Dear God, DO SOMETHING!!!!!

[Silent Earth]

How the ****ing hell has the US authorities allowed this to happen ???

Rely on the government to protect us you say !!! I say go F*** yourselves if you think this is a first world government helping its citizens.

 

[Silent Earth]

I simply cannot express just how outraged and utterly disgusted by this heart tearing image, and I cannot understand how such an OUTRAGE against basic humanity was allowed to happen when the authorities had DAYS of notice. Shame shame on those who let that happen. First world nation my arse.

 

[jimLE]

Hurricane Harvey Roundup: The Good, The Bad And The Scary

http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/...urce=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

 

[toexist]

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How the ****ing hell has the US authorities allowed this to happen ???

Rely on the government to protect us you say !!! I say go F*** yourselves if you think this is a first world government helping its citizens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

You need to find another news source with better Photoshop capabilities.

99% of the BS you post from Daily Mail UK is complete rubbish.

That senior citizen shot is an obvious fake edit...and a low quality fake at that. Shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.

 

[Silent Earth]

You are a F**ing arsehole of the highest order the image I have used if from FOX and a seperate Texan news agency.

 

[toexist]

Look at the lady in the rocking chair. No wonder why some of you guys sound like your going mad...reading this nonsense.

 

[Silent Earth]

Sky News http://news.sky.com/story/pensioners-trapped-in-texas-care-home-flooded-by-storm-harvey-11009903
Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/28/elder...rescued-from-hurricane-harvey-floods-6883647/
Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ed-shocking-photo-flooded-texas-nursing-home/
Times http://time.com/4917743/la-vita-bella-nursing-home-dickinson-texas-photo/

FOX http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/2...to-texas-nursing-home-15-seniors-rescued.html

CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/flooded-nursing-home-residents-trnd/index.html


David Popoff, an emergency management coordinator, confirmed 15 people were rescued from La Vita Bella, an assisted living facility in Dickinson, about 30 miles south of Houston.

“We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers,” Mr Popoff toldThe Galveston County Daily News, hours after the viral photo emerged showing at least eight people, and one cat, sitting in a room with muddy water up to their waists.

The photo was shared by Timothy McIntosh, who told the paper that his mother-in-law, Trudy Lampson, owned the nursing home.

 

[toexist]

You are a F**ing arsehole of the highest order the image I have used if from FOX and a seperate Texan news agency.

 

[toexist]

Sky News http://news.sky.com/story/pensioners-trapped-in-texas-care-home-flooded-by-storm-harvey-11009903
Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/28/elder...rescued-from-hurricane-harvey-floods-6883647/
Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ed-shocking-photo-flooded-texas-nursing-home/

David Popoff, an emergency management coordinator, confirmed 15 people were rescued from La Vita Bella, an assisted living facility in Dickinson, about 30 miles south of Houston.

“We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers,” Mr Popoff toldThe Galveston County Daily News, hours after the viral photo emerged showing at least eight people, and one cat, sitting in a room with muddy water up to their waists.

The photo was shared by Timothy McIntosh, who told the paper that his mother-in-law, Trudy Lampson, owned the nursing home.

So what? Your photo is still in obvious fake...a low rent one at that.

And what's with your obsession with American problems silent?

 

[toexist]

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market[2][3] tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust[4] and published in London. It is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun.[5] Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982 while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of the one of the co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team around the editor, Paul Dacre.

Daily Mail

Daily Mail front page in August 2010.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Daily Mail and General Trust
Publisher DMG Media
Editor Paul Dacre
Founded 4 May 1896; 121 years ago
Political alignment Conservative
Language English
Headquarters Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT
Circulation 1,491,264 (as of December 2016)[1]
ISSN 0307-7578
OCLCnumber 16310567
Website www.dailymail.co.uk
A survey in 2014 found the average age of its reader was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15–44 year olds among the major British dailies.[6]

The Daily Mail has been accused of printing sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research[10][11][12][13] and of copyright violations.[14]

 

[jimLE]

So what? Your photo is still in obvious fake...a low rent one at that.

And what's with your obsession with American problems silent?

 

[Silent Earth]

Are they all as dumb and ignorant as you in Chicago or are you a very special kind of stupid?

 

[toexist]

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Has everyone on this forum gone completely bat shyt crazy? I'm serious now. LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH CLOSELY.

 

[toexist]

Are they all as dumb and ignorant as you in Chicago or are you a very special kind of stupid?

Says the guy who gets his news off a tabloid. Yea, I'm the idiot.

 

[jimLE]

the pic is showing them stranded and flooded...now i ask..what else is wrong with the pic?

 

[toexist]

the pic is showing them stranded and flooded...now i ask..what else is wrong with the pic?

I've done my share of photo manipulation in college. LOOK at the image very closely. That is not the original version of the photograph. I never said this nursing home didn't get flooded but this photograph is an obvious misrepresentation of what actually happened.

