[SFDXA] Fwd: [pr:14242] Quick Harvey Update from Harris County

Wed Aug 30 14:49:43 EDT 2017

Mark,
My brother, who lives on the corner of Eastland LAKE Dr., and Clara LAKE Ct. 
(truth in advertising!), reported that "water was within 1 inch of entry into 
the house." Neighbors across the street had 6 inches of flooding inside their home.
73
Kai, KE4PT

On 8/30/2017 13:28, Mark Horowitz wrote:
> As PIO for the SFDXA , I wanted to pass this on
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" <mike at ka5cvh.com<mailto:mike at ka5cvh.com>>
> Date: August 30, 2017 at 9:26:37 AM EDT
> To: A ARRL PR <pr at reflector.arrl.org<mailto:pr at reflector.arrl.org>>
> Subject: [pr:14242] Quick Harvey Update from Harris County
>
> Again my apologies for not behaving more professionally the other day
> with my response to Walt.  Trust me I learned a valuable lesson and am
> still embarrassed over my behaviour.  Those who understood and sent me
> personal notes thank you they were valuable.
>
> I will be out of pocket for a few days as my son who lives about four
> hours from here is having surgery tomorrow and "momma bear" is
> demanding that "papa bear" get her there.
>
> While the rains have stopped for the most part and we did see the sun
> yesterday evening we are far from being out of the woods.  Now that
> the immediate danger from the storm has subsided we are still
> suffering from the extensive amount of flooding as a result of the
> training of the storm.  They are saying that we received anywhere from
> nine to ten TRILLION gallons of rain, enough water to cover the entire
> country with .17" of water.
>
> The storm did move back into the gulf restrengthened and moved back in
> to the east of us into the golden triangle region around Beaumont TX
> and Lake Charles LA areas.  In my mind we have three clear distinct
> disaster areas.  First the immediate impact zone of Rockport/Fulton,
> the rain training even in Houston/Harris County and then the
> subsequent second strike on the TX/LA border.  All three regions with
> unique circumstances.
>
> In the greater Houston area the flooding has affected many hams who
> either have water in their homes or can not even get in or out of
> their homes due to flooding around them.  That is what happened
> Saturday night at Transtar (EOC) that our reliefs could not get in and
> my EC, George Fletcher, AD5CQ and myself could not get out.  George is
> on of those who has water in their home.  I was able to get back to my
> home Monday night and we finally forced George to make every attempt
> to get to his home yesterday and got him home.  His children are grown
> and away from home and his wife was left to deal with there home by
> herself as no one cold get in or out of their subdivision. until
> yesterday.   I have not talked to our DEC in a couple of days as
> others were handing but his home too is in the effected flooding area.
>
> I have recieved many thanks for the interview.  Mike was a tremendous
> host whom Walt should be proud to have on his staff.  I've received
> numerous positive compliments, to you ... thanks.  I was running on
> nothing but pure adrenaline and coffee. Because of the previous day's
> melt down I was scared to death.  I finally got a good nights sleep in
> my own bed last night and feel much  better.  Amazing how that works.
>
> The greater Houston area must now enter the next phase of this storm,
> the recovery.   We've received several offers of communications
> support which I"m sure will be greatly needed.  There are currently
> about 100 shelters open with two mega shelters.  They are at the
> George R Brown convention center with about 9000 displaced residents
> there and last night a second mega shelter was opened in Reliant Park
> capable of accepting 10,000 people.
>
> Rough ballpark (unconfirmed by me) numbers are that there may be as
> many as 500,000 residents that have been forced from their homes by
> this event.  That's about one tenth of our general MSA population.  I
> can only presume many of them will be able to get back into their
> homes in short order but many won't.   These "homes" range from
> section VIII apartments to homes in the half to one million dollar
> range.
>
> I made the comment at the EOC yesterday that if your subdivision or
> street has anything to do with lake, river, stream or any other
> reference to water in its name ... you were probably affected.
>
> I want to pass along some other information on contacting us.  Like I
> said I will be out of pocket until Saturday.
>
> Harris County ARES http://www.harriscountyares.org/ there is a lot of
> contact information there including our entire ARES structure on each
> of the unit pages.
>
> Sheltering operations at the present time are being handled by our
> DEC, Jeff Walter, KE5FGA, contact info on web-site.
>
> We have landlocked individuals monitoring HF outside of Transtar from
> their homes on 7285 & 7290 day 3873 night.
>
> One last brag ... I need to get these onto the ARES site but I am so
> proud of my counties EOC.  I have some pictures on my web-site of both
> the county and my cities EOC's.
>
> http://ka5cvh.com/p/radio_station_n5trs/  The EOC can support up to
> ~90 partnering agencies.  Our com room has five operating positions
> two dedicated V/UHF, a third with winlink a fourth for HF  and a fifth
> for Red Cross / Coast Guard (VHF & HF).
> http://ka5cvh.com/p/radio_station_wx5lp/ We've remodeled the radio
> room and made room for a three position CERT phone bank which was fine
> by me as I had more room than I needed.
>
>
> --
> Mike Urich KA5CVH
> http://ka5cvh.com
>
> STX ASEC - Training
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> PIO Harris County ARES
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>
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