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Residents are being warned to 'get out or die' as waters in a nearby reservoir rise in an east Texas county and Harvey continues to move northeast towards Louisiana, bringing more rain and floods as people continue to evacuate and fill already overcrowded shelters.
Tyler County Judge Jacques Blanchette posted the grim warning on Facebook Wednesday evening after the floodgates on the Neches River, about 65 miles north of Beaumont, Texas, were opened to 100 feet by the US Army Corp of Engineers.
Beaumont was one of the areas suffering the most from the aftereffects of Harvey on Wednesday, with many people still in need of evacuations.
She said water levels of the Neches River and the Steinhagen Reservoir will rise to up to 79 feet and could reach 82 feet with rain from tropical depression Harvey that continues to fall.
'All residents living in Mt. Neches, Barlow Lake Estates, Works Bluff on CR 4415, Sheffield Ferry and Bottom Loop-CR 4700 who have not already evacuated must do so immediately,' she wrote.
'Anyone who chooses to not heed this directive cannot expect to be rescued and should write their social security numbers in permanent marker on their arm so their bodies can be identified. The loss of life and property is certain. GET OUT OR DIE!'
Despite the fact that Harvey has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center warned of continuing flooding in parts of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.
More than 32,000 people are in shelters across Texas and at least 38 people have been killed as a result of the devastating floods as experts are describing Harvey as the worst natural disaster in US history.
In one area of Houston alone there were another 17 deaths reported on Wednesday.
The death toll is expected to rise dramatically as the waters recede. 'I'm worried about how many bodies we're going to find,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said on Tuesday as he mourned the loss of one of his own officers who drowned trying to get to work.
Meanwhile, a flooded chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, was set to explode according to a spokesperson for the company Wednesday night.
The timing and extent of the danger weren't immediately clear, but the plant and homes within 1.5miles were evacuated Tuesday. Crosby is about 25 miles northeast of Houston.
The Arkema Inc. plant lost power and its backup generators amid Harvey's days-long deluge, leaving it without refrigeration for chemicals that become volatile as the temperature rises.
Evacuees from Tropical Storm Harvey fill the Max Bowl, as others continue to pour in for shelter at the business in Port Arthur, Texas, Wednesday
Jonathan Evans floats his possesions on a paddle board out of Tropical Storm Harvey floodwaters in north western Houston on Wednesday
A man climbs out of a utility vehicle that was stuck on Highway 96 in flood waters, caused by Tropical Storm Harvey, Wednesday in Lumberton, Texas
Evacuees rest on cots in a shelter at Woodcrest Church after their homes were damaged from rising flood waters due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Wednesday in Lumberton, Texas
Two rescuers from US Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 7 are lowered to a house after Tropical Storm Harvey flooded a neighborhood in Beaumont, Texas
A man looks out of the doorway of his house in the Tropical Storm Harvey floodwaters in north western Houston on Wednesday
Debris lies on the ground at Copano Cove in Rockport, Texas on Wednesday. Homes sustained major damage from Hurricane Harvey
Kim Weatherford surveys the damage at his vacation home in Copano Cove in Rockport, Texas on Wednesday
The cost of the damage, which includes 500,000 ruined cars, is likely to total $160 billion. The Texas Department of Safety revealed on Wednesday that 48,700 homes had been impacted by the floods.
Even evacuation shelters in parts of the state were not safe from the chaos. Water rushed through the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur on Tuesday where scores of evacuees were taking shelter.
Harvey has brought the heaviest rainfall in US history, soaking Texas with more than 51 inches since it first made landfall last Friday.
The Houston Fire Department said Wednesday that the department they will conduct a block-by-block search of neighborhoods that were flooded by Harvey and had previously been inaccessible to authorities starting Thursday morning.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned residents that the worst of Hurricane Harvey is not over and that it will take months for the state to recover from its devastating floods.
