🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To HURRICANE HARVEY: THE AFTERMATH!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To HURRICANE HARVEY: THE AFTERMATH!
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The smell in that food store is not from spoiled food. You need to bear in mind that those floodwaters are not clean water. There's raw sewage, petrochemicals, crop fertilizers, etc, If the water comes into your house you have to pull up all the carpets, demolish the walls up to the high water line down to the studs, and throw away any furniture that got soaked. Imagine every house on the street with a huge pile of carpet, dry wall, furniture, and ruined food, books, clothes, etc. out front waiting for trash pickup.
I live in Houston, and Harvey was nasty due to the amount of flooding. The hurricane itself wasn't super destructive, but the storm surge plus all the rain the water just had no where to go. Then as the storm moved North dumping more rain they end up having to open up some dams up stream that exacerbated the problem. The Cajun Navy was a crap ton of volunteers that came from Louisiana to help. They had gone through Katrina, and Houston was a big help to them during that time. The people in Louisiana responded in kind by helping us when we needed it. It's an American thing, but really is exemplified in the South.
It was worst we had in Texas history
Cajun Navy is an amazing volunteer organization. They go wherever they can help after natural disasters. Usually in the SE US. I remember watching a video of theirs on Facebook during Harvey, and got so emotional about how many people left their lives for weeks-months to help each other. They stopped at a Sam's Club to get supplies & donations, and when they left, there had to be about 50 boats with them!
One of my favorite Hurricane Harvey moments -- during a live press conference the Houston mayor announced that the emergency rescue lines were overwhelmed by calls from people wanting help to get out of their flooded houses. He said that no one should call if the water was waist high or less; that was not an emergency. If it was up to your neck you could call. That's where the volunteer rescuers came in. The Cajun Navy had found a couple of local women willing to organize a phone service out of their house. You could call them and they would keep track of the calls and call one of the volunteer boatmen to go get you out of the flood.
Regular insurance coverage doesn't cover flood damage. You have to have a separate policy. Same with earthquakes..
Kabir .... the Cajun Navy is a volunteer group out of Louisiana that came to help people evacuate here in Texas. They are awesome!!! And we are eternally grateful to them. They went to Mayfield, KY to help with the aftermath of the tornados there last December.
The Cajun Navy is one of those groups I try to donate to every storm season.
Cajuns do have a 'get 'er done' approach to life.
Cajun Navy are amazing
The Cajun Navy even rescued people in New England after Hurricane Sandy.
Texas will always be grateful to those men and women. Texas always has their backs too!!
My friend lived in Housten. When he bought his property he picked the highest piece of land in his development. He had water within 10 ft of his home. He watched his neighnorhood go under. Smart NJ Shore transplant He also had all his pipes wrapped when he built his house, contractor thought he was crazy...no broken pipes during the freeze in Wibter 2021.
I live in Conroe, TX, which is about 42 miles north of Downtown Houston. Harvey's reach extended well beyond Houston. Conroe also experienced significant flooding, property damage, power outages, etc. Rescues, evacuations, and emergency shelters were underway. My husband and I were blessed to be living at a higher elevation and were spared from the flooding and damage. This allowed us to focus on helping others where we could. Husband and I belong to a church that is able to serve as an emergency shelter (shower facility, washer/dryer, full kitchen, space for sleeping) and has an established "muck and gut" crew. We activated both services as soon as able. The aftermath was just as devastating as the hurricane itself, and the need was great. We continued to give assistance weeks after the hurricane had passed. Despite all of the danger and destruction, the one positive that came out of Harvey was the patchwork of people and organizations who came together to give aid and comfort to those who needed it. When we work together, we can accomplish amazing things.
The Cajun Navy are informal ad hoc volunteer groups comprising private boat owners who assist in search and rescue efforts in the United States as well as offer Disaster Relief assistance. These groups were formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and reactivated in the aftermaths of the 2016 Louisiana floods, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, the 2018 Hidalgo County flood, Hurricane Florence, Tropical Storm Gordon, Hurricane Michael, Hurricane Laura, and Hurricane Ida. They are credited with rescuing thousands of citizens during those disasters.
These groups draw their name from the region's Cajun people, a significant number of whom are private boat owners and skilled boat pilots. Their boats consist of a number of types, but are typically small vessels such as bass boats, jonboats, air boats, and other small, shallow-draft craft easily transported to flooded areas.
