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Startling before and after photographs reveal the devastating floods in Houston ...

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 Why Houston was so under prepared....?... some medias ask


Startling before and after photographs reveal the devastating floods in Houston as Hurricane Harvey swamps the city and promises to do even more damage with another 50 inches of rain this week
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Hurricane Harvey has left thousands homeless in Houston with more than 5,000 people currently in shelters
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The number was expected to rise as more rescues were carried out across the Texan city on Monday morning

· Another 50 inches of rain is set to fall over the coming days which will exasperate the catastrophe

· System is expected to stay over water with 45 mph winds for 36 hours, then head back inland Wednesday

· Two major dams 20 miles outside of the city are being drained, sending more water cascading into homes

· Despite the unfolding disaster, the mayor has still not issued a mandatory evacuation order across the city

· Scores of panicked residents are taking to social media to beg for help after becoming stranded in houses

· 911 operators are stretched to their limit - on Sunday there was a backlog of 150 calls at any given time

· Fund raising efforts by the Red Cross are underway and celebrities are donating thousands to relief funds
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In total, 11 people are feared dead across the entire state as a result of the storm, including a family of six

· Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed the entire National Guard of 12,000 to rescue stranded citizens

· As Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston on Monday, the extent of the devastation it has caused started to become clear.

· Huge swathes of the city now sit underwater as flood water continues to rush through its streets.

· Thousands are without homes, even more have lost power and 11 people are feared dead across the entire state as a result of the storm.

· There is no respite on the horizon, with another 50 inches of rain scheduled to land over the course of the week.

· Harvey increased slightly in strength Monday as it drifted back over the warm Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.

· Forecasters expect the system to stay over water with 45 mph winds for 36 hours and then head back inland east of Houston sometime Wednesday. The system will then head north and lose its tropical strength.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-pictures-Harvey-s-impact.html#ixzz4rFnU897h
 
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Photos Show Scale of Devastation Wrought by Harvey

By Benjamin Hart
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The remnants of Hurricane Harvey continue to dump rainfall on southeastern Texas, making an unprecedented, catastrophic flood even more frightening. With parts of Houston expecting as much as four feet of rain in total, it’s hard to convey the sheer amount of destruction in the city and surrounding areas. But the photos below give some sense of the scale of the disaster, and the oftentimes inspiring response to it.

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-devastation-wrought-by-hurricane-harvey.html
 
[h=1]Houston knew it was at risk of flooding, so why didn't the city evacuate?[/h][h=1]Excerpts:[/h]This is a situation where at this point, people just need to be calm and not panic," Turner said.

Officials may have been wary of issuing an evacuation order because of the lessons learned during Hurricane Rita in September 2005.
Southeast Texas was hammered by Hurricane Rita just weeks after Katrina devastated New Orleans. In that scenario, local officials issued evacuation orders, but the consequences were tragic.

Several people died as thousands and thousands attempted to flee the storm in gridlocked traffic.
More than 20 perished in a bus accident south of Dallas, according to the National Hurricane Center, while some died of heat exhaustion during the evacuation.

On Sunday, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers agreed with officials' decision to not issue an evacuation order.

"He was right when he said, 'I don't want 6.5 million people on flooded roadways and dying in their cars,'" Myers said.

"You can't move a city like Houston with six hours' notice," he added. "But people shouldn't need an evacuation order if they live in a flood plain and they see 25 inches of rain coming.

"The fact that they didn't even get a voluntary evacuation order ... may have led people to stay because there was not even a nudge from local officials."

Another CNN meteorologist, Dave Hennen, said Harvey was a "one-in-1,000-years type of event."

"I think people were used to flooding in Houston when they get two to three inches of rain, but nobody comprehended what two to three feet of rain could do," he said. "This is truly historic, so people were caught off guard."

In a press conference Sunday afternoon, a reporter asked Gov. Abbott whether there had been a breakdown in communications when he said people should evacuate, but local officials contradicted him.

"We've moved beyond whether or not there should have been an evacuation or not," Abbott said.
Abbott reiterated that sentiment to CNN's Alisyn Camerota Monday morning.

"There were obviously concerns, as you pointed out, about the complications of evacuation that we saw when Hurricane Rita came to the state of Texas," he said. "So it's so difficult to look in hindsight to see, would it have been better to evacuate or not evacuate, which is why we simply aren't focused on it right now.

"Instead, all of our attention is focused on saving lives."
[h=1]Read more at: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/houston-evacuation-hurricane-harvey/index.html[/h]
 
The “500-year” flood, explained: why Houston was so under prepared for Hurricane Harvey

It’s the city’s third “500-year” flood in the past three years.









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Flooding in Richmond, Texas, a city in the Houston area, in 2016. Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images
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It’s difficult to comprehend the scale of the flooding and devastation that Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath are wreaking on the Houston area. Weather experts call the storm unprecedented, and note that it’s gone beyond even the most pessimistic forecasts. In the final reckoning, it’s certain that Harvey will be classified a 500-year flood — and maybe even a 1,000-year flood.

But those terms can be a bit misleading — especially when high-profile people, like the president of the United States, confuse the issue by calling Harvey “a once in 500 year flood.”

