I've never seen as many grown a$$ men drive their compact cars into waist deep water, stall them, then climb up on the roof and call for a water rescue and wait for them......  People walking up to their car to see if they are ok, and walk away with the guys just sitting on the roof waiting for a fire truck or police to come "rescue" them.  I can at least understand if it is an 85 yr old grannie, but come on guys.  Several of these "rescues" were 30 feet from dry ground......  Just unbelievable.

I don't think we have a chance as a nation.  At least not until Darwin weeds some of these folks out.  

Doc

Toss him some emergency rescue battery cables hook them up to and turn on the generator.  Tell him to hold the shiny spot.

In Texas Minecraft.

Perhaps you could drop a link?

EV thread?

Not a fan of wasting my time watching other peoples problems.

The water'll hafta be deeper.

In my town we have this freeway. I-17. Only place it goes in the Nation is just past downtown Phoenix on the south, dead ends a few hunnert miles north of Phoenix at I-40 (eastie-westie interstate at Flagstaff) State Troopers call it "The Ditch". Much of it's length in mostly downtown it was below surface grade for noise mitigation or, rather than put in an overpass, they sunk the freeway so the east-west road was at surface grade.
The Ditch.
A few miles north of downtown, for some odd reason, they stopped doing it that way and put I-17 on overpasses instead of the other way round. At those roads that cross it east-west...you guessed it, underpasses.
There is no why LOL.

All of these low crossings have huge pumps that automatically start when the water starts filling up the under passes. Occasionally these don't work because there was a failure in the starting or the drains got blocked up with trash, etc so during our summer "monsoon" (F-U Dewey Hopper LOL) it's not unusual for these areas to fill up and drown a few cars. I personally have seen cars in the water at the level of the roof. Sometimes there's people sitting on them or standing on the hood...which is totally underwater.
One would think driving into an area like that people would stop before the damn thing was drowned.

Darn.
Water's not deep enough.

A highway around 'flooded' a few years ago.

The local news showed some guy sitting on the hood of his car and the firemen threw him a rope which he held onto and walked to the shoulder of the road.

The water was ankle deep.  

So many people are helpless. Quite a few on this site too. Welcome to America today.

If you have a link to some footage I’d watch it. Always up for a good laugh.

Today was a good day to stay inside. I usually always go to work. But not today, ha

I have no power and it’s GHEY

Speaking of that, how peeps in Houston gonna charge their EVs with no power due to widespread power outages. Gas stations can run off a generator. How long would it take to charge an EV from a genset?

There is a constant influx of new people who aren’t familiar with cities that utilize their roadways as part of the storm water drainage system.

Houston is run by and filled with idiots. They will never learn but they will cry loudly when they become victims of their own stupidity.

I'd bet 50% of driven and drowned vehicles are ''on purpose'' to get out from under some stupidly high car payment.

That place is a disgusting shit hole filled with rude, disgusting people.

I would doubt that a gas station generator is wired to provide electric to a EV charger.  It would have to be massively oversized compared to a generator sized for the normal use of running lights, refrigeration, registers, and fuel pumps.

Damn, Dewey Hopper is a name I have not heard in a long time.

You charge your EV at home from your off-grid capable solar system

If you recall a bit of history, after hurricane Katrina, lots of people from the New Orleans area relocated to Houston.  Many of these were likely the less prepared, less financed type of people.  It was probably not to Houston's benefit to get an influx of people with so many needs and no means.  


Hurricane Katrina - Houston

I'm just amazed at the number of people bitching in less than 24hrs that their power still wasn't on...

And realize that this was only a Cat 1 hurricane. Imagine the wailing and whining and gnashing of teeth if Beryl had been a stronger storm!

I was actually discussing this with someone from DPS at the SWIC's office yesterday while we were watching DroneSense feeds of some of the rescues (and some of the border ops) on TAK yesterday. We both were deployed in some fashion during Harvey (him as a COMT and me as a THSP) and his question was don't they remember Harvey? My response was, how many people have moved to the Houston area since October of 2018...especially from non-gulf states that don't see hurricanes?

My kiddo has only been in Houston [separate from Texas proper] a bit more then a year and he seems to be better prepared then most Houstonians are. I'll be bringing down his 2K inverter gen when I go to visit. He has batt pack back ups and just ordered another one that will last longer. Plenty of shelf stable food, water, water purifier, alternate heating means for food and so on.

I read an article that said that Houston is second on the list of cities when it comes to eating meals out. Number one is New York. If you eat out a lot you don’t keep much food at home… or know how to cook… or have cooking utensils.

Then there are all the apartments, condos, and townhouses with electric stoves.

The people who rely on public transportation.

It’s just crazy.

Someday, I have no idea when, an event will occur that will solve the problem of useless humans.  It won't be pretty!