Harvey was my 4th Hurricane Ive been through, so I thought I was at least somewhat ready. The last storm, Hurricane Ike, Downtown Houston took a direct hit, and I only lost power for a week in that one. But with Harvey, It just would not stop raining. For days on end, almost non stop...we are talking Noahs ark type rain. Anyway, we didn't lose anything thank God, but I had neighbors who did. The main problem for us was, my neighborhood was slightly more elevated than the surrounding area, but all roads in and out of it were under water, so they couldnt restock our stores with food, fresh water, and supplies for what felt like a week. I was stuck in my apartment for 3 or four days, living on pop-tarts, peanut butter sandwiches, and water we keep ready just for times like this. After the rain stopped, and the water went down, that's when we had to worry about the black mold, especially if any water got into your house or apartment.
Cajun Navy is a group in Louisiana that helps in flooding. They probably do a lot of search & rescue also. There were already a lot of boats in Houston but the task was overwhelming. The National Guard, Team Rubicon, Operation Blessing, Salvation Army & many other groups helped out a lot too. Harvey persisted in the Houston area a little more than a week as I recall. It was supposed to blow through but it just kept hanging around & dropped a lot of rain. In most places the storm dropped about 5' of rain.
When Harvey hit Houston it had down graded to a tropical storm but it sat on top of Houston for 4 days & did not move
We had 4 days of straight rain. There was 30 minutes on day 3 where it stopped raining but then it picked right back up.
I’m in NE Houston & my neighborhood did not flood but everything around us did. We became an island. There was 16 ft of water near the overpass by Interstate 69/route 59
We had the equivalent of 3 years worth of rain dumped on us over a 4 day period (57 to 63 inches) After the rain stopped the water from the river & bayous were still rising.
It took 7 days for the water to drain off.
The Cajun Navy is a volunteer water rescue group from Louisiana that was form in the aftermath of Katrina. Their sister group, the Cajun Army are volunteers who go into flood damaged areas after the flood to help with clean up.
Harvey dropped 5 FEET of water on SE Texas. Many of us were posting (screaming) on social media ahead of Harvey to get to high ground, as the precipitation models kept calling for biblical mounts of rain. This storm was a monster
Luckily my home didn't flood in Harvey, but I had several friends who had water up to the roofs of their homes and they lost everything. 1 family I know had to be rescued out the 2nd floor windows and the people in boats floated right up to the window. They had 4 young kids. It was a long time before they could go inside their home and the first time they went in they literally kyaked through the house because the water was still so high. They were trying to see if their cat was still alive, and she was!
Omg! Im so glad they found their cat. But how scary and devastating. But wow. Their cat was tough!
Houston was devastated by flooding and water and my home area (Rockport, TX) took major damage as well, while there was massive amounts of water most of the damage was caused by the wind. The business I used to work at had our building destroyed which lead to me being unemployed for awhile and ultimately changing careers. Still a massive thank you to our Cajun neighbors for all of their help we will not forget it.
There's a few factors that made this storm a once-in-a-lifetime disaster for the Houston area:
- Hurricane Harvey intensified INCREDIBLY rapidly before making landfall, going from Tropical Storm to Category 4 overnight, meaning the storm was worse than most thought it'd be, hence the lack of evacuations and preparations
- After first making landfall, the storm practically came to a standstill - it took nearly a week between when Hurricane Harvey made landfall, and by the time it left TX altogether.
- Its path took it mostly along the Gulf shore, which not only let it continue to feed itself on warm air and moisture, but the gulf coast is fairly swampy and flat, meaning it doesn't really offer much resistance to a storm like mountains or forests might.
- Houston doesn't have any zoning laws, meaning that any kind of structure can go anywhere rather than having zones for residential, business, retail, etc., and because of this, a disproportionate amount of land is paved over, preventing soil from absorbing the water.
- Because hurricanes usually move quickly, most hurricane infrastructure is built mores for wind events rather than flooding
The one thing I would say is that any normal amount of rainfall Houston would’ve been ok. It’s the fact that there was 100+ inches of rain in some spots which is crazy. They normally don’t have to worry about soil because the water typically runs off since Houston is a bit elevated compared to the coast it typically runs toward the ocean. They dealt with the most rainfall over a short period of time ever. And it wasn’t close they shattered the record
It hit by Corpus too. Then stalled over Houston and Galveston which is hundreds of miles away…
This isn’t a once in a lifetime storm and those of us on the Gulf Coast have to recognize that. Before Katrina, people warned storms would be stronger and cause worse storm surge and flooding. Since Harvey, Laura and Ida both did the same thing. We have to build infrastructure to withstand winds and floods.