'The worst is not yet over as far as the rain goes for southeast Texas. There's more to come,' he said at a press conference on Wednesday where he described the catastrophe as being 'far larger' than Katrina or Sandy.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has warned residents that the worst of Hurricane Harvey is not over and that it will take months for the state to recover from its devastating floods. Pictured: Residents are evacuated through flood waters in West Houston on Wednesday
A sign reading 'turn around' and 'deep water' warns evacuees of the flood waters in Lakeside Estate in Houston on Wednesday
Experts are describing storm Harvey as the worst natural disaster in US history. Pictured: Residents being evacuated on jet skis and boats in Northwest Houston on Wednesday
At least 38 people have been killed as a result of the devastating floods and in one area of Houston alone there were another 17 deaths reported on Wednesday. Pictured: Residents evacuating floods in West Houston
The cost of the damage, which includes 500,000 ruined cars, is likely to total $160 billion. Pictured: Residents are rescued from flooded areas of West Houston
The Texas Department of Safety revealed on Wednesday that 48,700 homes had been impacted by the floods. Pictured: residents are rescued in West Houston
A flooded gas station is seen during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Houston on Wednesday
A flooded road is seen in the aftermath of Harvey on Wednesday in Houston
Eighty-year-old John Paul Klotz, center, pulls his can out of floodwaters as US Border Patrol Agent Steven Blackburn stands by to help Klotz board an boat during a search a rescue operation in a neighborhood inundated by Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston Wednesday
Klotz is pulled on a boat by US Border Patrol Agents Steven Blackburn, left, Ramiro Rodriguez, top center, and Juan Flores during a search a rescue operation in a neighborhood inundated by floodwaters in Houston on Wednesday
Saltwater Salvage diver Justin Hendrickson prepares to dive near the Columbia Lakes subdivision on Wednesday in West Columbia. Hendrickson was walked to the dive spot by fellow diver Dave Oltroge before he dove to shut a levee gate value to prevent more flooding to the neighborhood
The US Coast Guard responds to search and rescue requests after Hurricane Harvey in the Beaumont on Wednesday. The Coast Guard is working closely with all federal, state and local emergency operations centers and has established incident command posts to manage search and rescue operations
Emergency crews continued to work in Buffalo Bayou, Houston, on Wednesday to rescue stranded residents from Hurricane Harvey's flood waters
A woman is overcome with grief as she is evacuated from her home in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday with her pet
Jason Hunt, a firefighter from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, carries a woman to dry ground on Wednesday after she was rescued from her apartment complex when it was inundated with water in Houston
Evacuees ride on a truck after they were driven from their homes by the flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday in Port Arthur
A home in Port Arthur is surrounded by water after the flooding of Hurricane Harvey inundated the area
Trucks pass each other along Highway 90 after parts of the road were flooded by Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday in Port Arthur
Chris Wiley keeps an eye out for people needing help in Port Arthur, Texas, on Wednesday
Sam Boyd holds her son Skylar while they are evacuated on an airboat friom their apartment complex in Houston on Wednesday. It was Skylar's first birthday
A cat tries to find dry ground around an apartment complex in Houston on Wednesday
Evacuees in Port Arthur wait to be transported to a shelter after being rescued from flooding on Wednesday
Evacuees are evacuated on a motorboat after being rescued in Port Arthur
People wait on a strip of dry land for rescue boats after being driven from their homes on Wednesday in Port Arthur
The hurricane center said Harvey is located about 10 miles southwest of Alexandria, Louisiana and has maximum sustained winds of 35mph.
The center said the threat of heavy rains has ended for the Houston and Galveston areas, but 'life-threatening' flooding will continue in and around Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and southwest Louisiana, where many are still in need of rescue, particularly in Beaumont and Port Arthur.
Harvey is expected to produce an additional 4 to 8 inches of rainfall along the Texas-Louisiana line.
A levee on private property near Gueydan, Louisiana had a 30-yard section washed away in the 2016 flood and was never replaced, according to Louisiana State Police Master Trooper Brooks David, who said the water was going through that portion of the levee on Wednesday.
A nearby highway has been blocked off in the area of the levee and about 30 homes in Gueydan could be in danger if the water rises. At its highest point, the flooding has reached about a foot, according to KATC.
Because the levee is on property owned by an oil company, negotiations are underway for public funding to be used to legally help fix the levee.
Meanwhile, the state's Lake Charles Civic Center is stocking up and preparing to take in flooding evacuees from Texas and Louisiana.
In Texas, anyone who is still in need of rescue is being asked to get on high ground and wave white towels or sheets to make themselves visible. Overwhelmed authorities are asking anyone with boats to help in the rescue efforts.
As rescue teams and volunteers continue rescuing stranded residents from the waters, National Guardsmen and women have been brought back from overseas deployment to help with the disaster.
