So if the city decides to flood you for the greater good and you don't have flood insurance, does the city pay for your damages?
^yeah good wishes one of the saddest (non human) scenes I saw was a man struggling against over waist deep water, with his dog paddling along behind him, trying to keep up but losing distance. The news just cut away from that scene, no followup. Didn't see anyone else around. No cajun navy. Wish he'd have carried his buddy. Like to think he made it, but idk.
An insurance agent friend of mine says you need flood insurance. Something to do with this being a continuation of the same storm.
Godammit, the mandatory evacuations are for people in houses that are flooded already, There are serious health issues in being exposed to tainted water, molds and hot electrical outlets. Every time the the city posts this alert, everyone dry or not goes into a panic.
My cousin was ordered to evacuate (mandatory) once they announced they were gong to start releasing water from the dams. At the time his house was not flooded. Now it is.
What I don't understand is, they're making it sound like they're cutting power to the now flooded homes under mandatory evac to try to make them leave. Shouldn't power already be cut immediately, once water gets in a building?
Not necessarily. A friend of mine went back into a bunch of his neighbors houses with waders during the storm and turned their A/C's back on upstairs. Gave them a huge head start on the repair process. This guy is an electrical engineer btw
You would think so. I know of a young guy who died in Spring Branch attempting to rescue his sister's cat -- stepped on a live wire in the flood. I called my power company and they said there was an outage, but no order to shut down power for rest of neighbors. Seems crazy to me. The mandatory evacuation (I'm in this area) was due to the house off Memorial catching on fire Saturday when their electric short circuited. The city then wised up and decided to evacuate everyone who flooded in the area so that they could shut down the electric grid. Yes, but not without filing a lawsuit. Their actions amount to an inverse condemnation -- I would recommend coordinating with neighbors and your neighborhood if you pursue that option.
So we live walking distance from Rummel Creek in the area where Turner called for mandatory evacuations of flooded homes. On the one hand, we are incredibly blessed that we didn't even come close to flooding. On the other hand, we're not so blessed that centerpoint technicians aren't allowed, or aren't intelligent enough to make obvious determinations as to what houses are flooded or not. We don't even have water in our street.......even against the curb. EVERYTHING is dry. I was wondering when to turn the sprinklers on again. Our lawn was mowed on Friday. Our next door neighbors--the older houses on either side of us whose foundations sit a few feet lower than us still have their electricity. When Harvey was at it's worst for us, and water did rise in the street, we marveled at how much higher our yard and house was than our neighbors. It barely came above the curb--it was probably thirty linear feet from our front door and probably four to five feet vertically. And yet, some centerpoint technician literally came to our house today, looked at how high and dry it was, decided that yes, our home was on some list he had.........and cut our power off. So tonight we have to sleep somewhere else; food spoiling in the fridge/freezers, and fish dying in the aquarium. Just crazy.
Thanks. Truth be told, I'm a little b**** for complaining about this minor inconvenience when so many have lost so much. I was just blowing off steam. Maybe the guy that turned off our electricity had lost everything and was also blowing off steam. Sucks for me, but again.......I'm so fortunate compared to so many.
You didn't put a timeline or a location on that and I didn't say anything about a water release. The mandatory declaration I am talking about was after the water was going down/
That's what the alert I was referencing said in the opening sentence, and my frustration was everyone in my neighborhood panicked even though Jeff Lindner was telling them they water was going down. I was fed up with the rumor mongering and misinterpretation.