If you can find it, you should react to "when the levees broke." It's a 4 part documentary series about what happened during Hurricane Katrina.
this. he REALLY needs to see this. it tool place in what? 05? and theyre STILL trynna rebuild
Same with south Mississippi, still hasn’t fully recovered and still has a long way to go.
I can honestly say having lived this and with the city still to this day trying to rebuild, I have never been so scared for my life or that of my friends and family. We had to organize rescues of my grandparents, friends from the rooftop of their house, and my aunt had to evacuate on her own. The water damage was devastating. There is a freeway not too far from my house that I have traveled on my whole entire life, and the entire thing was completely under water. There were just endless hurricane, flash flood, and tornado warnings going off with the emergency broad cast system at all hours of the night. I made so many calls to family and friends to check and see if they were okay, and at one point my friends were on the news fleeing their apartment on foot with water up to their necks. It was absolute insanity. If anyone wants a sense of just how much water, you should see the youtube video: "Hurricane Harvey 2 years later: Buffalo Bayou time lapse (Credit: Teddy Vandenberg)"
I had never been through a hurricane before, I was very glad that we didn't take a direct hit, but the rain, it just seemed to never let up. We were so lucky because our street did not flood, others near us did, it was so scary and the nights...oh the nights were the worst. I am glad you made it through and hopefully all your family and friends did too. I've never been through anything like it, and hope I never see anything like it again.
@Kami Robey sorry you had to experience that. It was rough for almost anyone just seeing all that water that seemingly would never end. I like that the video touched on the support so many people gave because that was the truly beautiful thing that came out of so much heart break.
Insurance companies in the US don’t cover anything to do with flooding. You have to buy flood insurance from the federal government which most people can’t afford.
This storm came on shore rained, move a bit then came back and stopped. It rained so hard at one point that I could not see my neighbors house across the street. My house did not flood but everyone around me did, they had like 2-4 feet of water and we live close to the San Jancinto River along with a couple of bayous. When they were building my house I asked them to use all the dirt they did not use for other homes under construction and raise the property. So it sits an additional 8ft higher than my neighbors, the water from Harvey only came halfway up my driveway and we were blessed not to lose power the entire time. Well after the storm we were informed the front of our subdivision was under water, only two houses did not substain any water. I had 17 people in my home that home flooded, some people in our subdivision went house to house and evacuated people in those flooded homes during one of the heaviest rain period.
You should react to Hurricane Katrina…people were using axes to go through their roof and having to wait for days for help. Also when a Hurricane hits, people are in walking in the water, they are walking with chemicals, sewage, branches, glass, wild animals, in the water with them. When the water recedes then you have to worry about mold and the chemicals that have soaked into the Sheetrock and flooring.
When Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead, a lot of insurance companies went bankrupt. To put it in simple terms, people paid their insurance but were still not able to recoup their losses.
As others have commented, you need a flood insurance policy to pay for this damage. Most people don't purchase flood insurance unless they live in an area prone to flooding because it's so expensive. But due to climate change, floods have become more widespread. For example: In Tennessee, more areas were recently declared flood plains
Harvey was different than the typical hurricane in that it stalled out over southeast Texas, dumping rain at insane rates for days on end. My part of Houston had rain gauges register nearly 55 inches of rainfall in the four days of the storm. That's nearly 1.4 meters, Kabir. So much rain fell that the Scripps Oceanographic Institute calculated how much water was dumped on southeast Texas by measuring the deflection of the Earth's crust from the weight! Their result was 127 billion tons (or 34 trillion gallons) of water, 17 times the amount of water in Loch Ness.
Hurricane Harvey affected Houston primarily as a rain event (as opposed to wind) for about 4 days - 50 plus inches in total. I have numerous friends with 2-story homes that had their entire 1st floors destroyed. Some areas that had never flooded in the past was “intentionally” flooded, when the authorities did controlled releases from several dams that were worried were going to fail. This happened in the middle of the night when it would not have been safe to try to evacuate.
To answer your question about how to get rid of the water, it has to drain naturally. Houston has 5 bayous that are part of the drainage system. Those bayous flow into the Houston Ship Channel, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
It’s just A LOT of rain. It would’ve been hard to deal with that much rain either way no matter what city you are
I'm an insurance agent and was literally working the day Harvey hit. A tornado caused by Harvey's winds went through our parking lot while I was helping customers with their Total Loss Claims
I actually laughed out loud when you asked if the water could be pumped out during the storm. Where would you pump it to when the whole area is underwater?