- There are 30,000 people in shelters across the state with another 10,000 expected to become displaced
- The NRG stadium which hosted this year's Superbowl has opened its doors to house the needy
- 38 people are confirmed dead but the official death toll is feared to be significantly higher
- Dams in Houston have failed and water plants are swamped, making drinking water across some counties unsafe
- A midnight to 5am curfew is in place to stop looters and other opportunistic criminals
- Louisiana is bracing itself for 10 inches of rain as Harvey barrels along the coast before landing at midday
- Residents in Port Arthur and Beaumont are clambering to their roofs to be rescued as the floods rise
- There are mandatory evacuation orders in place across five different counties. For a full list, check here
- The cost of the damage by the time the storm has passed is likely to reach $160billion
There are currently 14,000 troops mobilized in Texas and another 10,000 are on their way, Governor Abbott revealed on Wednesday.
He would not give an official death toll but praised volunteers and first responders for going 'above the call of duty' to save lives.
'I am not amazed because we have seen this before,' he said when asked for his response to the efforts of residents to help one another through the crisis.
'Texans really step up and protect and aide their fellow Texans.
'Whether you're a first responder, neighbor helping neighbor, stranger helping stranger – Texans have really stepped up.'
The flooding will take up to a week to disappear in Texas, he said, and the clean-up mission will take months.
Abbott also said the National Guard has already conducted more than 8,500 rescues and more than 1,400 shelter-in-place checks.
In Beaumont, 26 inches of rain have already fallen and another 10 inches are due to fall before Harvey moves away and on to its next victim – Louisiana.
Rescue operations are underway in southeast parts of the region with scores still trapped in their homes as water engulfs them.
In Houston, the flood waters have begun to recede but it will take days for them to entirely drain.
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena says firefighters will begin searching neighborhoods in southwest Houston starting Thursday morning.
Governor Greg Abbott gave a bleak press conference on Wednesday where he said the worst of the storm was still not over for some parts of T
Assistant Fire Chief Richard Mann says the searches are being done to ensure that "no people were left behind." Floodwaters in many parts of Houston have receded while other neighborhoods are still dealing with rising waters from bayous and other swollen waterways.
Mann says the fire department will conduct these searches throughout the city. Officials expect the process to take one to two weeks to complete.
Mann says since Harvey inundated the Houston area, the fire department has received more than 15,000 calls for service. He says the volume of calls has stabilized and the fire department is working to transition from rescues calls to a recovery mode.
Abbott also used the press conference to admonish businesses and opportunists who were taking advantage of the catastrophe with price gauging.
Best Buy is among retailers under fire for hiking up prices as panic surges across Texas. It has apologized after photographs emerged of packs of water being sold for $42.
'Price gauging is not only reprehensible, it's illegal. It is un-Texan and we will not tolerate it.
Residents of a neighborhood in northwest Beaumont are rescued by boat on Wednesday
Volunteers help handle a boat in a swift current during the rescue of of people from their homes in Beaumont on Wednesday
David White hugs his neighbor, Sherry Blincoe, after she was rescued by boat from her flooded home in Beaumont on Wednesday
The group of volunteers pull the rescue boat from the sweeping currents in Beaumont on Wednesday
Almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil and about 8,500 gallons of wastewater spilled about 150 miles west of Houston because floodwaters from Harvey toppled two oil storage tanks, state officials said Wednesday.
Burlington Resources Oil and Gas reported the spills in DeWitt County to the Texas Railroad Commission on Wednesday. They include a 16,170-gallon (385 barrels) spill near the town of Westhoff and a 13,272 gallon (316 barrels) spill west of Hochheim.
It was not immediately clear if any of the spilled oil was recovered.
Burlington Resources is a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips. Company representatives did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment.
More damage to oil industry infrastructure is expected to emerge as floodwaters recede.
Despite continued reports of damage, Houston's two major airports reopened Wednesday on a limited basis, as floodwaters receded and the skies over the Texas city cleared with monster storm Harvey moving to the east.
The two airports, George Bush Intercontinental and Hobby, were to resume operations at 4pm, after the runways and roads leading to the airport were cleared of water.
No flights were imminent, but airport officials hoped airlines would quickly resume service.
'This is going to be a phased process,' Houston airport system spokesman Bill Begley told AFP, adding that domestic flights would resume first.
'We're focusing on this weekend, probably when we're going to see more and more flights at both airports.'
Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed due to Harvey.
