The Hunger Rants

[SAT 9,609]

 

Charge your phone batteries, and back up batteries. 

Move dry provisions to second floor. 

Use containers to fill potable water and move to second floor. 

Fill second floor bathtub with water now. 

Anything that'll float, bring to second floor. 

[cdneh 3,112]

Corpus Christie published this list:

• Put on rubber soled shoes or rubber boots. Do NOT go barefoot in your home.
• If possible, move your car off the street into the garage.
• Remove gasoline cans and flammables from the garage or put them high into the rafters of your garage.
• Grab your preprioritized list of items that must be moved higher (onto a tabletop or countertop), such as documents, photos and computers.
• Unplug all electric cords from wall sockets in anticipation of water rising over the socket.
• Turn off electricity at the breaker if you believe that water will approach sockets.
• Remove lower drawers from dressers and place higher — they swell shut if wet.
• If you have a one-story home, go into your attic while the water is still low and check for a roof exit if necessary. Bring with you any necessary tools you would need to create an attic opening to your roof.
• Keep exterior doors closed. Unless you are near a river or creek, most rising water does NOT enter through doorways, but through ground saturation. So chances are, it will come from everywhere at once. Doors need to remain closed to keep out animals and insects that are groping for places to land.
• Keep battery-operated communication devices on for updates on weather and evacuation boats that may be coming through your area.
• Do not drink water from the tap until you have been advised that the water system was not contaminated.
• If your house is flooding, your toilets won’t flush. Have a temporary “chamber pot” designated. Camping toilets are good to have on hand.

[SAT 9,609]

If you don't want to claim insurance, drive your car to the highest ground reachable and park it there. even if it's on someone's lawn. 

[TBoneTX 45,259]

1 minute ago, SAT said:

How high is your 1st floor off the ground?

Not sure in feet, but drainage has always been pretty good, and there's a noticeable slope toward the street.  However, with drainage-pumping cut and no let-up in the rain, this won't hold out.

 

We have some Harbor Freight tarps and a little duct tape; not sure how best to deploy it or whether to even bother.  Don't know how we could get out the front door later, whether we taped it or not.

1 minute ago, cdneh said:

I've heard Harvey went out into the Gulf, and means to do a U turn and come back in. Either way, it will get worse,

At a whopping Many (2+1) miles per hour, get a MOVE on man.

[SAT 9,609]

You have to tape the door from the outside, and climb back in through a window. 

[TBoneTX 45,259]

3 minutes ago, SAT said:

Charge your phone batteries, and back up batteries. 

Move dry provisions to second floor. 

Use containers to fill potable water and move to second floor. 

Fill second floor bathtub with water now. 

Anything that'll float, bring to second floor. 

Doing, gracias man.

3 minutes ago, cdneh said:

Corpus Christie published this list:

• Put on rubber soled shoes or rubber boots. Do NOT go barefoot in your home.
• If possible, move your car off the street into the garage.
• Remove gasoline cans and flammables from the garage or put them high into the rafters of your garage.
• Grab your preprioritized list of items that must be moved higher (onto a tabletop or countertop), such as documents, photos and computers.
• Unplug all electric cords from wall sockets in anticipation of water rising over the socket.
• Turn off electricity at the breaker if you believe that water will approach sockets.
• Remove lower drawers from dressers and place higher — they swell shut if wet.
• If you have a one-story home, go into your attic while the water is still low and check for a roof exit if necessary. Bring with you any necessary tools you would need to create an attic opening to your roof.
• Keep exterior doors closed. Unless you are near a river or creek, most rising water does NOT enter through doorways, but through ground saturation. So chances are, it will come from everywhere at once. Doors need to remain closed to keep out animals and insects that are groping for places to land.
• Keep battery-operated communication devices on for updates on weather and evacuation boats that may be coming through your area.
• Do not drink water from the tap until you have been advised that the water system was not contaminated.
• If your house is flooding, your toilets won’t flush. Have a temporary “chamber pot” designated. Camping toilets are good to have on hand.

Good list, gracias Eh ma'am.

2 minutes ago, SAT said:

If you don't want to claim insurance, drive your car to the highest ground reachable and park it there. even if it's on someone's lawn. 

T-B.- & Mama-T-B.-mobiles in garage; Mrs.-T-B.-mobile at vacant neighbor's nicely sloped driveway, all we can do man.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Just now, SAT said:

You have to tape the door from the outside, and climb back in through a window. 

Gracias, man.  We might tape it now while we can still re-enter through the garage.  Thick holly bushes by all front windows.

[SAT 9,609]

get a ladder. 

If you have sturdy rope or parachute cord. Bring to second floor. 

[SAT 9,609]

If there's a tree taller than  your house, try and tie one end of a rope to the top of tree and have the other end handy. 

The water's not gonna reach the top  of your house. 

If it does, it's the wrath of God. 

[trudi 1,317]

No wise words but every 'stop raining ' and stay safe thoughts I have are winging your way

[TBoneTX 45,259]

44 minutes ago, SAT said:

get a ladder. 

If you have sturdy rope or parachute cord. Bring to second floor. 

Excellent idea, gracias man.

42 minutes ago, SAT said:

If there's a tree taller than  your house, try and tie one end of a rope to the top of tree and have the other end handy. 

The water's not gonna reach the top  of your house. 

If it does, it's the wrath of God. 

No trees, but good idea man.

30 minutes ago, trudi said:

No wise words but every 'stop raining ' and stay safe thoughts I have are winging your way

Gracias, T ma'am.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Water hasn't seemed to rise TOO much more since last report, fingers crossed man.

However, this old street was very well-constructed for downslope drainage, normally excellent man.

This means that water might encroach on driveways before retrogressing higher up the street slope, dunno man.

Our driveway slightly more sloped than some others, fingers crossed man.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

We've moved everything movable at least a foot off the floor downstairs, sometimes more man.

Mrs. T-B. strapped a Harbor Freight tarp over the upright piano, might help man.

She isn't complaining any longer about our previous purchase of Many HF tarps, no man.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Gonna replace batteries in our "Ike" radio, fresh juice man.

Man, if we're casa-bound for a week, good grief man...

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Mrs. T-B.'s immigrant amigas are all terrified, scared they ma'ams.