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"It's A Madhouse" - At Least 6 Dead, 12 Missing As Floods "Hammer" Texas & Oklahoma
"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.
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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530 AM: Here's a look at where some of the heaviest rain fell overnight for Southeast TX: #txwx #houwx #bcswx pic.twitter.com/r6TMJuaDRu
— NWSHouston (@NWSHouston) May 26, 2015

As the following images from Mashable show, they did indeed "Get hammered."
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Finally this seemed to sum it all up nicely...
It's like a scene from a post apocalyptic Mad Maxx Beyond The Thunderdome. #houstonflood #KHOU pic.twitter.com/xT5EVL1cTz
— Shern-Min Chow (@ShernMinKHOU) May 26, 2015
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Gawd said ''Get that motherfucking Ark, built, NOAA.
I need to take a roadtrip to Houston so my POS car can get totaled out.
Aside from the floods, Acres Homes or 5th ward can help you.
'Climate' by default is dynamic ever-changing system, no need of 'change' behind it.
Houston has too many 'clouds' serviced in this case.
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.
Continental Drift.
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
"We flooded some folks."
-M. Nature
Does this mean someone turned off HAARP then? /sarc
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.
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.
Total control from cradle to grave...for the kids.
"Cradle to grave", sounds just like bible class, but unlike that, there is a semblance of reality at the basis of the above fiction....
Batting 1.000 for worthless posts. No wonder you are a climatard.
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...
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.
probably a sign of more third-world infrastructure pictures to come