Hurricane Harvey.

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I wasn't really paying attention to this until yesterday when I found out one of my friends was trapped on his roof for 24hrs awaiting rescue. Fortunately he is now evacuated and safe. I have been reading about it since and it's absolutely crazy the damage it's causing.
Just looked at the projected path of the storm and it is expected to head inland into many more states and looks like it could be one of the worst natural disasters in history if it maintains it's current strength for more than a few more days.
 
Orangecroc said:
ust looked at the projected path of the storm and it is expected to head inland into many more states and looks like it could be one of the worst natural disasters in history if it maintains it's current strength for more than a few more days.
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Fortunately (if thats the right word)once a hurricane heads inland it loses the temperature from the sea that drives much of its power and loses strength fairly quickly.
 
There's quite a lot of people uninsured in the US. I was listening to a report yesterday where people were deciding to stay or go. The road was flooded but the water was about 4 feet from their front door so they were staying put for now and busy sandbagging. There's a lot of single story buildings in the US (makes the house look larger, more land, more kudos). trouble is there's nowhere upstairs to go or put the furniture.

And the scale is staggering. 4th or 5th largest city? They couldn't risk calling an evacuation and having 2 million people of the roads when the floods came...
 
the next city along is now totally cut off ,and it seems they have had 52 inches of rain so far thats unheard of chest height for most normal adults
 
Orangecroc said:
and it is expected to head inland into many more states and looks like it could be one of the worst natural disasters in history if it maintains it's current strength for more than a few more days.
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Maybe in monetary terms but not in terms of loss of life.
 
Byker28i said:
There's quite a lot of people uninsured in the US. I was listening to a report yesterday where people were deciding to stay or go. The road was flooded but the water was about 4 feet from their front door so they were staying put for now and busy sandbagging. There's a lot of single story buildings in the US (makes the house look larger, more land, more kudos). trouble is there's nowhere upstairs to go or put the furniture.

And the scale is staggering. 4th or 5th largest city? They couldn't risk calling an evacuation and having 2 million people of the roads when the floods came...
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More often than not, it's local building ordinance which dictates that homes are single storey.
 
Nawty said:
I have a lot of friends in Houston and it is just totally insane, thankfully largely unflooded. A city with the Resources of Houston will rebound but have you seen this!?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ns-homeless-latest-news-updates-a7919006.html

Why isn't it getting as much coverage?
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Simply because it is in a "third world" country, where death from natural disasters is to be expected. Lets be honest the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami wouldn't have got the coverage it did if it hadn't been for the number of "first world" tourists there at the time.

Am I being cynical but is the scale of a disaster not measured by the number of TV crews, reporters, and social media coverage. The more easier it is for them to get there the worst the disaster?

An example in this country is that we have nearly all heard of the Boscastle floods, in part because there was a TV crew filming with the coastguard. How many of you have heard about Crackington Haven, that was equally affected?
 
viv1969 said:
More often than not, it's local building ordinance which dictates that homes are single storey.
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I have a few friends across the US. When I asked why I was told by all that it's a status symbol to have a big house, so having it all over the ground floor means your house and land looks bigger. The same goes for the wife not working, you have more status.
 
Byker28i said:
I have a few friends across the US. When I asked why I was told by all that it's a status symbol to have a big house, so having it all over the ground floor means your house and land looks bigger. The same goes for the wife not working, you have more status.
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I lived in SF for a year. Maybe ordinance is a CA thing then.
 
viv1969 said:
I lived in SF for a year. Maybe ordinance is a CA thing then.
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Or maybe Status is a Florida thing :D

I quite liked San Francisco, but flipping expensive. Most expensive city I've been to (apart from New York)
 
Is this one of those 1 in 500 year floods that no amount of preparation will be able to cope.
On an upside, remarkable how little loss of life there has been.
 
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