I have something very serious that
I want to discuss with you guys in this
video today we're not going to talk about photography
I'm going to talk
about the storm system - this hurricane
situation in South Texas right now many
of you know that I live in Texas and
I've had a lot of very kind people who
have reached out to make sure that I was
okay see how I was doing and I am doing
fine I appreciate that but I live in
Fort Worth which is in North Central
Texas so I am at least several hours
from any hurricane activity and I'm very
fortunate in that respect however
there are a lot of people in this state that
are not
and just to give you an idea of
what "unprecedented territory" means on
this my friend Brian Anderson who -
wonderful photographer great guy and
he's also a big meteorology enthusiast
and he's been posting a lot on his
Facebook page while this has been going on
which has been very interesting to follow
and one of them - his post he said it best
that he said never in my life have I
seen this situation where essentially
what you have is this hurricane that has
moved up through the Gulf and once it
has hit landfall it's been stalled out
with these two high pressure systems
that basically just hold it there and
then spin it so it's just like gears on
a clock and the whole while this is just
dumping water and I've seen conflicting
reports on this but it's anywhere
between 9 and 11 trillion gallons of
water that have been poured over 62
counties in more or less a two-day
period at the time I'm recording this
video and of course when you have that
much water that is dumped in that quick
a time span it does not have time to run
off and you have flooding and that is
what's going on and this is not just
Houston this is surrounding cities as
well and it is unprecedented it's a huge
area it's a lot of water it's going to
be a lot of damage and there are a lot of
people that need a lot of help right now
and I know that most of you see stuff on
the news right now and the media is
there and going through their reports
and stuff and the reality of the
situation is is that when the news cycle
drops off and it does look like this is
going to finally clear out later this
week it still as a few days to go but
when people are able to come back and see
what damage has been done I guarantee you
it is going to be biblical in scope
and it is not going to be good and
you're talking about people that you
know have either water damage severe or
total loss of their homes
businesses, schools, hospitals, road damage
just it's going to be a big deal and as
somebody who's grown up in Texas I have
a lot of friends that live down that way
and my heart absolutely goes out
to you guys
I can't even imagine the seriousness of
the situation one guy you guys would
know even Keith Carter
who I did the the last Artist Series video on lives in
Beaumont which is right there and in the
territory and Keith was not there I did
email with him last week and he was out
of town and we kind of went back and
forth about the storm a little bit so
fortunately he was safe but it's it's a
big deal and it's I wanted to do a video
to call this out a lot of people have
asked how they can help and you see a lot of
conflicting stuff on social media
that actually kind of you get tired of
looking at after a while if you want to
like show up I'm not even sure you can
get into the area right now because most
of its under water unless you drive a
boat but there is a lot of help from
people who are organizing relief efforts
and this is what I want to share with
you and I will put a link to this in the
show description here this is clearly
the best article I found on this is from
Texas Monthly which is a regional
magazine and very legit and this is one
of the best and they divide this up into
basically six categories of ways that
you can help and so it's like to help
kids, to help animals, to help people with
medical needs, to provide food, to help
the homeless and to help those displaced
and it's got a lot of wonderful things
on here everything from like the Texas Diaper Bank
for people with children to
miraculously the Driscoll Children's Hospital
which is located in Corpus Christi
survived the storm and they're
up and running and they are providing
relief SPCA is helping out with animals
who have been displaced finding foster
care until they can be reunited with
their owners people with medical needs
and this is a huge one people who can't
get medicine or even technology and
machines that they need to live
it's a dire situation food is a huge
issue and there are lists of about 10
food banks in here that you can help
donate to help with the homeless and
those displaced so I will put this link
in the show description if you have the
the means and the willingness and the
interest to do so your help is needed
this is a huge relief effort I mean we
are talking just on the surface
in insurance terms of
billions and billions of dollars in
reconstruction on this and another
reason my heart goes out to those of you
who live in Houston this is going to be
a long recovery period and
it's sobering to see and so that's kind
of why I wanted to do a video today I
know that we have a lot of fun on this
channel we talk about photography all
the time and all that good stuff but I
think this is something that really
needs to be said right now and it's
where our attention needs to go sometimes
there is a higher calling that we need
to answer to and I think this is
clearly it right now
anyway in the coming days we will get
back into the photography groove and we
will start to have fun and all that
stuff and I will see you guys then
until then later
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