I live in Southeast Texas, and this town is (on avg) 59' above sea level. After Harvey, downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it got here, dumped about 20 to 30 inches of rain, this town was isolated & most of it flooded. You don't want to be wading thru that nasty water, in addition to snakes (water moccasins) there are floating balls of fire ants and alligators.
The hwy going south - flooded; the hwy going northeast - flooded & a bridge collapsed; the hwy going northwest - flooded. Trucks couldn't get thru to make deliveries of food, gas, supplies. No Red Cross, no FEMA.
But we are knew we'd be OK, because we had an HEB (a Texas grocery store chain) and a Waffle House.
I have been thru storm preparations so many times thru the years, that I know what to do - and to start early.
The last time I evacuated was Aug. 2020 for Hurricane Laura.
Hurricane Harvey happened in late August 2017. Hurricane season. I live northeast of Houston. Luckily my house did not flood, but one of my brother's did. It rained for what seemed like forever! Unreal how quickly the water level rose at first and I've been in many floods. And it was COLD which is unusual. Typically it's hot, humid, and stifling! The amount of damage was indescribable!!!
We lost our previous home and probably 80% of our things in Harvey. Four of our dogs died the next week. Lived in a hotel for months. We did get another house that didn't need as much work. Honestly, I don't think we will ever completely be over it? And there are still condemned properties in the neighborhood. We were over by Beaumont, and the water was between the kitchen counter and cupboards inside.
So if someone could invent an exhaust fan that doesn't sound like the hurricane, that would be great!
The Cajun Navy is a volunteer organization that is super prepared for these sort of disasters - they really came about after Katrina. The crazy thing is that most of the ppl displaced by Katrina ended up in Houston and lost everything again. Houston wasn’t even in the path - that is what was crazy. My cousin who is an emt in houston was down in Corpus to help people there. My cousins who are linemen (power lines, not football) were out of houston, but were in Corpus… Rockport, Port Aransas - they got the wind damage and storm surge, but Houston got the flooding.
And lol, if you don’t have “flood insurance,” you’re screwed.
The deadliest part of a hurricane is not the wind, it is the storm surge which is the water that floods the area.
Kabir, living through this natural disaster was a nightmare that lasted four days. The water eventually runs off. It's drinking water that is the problem, there isn't any unless you buy ahead.. I saw the water rise 51inches from my second floor window. There are people still rebuilding in 2022. It was hit and miss, one home unharmed and next door ruined. To see the flooded cars all over the area in parking lots was mind boggling. People have flood insurance, they tear up their homes and throw away everything that got wet. Mold is a huge problem after a storm growing in wet homes, they don't waste a minute . I have been through five catastrophic hurricanes. I didn't lose anything but a sense of safety in the summer months. Nothing can stop these storms, it's like waiting for a train to hit you or miss you. You have so many questions about this video. I thought I'd try. It's hardest for those who have no resources to evacuate to a hotel out of the storm surge area or with family. Houston is so large some areas are not in the storm surge area. Thank you for listening. It's still a good place to live
Unlike tornadoes, hurricanes don't sneak up on you. The National Weather Service follows tropical storms as they come off the coast of west Africa and all across the Atlantic. It takes a week or more to reach the US. You have to pay attention and get out if your home is in the path of the storm.
I live south of Houston and my house has a river running behind it, at the bottom of a 15-foot gully. Harvey dumped 34 inches of rain in 24 hours just to the west of me and that water had to drain through the river. Overnight the water level rose 20 feet, the river rose out of its banks and came right up to my fence line. If that rain had continued falling west of me and the river rose another 3 feet my house would have flooded. Luckily the worst of the rain moved further north. I never lost power so I I had my computer and TV for the news and weather updates, refrigeration so I could cook. But I spent days watching the water level, moving all my possessions higher up, and loading up the car in case I had to get out (though there was nowhere to go since all the streets around my neighborhood were flooded.)
Harvey was an unusual storm, it came up thru the Gulf of Mexico like most storms, but then kind of "stalled" and "bounced" along the coast for four or five days - bringing absolutely TORRENTIAL rains over a wide area. It dropped upwards of 40 inches of rain in many areas. It did over $125 BILLION in damages. The geography around Houston is kinda flat- it is naturally slow to drain- so when the extreme levels of rain came there was just no where for the water to go... it took weeks and weeks for some regions to drain.
Going through Harvey, It did not really effect me nearly as severely as other people but it rained four days straight. Strangely Hurricane Ike effected me more than hurricane Harvey.