The water has been edited to appear much higher than it originally was. LOOK at the calm relaxed expressions on their faces.

What I find more disturbing than this photograph is the fact that major news agencies are using it. I can no longer believe ANYTHING I read on the internet. I have lost complete faith in the media.

 

[toexist]

Can anyone here provide video footage of this account?

 

[WGregMiller]

Staying out of your love fest other than this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DividendsMGR/status/901805509950541825

 

[toexist]

Staying out of your love fest other than this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DividendsMGR/status/901805509950541825

This is a tweet of the same edited photograph. I need video...

I find it ironic how there is no available video to confirm authenticity of photograph.

 

[WGregMiller]

I didn't find any. The tweet is supposedly by the son of the owner of the nursing home, but that doesn't mean anything either.

 

[toexist]

I didn't find any. The tweet is supposedly by the son of the owner of the nursing home, but that doesn't mean anything either.

If such a video exists...im sure someone here will find it and defiantly prove me wrong.

 

[Silent Earth]

Thanks guys for the advice about the ignore button, its now in use so one problem solved.

 

[toexist]

Thanks guys for the advice about the ignore button, its now in use so one problem solved.

 

[nkawtg]

As bad as the picture is, how is it the governments fault again?
The owner of the assisted living facility had the responsibility for keeping their tenants safe.
Failing that, the govt. came to the rescue.

 

[Silent Earth]

As bad as the picture is, how is it the governments fault again?
The owner of the assisted living facility had the responsibility for keeping their tenants safe.
Failing that, the govt. came to the rescue.

Good point Sir, What I meant was governmental officials IE the Democratic Mayor of Houston said STAY put, but the Republican Governor said EVACUATE, but more specifically ALL agencies who should have ensured Hospitals, Schools, OAP homes etc SHOULD have been moved out much earlier. To me they appear to be making very similar mistakes to the ones they made in New Orleans when bed bound and infirm people drowned in their beds. The OWNER of the facility has PRIMARY responsibility but he is LICENCED and REGISTERED with the Local Authorities who are supposed to be in overwatch to ensure failings are prevented or mitigated.

 

[Dani]

National Guard airlifted the patients out. This did really happen in Dickinson Texas. There is now a mandatory evacuation of the town with a few others listed. . . totally inhabitable. If you need confirmation, turn on the Weather Channel that is covering hurricane Harvey 24/7. They broadcast the story when it happened. Lots of homes under water in Houston area, which Dickinson is near. People still in homes were crawling into attics to escape the water breaking thru roof to get rescued. Officials made a plea anyone with a boat and high sitting vehicles including tractors to come help with rescues. Once the water levels got too high it was by boat only including canoes, jet ski, and rubber rafts.

 

[Mountain trapper]

For me the real issue here is thinking that you can, or should, depend on the government for "help".

 

[Silent Earth]

For me the real issue here is thinking that you can, or should, depend on the government for "help".

Yes very good point and if I may make a second, It now appears that once cities become as large as Houston mass evac for most disasters is clearly a non starter (Hurricanes, Ice storms, Mass floods, Pandemics etc) because the simple NUMBERS of people make it nigh on impossible. So those of a prepper mentality need to adapt and learn and the first one will be live on high ground / live in elevated properties / live in second floor apartments in strong properties that are at least damage resistant to high winds and flood waters. Brick, stone and concrete homes are stronger though not as flexible as timber properties.

 

[toexist]

National Guard airlifted the patients out. This did really happen in Dickinson Texas. There is now a mandatory evacuation of the town with a few others listed. . . totally inhabitable. If you need confirmation, turn on the Weather Channel that is covering hurricane Harvey 24/7. They broadcast the story when it happened. Lots of homes under water in Houston area, which Dickinson is near. People still in homes were crawling into attics to escape the water breaking thru roof to get rescued. Officials made a plea anyone with a boat and high sitting vehicles including tractors to come help with rescues. Once the water levels got too high it was by boat only including canoes, jet ski, and rubber rafts.

I'm not disputing what did or did not happen. I sincerely wish the people of Texas all the best.

All I'm saying is...that photograph isn't real.

 

[WGregMiller]

Yes very good point and if I may make a second, It now appears that once cities become as large as Houston mass evac for most disasters is clearly a non starter (Hurricanes, Ice storms, Mass floods, Pandemics etc) because the simple NUMBERS of people make it nigh on impossible. So those of a prepper mentality need to adapt and learn and the first one will be live on high ground / live in elevated properties / live in second floor apartments in strong properties that are at least damage resistant to high winds and flood waters. Brick, stone and concrete homes are stronger though not as flexible as timber properties.

Methinks that's why the mayor said to stay put. The highways would make a hell of a disaster movie on their own.

Having said that, bugging out days ahead wouldn't be a bad idea if at all possible....