Houston flood
- Thread starter Phil C. McNasty
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And they have 6 more days of rainfall coming :Eek:
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I was in Calgary during the last flood a few years ago. Nothing like this but was still evacuated from downtown for 10 days. Best thing about these disasters are the stories of people helping people. When we volunteered in Calgary we were tuned away because they had too many people already.
It's scary that they're projecting Houston to receive just as much rain over the next few days as they already have, if not more.
I dont see how they're gonna eat and drink. There's a good chance most of the wellwater and tapwater is contaminated, and unless you have a week's worth of food on hand you're not eating.
Mind you, maybe its a good time to go on a crash diet
And all we get is the boring snow and cold. The insurance companies are going to have a field day with this one.And they have 6 more days of rainfall coming :Eek:
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I wonder if something like this could ever happen to Toronto. Not a hurricane, but a massive rainfall that leads to flash-flooding the whole city
Depends on whether the insured has flood insurance. Insuraance likely will cover any wind damage and any water entering from above, but groundwater? Probably out of luck unless they have FI.
The last heavy rainfall we had, it almost made Center Island into Gilligan's island.
They were saying Houston is mostly asphalt and cement, so there's nowhere for the water to recede to quickly
On a serious note, I hope there are no casualties, as they say, you can always rebuild, but you can never take back a life.
edit: 2 confirmed dead so far from hurricane Harvey.
Here's what 9 trillion looks like, now you can imagine what 25 trillion gallons of water is like.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rillion-tons-of-water/?utm_term=.87c3b4c62fc0
Fortunately for us Toronto sprawls on a fair grade making excess water just dump in the lake. Local flooding and lots and lots of wet basements would be the result, but that's just crappy construction methods and plugged drains- like 3 or 4 years ago when we had floating cars on the Gardiner.