About 800 passengers with connecting flights were stuck at the city's airports as Harvey made landfall over the weekend as a Category Four hurricane.
Starting Sunday, air carriers evacuated most of those passengers out of the airports to Dallas, Chicago or Detroit, where they could be connected to flights to their ultimate destinations.
Begley said fully reopening the airports was part of the city's effort to return to a sense of normalcy. It also signaled to airlines that 'it's time to get started,' he said.
'I do believe that it shows that we're moving forward a little bit.'
Southwest Airlines announced that it planned to resume flights Saturday.
Volunteers help a woman after she was rescued by boat from her home in Beaumont, Texas on Wednesday
Volunteer rescuer Derek Burke carries Jaylen Welch, 10, out of the flood on Tram Road in Beaumont on Wednesday
Nathan Welch carries his daughter, Elisa, 3, out of the flood on Tram Road on Wednesday
Volunteer Derek Burke, right, helps carry a family's belongings after boaters rescued them from flooding in the aftermath of Harvey in Beaumont on Wednesday
Jaylen Welch, 10, carries her belongings out of the flood on Tram Road in Beaumont after being rescued from flooding on Wednesday
Volunteers help evacuate children from flooding in Beaumont on Wednesday
Josh Benoit carries his Great Dane, Lilly, out of the flood on Tram Road in Beaumont, Texas on Wednesday
Carson Littlefield (left) carries his husky, Spike to safety in Beaumont, Texas. Also in Beaumont, Cory (right) carries his dog out of the flood on Tram Road on Wednesday
Volunteers help handle a boat in a swift current during the rescue of of people from their homes in Beaumont on Wednesday
A volunteer rescues a family and their dogs from their flooded house in Beaumont on Wednesday
Brandon Emmons helps tow a flooded car on West Port Arthur Road in Beaumont, Texas on Wednesday
People walk along West Port Arthur Road in Beaumont, Texas toward a flooded neighborhood where their family members live after tropical storm Harvey on Wednesday
Evacuees ride on a truck after they were driven from their homes by the flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday in Port Arthur
Mark Boling keeps an eye out for people needing help in Port Arthur on Wednesday after the flooding of Hurricane Harvey inundated the area
Evacuees make their way through the flood waters that surrounded part of the Max Bowl, which was converted to a shelter for those displaced by flooding in Port Arthur, Texas on Wednesday
A man and woman pray as they find a spot together at the Max Bowl in Port Arthur, Texas, on Wednesday
A man sleeps on one of the bowling ball returns on Wednesday as evacuees continue to pour into the Max Bowl, which was converted to a shelter for those displaced by flooding in Port Arthur
Evacuees make their way to Max Bowl, which was converted to a shelter for those displaced by flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey in Port Arthur
A woman gets off a bus at the Max Bowl in Port Arthur, Texas, a bowling alley converted into a shelter as people are displaced from their homes because of flooding from tropical storm Harvey
Tim Linscomb pushes his 12-year-old son through flood water as they evacuate their home in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday
Triumphant residents make their way through the floods on Wednesday in Houston, Texas
Gillis Leho surveys the damage in her car that was ruined by flood waters in Buffalo Bayou
A car floats through rising flood waters in Buffalo Bayou on Wednesday morning in Texas
Two men ride through flood waters in Houston on a jet ski on Wednesday. The rain has stopped in Houston and the floods are now receding but it will take up to a week for them to drain
People are still being rescued in Houston which has been ravaged by rain since Sunday morning
An evacuee cowers in a Red Cross cot at the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur, Texas, as flood water rises around them on Tuesday night. The evacuees were moved to another shelter shortly after this photograph was taken
The Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur, Texas, – where hundreds were taking shelter from Hurricane Harvey – flooded on Tuesday night as the floods continued to rise
Children and adults were forced to wade through more flood water at the shelter, after already being rescued once, before they were taken to another safe, dry center
On Wednesday, Joel Myers of AccuWeather warned that Harvey had surpassed all other storms in terms of destruction.
'This will be the worst natural disaster in American history. The economy's impact, by the time its total destruction is completed, will approach $160 billion, which is similar to the combined effect of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy,' he told The New York Post.
At a midday press conference, Governor Greg Abbott said the worst of the rain was not over in Beaumont and Port Arthur and said the disaster was worse than Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy.
'When you consider the population, size, and square mile size of the area impacted both by the hurricane swathe and the flooding, it's far larger than Katrina, far larger than Sandy.'
