Hello darlings! I'm Erin. 23, Female, Theatre Graduate. I'm an old school romantic. I'm a bit of a dork and I love to cook. Welcome to the blog and if you have any questions feel free to ask away!
I’m still so dead on this tumblr and i’m so sorry btu with work, plus the fandom blog, plus the NEW Up and coming YOUTUBE?! I’ve been insanely busy and this blog still holds mixed feelings for me tbh
for those that (somehow) don’t know, i live in houston, texas, a major city in the path of hurricane harvey (more or less). houston is more on the back end of the storm, and is at a high risk for flooding in certain areas (mostly on the southern sides, especially on the southwest side). i live on the NE side of houston and while my family and i are planning to hunker down for the next few days, we don’t anticipate any flooding or high water in our neighborhood. being on the back end of the storm, we’re not expecting any hurricane force winds, either.
harvey is set to make landfall about 4 hours south, near the corpus christi area. communities around that area are under mandatory evacuation orders because of the high wind and certainty that there will be flooding. there will almost certainly be people who lose their homes, businesses, belongings, or worse.
over the next few days and weeks, im going to do my best to blog about charities to help victims of the storm throughout texas, because make no mistake, Texas has shit infrastructure to protect people from flooding. the parts of Houston that are at greatest risk of disastrous flooding are largely populated by poor people of color, especially black and latinx people.
tl;dr: while i am not at a great personal risk from this hurricane, many others are, so please keep an eye out on my blog and others for charities helping victims of the storm and give what you can.
KHOU11 (local Houston station) is saying that the eye wall is going to hit the Port Aransas area, which is a very poor area. the storm is set to go inland as far as San Antonio and then loop back around to hit the Port Aransas/Corpus Christi area again before it finally dies out over Houston
harvey upgraded to a category 4 a few hours ago and is official making land fall in one of the poorest areas of the Texas Gulf Coast as i type this.
if you can, please donate to the Red Cross, they’ve got multiple pages up on their website on different ways you can help
You can also donate to Driscoll Children’s Hospital, a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi that will almost certainly be heavily damaged by the storm. (don’t worry, they’ve evacuated all the patients, including the most critically ill patients, to safe areas in North Texas, well out of the storm’s path)
hey what’s up it’s ya girl, back again with an update:
shit’s bad y'all.
p much all of SE Texas is being beaten by feeder bands, tornadoes are popping up in Fort Bend County, Montgomery County, and Walker County, bayous and creeks are rising to dangerous levels, and this is just Houston. This is set to go on until the middle of next week, there’s no doubt that bayous will break their banks and flood multiple areas of town (bayous, creeks, reservoirs, lakes run all throughout Houston, the whole city is a watershed for one body of water or another). I could go into a list of how bad this storm is, but it would go on for pages, so let’s cut to the chase:
If you got some cash to spare, you can give it to these charities.
Central Texas Red Cross (their website also has a lot of information on how to volunteer, donate blood, and where you can find a shelter)
Save The Children (helps families and children evacuate, creates “child friendly spaces” in shelters)
Austin Pets Alive! (helping to evacuate pets and shelter animals, they’re asking for foster homes and monetary donations and donations in-kind, more info at the link)
Texas Diaper Bank (helps provide diapers to people who need them, not just babies but disabled individuals and seniors)
Driscoll Children’s Hospital (children’s hospital in Corpus Christi, they care for critically ill children and babies in the area, all patients were evacuated before the storm hit)
AirBnB activated their Disaster Response Program to connect evacuees with rental homes/rooms, free of charge. This will be active until September 1st in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas. If you’re a host in one of these areas, you can volunteer to open your home to evacuees.
if you are in Texas and able, please donate blood. Blood banks in the South Texas and Gulf Coast area are in dire need of donations, especially O Negative blood.
Hello it’s me again, and I’m here to tell you that Houston is under water. This is not hyperbole.
People are literally going up into their attics because the water rising into their homes. Friendswood is being evacuated, Brazoria County is under a mandatory evacuation order. Tornado warnings have been issued for the Med Center, University of Houston and Texas Southern University, and the Downtown areas. People have lost their homes, and their entire neighborhoods are underwater. People in the Cy-Fair area, an area that does not flood, are taking boats out to rescue neighbors who are stranded in their area. Houston ISD has cancelled class until next Tuesday, so many kids might not be able to get a regular source of food.
If you have the ability, please donate to one of the charities above. After the storm, the affected areas will need help recovering. The various charities above will undoubtedly be calling for food donations, clothing donations, blood donations and other donations in-kind.
If you’re in Houston and the surrounding areas, don’t try to travel. Stay home, don’t try to drive around, don’t risk the flood waters, the bayous are rising, San Jacinto creek has nearly broken its banks. Every time a major flooding incident happens, people die because they drown in their cars or because they’re walking around and they get swept away in the current. Just stay home.
