AUSTIN — Floodwaters across the state have severely damaged or destroyed 1,000 homes, and that number is likely to rise, state officials said Thursday.
Storms have pounded the state since May 23, causing widespread rainfall and flooding that’s been blamed for at least 11 deaths over the past 2½ weeks. The cost of the property damage has not yet been assessed, said Jack Colley, chief of the state’s Division of Emergency Management.
With more rain expected through much of the state Thursday, emergency officials were braced for even more damage. Colley said the state has already mobilized its largest ever flood response efforts of search and rescue teams and aid for flood damaged areas.
Assistance has come from government agencies helping in search and rescue and cleanup operations, as well as private charities such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army operating shelters and feeding centers.
Full Story Here:
Floods have destroyed at least 1,000 homes in Texas
And it just keeps on coming, the weather people say that possibly by Saturday night we’ll see it ending for a while and I’m glad, enough is enough, we’ve had more rain in 3 weeks than we get in a year and there’s no point in being greedy, share the bounty, spread it around a bit…
There really has been a lot of damage, we’re OK where I live but some parts of Texas are a lot worse than they look on TV…
The high water rescues have been dangerous, I know some folks DO accidentally get stranded in high water but some of these people are obviously nothing more than idiots, they drive around ‘Road Closed’ signs, stall out and then expect the fire fighters and others to risk their lives saving them…
And the one that really gets to me is how many kids have been washed away and drowned in this flooding, they were playing by the creek or stream and watching the rushing water and Oops, they fall in and are gone, just like that, and we’ve had parents blaming the rescue crews, “They didn’t do enough to save my child!!”
Well here’s my question: what the hell kind of parent stands there and lets their kid play on the banks of a rushing body of water anyway?? Where is the parental responsibility?? I know that’s asking a lot from some dumbass that would let her kid wash away in front of her eyes and do nothing to save him herself and then blame the rescue guys…
Unbelievable, but totally true…
The only good things to come out of this is the cooler temps, it’s 71° here right now, never got over 74° all day, been really cool for 3 weeks, the electric company is losing money on all of us right now and our lakes are all FULL, and then some, we have enough water for 2 or 3 years now, and that’s a little weird, I have never seen this much water in north Texas lakes, ever…
Trackback URL:
http://texasfred.net/archives/317/trackback/
What, no radical demands of FEMA? Don’t you want to live on a cruise ship for the better part of a year?
Good luck down there.
Best to all of you.
I guess I have a hard time complaining about rain — ever. It seems that too many years we are begging for it and it never comes.
Our part of the state has had good rain but not excessive. In fact, we could use some more up here in the Panhandle. Most of the wheat crop has been harvested and it would be great to get another couple of inches.
I hate it for the people who have lost property and lives in the flooding. But I’ve always heard that if you build a flat roof it will leak and if you build in a flood plain you’re gonna get flooded. As for those who have drowned — I agree with you that the majority were due to their own stupidity or to parental negligence. People need to learn to take responsibility for their own actions.
I can only hope that things start going better for you folks. These things do happen from time to time. I only wish that people would take off their tin hats when they do.
I spent the better part of twenty- two years getting people out of situations that they should not have found themselves in. Unfortunately, all too often it also involved their children.
Well everything is bigger in Texas as the saying goes, but that’s one big rain cloud that needs to obviously disappear for you all. Enough is enough already.
As for the part about parents, the lack of responsibility and letting kids play in such a dangerous area I believe it…
After my short stint driving trucks I got an EMT card and actually worked on a county squad for a short while until my disability really took over…
One of my very first calls was a 13 yo boy that got swept into a culvert by gushing rain water, got stuck in the middle of it, and drowned.
We and the firefighters on scene, along with the Sheriffs dept got ripped continuously for not digging that pipe out quick enough. My thought then was the same thing: Why in the Hell were you all letting them play around that thing???
Fred the parents were video taping the damn thing from their front porch, idiots!
What the hell is wrong with my fellow Texans? Why are they not screaming and shouting about how the rising water is the fault of G.W. Bush? Where is FEMA and the National Guard to take these people from the roofs of their houses? Where are the checks so they can relocate to Dallas and spend a jolly time in a strip joint or visit Neiman’s and buy some $300.00 jeans? Where is the national outrage that Bush allowed the rain to continue for so many days?
Oh, wait, maybe it is our independent streak that makes people, for the most part, get the hell out before they need to be rescued by the Feds. But will you hear any of that on the MSM? Nope.
In the meantime, I live at the 4,000 foot level in the Sierra Nevadas, it’s 90 degrees in the shade right now, hotter than hell for this place and — natch — I DON’T have air conditioning.
BZ
Fred, you guys take care out there and if it comes your way abandon ship.
Seems to me the problem with a lot of people, and what happened in NOLA is a great example, is they place more value on things than people. I learned way back in NC during a hurricane that people being safe are much more important than things, (now that I am a mother it is even more important to me) things can be replaced, people cannot.
Meanwhile we have been having a cooler than normal summer.. which is fine with me since our a/c only cools when it’s cool not when it gets hot (have had the repair men out 3 times and they still can’t figure that one out).