Galveston reports- Katrina II

From US Rep Nick Lampson on local TV (ABC13 Houston)

Too little communication. FEMA too big. Too large of a beauracracy.

Praising county judge and mayors

Expressing concern about outlying communities to Galveston/Houston.

Distribution of MRE's coming.

He does not know when additional fuel will arrive.

re: Bolivar - He hasn't been told #fatalities. No idea of why media is being kept out of Bolivar. Process should be open.

Basic supplies not in place before hurricane.

re: Orange/Bridge City - Totally impassable



Interview just finished. ABC13
[link to flhurricane.com]

Try [link to www.wunderground.com]

Thank God for glp.
At least some of us are getting the truth.

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WOW this thread really bloomed.
Good info... EVERYONE!
I will put together a list of what I am taking. Anyone want to scrutinize it feel free. Will post it in a few.
Also, I heard (remember my inlaws are in my house and are on the phone constantly) that I may be Wednesday before I can go, another source said next week.

Oh and thanks for the pin.

This breaks my heart because people just don't see what is happening to them.

It's like watching Atlantis sink b4 our very eyes.

many bed ridden elderly were on the list to leave, and were completely left behind. A few were finally rescued by boat, but others were just plain forgotten. No link, watched it on KHOU.

Something about this whole thing stinks.

The Fed is saying the "rescued" 2000 people but only 9 people have died? So am I to guess they have almost a 2000% success rate as far as rescues vs deaths? Some number is off either the number rescued or the number dead or both.

You can't rescue a dead person.

Watch out for the snakes. Nobody has mention the SNAKES!!

On one of the many threads on Ike one poster said that the mayor of Galveston took too long to make up her mind from stay to go and when she said to leave it was already too late.

Don't know how true that is but I remember reading that by a person there or near there. I don't remember which thread.

READ LAST POST here:

[link to www.bolivarchamber.org]

Under:

"By Christy @ Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:02 PM
HURRICANE IKE:"


Did not reproduce it here, as I have not see it anywhere else yet. Short end of it. Bolivar is 90% destroyed if this is real.

What are these things in the vid at about 12:20??
[link to www.khou.com]

That appears to be real.

[link to jakeabby.com]

Packing List-
Any input is appreciated!!
Hitch Tote
10 days worth MRE’s
Giant Cooler – 50 Gal (will fill with ICE and put dry ice on top)
Case of Cokes
Beef Jerky
15 Gallons of drinking water
25 Dixie Cups
Hand Sanitizer
Sanitizer Wipes
Baby Wipes
Toilet Paper
Portable Toilet w/ bags
20 Gal Aux Fuel Tank- mounted to Hitch Tote and painted flat black
Fuel Siphon
Hand Powered Fuel Pump
Funnel
N95 Masks
Latex Gloves
Comprehensive First Aid Kit
Tools, Battery Powered all charged and power brick to charge from SUV
Deck Screws
Multi-tool
Fubar (yes I own a tool that’s actually called a fubar) [link to www.stanleytools.com]
Work Gloves
Gorilla Tape
Cell Phone
Ipod and earphones
12v Charger for both
12v powered mini compressor
2 cans fix a flat (I know it’s crap but will get you out of a jam)
Bungie Cords
Giant Zip Ties
Contractor Bags
Headlight and extra batteries (kind you wear on your head)
Propane lantern
Mini Propane Stove
Light sticks
Mosquito Spray
Mosquito net
Sleeping Bag
Pillow
Night Vision Goggles
Tactical Knife
XD-40 w/ 3 xtra capacity mags
AR-15 w/ 3 30rd mags
Binoculars
Digital Camera
Video Camera
3 changes of clothes

Oh, we get it alright...Just give my money back that went to the "US" Government.

Was anyone else watching the KHOU feed on Directv earlier tonite? They were showing live video from the station Helo was they flew over Galveston and Bolivar.

My God. The devastation is absolutely horrific. Galveston was hit hard but was saved from total destruction by the seawall. Still, incredible damage and flooding is very evident. But Bolivar has nearly been WIPED OUT. The maps will have to be redrawn. Practically every single home and business has been destroyed in Crystal Beach, Gilchrist, and High Island. These little communities are gone, GONE.

Unless every single person out there left the peninsula, which is highly unlikely, then there's no way anyone could have survived. The death toll HAS to be in the hundreds, if not thousands.

And yet, there is an absolute news blackout across the board on this. An Houston is on the verge of total collapse. People will soon be rioting for the basics, gas, food, ice, water.

This makes Katrina look like a picnic.

POINT

the vid you are talking about is the one i posted above, i'm trying to figure out what those things around that start at about 12 minutes in.

Why do you say Huston is on the verge of social breakdown.

One of the stories from that link:

"By Chris Paschenko - The Galveston Daily News @ Saturday, September 13, 2008 8:11 PM
Bolivar Peninsula communities were covered by the storm surge from Hurricane Ike’s early Saturday landfall, and residents told harrowing stories of how they survived by floating until the waters receded.

Texas National Guard helicopters flew many of the evacuees from across the county to a staging area at the Texas City school district’s Stingaree Stadium parking lot, where they were loaded onto buses bound for Austin.