At the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston, the city's main shelter, 10,000 are cramming in to cots, chairs and on the floor.
Among the places to open their doors to victims of Harvey's flooding is a bowling alley in the coastal Texas city of Port Arthur.
Max Bowl general manager Jeff Tolliver says firefighters called Tuesday night to ask him to turn off the venue's alarm system. When he left around 2.30am Wednesday, there were 80 to 100 people sheltering there. By afternoon, there were more than 500, as well as 50 to 100 dogs and cats, a lizard and a monkey.
He says the monkey 'was a little surprising,' but that everyone is trying to help. The bowling alley's cafe is feeding people and others have been dropping off clothes, toiletries, water and other things.
Tolliver and his wife left their flooded home to stay with friends. He says he moved to Texas from Michigan a year ago to get away from the snow, but ended up with rain instead.
A young girl wears arm bands as she is taken through a neighborhood of Houston on a boat while being evacuated from her home
A man carries his dog through flood water after being evacuated from a neighborhood in west Houston on Wednesday
Texans help one another walk through flood water after being evacuated in west Houston on Wednesday
A man wades through knee-deep flood water in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday with more rain on the way
A man uses his boat to navigate the flooded streets in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon
As funding efforts continue, celebrities including actor Kevin Hart and Real Housewives of New York star and business mogul Bethenny Frankel have pledged more than $50,000 combined.
NFL Houston Texans' player JJ Watt raised more than $4.7million for Hurricane Harvey victims on a YouCaring page by Tuesday night.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation donated $1million to the newly established United Way Harvey Recovery Fund which will go toward relief and recovery efforts for several years.
United Way Worldwide said Wednesday that the national fund will distribute 100 percent of donations to recovery efforts for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. United Way is the world's largest privately-funded non-profit.
The $1 million from the actor's foundation represents the inaugural donation to the fund. It is the latest disaster relief support from the Oscar-winner's namesake foundation.
Many celebrities have pulled out their pocketbooks to help Harvey victims over the past few days including Sandra Bullock, who on Tuesday donated $1 million to the American Red Cross.
People line up to buy groceries in the Chanelview section of Houston on Wednesday as the flood waters recede
A woman looks out the window of Golden Years senior home in Orange, Texas, as its residents wait to be rescued on Wednesday. Authorities have asked anyone who is trapped to hang white towels, sheets or shirts outside to make themselves visible to rescue crews
A family is taken to safety on board a propeller boat in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday
Volunteers prepare to rescue cattle from the Liberty Bell Ranch in Liberty, Texas, on Wednesday
People ride through flood waters on a boat in west Houston on Wednesday as they escape from the floods
Mike Henry lifts his leg on to a boat as members of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries rescue in Orange, Texas
People evacuate their homes in Orange, Texas, carrying what they can on their backs as flood waters rise
Volunteer Kyle Denison walks with Rosemarie Carpenter after rescuing her in Orange, Texas, on Wednesday
Experts are calling Harvey, which has brought the heaviest rainfall in US history, the worst natural disaster the country has ever seen. Above, a home in Houston on Tuesday which is now entirely underwater
A home in Houston on Tuesday where flood waters continue to rise as Hurricane Harvey continues. An estimated 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the disaster
An aerial image shows Harvey above Texas and Louisiana on Wednesday as it continues to wreak havoc on the region
A home in Spring, Texas, was both drowned and burned on Wednesday morning after the flooding from Hurricane Harvey sparked a fire inside
Another home in Houston, Texas, was entirely surrounded by water on Tuesday as the floods continued to rise
A shocking before and after comparison illustrates the flooding on I-10 west of Beaumont in Texas
People are still in urgent need of rescue in Port Arthur and Beaumont where the flood water continues to rise
A record 51.88 inches of rain had fallen in Cedar's Bayou, one of the worst affected areas in Houston, by Tuesday afternoon.
Search and rescue missions are still underway and the number of people still trapped in their homes is unknown.
More than 13,000 have been rescued from their homes and from the water since the storm hit over the weekend.
A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana but it is not expected to suffer the same devastation as Houston where river levees have burst and dams on the outskirts of the city are overflowing.
On Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted of his heartbreak after spending the day in Corpus Christi where thousands have been rendered homeless.
'After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey,my heart goes out even more so to the great people of Texas!' he said.
