Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue - Sensationalist Headlines

[media]https://twitter.com/DividendsMGR/status/901805509950541825[/media] [url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-harvey-photo-texas-nursing-home-residents-waist/story?id=49452958[/url] [quote]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 city’s 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. “Need help asap emergency services please RETWEET,” wrote McIntosh. His tweets caught the attention thousands on social media and the national guard was notified of the nursing home’s situation. “Latest update on La Vita Bella home in Dickinson, TX.On "purple" high priority list. Coast Guard on route right now for rescue.#HoustonFlood,” said McIntosh on Twitter. By the early afternoon, McIntosh posted that the residents had been safely evacuated.[/quote]

Holy shit. Glad they were evacuated.

It just looks like they're living an d going about their day in neck deep water in the picture. Thats fucking wild.

How the hell were they not barbequed from the electricity? It's still on :v:

[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;52619903]How the hell were they not barbequed from the electricity? It's still on :v:[/QUOTE] It doesn't work like in videogames, the amount of water present disperses the electricity.

[QUOTE=Ctrl;52619911]It doesn't work like in videogames, the amount of water present disperses the electricity.[/QUOTE] Besides, electricity wants the fastest way to ground. The fastest way is not through the water, into your body, and to the ground. It's probably through the electrical conduit.

[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;52619903]How the hell were they not barbequed from the electricity? It's still on :v:[/QUOTE] Electricity would rather jump the sub-inch gaps in flooded wire joints in a box rather than run out, tag you, and run back in the ground. Regular tap water by itself almost never conducts electricity without salt, soap, or other electrolytic substances.

My retirement home got no business looking like this

Cant wait till the nursing home owner and managers are inevitably persecuted on social media for this, despite being told not to evacuate and being the ones to post this photo on twitter to ask for help.

[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52620110]Cant wait till the nursing home owner and managers are inevitably persecuted on social media for this, despite being told not to evacuate and being the ones to post this photo on twitter to ask for help.[/QUOTE] Why make up shitstorms when plenty already exist?

One of the ladies is still knitting, God bless her.

Did they rescue the cat though?

it's almost poetic how relevant that picture is to our current times

That cat on the lady's head in the back :v:

I love that the lady in blue is like "I dont give a shit if its wet im sitting in my favorite chair"

as chill and funny as this looks, that is fucking horrible that a nursing home would allow its residents to sit in waist deep water like that, or that they wouldn't have evacuated. they were right in the path of most destruction.

[QUOTE=Sableye;52620353]as chill and funny as this looks, that is fucking horrible that a nursing home would allow its residents to sit in waist deep water like that, or that they wouldn't have evacuated.[/QUOTE] They probably didn't think they needed to because the city didn't say they needed to. Plus the day one rainfall was worse than expected. The whole damn city is underwater. I've seen interstates underwater up to the green signs. [QUOTE=Sableye;52620353]they were right in the path of most destruction.[/QUOTE] That's not necessarily true at the time. The eye was nowhere near this area. The only risk was heavy rainfall over a period of days. We got inundated in the first day. It's a hell of a situation and I don't think it's fair to necessarily judge people for not evacuating.

I feel bad laughing at this. I'm glad they got help, but it's just amazing how they don't give a single shit. And I don't blame them, nursing homes are god-awful places in general, a couple feet of water is the least of their problems.

they're old and senile this is disgusting negligence that they were not cared for properly. someone needs to be fired.

I don't understand how this could of happened? Where are the staff? Why haven't they been evacuated already? Did local emergency services know they were there, or check earlier on them earlier? I know that Texas is experiencing major flooding. However, here in Australia every council must conduct and publish a flood study of their area. I can only presume it's the same in America, if so they local authorities should of known this nursing home was subject to flooding.

[QUOTE=-n3o-;52620729]I don't understand how this could of happened? Where are the staff? Why haven't they been evacuated already? Did local emergency services know they were there, or check earlier on them earlier? I know that Texas is experiencing major flooding. However, here in Australia every council must conduct and publish a flood study of their area. I can only presume it's the same in America, if so they local authorities should of known this nursing home was subject to flooding.[/QUOTE] We know the flood prone areas. The cities never issued evacuation orders. Presumably to avoid a situation similar to Rita. (mass evacuation causing total gridlock on the freeways the moment the hurricane makes landfall)

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;52620197]it's almost poetic how relevant that picture is to our current times[/QUOTE] like its happening right now

[QUOTE=Valiantttt;52620182]Did they rescue the cat though?[/QUOTE] ....please rescue the cat :(

It's weird how casual they look despite being waist high in water, it looks like an average day sans the water

[QUOTE=FFStudios;52620781]....please rescue the cat :([/QUOTE] That cat's definitely gonna get rescued first, it's someone's furbaby. :cat: Also would like to think it shows that the kitty has either a) Nice life and loves its owner, which contradicts most stereotypes of kitties or b) Waiting for a big food supply to open up, in true kitty fashion. :v:

[QUOTE=OvB;52620754]We know the flood prone areas. The cities never issued evacuation orders. Presumably to avoid a situation similar to Rita. (mass evacuation causing total gridlock on the freeways the moment the hurricane makes landfall)[/QUOTE] Here's a good thread elaborating on that, in case anyone's interested: [URL="http://archive.is/JR00m"][media]https://twitter.com/KamFranklin/status/901918079483080706[/media][/URL]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;52620156]Why make up shitstorms when plenty already exist?[/QUOTE] Because its happening right now. People getting mad when the only information they have is a photo.

[QUOTE=Tamschi;52621340]Here's a good thread elaborating on that, in case anyone's interested: [URL="http://archive.is/JR00m"][media]https://twitter.com/KamFranklin/status/901918079483080706[/media][/URL][/QUOTE] Freeway picture is quite disturbing.

[QUOTE=Tamschi;52621340]Here's a good thread elaborating on that, in case anyone's interested: [URL="http://archive.is/JR00m"][media]https://twitter.com/KamFranklin/status/901918079483080706[/media][/URL][/QUOTE] Yeah. The other person in that thread says it should happen over 3-4 days. Houston Metro has 6.3 million people, too. We had three days. Three days since the time we knew it was a category 1, to the time it made landfall. We did not have time to evacuate the fourth biggest city in the country. There is also this: [media]https://twitter.com/stephgosk/status/901894638335864832[/media] You need a tapered, controlled evacuation of an area this large. If you told one county to evacuate at a time once Harvey regenerated to a cat one... there would've been mass panic and the highways would've been full when the floods came. Rita was the biggest mass evacuation in US History. [quote]September 22, 2005 – More than 3 million evacuated in Texas and Louisiana, including 2.4 million from Houston, Texas, due to the approach of Hurricane Rita. This is the largest evacuation in U.S. history, and the third-largest peacetime evacuation in modern times.[/quote] 2.4 million people tried to leave Houston Less than [I]half[/I] the metro area of 6.3 million. Millions of people stuck on the streets... You would've had a nightmare scenario. 31 people died on those highways. (Including a bus full of elderly that exploded into flames because of someones oxygen tank)

[QUOTE=Bradyns;52622353]Freeway picture is quite disturbing.[/QUOTE] Apparently that's at least partially supposed to happen (though not necessarily to this extent): [URL="https://archive.is/VdADx"][media]https://twitter.com/CorbettMatt/status/901959336850804737[/media][/URL] (via [url]https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/901994891072462850[/url][URL="https://archive.is/Q2WAL"].[/URL]) It would of course be really nice if the news informed people about this, so more'd know to stay off those roads.