Words like "Drainage, Infrastructure, Satellites, flatlands, safety" have never been more important with a storm surge and many days of rain expected in the American Southeast, especially Texas and Louisiana.  House and flood insurance inquiries and crude and oil prices getting either "squeezed" or are also "ascending". Power generation equipment, damage, and tools will be part of recovering, but the storm is not over yet. Rivers overwhelmed, soil saturated, walls missing.  There will be alot to study and a need to support those in need and those hungry from solving problems, saving lives and property, and avoiding making it worse or dealing with damage.

While California is expected to have a week long of severe hot weather, coastal Texas and Ho uston are exploring how to release huge amounts of water to stop, redirect or make room for more rainfall.  Children can study how adults work to clean up storms and learn about supply and demand and kindness.  Levees, air conditioning, shelter and back up or flow are other terms, systems, and distribution elements that allow both urban and rural settings to operate, function, or service consumers, citizens, hospitals and states.

The Red Cross Disaster Operations team and engineers and public works specialists are hard at work with 2-4 feet of surging waters flooding homes, businesses, roads, and streets and overwhelming flood reservoirs, or impacting the cost of crude and gas nationally. Property owners and renters will be looking at how to cope.  How much economic loss and insured losses will accumulate?  The insurance institute will be working to calculate the impact of the storm while people are donating their boats for emergency vehicles. The President is expected to visit Texas on Tuesday.  Second landfall of Harvey expected this week. 

With a catastrophic weather event for the SE of Texas, 50 inches of water, structural damage, long term housing losses, and disaster services stretched, stories are coming out of the National Weather Services of 6" per hour rainfall for both states (LA and TX). The area will expect to be hard at work in this developing weather catastrophe to save lives, find solutions, place people and pets. Specialists and families are looking for options to restore, rebuild, rework, or resume economic and human systems during and after the storms. Regardless of drying out, cleaning up, and all the support it will take to deal with the disaster, the impact of dam spillage, the surge of rainfall on communities, homes and lives creates a call for action, a need for supplies, and places for evacuees to be sheltered.

With no time to wonder if it is a 100 year disaster or "record breaking storm"…. below are opportunities to find help, to use your phone, ipad, or computer to find out how to keep up with your neighborhood challenges or reach responders or make it through roads and weather. 

It is clear that new records will be set, virtual communications can help, and plans may shift as water rises.  When Wi-Fi, phones, and power works, lives may be saved.

It could get worse, but a look across the resources below will show how states and feds systems are in place and/or that scientists, engineers, and public health and emergency responders are searching for ways that citizens can be safer, be saved, protect property, or connect when independent resources are strapped or stripped away by the wind, the waves or water.  Efforts to help people are ongoing and a need to get people out of harms way.  Crisis mode for now in place to do "swift water rescue" across 30-40 counties just in Texas.  30,000 need help. Life is not "normal" for now.  Rivers, Bayous, Levees, and flood waters are in the news and will expand as people begin to look at weather on their phones and then the focus is expected to move on to Louisiana, deal with industrial clean up and stabilizing lives or heading back to work or school.

Red Cross:

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/27/546603340/red-cross-update-on-hurricane-harvey-relief-efforts

Operation Helping Hand:

http://wkrn.com/2017/08/27/news-2-joins-forces-with-red-cross-for-hurricane-harvey-relief/

Donations:

https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey

Responders on the Way:

http://wtnh.com/2017/08/25/local-red-cross-responders-head-to-texas-for-hurricane-harvey/

Roads and the 1000 year storm:

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/roadclosures/roadclosures.aspx?show=HW

Houston Flood Control Mapping:

https://www.hcfcd.org/interactive-mapping-tools/harris-county-flood-education-mapping-tool/

Victoria:

https://www.hcfcd.org/interactive-mapping-tools/harris-county-flood-education-mapping-tool/

Hurricane:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html

Schools and childcare shelter in place:

http://www.bepreparedcalifornia.ca.gov/BePrepared/Schools/Emergencies/Pages/KnowWhenandHowtoShelter-in-PlaceforSchools.aspx

https://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/shelter/index.asp

Photos:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/Hurricane-Harvey-Corpus-Christi-Damage-Photos-11969529.php

Houston:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/rescue-houston-harvey.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article

http://abcnews.go.com/US/harvey-unprecedented-flooding-experienced-inundates-houston-area-kills/story?id=49432077

Austin:

https://www.austintexas.gov/austinlakes

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/article/Harvey-hoax-Houston-not-shutting-off-water-12005719.php

Weather Channel:

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-corpus-christi-impacts

CNN and Harvey:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2017/08/25/exp-ti-preps-for-hurricane-harvey.cnn

Last Four Storms:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/What-the-last-Category-4-hurricane-to-hit-Texas-11964106.php

Animals:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/surprises-taxi-driver-Hurricane-Harvey-Houston-11983896.php

Remote Sensing SMAP:

http://www.remss.com/blog/hurricane-harvey-winds-nasa-smap

NASA Earth Observations:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2017/08/27/flying-into-hurricane-harvey/?src=eorss-blogs

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/?eocn=topnav&eoci=globalmaps

Oil Rigs:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/life-threatening-hurricane-harvey-nears-texas-49413532

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/harvey-gasoline-oil-impacts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey/?utm_term=.69069b3daf38

Geography:

http://the-geography.blogspot.com/2015/07/corpus-christi-texas-geography-and-climate.html

http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/

Predictions:

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=crp&gage=vict2

Guadalupe River:

http://www.gbra.org/Flood/Default.aspx

http://www.gbra.org/documents/flood/StayingSafe.pdf

Rainfall:

http://www.gbra.org/rain/default.aspx

Flood Insurance:

www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/.

Dallas preparing shelter:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/harvey-landfall/index.html

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3wVnv6kIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2XZc-YLONM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IsNPLHHhO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQXIJuCCD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgYN6x-jb9A

Climate Resilience Funding:

https://www.nrdc.org/issues/improve-climate-change-preparedness

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/using-state-revolving-funds-build-climate-resilient-communities

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/ready-or-not-evaluation-state-climate-and-water-preparedness-planning

NOAA readiness prep:

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/

about/media/noaa-plays-key-role-arctic-preparedness-exercise.html

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-does-noaa-model-oil-spills.html

http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/us-hurricane-forecasters-embark-on-preparedness-mission-to-mexico-and-caribbean

https://www.scribd.com/article/357179064/Hurricane-Harvey-Threatens-To-Bring-Dangerous-Storm-Surge-And-Flooding-To-Texas-Coast

Donations started:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cheniere-energy-inc-provides-update-on-hurricane-harvey-impacts-announces-1-million-donation-to-red-cross-relief-effort-300510017.html

FEMA Mapping:

http://cctexas.com/services/construction-and-property-services/starting-building-project/floodplain/flood-maps

Noaa Mapping, observations, and predictions:

http://www.floodsafety.noaa.gov/map.shtml

Weather Ready Nation:

https://www.weather.gov/about/nws

911 systems overwhelmed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptiordLJio

How to help:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/26/hurricane-harvey-victims-here-is-what-can-do-to-help.html

Evacuees heading to San Antonio:

http://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/flood

http://tpr.org/post/over-1100-evacuees-san-antonio-shelters-after-harvey-hits#stream/0

Volunteers needed:

http://newsversus.com/id/17359285111

ETools:

https://www.osha.gov/dts/weather/flood/preparedness.html

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/evacuation/index.html