You could have just wrapped it with saran wrap and duct tape

 

The evacuation debacle from Hurricane Rita soured many Houstonians on evacuation. Besides, we weren't under the hurricane gun; what's a little rain, eh? Gov. Abbott did his duty by playing conservatively. Mayor Turner can't be faulted for thinking it better to stay off the roads, in my opinion.

All you furriners playing armchair mayor can keep your opinions to yourself.

 

Hope you and your family are safe I got friends and family there that had some damage but not total loases

 

Like this?

 

God Bless other flooded cars and G37 Coupes. I died inside. :''''(

 

 

I put my car on the 3rd level parking garage. Glad you safe. Thank god my g37s pearl wasn't lost at sea.

 

That's bulls*t and Abbott is a complete dip****. Houston was in the cone the whole time as Harvey approached. Everyone knew the gulf waters were warm and would energize the storm. And it's happened before, the best example being Hurricane Charley which devastated Punta Gorda, Florida. I was in Louisiana front row and center for both Katrina AND Rita. Very different circumstances and Houston/Texas and the **** government they have here has known about the ticking time bomb that Houston has always been. It was just a matter of time.

I knew a week out that folks should evacuate all along the coast and throughout Houston. You get five inches of rain and it causes serious floods. Ten inches in San Antonio caused the death of over 40 people in 1998. People loose their lives when it rains because Texas doesn't want to spend money on infrastructure. Forecasts were for 20-40" of rain. What did you think was going to happen? No one believes it because they don't want to leave the comfort of their homes. I was scared and I'm several hundred miles off the coast. I prepared for flooding and I live on a hill. You're at sea level with a mediocre drainage system and 70-year old dikes. No one panics in government because they're too scared to be wrong and inconvenienced their entitled constituents. No one thinks it'll be that bad because the media is just sensationalizing it. Seriously, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

It's inexcusable. Families have lost everything and it'll be years, maybe a decade before Houston is normal again and some folks will never recover. I've personally been at the bullseye of at least a dozen hurricanes throughout the Southeast and even in Haiti. I've stood at the edge of a mass grave for thousands of human beings who lost their lives in a flash flood and had the courage to look in and contemplate. Our problem is we never think it'll happen to us, it'll never be that bad right? But I've been there time and time again and witnessed the same mistakes being made over and over and over. And while I put myself in the line of fire, my family has taken direct hits twice with Hurricane Charley and Wilma.

Don't think for a minute that somehow Texas is smart and just a victim of circumstance. It's just the opposite. We were ignorant, ill prepared, naive and spent our tax dollars in all the wrong places. We promoted urban sprawl and bad urban planning, promoted fossil fuels and lax regulations which put profit over life. The glaring faults are quite drastic when you come from another hurricane-prone state like Florida. Everything from drainage to building codes are vastly superior. I found it quite shocking, even criminal. Maybe I just have more perspective but Texas can do far better. We are not educated. We do not ask the right questions, or priorities are not in the right place and we don't demand the right necessities from our government.

 

That's sad to see. Don't know if this will help, but:

 

You are the one with your head up your a$$

Many others have more brains than U

Telcoman