This map shows Harvey's path so far and indicates where the storm is expected next
A forecast map shows the rain scheduled to fall over the next three days with downpours extending to Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas
Flood warnings in place in Beaumont and Lake Charles as well as in southern Alabama and the North West tip of Florida
Harvey made its 3rd landfall on Wednesday at 5am in Cameron, Louisiana, which is near the border with Texas
An aerial view of homes in Spring, Texas, show the drastic flooding across the district on Tuesday
Interstate 69 was almost entirely underwater on Tuesday in Humble, Texas, as a result of the floods
People used boats, jet skis and high water trucks to help each other get to safety on Tuesday as the floods continued to rise
Churches across the city have opened their doors to displaced residents as have mosques and concert arenas.
Other Good Samaritans have rushed to help including mattress and furniture store owner Jim McIngvale who welcomed evacuees into his shops on Monday.
He created a play pen for children and heartwarming photographs of them jumping up and down on his mattresses emerged.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday his agency has rescued about 4,100 people. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says they have rescued more than 3,000.
President Trump gave this message to Texans on Wednesday morning
Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office says her agency has rescued more than 3,000 people. Houston is located in Harris County.
US Coast Guard Lt Mike Hart says his agency has rescued more than 3,000 individuals.
Hart says the Coast Guard total includes rescues in Houston, but also in outlying cities and subdivisions outside of Houston, as well as in surrounding counties, including Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda.
Air Force Major General Witham, the director of domestic operations for the National Guard Bureau, told reporters there are currently about 3,500 National Guard troops involved in Harvey rescue efforts, including 3,000 from the Texas National Guard.
He estimated that the Texas guard number could rise to 8,000 to 10,000 in coming days, possibly joined by 20,000 to 30,000 from other states.
He said the military is providing everything that has been requested by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, although the response is constrained by the stormy weather and by flooding that limits use of roadways.
He said weather has limited the use of military helicopters over the past two or three days, so the Guard has instead used boats and ground vehicles to rescue stranded residents in the Houston area.
Besides the additional National Guard troops from other states, there are about 1,000 active-duty military forces in position to provide assistance if called up by civilian authorities, he said.
Asked whether Texas authorities recognized the magnitude of the disaster quickly enough, Witham said, 'That's debatable.' He said in some respects the need was recognized quickly. But the extraordinary amount of rainfall and flooding exceeded what state planners could have foreseen.
'So if you're looking at an event that only occurs every few hundred years, the planning that would have normally occurred for that probably wasn't here,' Witham said.
'So, in many cases, the request for assistance, not only for the National Guard but federal forces, may not have been anticipated quickly enough.'
A photograph taken inside the home of grandmother Edelmira Gutierrez shows the flooding in Concord Bridge. She was rescued by members of the Fire Department
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo gave a bleak forecast of the damage caused by Harvey on Tuesday as he warned that the death toll would be much higher than 30, the number of confirmed deaths on Tuesday morning.
'We know in these kind of events that, sadly, the death toll goes up historically. I'm really worried about how many bodies we're going to find,' he said.
Search and rescue missions are still underway across Houston with countless people still stranded in their sinking homes.
Emergency services are having to focus on saving the living rather than recover the bodies of the dead. This means the official death toll – which stood at 30 on Tuesday morning – is devastatingly unrealistic.
Among those who have been confirmed dead are six members of one family who drowned in their truck trying to flee their home.
Siblings Devy Saldivar, 16, Dominic, 14, Xavier, eight, and Daisy, six, drowned along with their great grandparents Manuel and Belia on Saturday.
The children's uncle, who was driving the van they became trapped in, was able to escape and survived. Their bodies were found inside the truck at Greens Bayou in Houston on Wednesday, three days after they went missing.
Their great-grandparents Manuel and Belia Saldivar (pictured), aged 81 and 83, respectively, also drowned. The driver – the children's great-uncle – survived the accident. Their bodies were found inside the van (right) on Wednesday
Houston Police Department Sgt. Steve Perez died trying to get to work on Monday
Collette Sulcer, 41, died on Tuesday after she got swept away by strong currents in Beaumont, Texas while trying to carry her three-year-old daughter Jordyn to safety
Houston Police Officer Sgt. Steve Perez, 60, died in his car as he tried to get to work on Monday.
He worked for the department for 34 years and refused to stay at home as the disaster was unfolding, choosing instead to go to work to help the people of Houston.