I was effected more by Ike and the big freeze last year than Harvey. I just lost power during Ike, but it hit during the hottest part of the year. Houston, (Gulf Coast) Texas, temps at 95-100 degrees, with 90-99% humidity with no AC is not fun
Yeah we had a neighbor's tree fall, and damage our house during Ike, and were without power for 21 days. We got lucky, and after a week of no power we found out that Pep-Boys was getting a shipment of generators in, and were selling them just above cost. We got our name on a list, and were told the truck should be there at 8 that night. We got a 5500 Watt Generator, and it was able to run our Refrigerator, 3 box fans, 2 TV, 2 Satellite TV Boxes, 4 lights, 2 computers, and the Modem without issue. I had a very nice propane grill at the time, so we used it for all of our cooking. It had a side burner, and even a built in smoker so we had options. Harvey didn't bother me much as I lived on a hill.
Same here. Ike knocked down a tree near my house that took out part of my roof. We had to cook what meat we could out of the deep freeze on a propane camp stove and a bbq pit as it thawed out. Some we gave to other family members since there was only 3 or 4 of us here to eat it and we didn't want to waste it.
The Cajun Navy is a volunteer effort from Louisiana. They help us….we help them. They are awesome! I live in Houston and Harvey was crazy! I have so many friends whose house flooded. Flood waters came within 5 blocks of my house. The water eventually receded ….mainly as the rain stopped and the bayous were able to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of my friends rebuilt and some moved.
Houston is connected to the Gulf of Mexico with the Houston Ship Channel. The city has waterways called bayous, which storm drains run in to, that dump into the Gulf. Most of the water was gone within 2 or 3 days. Auto Insurance will cover flooding but only if you carry full coverage. Lots of people only carry liability, the min required by law. They are out of luck. The same for people without flood insurance. It's separate. Homeowners insurance doesn't cover flooding.
I remember Hurricane Harvey vividly, me and my mom stayed at a convention center in Stafford (a small city in the Greater Houston area) and I remember seeing the hurricane pass by, oh my lord it was horrific. I’ll never forget it.
I live in the Houston area and have been though many storms, but this is the first time our house flooded. But we were lucky. We only got a few inches in the house. But the water got high enough in 2 of our cars that they were totalled, and a 3rd needed some repairs but did survive. But my brother had just bought a house and fixed it up right before Harvey. His house is on a hill, but he still got 6 feet of water in his house. It took a week for the water to receed enough for us to get into the house. In the meantime, he and his 2 dogs came to stay with us and helped us pull out the wet base boards and carpet and such in our house. It was about 6 months before his house was repaired enough to live in. But it took another 6 months to complete the repairs. He didn't have flood insurance, so he had to pay for most of the repairs himself.
I was in Beaumont, we left after the rain stopped but the water treatment facility failed as the river rose far beyond capacity because we had an infant. The locals and Cajun Navy were often our biggest help because our boats were lower displacement than the Coast Guard so they didn't push so much more water into the homes doing rescues. When the water facility pumps went down a local company diverted fracking pumps they were about to ship out to rig in such a way as to let us pump into the treatment plant while we waited for the flooding to go down enough to get the system back online, it had never been tried before but was worth a shot to keep the city going. Coca-cola reached out to the authorities, who coordinated with the Cajun Navy to use their hovercraft, to break into the distribution center and bring out the drinks that were sitting there to give to people so there was something potable to drink.
You have to have flood insurance and most don’t have that. Hurricane Irene flooded my state of Vermont and since most don’t have flood insurance they had to use FEMA which pays bare minimum like $35 per window, you can’t buy a window for $35
hurricane season is the longest season of the year here, there can be dozens of hurricanes and tropical storms. we camt predict the weather persay, the news usually starts reporting on them when they in the gulf and about a week away at the most. then the hurricane ends up changing direction and heads to the next state over. people ask why we dont leave, imagine leaving town dozens of times every year and maybe one of the times a hurricane actually hit your town.
You'll get comments from people who don't know better claiming that Houston was going to flood no matter what, but absolutely no city can handle a universal 30 inches of rain with widespread amounts of 40 to 60 inches of rain. Pretty much every river, creek, and bayou reached record flood levels. A 100 ft deep retention area behind two dams that served as a dry park most of the time nearly over topped and would have disintegrated the earthen dams protecting central Houston if not for a controlled release that destroyed 5,000 homes. My parents saw 55 inches of rain in four days but didn't flood. Even after $150 billion in damage, Houston has already rebuilt, and it's well past Harvey and even pre-pandemic economic levels. The people down there are extremely resilient and form a very tight-knit community.
