Posted on 08/28/2017 4:39:00 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A startling image of elderly women in a Texas nursing home surrounded by waist-deep flood waters, covered by blankets and sopping wet personal items stunned viewers on social media Sunday morning and prompted an emergency evacuation of the facility.
Galveston County Commissioner Ken Clark told ABC News that 20-25 residents at La Vita Bella Nursing home were safely evacuated from the flooded building in Dickinson. David Popoff, the citys emergency management coordinator told Galveston County Daily News they were rescued by helicopter.
Timothy McIntosh, whose mother-in-law owns the nursing home, posted the photo and pleaded for emergency help.
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Even Thursday. .Friday..they were indicating only about 20 inches of rain in a lot of houston media..and officials
Bottom line, our roads and infrastructure is not set up to handle a mass evacuation from such a large city. Infrastructure is set up for average needs. This should be a reminder to all to think about. Especially if "other" things prompt an evacuation, like a missle strike from N. Korea.
With all the wild critters in Texas, I have visions of rattlesnakes, dangling from the trees!
Good point on NK strike evacuation
If you fight the plight of the elderly “amusing” then yes, you are bad bordering on evil.
Two reasons. Required Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters on wall outlets and the Maintenance man can cut off all power. I used to work maintenance in nursing homes.
The mayor didn't order the city evacuated but he could have ordered medical facilities evacuated and the state could and should have as well.
Looks that way to me too. Also I find it hard to believe that they would sit in water like that and not be yelling or trying to move. It is odd.
i’m skeptical of that pic. i’m thinking it was either staged, or photoshopped as no reasonable staff would allow their people to sit in water like this - they’d be moved upstairs at the very least
The photo has never made sense to me but people insist it isn’t photoshopped.
If I were a resident or a relative of a resident, I would sue the hell out of this owner! She was negligent and apparently had NO contingency plan for avoiding a catastrophe that was FORECAST for weeks! This was criminal negligence
Yep. This is a 500 year event. A plan for this? What would the cost for this ‘what if’ scenario have been? Who would have voted to spend that much?
You are so right... My mother when she married my father at 25, she openly took my father’s father in. This was just after a month after they got married. My Dad’s sisters refused or came up with excuses not to do so. My mother cared for my grandpa for three years before he died.
My eldest sister took in my mother the last ten years of my mother’s life. I would have, except my mom didn’t want to go to Colorado. She liked California.
So true about babies and the elderly, many people just don’t want to be around them... SAD.
Your mother was a good woman.
I wish it were photoshopped because I am pained that we could do that to people. Shocking.
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