A spokeswoman for a Houston hotel said one of its employees disappeared while helping about 100 guests and workers evacuate the building.
Beaumont police say a woman, Collette Sulcer, 41, died after she and her three-year-old daughter Jordyn, were swept into a rain-swollen drainage canal while trying to escape their stalled vehicle.
A police statement said the woman pulled her vehicle into an office park's flooded parking lot about 3.35pm Tuesday, where it became stalled by high water. The woman then took her daughter, exited the car and was swept about a half-mile away.
Two Beaumont police officers and two fire-rescue divers in a rubber boat spotted the mother floating with the child, who was holding onto her mother. Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat.
The child was responsive but suffering from hypothermia; the mother was unresponsive and efforts to revive her failed. The child is hospitalized in stable condition.
Harris County confirmed the storm-related death of 64-year-old Alexander Kwoksum Sung, who drowned at a clock repair business Sunday in Houston. He was found in more than a foot of debris on Monday.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences updated its storm-related deaths Tuesday night to include an 89-year-old woman, Agnes Stanley, who was found floating in four feet of floodwater in a home.
A 76-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was found floating in floodwater near a vehicle. A 45-year-old man, Travis Lynn Callihan, left his vehicle and fell into floodwaters. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday.
Two other men, volunteer rescuers, also died. Married father-of-two Jorge Perez, 33, and 25-year-old Yahir Vizueth, who was unmarried, were confirmed dead Tuesday night.
They were among seven men on board a motorboat when it was electrocuted by submerged power lines in Houston on Monday. Two other men who were with them, Gustavo Rodriguez Hernandez and Benjamin Jimmy Vizueth are still missing.
The three others on the boat, including two DailyMail.com journalists, were taken to the hospital for electrical burns.
Orange County Judge Stephen Carlton said Wednesday that two people died from storm-related causes on Monday night in the city of Orange, Texas.
On Wednesday afternoon, Fort Bend County Sheriff's Major Chad Norvell said a married couple, 65-year-old Donald Rogers and 58-year-old Rochelle Rogers, drowned after they drove their pickup truck into Harvey's floodwaters and the current from a nearby creek swept them away.
Norvell said the couple was on the phone with 911 asking for help when the line went silent. When officers found the truck, it was completely submerged.
They lived in a rural area of the county southwest of Houston and they were headed to a relative's house nearby.
Family of the men have been posting photos on social media in a bid to track them down. Yahir Vizuet Rubio (left) was confirmed dead and Benjamin Jimmy Vizueth (right) is still missing
Gustavo Rodriguez Hernandez (left) is still missing but the body of Jorge Perez (right) was found
Brazoria County – a suburb south of Houston – issued this dramatic warning on Tuesday morning as the levees of the Brazos river burst in Columbia Lakes
As waters continue to rise, public health officials are warning that flooding increases the risk of illnesses ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease.
On Monday afternoon the town of Dickinson issued a mandatory evacuation order and residents near Columbia Lakes in Brazoria County were told Tuesday morning to leave immediately after a levee was breached.
Residents within 1.5miles of a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, were evacuated on Tuesday as a 'precautionary measure' because of the rising risk of an explosion, the local fire marshal's office said in a Twitter message.
More than 17,000 people have sought refuge in Texas shelters and that number seemed certain to increase, the American Red Cross said.
As people continue to flock to the overcrowded George R Brown Convention Center, Houston is planning to open a few other 'mega-shelters' for evacuees.
'We are not turning anyone away. But it does mean we need to expand our capabilities and our capacity,' Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said. 'Relief is coming.
Port Arthur authorities pleaded for help from volunteers on Wednesday
Televangelist Joel Osteen opened his Houston megachurch, a 17,000-seat former arena that was the longtime home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, on Tuesday as a shelter after social media critics slammed him for not offering to house people in need while Harvey swamps the city.
Osteen announced the effort in a tweet, saying he and wife Victoria Osteen 'care deeply about our fellow Houstonians'.
Later in the day, the Toyota Center was accepting people who could not find space at the convention center.
However the arena had only 500 cots added to its floor because the convention center will remain the primary shelter for Harvey evacuees.
Mayor Turner said Tuesday night that people will still have to go to the convention center first before going into the Toyota Center.