Two military helicopters landed at 3:50 p.m. and unloaded about a dozen people and their pets.

While waiting to board a bus, Kathi Norton and her husband Paul Norton said they endured the storm surge from their Crystal Beach home about two blocks from the seaside.

”We got a late start to get out Friday, and there was two feet of water,” Kathi Norton said. “There was no way we could get out, because rollover pass was flooded.”

As the waves pounded on the Nortons’ home standing on 14-foot stilts, they felt the floors buckle.

About midnight, the couple left the home and they watched as it rolled over onto their flagpole.

”We floated on staircases, anything we could get a hold of,” Kathi Norton said. “We floated until about 4 a.m. Roofs were coming at us. It was not a pretty picture.”

As the water receded, the Nortons, who lived on Gulf Shores Drive, waded in waist-deep surf to the Crystal Beach post office. They said few homes and none of the businesses withstood the storm.

”My husband made me wear a life jacket inside our house,” Norton said. “Thank God for that or I couldn’t be here.”

The Nortons boarded Texas National Guard helicopters, which flew them to the Brazoria County airport, but there were no evacuation buses set up there, Paul Norton said.

”Then they flew us to Texas City,” he said. “They did a great job.”

Nigel Heinrich, one of the evacuees, said he endured the storm from his Gilchrist home on the peninsula.

”It’s all gone,” he said. “We lived on the bay side, and we walked to High Island. There are only about two or three houses left. Everything’s totally wiped out. High Island’s in pretty bad shape, too.”

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Michael Chertoff said 2 days ago that tractor trailers full of ice were waiting in Austin TX. Where are those trailers today? No one knows. Chertoff said today that they were on their way. A reporter asked..."why is it taking so long for those trailers to make the 4 hour drive"? He said that the trailers would supply hospitals, shelters, etc... first. The reporter then said "well where are the trailers, cause NO ONE has seen them". Chertoff said that he couldn't answer that.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? The level of stupidity is boundless. Do you realize that every recent disaster has meant a changing of the guard at the top of fema? Where do they find these ppl?
Understand that some local authorities told ppl to stay put. Didn't you hear "hunker down" ALOT recently?

This was femas chance to show that things had changed. They have failed miserably. IMHO fema needs to be dissolved and their responsibility needs to be handed over to a private company.

They are oil tankers with no where to go. The reporter states this. (I too forgot to turn up my volume the first time I saw it)

I'd take some 3%hydrogen peroxide to clean your nose and ears and brush teeth with in case biologicals are loose. The nose and ears requires Qtips of course to swab them with peroxide. nNeed this to bubble out any nails or splinters multipurpose more than betadine.First aid pack which should include triple antibiotic and eye wash due to insulation might get in eyes or at least get Visine to wash with. If you are into colloidal silver protectant and have it would take it protectively as sure best not to get diarrhea in primitive situation.Might take some antidiarrheal and Benadryl 50 mg caps. If scenes are so bad you can't sleep you can use the Benadryl to calm down and also for bee stings or any allergic situation.Seriously would check out the situation rumors on that biolab 4 and consider it might have gotten loose in flood waters.Doxycycline 100 mg twice a day I would recommend far over Cipro which tears up joints and you aren't supposed to do any labor while taking it due to the issues or jog or anything plus the seizures issues.Doxycycline hits anthrax and has the same coverage as Cipro and is cheap.Should be able to get an rx for Doxycycline 100mg BID for 10 days from a doctor friend easy.

September 14, 2008

Six points of distribution up and running

Sixty trucks with supplies arrived at Reliant Sunday night. Harris County announced that six points of distribution are up and running with supplies for people who need water and ice.

Greenspoint Harvest Time Church
La Porte Baker Junior High
Baytown – 4100 Decker Dr
Pasadena @ Pals Gym
Tomball – Klein’s Grocery
Seabrook – Volunteer Fire Department – SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY There will be more points listed tomorrow

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Thanks, I forgot about mt teeth. I have a Z-pack that I will start the day I leave. I have hydrogen peroxide packed in the First aid kit, but I will get some immodium and benadryl. I have a low dose of Xanax for sleep if I need it.

Yes, the level of stupidity is astonishing. These people seem to be unable to organize a daily correspondence, let alone an efficient aid. All they say is: "I didn't receive the memo" or "I can't answer that". Unbelievable!. FEMMA was once the best trainned organization in the world, now they can't even handle their own logistics.

Great link...thanks, unbelievable!

[link to flhurricane.com]

Excellent, I did not have this info yet.
Chertoff just said "we got the supplies here but we didn't know we'd have to actually handle handing them out".

Once again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is a example of stupidity.

Here are a few aerial photos of the destruction from the Dallas News website.

[link to www.dallasnews.com]

These are just the ones they want us to see, I have no doubt. I'm sure it's just the tip of the iceberg. In the coming days, we may hear reports of untold numbers of bodies found washing up all along Galveston Bay.

Listen dude, I know you have a load on you now, but DO NOT depend on anything that Chertoff promises you..


He knows he's gonna burn.