Monday, August 28, 2017

We Hope Harvey Won't Be Another Hurrican Katarina

   Experts said the aftermath of the catastrophic hurricane could equal the level of destruction of Katrina in 2005

Thousands of people are trapped on their rooftops in flooded Houston and are desperately pleading for help after Hurricane Harvey left much of America's fourth largest city underwater 

Our heart goes to the people of Texas as thousands are reportedly trapped on their rooftops in flooded Houston

 Residents have turned to social media with pleas for help as the Houston police department asked any civilians with boats to join them and assist with the more than 6,000 calls for rescues. Pictured: People in Dickinson, outside of Houston, on Sunday
  Evacuees wade down a flooded section of Interstate 610 as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise in Houston Sunday
  Flooded downtown is seen from a high rise along Buffalo Bayou after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf coast with rain causing widespread flooding in Houston
 Residents in Houston abandoned their cars after becoming stuck in flood waters on Telephone Road on Sunday afternoon 
 Neighbors are using their personal boats to rescue flooded Friendswood residents. Officials have asked civilians with boats to aid in the rescue mission 
 Jesus Rodriguez rescues Gloria Garcia after rain from Hurricane Harvey flooded Pearland, in the outskirts of Houston
 Two people walk down a flooded section of Interstate 610 in floodwaters on Sunday in Houston, Texas
 Thousands of people are trapped on their rooftops in flooded Houston and are desperately pleading for help after Hurricane Harvey left much of America's fourth largest city underwater 
 Highways lay submerged in water where abandoned cars bobbed alongside rescue boats taking residents to safety after 130mph winds and unprecedented floods swept through the southeast pocket of the state on Friday and Saturday
 Texas National Guard soldiers help citizens in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. The areas in and around Houston and south Texas are experiencing record floods after more than 24 inches of rain
  People walk among stalled cars in a Houston neighborhood that was flooded by Harvey on Sunday
 Residents use a truck to navigate through flood waters from Harvey in Houston on Sunday 
         A group of young men removed their shirts to push a truck through the flood water in Houston on Sunday 
  An eighteen wheel tractor trailer is stranded on Interstate Highway 45 which is submerged from the effects of Harvey
  In residential areas of Houston, 4x4s floated in the flood water as yet more rain pounded the city 
  Wilford Martinez (bottom) grabs a median as he is rescued from his flooded car in Houston on Sunday. More than 1,000 rescues were made over Saturday and Sunday 
  As the region braced itself for more devastation in the coming days, the president was upbeat in his analysis of the increasingly dire situation saying the 'good news' was there was 'talent on the ground' and congratulated 'all levels of government' for its strong response to the disaster. Pictured: Aerial image of Rockport
                     Fifteen residents of La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, had to be evacuated by helicopter on Sunday because the facility was flooded with waist-deep water. They were rescued after this picture went viral

                       A woman in Houston pleaded for someone to rescue her friend and the woman's  five children
                      The family escaped to their roof where they reportedly waited for some time before they were eventually rescued
   A family evacuates their Meyerland home in Houston. Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help Sunday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey rose high enough to begin filling second-story homes
  The main street is covered by flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in Dickinson, Texas on Sunday 
  Survivors cower from the rain under their jackets and life jackets after being rescued on a boat on Sunday in Houston 

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