A Kingwood business strip opened Friday with a bone dry parking lot. In a matter of hours, the businesses became islands during the flooding emergency.
Houston aggravated the severity of floods by no restrictions to growth, eliminating wetlands, expanding concrete areas. What do expect? Greed at the highest level by companies to expand with no consequences for terrible development.
Very frustrating, I'm in Huffman and directly affected by this. After flooding in Harvey and Imelda we were spared in this one. Don't know how. Water came to our driveway, and then started to receed. Very lucky, but it's not even hurricane season yet.
Kingwood resident here. The rise of flood water stunned none of us. Literally none of us. You know who seemed stunned? The anchorman of the news station that posted this video two days after the flood happened. o.O Hamblen in Forest Cove floods every time you clean your windshield over there. It is known. :P
If you’re considering moving anywhere near a tidal area or the southern seaboard anywhere, don’t. Trust me, I left Newport News because the elevation is measured in inches and always flooding. I’d had enough. Trust me, don’t.
So are the rest of us Texans. I’m not in a flood zone, but they jack everyone’s insurance up. Money has to come from some where to pay this kind of damage
@@iveyhealth2266 every time there’s hail in Texas, roofers go & convince people they need an entire new roof. Most people need a few patches. When you have thousands of people getting new roofs paid by insurance every few years it’s an unsustainable system.
Not really. Base policies do not cover floods. Each homeowner will need to have flood insurance. Most home policies do not cover bodies of water that cause flooding to homes. Read your homeowner’s policy to make sure you have coverage. If not you will be denied and be on your own to get the damages repaired.
I have an Idea people don't have to do it. If they have a 2 story house they should put most of their stuff up stairs. Anytime it floods people that stay on the second floor around to survive and help others when it is over.
Kingwood is beautiful, we almost bought a home there but got cold feet due to the flooding risk. The local governments really need to find some solutions to mitigate flooding in the Houston area. 🫤
Yeah it’s called bayous. They hold the water until it can drain in Gulf of Mexico. I was thinking of moving north of Houston, luckily I didn’t. I didn’t think that area floods. Now I’m thinking of moving further north west
Talk to the San Jacinto River Authority for not letting water out of Lake Conroe in anticipation of this forecast rain event. It has nothing to do with local officials unless they allow people to build on flood plains.
@@-OBELUS- The real problem is the dam gates at Lake Houston. They can't release water to keep up with the more sophisticated gates at Lake Conroe. That is the bottle neck and that is what creates the flooding (along with a few other things, Sand sediment build up, upstream development, etc). SJRA is doing what they will always do and we need to stop blaming them and fix the REAL problem.
Houston aggravated the severity of floods by no restrictions to growth, eliminating wetlands, expanding concrete areas. What do expect? Greed at the highest level by companies to expand with no consequences for terrible development.
Facts!
Very frustrating, I'm in Huffman and directly affected by this. After flooding in Harvey and Imelda we were spared in this one. Don't know how. Water came to our driveway, and then started to receed. Very lucky, but it's not even hurricane season yet.
Truth!
This area has been flooding for decades. Note in the opening shot, the office building on the right side of the screen is built on stilts
It has always floods there.. I was born in the 60s and flooding there. That’s when we were surprised they built Kingwood there.
Forest Cove floods fairly often.
Why are they stunned? That place is underwater every hurricane.
Yeah it’s almost like when a tornado hits a state that always have tornadoes destroy homes.
The crazy part is that a lot of these people have boats, but it’s at the storage lot or marina
Did abbott put razor wire in the water ?
Kingwood resident here. The rise of flood water stunned none of us. Literally none of us. You know who seemed stunned? The anchorman of the news station that posted this video two days after the flood happened. o.O Hamblen in Forest Cove floods every time you clean your windshield over there. It is known. :P
Is that news person not a Native Texan?
Well said
@@doctor78212 Not native to the Houston area. He miss pronounces streets, misidentifies areas, that native Houstonians know how to say.
Setting up
water catch basin attached to house gutters and
Fish ponds on your property helps
HUGE with community flooding
You guys close to lake Houston san Jancito river empty in to lake houston yeap kingwood Automatically going to get flooded.
Harvey Part 2 🙏
If you’re considering moving anywhere near a tidal area or the southern seaboard anywhere, don’t. Trust me, I left Newport News because the elevation is measured in inches and always flooding. I’d had enough. Trust me, don’t.
PLEASE move to higher ground peeps.
The insurance companies are biting their nails right now.😮
So are the rest of us Texans. I’m not in a flood zone, but they jack everyone’s insurance up. Money has to come from some where to pay this kind of damage
@@Gio-ue8ps That's exactly what happened to us here in Florida after our last major storm. Home and Car Insurance skyrocketed.
@@iveyhealth2266 every time there’s hail in Texas, roofers go & convince people they need an entire new roof. Most people need a few patches. When you have thousands of people getting new roofs paid by insurance every few years it’s an unsustainable system.
Not really. Base policies do not cover floods. Each homeowner will need to have flood insurance. Most home policies do not cover bodies of water that cause flooding to homes. Read your homeowner’s policy to make sure you have coverage. If not you will be denied and be on your own to get the damages repaired.
That flood insurance gonna get expensive
Flood warnings for a week but they were surprised 😂😂😂
I have an Idea people don't have to do it. If they have a 2 story house they should put most of their stuff up stairs. Anytime it floods people that stay on the second floor around to survive and help others when it is over.
I saw this exact video Saturday?? ABC13 you good...
That reporter looks amused.
Just thinking about all the gasoline tanks full of water at the stations 😢😢😢
Don’t buy it
Seems they may want to control the run, or pay the folks and declare it’s a flood plane
Infrastructure and flood control is joke... year after year still cant get it right🤑
Every black reporter is in the wawater 😮😮
It floods there all the time. 😂😂
"beer wine soda gas lotto cigarettes cigars" and more "beer wine gas". GO FLOODS GO!
It's the end of the world Jesus is coming
Kingwood is beautiful, we almost bought a home there but got cold feet due to the flooding risk. The local governments really need to find some solutions to mitigate flooding in the Houston area. 🫤
Yeah it’s called bayous. They hold the water until it can drain in Gulf of Mexico. I was thinking of moving north of Houston, luckily I didn’t. I didn’t think that area floods. Now I’m thinking of moving further north west
Talk to the San Jacinto River Authority for not letting water out of Lake Conroe in anticipation of this forecast rain event. It has nothing to do with local officials unless they allow people to build on flood plains.
@@-OBELUS- allow? Screw them.
The City of Houston owns 2/3rds of the lake.@@-OBELUS-
@@-OBELUS- The real problem is the dam gates at Lake Houston. They can't release water to keep up with the more sophisticated gates at Lake Conroe. That is the bottle neck and that is what creates the flooding (along with a few other things, Sand sediment build up, upstream development, etc). SJRA is doing what they will always do and we need to stop blaming them and fix the REAL problem.
Why does it always feel wrong to; "Thumbs-Up", reports and information like this? 🤷🏻♂️👨🏻🦲🫤❤️🩹