Texas showing we need first responders to new conditions
Rivers are displacing people. The Dams are being discharged. Water released on the spillways to keep the structures from breaking. The flood plain is covered with water and responders are helping evacuate families with citizen responders when possible.
Harvey's Storm is revisiting its landfall with rain much worse than a storm surge. Public and individual assistance is needed. Trevor Noah put out the call…"send money" …help out. The Cajun Navy in Texas. It's rescue time.
Our 4th largest city is being tested and bringing the issues of climate, weather, water, and warming Gulf to U.S. states. There is a call to action and a demand for new kinds of triage, use of computers, understanding earth science, and realizing where the need is, how to respond, preventing health hazards and deaths, using resources, working with a chain of command and FEMA and cooperating in the midst of challenges. Good men, good citizens invited to navigate to help. Pasadena, Texas getting help. So many people need resources, and are backing up the National Guard. Thank you to Louisiana's best. Thank you to the volunteers, the NASA data, the Weathermen, the press for help and information. Disaster responders requested by the Governor. 7 million people being told to stay in place until saved.
And the rain keeps falling. Brave citizens in the midst of a deluge. Logistics are now being used to bridge a spontaneous call for uncoordinated volunteers to building a network of angels on the go.
City looking to keep kids going to school soon and allowing shelter support to be coordinated to get people back to work and mundane connections as soon as its possible.
The President will be in San Antonio on Tuesday.
Dams decisions and the Army Corps of Engineers:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/army-corps-releases-water-houston-dams-levels-increased/story?id=49462262
Hurricane Harvey as a phenomenon for questions, reasoning, evidence, and claims:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenomenon
https://science.nasa.gov/stem-activation-team/nesec
https://www.strategies.org/education/nasa-earth-science-education/
Flood Info:
http://www.floodsafety.noaa.gov/map.shtml
Rivers:
http://www.beg.utexas.edu/UTopia/images/pagesizemaps/river_basin.pdf
http://texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/rivers
http://kremesti.com/water/silt_clay_mud.htm
Soils:
https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/soils/story-book
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/survey/?cid=nrcs142p2_054167
4th Largest City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxNx4D2LxA
Johnson Flight Center closed:
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/677999290-johnson-space-center-closed-as-major-flooding-hits-houston-area/
Houston Airports Closed:
http://fortune.com/2017/08/28/airports-hurricane-harvey/
Hurricane Katrina (Middle School Module)
http://nasawavelength.org/resource/nw-000-000-001-660
Hurricanes:
http://nasawavelength.org/resource/nw-000-000-004-002
EO Kids: Urban Heat Islands/Hot Times in the City:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/eokids
Other curricula:
http://nasawavelength.org/list/1772
https://www.strategies.org/education/educators-toolkit/
https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/aerosols/story-book
http://nasawavelength.org/resource/nw-000-000-002-213
Youtube News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpaoere2c_s
Coastal Resiliency requires new and different ways of solving the problems of coastal vulnerabilities, built structures, and industry with flooding and urban infrastructure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RCGVSCf54
Keep your phone charged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZWfBuyr_k
Articles/Boomtown story not just Rice University weighing in about risks:
https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/