the plight of the people they claim to stand up for and help. Their actions and inactions seem to bear this out. They have somehow sold this lie to a lot of Americans and others worldwide. Truth is, they don't care about black people, they never have and probably never will.
Why such a fuzz for a bit of water. Ridiculous!
Obviously neighbors must help each other now since those in charge had very little foresight as to the magnitude of the disaster. Someone should have ordered evacuation.
Lib Rom
"This was passed on by my friend Pat Rosenberg, a real civic leader in Houston. This is interesting.
Cort Murray
Things non-Houstonians need to understand:
1. The streets and many of the public parks here are designed to flood. We sit just 35 feet above sea level, and most of the city is as flat as a pool table. We average about 50 inches of rain a year. The streets and parks serve as temporary retention ponds, accommodating slow, steady drainage through our bayous.
2. We average about 50 inches of rain a year, but in the last 48 hours, many areas of greater Houston received 25 to 30 inches of rain. That's six to nine month's worth of rain, in two days. The drainage system, which works well in normal conditions, was overwhelmed. Officials are calling this an "800 year flood": that means there was a one in 800 chance of its occurrence. Even with advance notice, there was little means of preparing for this.
3. It is impossible to evacuate a city the size of Houston. Harris County is 1700+ square miles, with a population of 6.5 million people. How do you evacuate 6.5 million people? During the hours leading to Hurricane Rita's landfall, tens of thousands of Houstonians attempted evacuation. The traffic jams lasted for days. One hundred people died. So far, six Houstonians have died in Hurricane Harvey, all of them (as far as I have heard) drowned in their automobiles. For more than a decade, the local mantra has been "shelter in place and hunker down." That's hard, but it's the right approach.
4. Some outsiders are treating this disaster with schadenfreude: Texans helped elect an anti-big government president, and now we're going to need big government help. Houston is the bluest spot in Texas, and voted Clinton in 2016. Suggesting this is karmic payback for backing Trump is as inaccurate (and offensive) as Pat Robertson's suggestion that Hurricane Katrina was God smiting sinners. We really aren't thinking Red or Blue right now. We are taking a royal beating, all of us. Disasters don't care about ideology.
5. You are going to feel this. Gas prices are going to skyrocket. Oil refined products, everything from PVC pipe to dry cleaning fluid, will rise in price. The stock market will take a hit. New Orleans is a fantastic city, but it's not a major economic force. Houston is the center of the nation's energy industry. It's home to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. And 85% of it is under water. It may be this way for weeks. The aftermath of Katrina captured the world's attention. The aftermath of Harvey is going to grab you by the lapels, and shake you 'til you're cross eyed."
Why are they using a green screen? Such poor taste
No one answered Lestor on why there wasn't mandatory evacuation lol
You can not safely, nor efficiently evacuate millions of people in a day or two. It would have ended up with hundreds of thousands of people stuck on roads in the middle of the storm, which would have been infinitely worse.
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Dios mio
This is terrible, sending good wishes.
*I blame Steve Harvey*
Quite the healthy group of people
if we built the wall, that storm never would have gotten across from mexico
polok890 you know I was just thinking that 😁!!
Houston needs to engineer some major drainage canals to avoid this in the future. If they can build skyscrapers and major highways, they can build canals to empty this back into the ocean..they could have avoided this. This is a bid deal, but Houston has smaller floods about every other year seems like.
Cole Tanner
The problem is, we already have infrastructure in place that is meant for flooding situations. Houston has multiple bayous, creeks, rivers and reservoirs, not to mention numerous retention ponds in newer neighborhoods. Nonetheless, if one bayou floods, then all the surrounding streets and homes get flooded.
Perhaps a pump or vacuum of some sort could more effectively move water to the gulf, thus relieving the major resivoirs.
Mexico is gonna pay for it
Marchoupi your'e funny 😁damn!!
Marchoupi Funny! I hooe Danold Trump is laughing
Power of Nature > Human's vulnerability and weaknesses.
Prayers up for Texas!
O great dark lord Satan, please rescue the people of Texas from this great flood sent by Jesus the Deceiver, so that they may know the glorious power of your infernal majesty!
"prayers to texas" (feels good for saying that) (actually does nothing to help)
getfitafter50 ..prayers are real help...God Bless Maranatha Speed The Day
Neil Anderson , you are a Republican right? No one else would be that cold and heartless.
Olaide Ayeni What do you expect from a prayer? Makes you look bad, talking to yourself you know...
Man dis is so cary
The flooding is bad but all cities matter.
See how stupid that sounds?
Who said CLIMATE CHANGE is fake
cindy clarke It happened long time ago... climate change has been around since the dinosaur age!
Black people stick together!!!
mandatory evacuation? where will the people go when almost every place is flooded .
Were is the Video Of the OIL REFINERIES?????? They must be damaged.Or half sunk! They are covering it up!
Don't worry Ssundee is helping.
Why does it take a disaster to bring people together ? Prior to this all I've seen the news talk about is war and politics and protests and divisions .Even though this is terrible as well I'm sure the press is almost glad in a way to show how much people actually care for each other. It doesn't matter if it's Russian or Chinese or American people ,we all have a strong will to survive and need to stop focusing on what divides us and focus on what unites us. I've been saying this for awhile ,the Earth doesn't care about our squabbling or who is to blame for increasing severe weather .While we argue about arranging the deck chairs,the Titanic is still going to sink. It should be obvious by now we need to stop fighting and start preparing for what's coming our way and get serious about making changes.This is going to keep happening nomatter our political or spiritual beliefs .