The Cajun navy came to our rescue ! I had family trying to get to my house from Houston and it was so bad. The freeway was stopped by people that ran out of gas sitting in traffic. After a full day stuck on the freeway with little to no water or food my family made close enough for me to get to them. My 4 bedroom house was full. I didn’t care if I could put them in a dry house with food and water. We made it where others didn’t. My thoughts and prayers still go out to them.
Harvey happened 6 years ago this month, and it is still the most devastating thing I've ever been through. My father in law died 5 days before it happened, so we couldn't even have his funeral for over a month because everything was destroyed. It was horrible. Watching this video brought all of the feelings back, and I'm crying so bad right now. 😢
hurricane harvey sat over houston for a week straight. we got an entire years worth of rain in 5 days
I live 30 miles east of Houston tiny town called Liberty and this is pretty common here. I live in between Louisiana and Houston so when they get hurricanes or t.s. interstate 90 and interstate 10 is always packed with cars ready for rescue. Texas and Louisiana are its own heroes. We take care of each other. Thank God for Cajun Navy.
I was living in Dallas when Harvey happened. Even that far away (a lil less than 200 miles) we got a LOT of rain and flooding. Of course nothing like Houston got. It was heartbreaking seeing the footage. Texas weather can be no joke sometimes.... ☁️
Cajun Navy is a volunteer group that aids in rescue efforts. You probably could've ascertained that from the legends under their names as well as the shirts they were wearing.
It pulled up over us after hitting Houston and then just sat there. Day after day, couldn’t even tell the radar was updating. Not always hard rain, but always raining. Eventually there’s just nowhere left for it to go, so up it comes. And then it just. Kept. Raining.
I lived in a flood-prone area for awhile. The damage that water can cause to a home is stunning. The home doesn't even necessarily have to fill with water itself to be considered a total loss. Just the mold & mildew damage alone (especially in humid environments) can be enough to require the house be completely gutted down to the frame and rebuilt from the inside. In a "flood-prone" area, flood insurance is mandatory. You'll only get a loan for the house by agreeing to obtain "flood insurance". In non flood prone areas, flood insurance is usually not mandatory, so if the property gets "totaled" (a total loss) by the insurance company, the homeowner bears all the loss and cost, because they still have an active loan agreement (to pay) with the lender, on a home that's unlivable. Sad, but it's great to see people step up to the plate and bat for those less fortunate.
7:32 The only thing they can do Kabir, is wait for the waters to recede naturally. That could be as little as a matter of hours or as long as a matter of days (or weeks) depending on the drainage (sewer) infrastructure . 10:58 If you rent an apartment that gets destroyed, you lose your residence but the building owner suffers a greater loss if not "Flood Insured". As for any of the renter's furniture and personal belongings, the renter should have obtained "Content Insurance", otherwise that is all a loss. Many renters do not obtain 'Content Insurance' because it's another monthly expense added to their monthly rent and utility, cellphone, food & vehicle expenses.
We always had renters insurance. 45 years ago it was well affordable. Cheaper than trying to replace everything you own. Every year as homeowners, we pay around $4,000 for flood, windstorm and homeowners insurances. It sure came in handy when we had to have new roofs and siding replaced due to a hail storm.
I suggest watching and reacting to some videos about the Cajun Navy as well as the monster trucks that helped rescue people during Harvey. One of the groups with monster trucks was "rednecks with paychecks" and there's a video out there with them hauling one of the military trucks out of the flood waters as well as people going around and rescuing people are bringing them supplies because they could drive through the flood waters.
I always forget that ppl outside of North America are ignorant of these tragedies.
We were here during Harvey. We had our yearly rainfall in a matter of hours
The US Government doesn’t do much to help people during disasters like this. Volunteers help pick up the pieces.
Kabir, when planning your trip to the states, check out the weather conditions before you come. What I mean is, NYC is not great to travel to in late October, early November because we get hit with a lot of nor’easters which has resulted in serious flooding. The US is big and different weather systems occur in different parts of the country. I’m from NYC but I wouldn’t travel to see my folks in Alabama towards the end of the summer because it’s hurricane season in the south during that time of the year. Tourists never seem to research weather conditions before traveling here.
The Cajun Navy is a volunteer rescue group. They do amazing work.
I got lucky but not by much. The water was about 12 feet from my front door. I still remember the manhole covers gushing excess water. The first day or two wasn’t bad besides everything being flooded but on day 3 or so, the water started to smell like sewage and it was god awful until the water had fully receded.
