Interstate 10...
 

The biggest threat to New Territory is the Brazos River right now. A mandatory evacuation was ordered for the neighborhood earlier so he may have left. However, it is looking like the river will crest below last year's record high which they survived. The rain has stopped so as long as the levees holds out the river, they are good.

^^ Enzo that picture of I-10 doesn't look believable, what's the source?

use this slider to see the road and then the ocean
This was I-10 before Harvey. Now it looks like an ocean - CNN

Looks fake to me, the bridge is missing in the back-round on the photo before the flood.

The waves are a sure giveaway.

unbelievable, fake my a#$. Look closer, the bridge is in the far background. The non-flood picture was taken further back. And the two pictures are not quite exactly at the same vantage point.

Images show waves rolling over Texas highway | Daily Mail Online

Saw it on Tv news first....Hope it is fake

Thank you. Good to hear.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1504116973.jpg
this was posted on fb

Red beard, glad you are safe and relatively dry.

Not to PARF this up but I have an ethical question on survival.

Is it looting if you are starving and you raid an abandoned grocery store for staples during a disaster such as Harvey? Or just basic survival? Maybe they should have a sign in sheet.....I took this.....I'll pay later....

I mean we all remember that black guy wading thru waist deep water with a case of beer....just asking....since that Fox guy named Llamas tweeted about people taking out food from a supermarket.....

Llamas is with ABC.

I was wondering about the Porsche carnage in Houston. Lots of Pcars down there. I imagine the older cars can be restored, but can the newer ones with tons of electronics be brought back to reliable service?

Well they be water cooled now...

Uhhh, OK but who cares? AO HELL told me that....so it had to be true....:eek:

Fox gets enough crap spread on it, and I just wanted to see credit given where due.

Yeah, but what is the diff between looting and surviving when you are starving. It's like reporting news, standing back and watching some starve/die and helping a victim.

A guy carrying out a case of booze or food staples? Semantics, I guess.

$100 bucks for a case of water...I'd shoot the bastard charging that.

There does seem an ethical distinction can be made between looting a grocery store for some food versus looting a Best Buy for a flatscreen.

I shake my damn head every time I read a story about somebody robbing a 7-11 for cigs. And booze.

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I never saw that screen shot in your video Enzo, did I blink maybe?

Isn't Victory Motors in Houston?

Yep

Dickheads in France.....

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/31/charlie-hebdo-cover-portraying-harvey-victims-as-neo-nazis-shocks-twitter-evil/23192506/

Is it possible to surrender to a hurricane?

The fall out from that place should be interesting.

East of Eldridge, just of West Little York.

Initially, that area was hard hit by spin-off tornadoes. Now the water is going downstream and enveloping them. Really bad.

If it's like a lot of huge rain events, rivers, creeks, etc. will continue to rise for a while...it ain't over for some. Everyone actually....after the shock of what ocurred...the LONG cleanup, rebuilding begins. I assume it's still summertime there....heat, mold, etc. Best wishes to all of you....

Mosquitos, don't forget the hordes of mosquitos. My son came by the house yesterday to "steal" my van. His car was flooded Saturday night. He could not go in the back yard without getting mobbed.

^^^^ I didn't forget 'em...skeeters are a given :(.

One other thing....a pic posted earlier had someone wearing no shoes...bad idea. Floods bring out the nasty crap....even a tiny cut can mess you up....BAD! Be safe...and smart....

Learned yesterday that my friends in New Territory were evacuated. Info is sketchy and I don't know where they were evacuated to, but word is they are safe.
Which raises a question, where are all the refugees going to go? They can't stay in shelters for months, and they're saying it will take months or years for homes in Houston to be habitable.

Another problem that we've had before and I'm sure will happen this time is a lot of hack contractors come out of the woodwork whether they are local or from someplace else. They come in and fix things but do a crappy job with no permits and without following code, if they even finish the jobs. Lots of them will ask for money up front and then disappear with the jobs partially done. These guys need to get a serious pimp slappin, but usually they disappear into the wind just as quickly as they arrived.

Well, after Katrina a great number of refugees came to Texas and settled. I have no idea where all of Harvey's refugees will end up, but it is likely many will move elsewhere.

And now the newest drama is the run on gasoline. First Dallas, then San Antonio went crazy. Everyone is hoarding gas and the stations are running out.

I heard that a station in Dallas was charging 9.99/gal. I have to assume that a big part of the gouging is trying to get people that evacuated and now want to get home or emergency responders/volunteers who are trying to get to Houston. I get supply and demand, but that's a bit much, and they need to be reported (gouging is illegal and they can face stiff fines, I believe)

That is illegal in Texas, it is easy to report price gouging in Texas.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/cpd/price-gouging

The fine for price gouging during a disaster in Texas is $20K unless they do it to someone who is 65 or older then it jumps to $250K.

They are kind of vague about what constitutes "excessive pricing." This can be a slippery slope. The dealer can say the distributor is going to charge him $9.80 a gallon to replace his stock, the distributor is going to say Texas refineries are shut down and he has to get gas from California and they are charging him $8.80 a gallon. Who finally takes the hit?
I would hate to be a retailer and be forced to drain his tanks at $3 a gallon if it's going to cost him twice that to refill them.

A retailer refilling his tanks will not tak a hit no matter what he pays.

The consumer will.

Mom 'needed' to go to the store...
gas lines everywhere blocking traffic...
one place had a 20 buck limit..
next thing I see is a LEO getting grief from some Bubba in his high rise toy..
as he's going to get as much as he wants or needs..
nope..leave now or leave in my squad car!
he would have diesel smoked the place peeling out..
but all the traffic had him limping away..
every gas station on my way this am..
no gas...

Rika