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"It's A Madhouse" - At Least 6 Dead, 12 Missing As Floods "Hammer" Texas & Oklahoma

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"We got hammered," Houston's emergency management coordinator Rick Flanagan told CNN, and as the following stunning images show, that is an understatement. "We've seen flooding before, but not nearly to this extreme," said one resident, adding "It rains and it rains and it rains, and there's really nowhere for the water to go... It's ridiculous." Perhaps even more stunningly, as Mashable's Andrew Freeman notes, the floods have been a remarkable turn of events for a region that was still mired in drought as of three weeks ago. That drought, which had affected Texas since 2010, is now effectively over in most areas, as is a long-running drought in Oklahoma. Authorities are still searching for 12 members of two families who went missing over the weekend.

As Reuters reports,

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday described the flash flooding that had killed at least three people in his state as "a relentless wall of water that mowed down huge trees like they were grass."

 

Abbott declared states of disaster in 24 counties and flew over the area south of Austin to assess the damage caused by tornadoes, heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flooding that forced evacuations and rooftop rescues and left thousands of residents without electrical power.

 

"This is the biggest flood this area of Texas has ever seen," Abbott said.

 

"It is absolutely massive - the relentless tsunami-type power of this wave of water," the governor said.

 

He described homes that were "completely wiped off the map" by the dangerous weather system that struck Texas and Oklahoma.

 

Widespread severe thunderstorms were forecast to continue on Monday in north-central and northeast Texas and southern Oklahoma, likely bringing destructive winds, tornadoes and hail, the National Weather Service said.

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As the following images from Mashable show, they did indeed "Get hammered."

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Memorial Drive in Houston is flooded after storms flooded the area, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Overnight heavy rains caused flooding closing some portions of major highways in the Houston area.

Image: Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle/Associated Press

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People look at flooding in Houston, Texas.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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People look at the rising waters in Houston, Texas from atop a building.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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Motorists are stranded along I-45 along North Main in Houston after storms flooded the area.

Image: Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle

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A little girl looks at a flooded car downtown in Houston, Texas.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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Cars remain stranded along a flooded section of Interstate 45 after heavy rains overnight in Houston.

Image: David J. Phillip/Associated Press

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Robert Briscoe checks the damage to his flooded car along Interstate 45 in Houston.

Image: David J. Phillip/Associated Press

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Flooding in downtown Houston, Texas climbs toward a highway's overpass.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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People on an overpass look down at the vehicles left stranded on a flooded Interstate 45 in Houston,.

Image: Aaron M. Sprecher/AFP/Getty Images

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A car sits in flooded waters in Houston, Texas.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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The streets of Houston were flooded during the early hours of Tuesday, May 26.

Image: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

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Stranded motorists wait for floodwaters to recede on Interstate 45 after heavy rains overnight in Houston.

Image: David J. Phillip/Associated Press

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A vehicle left stranded on a flooded Interstate 45 in Houston, Texas.

Image: Aaron M. Sprecher/AFP/Getty Images

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A tree branch floats down a flooded road in Houston.

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Finally this seemed to sum it all up nicely...

 

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Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:33 | 6133362 DutchBoy2015
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Gawd said ''Get that motherfucking Ark, built, NOAA.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:37 | 6133381 IrritableBowels
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I need to take a roadtrip to Houston so my POS car can get totaled out.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:53 | 6133456 FreeShitter
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Aside from the floods, Acres Homes or 5th ward can help you.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:38 | 6133384 boeing747
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'Climate' by default is dynamic ever-changing system, no need of 'change' behind it.

Houston has too many 'clouds' serviced in this case.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:51 | 6133443 Uchtdorf
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The term "global warming" has been so totally discredited that now we must hear the steady drumbeat of "climate change" warnings. Wonder what's next: Extraterrestrial Malicious Precipitation? EMP...hey, that might catch on amongst us doomsday forecasters.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 16:32 | 6133600 Dixie Flatline
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Continental Drift.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 15:58 | 6133472 Captchured
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I know a place where we can escape climate change. We don't even have to go that far to get there!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

 

 

 

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 16:01 | 6133490 Eastwood
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"We flooded some folks."

-M. Nature

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 16:13 | 6133532 Hyjinx
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Does this mean someone turned off HAARP then? /sarc

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 16:54 | 6133693 USGrant
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Saw the Gulf Freeway being built from my yard as a little boy. It would rain hard and the ditches would overflow and the streets would fill. Wading up to my chest I could see the crawdads scurring around liberated from the ditches. The detritus would form a band in the yards marking the high water point.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 16:58 | 6133711 Stubbys
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Probably more to worry about than Texas floods

 

https://youtu.be/vJKTLuvGAU4

 

And

 

5 Truths About Earth's Magnetic Reversal: https://youtu.be/sIayxqk0Ees

 

Same things I know, good channel though.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 18:14 | 6133964 Dixie Flatline
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Climate activists targeting children with range of 'cli-fi' novels

Climate activists are targeting children through a new range of 'cli-fi' – climate fiction - novels which seek to highlight the dangers of global warming.

David Thorpe, author of the book Stormteller, said that children were more open minded and claimed that writers could 'infect' their minds with 'seriously subversive viral ideas'.

He was speaking at the Hay Festival alongside 'cli-fi' authors George Marshall and Saci Lloyd.

"I like writing for children because their minds are still forming," said Mr Thorpe whose novel is set in a coastal Wales ravaged by climate change and rising sea levels.

"They are asking all sorts of questions about how the world is working. Their minds haven't been tainted by ideological bias, they are still open minded about it.

"You can try to be seriously subversive and try to infect their minds with these viral ideas that they can explore on their own to make it exciting. When I was that age I loved having my mind boggled."

Total control from cradle to grave...for the kids.

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 20:41 | 6134428 Flakmeister
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"Cradle to grave", sounds just like bible class, but unlike that, there is a semblance of reality at the basis of the above fiction....

Wed, 05/27/2015 - 00:37 | 6135032 Dixie Flatline
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Batting 1.000 for worthless posts.  No wonder you are a climatard.

Wed, 05/27/2015 - 01:08 | 6135042 Flakmeister
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So, what is the most reliable way to measure the average global surface temperature? With a satellite or a bunch of thermometers? Why would you pick one over the other?

Surprise me with something besides bullshit...

Tue, 05/26/2015 - 18:43 | 6134061 Lmo Mutton
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Climate Chaos bitchez.

The French guy and Kerry told you it was coming.  We have almost reached the "500 days till climate chaos".

Game over maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Wed, 05/27/2015 - 00:50 | 6135052 napper
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probably a sign of more third-world infrastructure pictures to come

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