Hey man. I moved to north Houston in 2007 so i been through IKE and Harvey. Harvey was the worst hurricane next to Katrina to hit the south gulf. Harvey was worst in Texas history. Cause it lingered over for days. My father was working in Nashville and my sister in virgina and so i was taking care of my mother and my dog. I just got back from the Navy.
Houston is below sea level but they have bayous throughout the but the rain sat over the city without moving and overwhelmed the sewer system. The water eventually flowed through the bayous out to the Gulf of Mexico.
My church hosted Samaritan’s Purse for 4 or 5 months…..volunteers from all over the country would come for days or weeks to help people muck out there houses. You have to rip up carpet and cut the dry wall off the studs so that mold does not start growing.
You do not move cars or trucks that are underwater. The water must recede and then you can get a tow truck to move it. By the way,once a car in been it deep water, it cannot be fixed without spending a ton of money. Insurance companies with "total a car" and write a check for the cars value depending on the car owners insurance policy. To total something in insurance speak means the car cannot be fixed. -- it is broken beyond repair. In most cases, once water get into the engine, the car is totaled.
We received 5 feet of rain in 3 or 4 days near Beaumont, Texas, where I live. As you can see, we have some of the best neighbors in the world in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. We are hardened to a sharp edge, and know how to come together. I am blessed to have been born and raised here
Typical insurance does not cover hurricane or flood damages. Separate coverage must be purchased must be at a very steep cost. In some places insurance can only be purchased from the government because the insurance companies will not write policies in for those high risk areas.
Louisiana and Texas have a huge bond cause we took care of the people who fled katrina and the irrigation systems of Houston and it's whole metro side is terrible, we have bayou but Lake Conroe where I live has to open its flood gates and it floods all the way down the east side of Houston into Lake Houston. The water will eventually go down but it took 2 or 3 weeks till the flooding was done.
I was going to school in Houston during Harvey, and my buddy had a john boat that we were cruising around with trying to help people out, since it was a fishing boat he had his depth gauge on there, and the highest i saw it get was 37 feet of water. It was unreal.
Something that is different about the Southern states, besides the normal rain gutters but the streets are designed to channel water down stream. When it stops raining it recedes fairly quickly except for low spots where puddles form
I survived Harvey. And the funny thing is the storm didn't actually hit Houston we just got a ton of rain. I was lucky. My apartment complex is on a hill. Coworkers were not as lucky. Had co-workers who were actually in their homes when the rain fell and water started to pour in their homes. They had to evacuate by boat. Some areas were worse than others because Houston is huge. And they were many who had to evacuate their homes because their homes were flooded.
Harvey was estimated around $125 billion in damage.
That's the American spirit. At the end of the day we help each other when it comes down to it.
This video gave me total anxiety. We live in Florida and hurricane season starts June 1st. Hurricane Irma was the last to batter us in 2017. The dread and fear has really gotten to be too much.
The flooding in Houston was worse than usual because 2 reservoirs overflowed which flooded neighborhoods that didn't normally flood. My stepson and his family lost their house, 3 vehicles and everything he had inherited from his dad and grandmother.
I live in SouthEast Tx and I remember how bad this was and we were out of power for a few weeks
Where I live near Beaumont, TX (90 miles east of Houston) there were people in boats rescuing people from neighborhoods. Some of their boat motors were hitting cars that were completely submerged.
The water eventually drains, and what doesn't drain is slowly pumped out. Not everyone has full coverage for there car. If somone has full coverage, there car will be repaired, or replaced, but many people just have liability coverage which only covers the other person's car in an accident. Those people are screwed. When it comes to water damage to a house, any furniture that contacted water is lost. Any drywall that contacted water has to be removed, and any wood that contacted water is sprayed with a mold killing chemical. A couple inches of water in your house can cost tens of thousands in damage. People in flood prone areas have flood insurance, which helps with some of the costs, but anyone who isn't required to get flood insurance typically avoids getting it, so somone who lives outside a flood zone, but experiences a hundred year flood is screwd. They end up in temporary housing, and those who can't afford to fix there house, or move to another place end up homeless.
I live in Beaumont, TX. About 1.5 hours east of hours east of Houston. Some places here got 60 inches of rain during Harvey.
Cajun = lousiana they saved alot of people when lousiana was under water.. houston is not far from the Texas/La border
Insurance isn't always as simple as "it will cover it". particularly if you live in a flood zone. flood insurance is an extra insurance that can be rather expensive, and if you don't get floods in your area very much then a lot of people will not carry it. and if you are renting, your vehicle will not be covered by your renters policy so you have to carry extra flood on your vehicle. home owners flood will cover your vehicle if it is parked on your property when the flood occurs. and even if you do have flood insurance and it covers everything, the insurance companies will come in after the fact and raise rates on flood coverage for effected properties to the point that it is cost prohibitive to carry it if there are 2 or more floods in recent history. there used to be mechanisms in place that prevented insurance companies from doing that, but in the last 15 or so years there has been an increasing attempt at reclaiming land and putting it back to natural for flood control zones. so if you live in one of those locations you basically are taking the risk on all yourself should a flood occur.
