Thank you Gitana! Those are two great videos. The first would only play halfway through, but I loved watching the old news footage from the 1953 Dutch flood. Many scenes just like Harvey! Hard to watch the child or young woman (I think) tug on that bag of sand, but reminded me of my great-grandmother who was Dutch-German. This quote always makes me think of her "And though she be but little, she is fierce!" So many beautiful horses rescued! Bless their hearts! You could tell many were just exhausted! WE definitely could learn from Holland!
My sister-in-law used to live close to Buffalo Bayou there in Houston and it would flood just under normal rainfall. Built on the coast in very low-lying land. Massive flood in 1936 and before that there was the 1900 Galveston hurricane that had no name.
1900 Galveston hurricane
The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h), which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead. It remains to the present day the deadliest natural disaster in US history.
The dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. The dead were initially weighted down on barges and dumped at sea, but when the gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed.[30] Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.[21] More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in all the tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since. This count is greater than 300 cyclones, as of 2009. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
CARIIS your earlier post reminded me of what happened during this 1900 hurricane and the deceased.