Posting a live traffic camera site for the entire Houston area/not what you'd expect

Were the traffic lights swinging on Tuesday when you started to watch? They should have been. Who cleaned or cleared the streets that fast? Where are all the blown out windows? The USD has been sinking all week. Right now its 92.73 so its up from this morning. A barrel of oil was higher. This evening its lower. Now we have gas shortages everywhere. That would be good for the USD and oil. But the prez said he was going to release reserves from Cushing all of the sudden oil is down. Something is rotten in demark for sure. My nephews girlfriend accused my sister of "fake panic". Her exact words. I thought that was so strange at the time. The girlfriend is 3 miles from brothers house in friendswood, took a pic and they were high and dry, but once again no sign of any kind of storm. The weird thing is she took it through the slats of her blinds. Guess what she does for a living, insurance claims ajuster. 9/1 the insurance law changes that makes it almost impossible to despute what the ajuster says your claim is worth. You now have to pay all court costs and legal fees. Where am I going with this? I don't know, but I do know its bugging the crap out of me.

I was watching a live feed from a storm chaser that was parked in a car wash

He was going on and on about the zero visibility and the hundred mph wind.

You could actually see for about two hundred yards and also a guy walked by, lol.

Your lucky if you can even stay on your feet with a hundred mph wind.

It's not difficult to understand how easily a house can be flooded. Usually when a new house is built, the contractor first strips the topsoil away and puts it in a big pile. Then they dig the hole for the foundation and lay up either block or erect forms and pour solid walls. The house is built either on the foundation or on a poured slab.

What I'm finding is that when the house is finished, the ground goes straight to the foundation, and the ground is not sloped up at the walls. Concrete block typically breaks for whatever reason, especially if there were shortcuts made when the footer was poured. Through these cracks, water does seep. Sometimes each house in a plat has a shared basement drain, linking all the houses together with nothing added to the drain to make sure it's one-way. When water backs up at wherever that drain empties into, water also goes back through the drain and enters each basement at a corner sump pit.

Near Canal Winchester, Ohio there was an area on a former farm land where massive pumps were used to lower the water table, so that the contractors could build luxury homes with a full basement, that would stay mostly dry.

To maximize land use, I feel homes are built without regard to future possible flooding, because that would entail purchasing extra dirt to raise the house's foundation up out of a flood zone.

Where are the broken or boarded up windows?

I live in League City, right next to Dickinson, halfway between Galveston on 45 South 5 minutes from Nasa. Yes the pictures are real. Yes there was massive biblical flooding, it rained for days straight. The water has drained off in a lot of places, mainly off the freeways which is where the cameras on the transtar traffic site are showing. I've been watching this map myself and found it safe enough to go across Houston yesterday to go pick up a check. There are still flooded areas with many damaged and destroyed houses. Houston is a massive area. I can understand the disbelief, it really was a surreal situation and now the water has drained off for the most part here.

Oh and to add, our grocery stores are picked clean, and lots of stores still have boarded up windows and sand bags up. The gas supplies are random, some places have it and others don't. We have a curfew still I think, all the stores have been closing by 3 or 5.

Nothing is broken. Anybody remember the dress? Some people saw one color and others saw it different? The auto industry was a failure, but not now. My brother has to replace 2. The replacement estimate is 500,000. Makes a very nice dent for an ailing industry.

Yep! None from the general public anyway.

Here is another thing. The amount of military presence. Did you know the actual marines are in friendswood? Is Houston actually the sex traffic capital of the world? Sometimes you have to hurt the host to kill the vermin.

Love you guys. Thank you for figuring this out.

As I said in the other stupid thread like this, I still haven't heard from my friend with family in the flooded areas. But I did see news photos of one street over from where one of those family members live, and it was definitely flooded. Not in Houston, in La Grange. And another family member of that friend lives in a Houston area that got evacuated, and I have seen news aerial footage of that exact area and neighborhood, along the Brazos river, and parts of the subdivision were flooded. Not 100% of the subdivision, but a great portion of it.

I'm near the Austin area myself. We definitely got high winds and some ponding of water, and we were at the furthest edge of the storm. If we got enough rain for ponding, I don't doubt that further south got even more rain for flooding. No, I don't have photos of the ponding nor did I take photos of the wires arcing in Austin or of the tree debris that was everywhere when I ran errands a few days ago. Because I have a life.

Then again, I'm sure almost nothing would be considered actual proof anyway by people that want to claim nothing happened. Any photo, any video will get dismissed as being from some previous event or as being photoshopped.

And you should also be asking people from places like Memphis to chime in, because I believe they were getting flooding from the same storm today. Louisiana, too. So all those people would have to be liars as well.

It's easy for bots.

Do you or hubby work in the medical or pharma industry?

What was figured out? Thanks

There are really no basements or foundation walls in Houston since the ground never freezes there is no need for deep frost footings.

Morons periscope users showed the flooded neighborhoods on the day of. Saw it myself for hours! Dipshits.

[link to twitter.com (secure)] this shows a view from above of flood waters going into the ocean

I trust this guy too and he says he has family there

[link to truthfarmer.com (secure)]

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There aren't any traffic cams in neighborhood streets.

I wish I knew how to post video so you can see the devastation several neighborhoods around me is suffering right now.

Streets upon streets of homes with Sheetrock, carpet, furniture all piled up on their lawns right now.

Come down to Houston, op.

When you get here post on this thread, or make one announcing you've arrived, and I'll give you a personal tour.

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Our area didn't have a lot of high winds. It was all water damage and falling tree damage.

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I have a lot of cell phone images on my phone.
As do many people in Houston.

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First one can be photoshopped
second is asking for donations ...

How are trees falling if there is no wind??????

We weren't hit by high wind.

We got the outer band of the hurricane and it was all water.

Rick port got the wind damage.

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The trees were water logged.

It doesn't take much for them to fall over once the ground they are in is completely saturated.

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I know people who have been down there on boats saving people...

I'm sure they aren't ALL bullshitting.

There are a lot of outer regions of houston flooding. A family member of mines whole town almost is still flooded where this family member cannot leave the house

As a person who actually looked at the traffic came DURING the rain - it was flooded all over the place.

One of the weathermen on KHOU was regularly looking at them live on air to check status - there was flooding all over.

When rescuers are using on/off ramps as boat launches, live on tv from many locations - there was flooding all over.

It's now 2 days past the event, Houston is built on bayous - this gives them plenty of ground to quickly drain. And with the help of levee breaks downstream, it gave the water someplace to actually go.

OP - you are really off base on this theory. And you also have no idea about topography. Houston isn't flat - it's not going to flood equally. But much of it did flood - from mere inches to many feet.

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Wait...is op posting live camera, as in today?

Oh ffs...the water is receding and most of it is in the gulf, the lakes, creeks and bayous now.

Does op have screen shots of sat-tues?

And you all do realize that neighborhoods do not have live cameras...right?


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Come on down to Houston...when you get here, post a thread, I'll drive you around personally...you can see the aftermath for yourself.

Let me know when you arrive.

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Good idea! You drive around and post the aftermath here!
Thanks