The drywall can start molding and mildewing within days when its warm too. Its all got to be ripped out.
Harvey was awful, but hurricane Katrina absolutely ravaged New Orleans, idk the official numbers but something like 300,000 people relocated from New Orleans to the Houston area after Katrina, because there was nothing to go back to.
I live in Houston And the water got all the way up to my mailbox. We all had to rush out and clear debris from the storm drains to get the water to drain. It was up to my waist at least and damn cold. Not only do you have to worry about snakes but there's floating isles of fire ants that cling together and will grab onto anything that floats including you.
I remember the fire ants 😭
@@JETT_____ I seriously don't understand the need for fire ants or mosquitoes in the ecosystem. They're literally just the devil's servants.
@@JoshuaC0rbit fax bruh, they just a bit too much
I'm in Houston Texas & I remembered this tragic. & I've helped a lot by donating. & my townhouse didn't get flooded , power still on. But, drive way was flooded
Yes they had to do a lot of repairs but building supplies were in short supply. So many need the supplies. Insurance did little for most people because they did not have very expensive flood insurance ..
The Houston Astro Dome was used as an evacuation center. In the panhandle of Texas we took in some refugees and a few still live here.
It’s the black mold that sets in if you don’t dry it out right or replace the drywall, moldings, and insulation
I’ve been through a total of 9 hurricanes in my life, the 2 worst hurricanes that I’ve experienced was HURRICANE ISABEL in Puerto Rico back in 2003 and the worst one out of the two was SUPER STORM SANDY back in 2012 when I was living back home in New York.
Even with insurance these things take time, and then you have a ton of people putting in claims all at once. So even with insurance you will be waiting a long time. Also once a car has been flooded like that it take a lot to get it working again so yea it is smarter to just get a new car, but usually you have to wait til that money comes in to do so.
I was in Andrew. Luckily we lived in Ft.Lauderdale about 30 miles north of the worst. We still had no power for two weeks.
I remember this. We couldn't go help down there but a lot of friends here in Dallas, we took in those that had been displaced.
The insurance may cover the value of the car no more if the car was total .
Flood insurance is a separate insurance you have to buy, flooding is not covered by regular policies, and it's mega expensive! Many people don't have it.
I’m not from the south I’m from the east coast in Philly so hurricane Harvey for me was just flooding, but not as bad as this, and scary storms
The Cajun Navy was formed by citizens during Katrina.
Fire ants and snakes collected in the water. We are north of Houston. We had rain, of course, but we didn't flood. For that we were thankful. We have a generator so we never lost power. You have to wait for the water to drain into the Gulf. You have to have specific flood insurance. General home owner's insurance doesn't cover much. There is nothing more damaging than water and fire. With he heat in his area, mold can grow between the walls. It's a 'start over' situation.
KABIR...I've had to run from TWO hurricanes; you'd be surprised at the people who "step-up" to help. FOR INSTANCE, you asked about "The Cajun Navy"; these people are from Louisiana (the name" Cajun navy")...THIS group came FROM Louisiana to help STRANGERS... Yes, Harvey WAS disastrous...but, then, so was Rita, and more: dealing with hurricanes' aftermath is fairly regular in southeast Texas... Thanks for showing this: (Kabir...DISONANCE is ONE of the reactions following such an event; Kabir...not everyone had insurance...). 😐👣
There's MORE: ONE town that was "hit" by Rita still have homes (damaged) STILL have blue covers over their roofs. It's NOT a cheerful experience; BUT...HELP
Those huge trucks come in handy during diasters.
I used to live in Boston and I’ve been in a few. It sucks. I literally moved to the desert/mountains of New Mexico so I wouldn’t have to deal with that shit anymore. Houston is one of the largest most populated cities in the U.S. and had literally billions of dollars in damage from Harvey.
Thing with Harvey, it came up stopped right before San Antonio, then came back down, which caused the flood. I lived in Victoria, Texas, the city where eye went over
Check out the storm of 1800
Hurricane is a must see
Galveston Tx
Storm 1900 no joke that’s fasho. Most deaths in 24 hours by 1 US event in history, at least until COVID hit.