Hurricane Harvey

[vorlon13]

This is getting to depressing to continuously watch. Going to limit to just the nightly news.

Hard to imagine living thru that, and this is only the beginning of recovery.

Indeed.

We had water for 103 days here, in 2011.  Couldn't even start recovery till the damn water receded.  And since the flooding went on for so long, there was a tremendous amount of things installed for the flood that had to be removed first.  Like at the airport in Omaha; while protected by a levee, ground water was rising and threatening to swamp the place so pumps were installed, they all had to come out when the water went down.  Also had temporary sand bag walls installed and miles of dikes and levees that were built.

Turns out a sand bag that has been wet is a problem to get rid of, they get nasty and some care must be taken.

And the water also brought in and moved around all kinds of debris.  Railroad ties were floating around and left haphazardly, items that floated were moved, wind moved things around on the impounded water too.

With the longer warning time, at least most vehicles were moved out of the flood area, Texas, with up to 1/2 a million ruined cars to deal with is a huge issue we were spared.