In theory, a 500-year flood is something that has a 1-in-500 shot of happening in any given year — in other words, the sort of event that’s so rare that it might not make sense to plan around the possibility of it happening. The problem is that 500-year floods are happening more often than probability predicts — especially in Houston. And, especially in Houston, prevention planning hasn’t evolved to acknowledge that a “500-year” flood isn’t really a 1-in-500 chance anymore.
“500-year” floods are based not on history, but on probability

The severity of floods tends to get put in terms of years: a 100-year flood, a 500-year flood, a 1,000-year flood. But this isn’t an assessment of “the worst flood in” that time — places like Houston don’t actually have detailed weather records going back to 1017 AD, after all.

The lack of hundreds of years’ worth of flood data is actually the reason we have the term “100-year” flood to begin with. When the government decided to map flood-prone areas to improve the National Flood Insurance Program in the early 1970s, the maps couldn’t just use the worst flood ever recorded in a given area to judge what a “bad flood” would look like — because some areas had more records than others, and besides, just because a bad flood hadn’t happened yet didn’t mean it couldn’t.

Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16211392/100-500-year-flood-meaning
 
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Fund raising efforts taken up….

Corporate America Harvey relief at $65 million and counting

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Company giants are creating huge contributions to disaster aid companies to assistance victims of Tropical Storm Harvey.

The storm is envisioned to leave driving billions of bucks in damages.

Providers have pledged $sixty five million to aid endeavours as of late Wednesday early morning, according to an estimate from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But this determine is constantly changing as contributions proceed to pour in.

CNNMoney’s investigation found that 30 organizations experienced donated $1 million or more by Wednesday early morning. Verizon by yourself contributed $ten million on Tuesday.

In the meantime, staff donation matching courses introduced so far could carry in an added $3.six million. This determine will probable climb, as some organizations left the sum they would match open ended, though others are also accepting consumer donations.

“The corporate response so far [has] been potent,” Marc DeCourcey, senior vice president of the Chamber of Commerce Foundation, told CNNMoney.

However, it really is nonetheless far too before long to notify how corporate donations to Harvey look at to other disasters.

“This disaster is nonetheless unfolding. … We’re nonetheless in the response phase, and in some instances the rescue phase. We’re encouraging organizations all across The us to give now, and to give to trustworthy nonprofits,” DeCourcey stated.

Read more at: https://good-nonprofit.com/non-prof...rvey-relief-at-65-million-and-counting/11698/

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How to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey

Link: http://abc7chicago.com/weather/how-to-help-the-victims-of-hurricane-harvey/2348094/
 

The place where 10,000 people are living after Harvey

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Thousands of wet and weary victims from Hurricane Harvey poured into the George R. Brown Convention Center to find dry land.

The second they arrived at the center, Fantaci Villanueva says she and her family instantly felt hope. They had been stuck as their second-floor apartment home filled with water. Villanueva says she had "never experienced anything like that before." She and her two small children, ages two and five, and her parents were eventually rescued by boat.

Houston city officials were initially planning for 5,000 to stay in this convention center-turned-shelter. But as the rain continued, more than 10,000 people filled the halls.

"We won't turn anyone away," Red Cross spokeswoman Betsy Robertson said.

This 2 million-square-foot convention center that includes exhibit halls, meeting rooms and a ballroom became a "makeshift village" overnight. With thousands of volunteers and countless donations, this shelter is a place many flood victims now call home. The hall has "stations" set up on all sides where evacuees can get hot food and water and all their necessities. The first stop for new arrivals is registration. The next is to find dry clothes. This includes a medical station, a bedding station, an area with baby items, including playpens and strollers, and even a charging station so people can stay connected to their loved ones.

"It was really easy," Villanueva said. "All we had to do was one person from my family sign everybody up, and they helped us."

The center's vow to accept anyone and everyone hasn't been without its hiccups. Houston resident Wanda Tucker arrived alone late Monday night. She received a number for a bed but there weren't enough. "I had to sleep in a chair," Tucker said.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is working to get more cots in and to reduce the population at the convention center by opening additional shelters around the city. At a press conference, officials said they are still in need of toiletries, blankets, towels, wheelchairs, pillows and medical supplies.

Read more at: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/30/u...houston-evacuees-convention-center1042PMStory
 
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are we learned in MUMBAI FLOODS/MONSOON EVERY YEAR.?...are we learn from CHENNAI FLOODS?....IDHUVUM KADANTHU POGUM...
 
An unsolicited guest visiting an apartment....

[h=1]Watch: Man returns home after hurricane Harvey to find a 9-foot alligator in his apartment[/h]

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A Texan came back to his house after hurricane Harvey to find an unwelcome guest beneath his dining table.

Hurricane Harvey, one of the strongest storms the US has seen in the past few years, left deluge and destruction in its wake. Along with the flooding and loss of life and property, the hurricane also caused displacement of alligators which are found in large numbers in Texas.

One Texan came back to his house after hurricane Harvey to find an unwelcome guest beneath his dining table – a nine-foot long alligator.

Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/articl...vey-find-9-foot-alligator-his-apartment-67820
 
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