Make the U.S. Army to buy Anoa Indonesian Military Amphibious Trucks. They float in water and can hold up to 15 military personnels.
the president can bring trucks with boats but does nothing to rescue . . . .
To bad this wasnt chicago!
Thank God only two died even though no death is good. News media no doubt wish there were more.
Don't worry god will help, he just takes his time sometimes *stares at watch*
Invigorate and yeah when god get back from 7-eleven he'll get right on it😂😂😂😂!!!
I BLAME THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON TX FOR THE 8 DEATHS !!!!
this is all stage;; CGI rain
Flood.🌊
Oh God how messy on your people
This is just one of many wraths upon US. Are u still gonna deny climate change??
We all know what this is, again.
Houston, like all municipalities receives federal EMA funding and training for Emergency Management Response. They have a working plan for Emergencies including orderly evacuation if necessary by local EMA, LEO, CERT, CAP, and National Guard units who all have resources, and the city also has resources for emergency transportation. The EMA plan is federally mandated, planned, well organized, coordinated and rehearsed so that participating groups and individuals are prepared for the call...which came from President Trump and Governor Abbot Aug. 25. Governor Abbott clearly called for Corpus Christi and Houston to evacuate, and that plan should have been implemented by Mayor Taylor on that same day. Mayor Taylor instead ignored Gov. Abbott's call for evacuation and chose to tell Houston residents to weather the storm in place, even though he noted that the storm was unprecedented. I wonder if Mayor Taylor's family "weathered in place" or evacuated...
Houston has never had a Mayor Taylor
Smh
Just few weeks ago 40 million people were flooded in South Asia, but entire world was in silence and now you are in the same situation. Only the differenceis is that, if even just few people dies in western world, it's become the headline for every news paper, but more then 2100 people died in South Asia no one had any interest. We south Asians did nothing for this all the situation. Even today we are just consuming what I really need, the western countries are responsible for this all, now it's time to pay back. Otherwise the nature will late you payback.
Abomination est trot sa prouve ke Dieu vous a oublier repenter vous et vous aurai la grande main de Dieu sur vous sa protection . Dieu est amour il n'oublie jamais ses enfants
ALWAYS REMEMBER THERE IS NO CLIMA CHANGE !!!!! Trump 2050!!!
Green screen! hahah! Same ol BS MSM.
This may be of help, why dont you ask God to help you build an ark, apparently hes done it before in the past?
5:24 to 5:30p Lester says corpus crispy
Fiiish and I'm a Texan 😂
Why should Houston get so much attention? ALL CITIES MATTER!
see how dumb that looks?
God created the hurricane to show us what really matters. Houston is one of the most prosperous cities in the world and Inauve watched year after year the people of my city turn to idols and worship their stuff. Their cloths, their house, their trucks, their cars. They worships their things rather then God and spent more time with thugs rather then the people they loved like their family and goriness and neighbors. I am guilty of that as well. I did not at first know why God sent this hurricane but now I do. He has taken the stuff away from many people so now all they have is their family and friends and they now can start their lives all over again focused on them. That is why God has sent this hurricane. May God bless Texas and you
You might be right
😀😀😀😀😀😀
And they will not repent regardless of the message of End Times ,but will blasphemy ,blame theGood God ,Knowing that it's Satan behind them tears....
MY, MY. HARD TO BELIEVE ITS 2017? even tho it's the bible belt, can't believe all the ppl thinking god will save them cause their Christian. with all our knowledge, we still haven't evolved.
Jesus is Lord. The wages of sin is death
Ikenna Iteogu Official
"After taxes it's just a tired run down feeling".
Ikenna Iteogu Official I just don't understand how when things like this happens we're so quick to say God had something to do with it. Why is it that he always shows up here when babies being murder all the time and millions all over daily dying of hunger but some how he never shows up? ijs
All the God comments here... It's 2017 and people are still religious. Laughable.
Better than the delusional global warming comments
Zao Medong Same stupidity.
D'Ascoyne ,are you not religious?
LOL you don't have to bring religion into this. Peoples lives are at stake
KIMOCHI 気持ち Yeah but people think prayers will help ffs
Corpus Crispy!
Divine Punishment for Texas
getfitafter50 115 in Palm Springs !!
Are you suggesting God is punishing black people in Houston?
It's so sunny in Cali it's burning lol
getfitafter50 lolol how you liking the high and dry heat? Crispy yet?
Ask forgiveness from Allah, Allah is merciful n will hear your prayer may Allah protect America
Hannah Mellesmoen AMEN
No.
Hannah Mellesmoen Jesus Christ will help👌
Lol all your skydaddys are fake
oscar F kinda like you? LOL
It is God's will
Give thanks
Praise Jesus!
Tony Cole REALLY!!...how stupid!!
oh it's catastrophic...becuase your things are damaged..how sad...
And people have lost homes and jobs. People will be displaced for months, even years. Communities are destroyed and may never recover. Yes, it is catastrophic.
What about the lives lost? The children traumatized? Their memories, their family members missing. I was only able to get my mother air rescued an hour ago thank god. Shame on you.
The Mayor of Houston dropped the ball on this one. Should have called mandatory evacuation but I guess Confederate Memorials were more important smh
Frederick Giordani Still not so sure on that one. Not every home got 4 feet of water. 7 million residents on flooding roads in low visibility conditions would have been dangerous and unnecessary.
We tried to evacuate for Rita, the traffic jam lasted days and people died. That would have been the worst thing to do, would have had millions of people sitting in their cars with no where to go when the flooding started. Almost 7 million people live in the Houston area, you can’t evacuate that.