Things Just Got Very Real in Beaumont, TX: The City Has Lost Its Water Supply

[riversedge]

Source: DailyKos




Thursday Aug 31, 2017 · 3:08 AM CST


The citizens of Beaumont, TX are in deep trouble. Not only has this city of 120 thousand people seen wide-spread flooding that has caused many to lose their homes, local news is now reporting that they have lost their water supply:

Harvey knocks out Beaumont's water supply
By Click2Houston.com Staff

Posted: 1:28 AM, August 31, 2017

BEAUMONT, Texas - The City of Beaumont has lost service from its main pump station due to rising waters of the Neches River.

The pump station is located along the Neches River and draws water from the river as the main source of water for the City’s water system.

Beaumont has also lost its secondary water source at the Loeb wells in Hardin County.

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screen shot taken from CBS News Video of aerial footage of flooding in Beaumont, TX during Tropical Storm Harvey
Flooding in Beaumont, TX during Tropical Storm Harvey

[gademocrat7]

1. Horrific

[Achilleaze]

2. Wow - major multiplied catastrophe

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I have been watching the local station streams down there

Beaumont - http://kfdm.com/live

It's just sad sad sad.

They basically estimated the entire city was underwater.

[Solly Mack]

4. :(

[TexasTowelie]

5. The current guess for when the water service

will be restored is Monday/Tuesday of next week.

I posted a thread that links to the Beaumont Enterprise at https://www.democraticunderground.com/107836432 .

[raven mad]

6. The devil didn't go down to Georgia.

He only made it as far as Beaumont. What can we, from afar, do? Grab cases of bottled water to send down by mail/UPS/FedEx? Next Monday or Tuesday will be a long damn wait.

If still raining, can collectors (even old washtubs) be set out to collect rainwater? It can be easily purified - regular chlorine bleach (1 tbsp./gallon) IF you can then boil it (Sterno, charcoal stoves).

Damn. I'm 4300 miles away and feel helpless!

[Stargazer99]

7. maybe starting to lessen the carbon foot might help?

Trump has rescinded the controls on mining, etc we ought to be ready for more of this (what do those scientist know any way) after they told us weather would become more intense

[mnhtnbb]

8. DU'er Dustlawyer is in Beaumont

and has been keeping us posted. According to a post from him this a.m., water service may not be restored for a long time.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9532712

[rsdsharp]

9. Been there, done that.

Des Moines, 1993. The flooding was nowhere near as bad or as widespread as it is in Texas, but the water rose so fast that the Waterworks couldn't close the gap in the levee that surrounds it, and it was flooded.

We were told that it would be 1-2 months to get it back up and running after the flood receded. Fortunately, it only took 10-12 days, but it was a LOOOONG 10-12 days. The water wasn't just unsafe; there was no water. They shut the whole system down. If you turned on the tap, nothing came out. There was no water to drink, use for commercial air conditioning, cook with, clean with, shower with, or flush with. Toilets were flushed by pouring a gallon bucket of (usually) rain water into the toilet bowl. We had a little mantra: "If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down." You can imagine the smell.

We collected rain water in garbage cans from downspouts, and drove to my sister's house in Ames, 35 miles away, to shower and do laundry every 3 days. Fortunately, bottled water was everywhere, and there was no price gouging. I feel for the people in Beaumont, as well as Houston, and the other affected areas.