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Floods Came Rolling In:
My town is at serious risk for flooding. In 2008 about a quarter of the city was flooded. New crews were everywhere before the waters came too close. The levies burst at midnight, no one knew what had happened. The city said nothing, but we knew by the loud noise that woke most. The emergency shelters wouldn't accept pets, almost everyone in the area owned at least one. Some tied their pets up and left them others gave them to family to take care of. There wasn't any news, all the news that was received was from outsiders. People who didn't really know what was going on and only had heard it from someone else.
Sometimes it was the news people, with faulty information sometimes others. Then the roads flooded, encircling the town, only military were allowed to pass. We were stuck, trapped until someone had told us of a dirt road that led out of the town. Only a few families knew about it and it was hard to find, driving down the street you could see cars turning around on the streets lost, finally giving in they followed other cars hoping to find a way out. Information was scarce, there is only one way out of town when it is flooded and in 2020 i'm sure the road will be gone, the end flooded. The city tried for two or three days making sandbags. Me and my family worked for nine hours straight. But the sandbags didn't hold either, we busied ourselves trying to get information, filling sandbags an moving my grandpa out of his home.
The city was almost useless i would say when it came to information. It took a week or two for the waters to recede. My grandpa moved back to is home, the waters stopped a block from his home. Those people one block from him had to use a boat to get to their home. If our town had had Ushahidi we could of provided access routes for everyone. Locations on where their pets could stay and more.
This week i hope to go to city hall and tell them about Ushahidi. Hopefully they will implement it and save several lives in the future. Save stress and panic and help their town when the time comes.
*About the pets, when people went to the shelter they told them to drive 1 hour from their location to the humane society and drop their pets off. Which no one could do with flooded roads. ...
Sometimes it was the news people, with faulty information sometimes others. Then the roads flooded, encircling the town, only military were allowed to pass. We were stuck, trapped until someone had told us of a dirt road that led out of the town. Only a few families knew about it and it was hard to find, driving down the street you could see cars turning around on the streets lost, finally giving in they followed other cars hoping to find a way out. Information was scarce, there is only one way out of town when it is flooded and in 2020 i'm sure the road will be gone, the end flooded. The city tried for two or three days making sandbags. Me and my family worked for nine hours straight. But the sandbags didn't hold either, we busied ourselves trying to get information, filling sandbags an moving my grandpa out of his home.
The city was almost useless i would say when it came to information. It took a week or two for the waters to recede. My grandpa moved back to is home, the waters stopped a block from his home. Those people one block from him had to use a boat to get to their home. If our town had had Ushahidi we could of provided access routes for everyone. Locations on where their pets could stay and more.
This week i hope to go to city hall and tell them about Ushahidi. Hopefully they will implement it and save several lives in the future. Save stress and panic and help their town when the time comes.
*About the pets, when people went to the shelter they told them to drive 1 hour from their location to the humane society and drop their pets off. Which no one could do with flooded roads. ...
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