Narrative Essay On Houston

The New York Times writers explains all the events happening during Harvey’s next landfall in “Harvey Live Updates: Trump Heads to a Flooded Texas”. In case you’ve been living underneath a construction site for your whole life, Harvey made hard landfalls in Corpus Christi and Houston, TX along with other cities in Texas. With hundreds of thousands of people under evacuation orders, shelters in Houston filled to bursting with people who craved some news about the safety of their loved ones and the state of their homes. Parts of the Houston area set a record for rainfall from a single storm anywhere in the continental United States, with a top reading on Tuesday afternoon, since the storm began, of 51.88 inches. Jeffrey Lindner, a meteorologist for the Harris County Flood Control District, said 25 to 30 percent of Harris County's 1,800 square miles of land was flooded.

Seeing that some neighboorhoods in the low land were effected even more than those on high land will help the city see which parts of the city to start evacuation procedures to also avoid so much commotion or traffic around town. Loise Rose talks about how she realized that this storm was different from any regular rainy day when she saw that Harvey did not discriminate did make perfect sense. Her explanation of where she was at at the George R. Brown where she saw all social classes and all types of race gave a perfect description of what Houston is. Many came together as one at the time of help, so it helped to show and prove even with all the controversy in politics that separate us in society. It was the last thing we had on our minds and we just cared and worried for one another. I believe that we should work together as a city or even a state and prepare for future emergency like this one.Build a charity that will helps us with situations like Harvey. Any charity that would take donations specifically for any losses of home or businesses that will be promising for the city and state. From other sources and talk going around seems like people cant seem to trust the red cross or any government help after

Harvey made Houston, Texas, flooded within 30 days. This flood killed millions of people in Texas. It damaged over thousands of houses, with families in them dead. It was nearly 4.5 full of rain, and 130 mph of wind flowing around that time. About 780,000 people from Texas evacuated from their houses, about 781 roads were closed, 80,000 homes had 18 inches of rainwater.

Hurricane Harvey destroyed roughly 40,000 homes just in houston, making it nearly impossible to live there. But with the help from our brave soldiers and hundreds of people who have boats over 75 percent of people who were affected by Hurricane Harvey were able to make it to a safe place where they were fed and were given a place to stay. Throughout this tragic hurricane. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world opened up their businesses for people to stay, very large companies who had a lot of room and were not affected by hurricane harvey to bad allowed people who were affected to stay there as long as needed. And watching all those people on the news helping people in need out was

I live in a small part of Texas that just got horrible rain which caused terrible flooding and strong winds. The winds flipped over cars and blew trees into houses, on top of cars, and across streets. According to weather reports from Fox, Houston received an average of 40-50 inches of rainfall. This large amount of rainfall caused flooding at the Brazos river and other parts of the Houston area. Harvey also damaged many roads in Houston. The flooding went under the roads and washed away the support which created sinkholes. The flooding was strong enough that it moved the concrete barriers on the freeways.

As of September 1, Texas is still being impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Along with all the destruction that Texas has to deal with, now they are dealing with downpours, winds, and flooding. Fifty-two inches was recorded in rainfall in Houston in the matter of five days, which broke a historical record. Billions of dollars was given to relieve some of the financial need, as most of the people in Texas didn’t have flood insurance.

More than 7 trillion gallons of water fell in Louisiana and Mississippi over the course of eight days (Sergent et al., 2016). There have been at least 13 deaths recorded and over 40,000 homes have been destroyed. Rainfall numbers in double digits from a storm can bring havoc to an area, thus triggering rivers to ascend swiftly, and exceed flood levels (Dolce, 2016).

On April 18, 2016 Yahoo reports Houston, Texas have flooding that forces residents to move out their homes and live in a nearby shelter. The flooding causes damage to the electricity lines, foreclosures of freeways, and forcing schools to close down because of the weather. One million students got the day off including workers. It’s deeply saddened that five victims were dead in this weather. There is over 450 water rescue and victims were transported to the mall to shelter away until the storm passes. It’s hard for people to drive in the freeway because the water can be up to 15 feet deep. The weather causes frustration toward the Houston resident.

In May of 2015, a slow moving storm producing record amounts of rainfall and tornados caused flash floods across Texas and Oklahoma causing mass destruction and many causalities. Flooding in Texas and Oklahoma does not happen often in most areas. Some areas have not seen rainfall totals like what was seen in May for more than 50 years. The flooding in May of 2015 was the most widespread and record breaking. In some areas houses were ripped from their foundations. In Wimberley, Texas, a family was still in the house as it washed away, killing a mother and her two children. Trees were uprooted as well as lakes, rivers and creeks overflowed their banks. Streets and interstates were shut down because of the flooding. A tornado, touching down

Upon landfall the hurricane had winds up to 111 to 129 miles per hour. In New Orleans, a combination of rain, overturned levees, and damaged drainage canals caused severe flooding. By 9 a.m., many low lying places such as St. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward were so flooded that people had to go to their rooftops and attics to stay above the water. In the afternoon, the storm ripped a hole in the roof of the Superdome, putting sheltered victims at risk. At 7 a.m. on August 30 the hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm while passing through Tennessee. The storm was over, but it’s consequences had been severe, about 80% of New Orleans was covered in water, reaching as high as 20 feet. Hurricane Katrina ended up being one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes of all time. However, after Hurricane Katrina the US saw many kind and heroic acts. The Coast Guard rescued 34,000 people in New Orleans alone. Even everyday citizens showed acts of kindness by helping their friends, neighbors and even strangers during and after the hurricane. Many citizens even drove their private boats around offering food and shelter to people affected by the

The nation was ravaged by the angry winds of violent storms and tornadoes, and sustained heavy damage wrought by powerful hurricanes that laid waste to vast swaths of countryside. Buildings that withstood hurricane force pummeling, ultimately succumbed to massive floods, produced by historically heavy rainfall. And our hearts were broken when we learned of the multiple mass shootings, as evil men, without provocation, ruthlessly took the lives of so many innocent people.

The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. It produced a massive flooding by levee breaches, many people complained about the federal government not satisfying the needs of the people that were affected by the storm plus it killed more than hundreds of hundreds of people. An estimated 300,000 homes were destroyed leaving more than 118 million cubic yards packed

Imagine waking up to a bunch of dead rotting bodies all over your yard and road, well that happened in 1993 at little town named Hardin.The small town was located in Missouri. In 1993 a huge storm caused The Missouri River to overflow. It swept through Hardin destroying homes and buildings. It unearthed nearly 600 coffins from the local cemetery.The rain started falling in spring and ended in fall. More than 500 counties in nine Midwestern states were damaged and destroyed. People to that the great flood of 1993 was one of the most natural disasters in american history. 50 people died and 55,000 homes were destroyed. The disaster caused more than 15 billion dollars in damage

The tornado caused tarmac to fly off of roads. This meant that people couldn’t get around and emergency services couldn’t reach the affected. Also, trees were uprooted and houses were severely damaged. This meant that people were made homeless and were left starving and injured. Thankfully, emergency services reached them and were able to distribute food, water, first aid and temporary accommodation.

When I got home later that night, the news was now claiming my neighborhood as an evacuation zone. I didn't believe it. "It'll be fine," I thought "nothing bad will happen here." Apparently, I was the only one that believed that because every person in my development was gone. The storm was scheduled to arrive that next morning and I would be facing it alone. I came to the realization that I was the only person in my county with a functioning brain. Everyone was wasting their time and energy preparing for nothing.