A man stands in flood water up to his chest waist near the Addicks Reservoir on the outskirts of Houston on Tuesday
Jannett Martinez holds her cat Gigi as they catch a ride on a boat out of her neighborhood near the Addicks Reservoir
Volunteers from Texas A&m help rescue horses from the floods along the south Sam Houston Tollway on Tuesday
People wade through neck deep water in Pine Cliff Drive near the Addicks Reservoir in Houston on Tuesday
A man is helped off a truck in Houston after being rescued from one of the flood zones. Residents have been forced to rescue one another as the emergency services struggle to keep up with the storm
People hug one another on the back of a truck as they are rescued from neighborhoods near the Addicks Reservoir
Tom McCasland, Houston's housing and community development director, said Tuesday that the Toyota Center will serve as an overflow center for people still arriving Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
Reporter Drew Griffin saved a man whose truck was being carried down a ravine at frightening pace on Wednesday during a live cross with his network CNN.
The cameras were still rolling when Griffin and a crew members grabbed a rope and ran over to help the man identified as Jerry Sumrall of Winnie, Texas.
Afterwards, Sumrall said on air: ' I want to thank these guys for saving my life.'
It will only serve families with children that don't have pressing medical needs.
McCasland says more cots are on the way for thousands of people who didn't have one Monday night. Some people slept on towels or strips of cardboard.
He says, 'We fully expect to have everyone in a cot tonight.'
Turner said Tuesday night that because Houston police have been spread thin due to ongoing water rescues and other efforts, 50 Texas National Guard members will be stationed at the convention center to provide security.
Houston officials opened a major shelter at NRG Park that can accommodate up to 10,000 evacuees.
Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said the convention center adjacent to the city's NFL stadium and the Astrodome opened at 10pm Tuesday.
Mayor Turner also said Tuesday the city has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for more supplies, including cots and food, for additional 10,000 people, which he hopes to get no later than Wednesday.
The mayor also issued an overnight curfew beginning on Tuesday night for an indefinite period amid incidents of looting, armed robberies and people impersonating police officers.
The curfew will run from 10pm until 5am and Houston is bringing additional police from other regions, Turner said in a news conference Tuesday evening.
'You cannot drive, nor be in any public place. We have had problems with armed robberies, with people with guns and firearms,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said.
Those who violate the curfew will be questioned, searched and arrested, Acevedo said.
The George R Brown Convention Center (pictured) in downtown Houston, Texas, has a capacity of up to 5,000 people, but Monday night 9,021 people stayed in the center
Volunteer Elizabeth Hill, eight, plays with evacuee Skyler Smith, seven, at the St Thomas Presbyterian Church in West Houston on Tuesday
A woman in a wheelchair carries a child on her lap as she arrives at the Convention Center which is housing people from flooded homes after Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding in Houston
The curfew comes after fourteen people were arrested for looting in the Houston area over the past 48 hours, as floodwaters from Harvey continue to devastate the region.
Officials said Tuesday night they have received disturbing reports of people impersonating Homeland Security special agents and telling residents to evacuate in order to rob their homes.
The city of Houston says people should ask anyone knocking on their doors for official badges and credentials with their name and organization. The city's statement also notes that during Harvey relief efforts, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not conducting immigration enforcement operations in the area.
The city also says in a tweet in both English and Spanish that it is not checking the immigration status of anyone coming into shelters.
On Tuesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards offered to take in Harvey victims from Texas.
Edwards said he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer, which comes as Louisiana is also helping its own residents who were rescued from Harvey's floodwaters overnight.
About 500 people were evacuated Monday night and early Tuesday from flooded neighborhoods in southwest Louisiana, and about 200 spent the night in area shelters, Edwards said.
Meteorologists have said Harvey will spend much of Wednesday dropping rain on Louisiana before moving on to Arkansas, Tennessee and parts of Missouri, which could also see flooding.
National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said that Houston would soon get a chance to dry out and that when the storm returns to land Wednesday, 'it's the end of the beginning'.
But Feltgen cautioned: 'We're not done with this. There's still an awful lot of real estate and a lot of people who are going to feel the impacts of the storm.'
The National Weather Service predicted less of an inch of rain for Houston on Wednesday and only a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms for Thursday. Friday's forecast called for mostly sunny skies with a high near 94.
President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday, and the White House said his stops in Corpus Christi and Austin were meant to highlight coordination at all levels of government and lay the groundwork for what is expected to be a lengthy recovery after the storm.
Trump traveled with the secretaries of health and human services and housing and urban development, and the head of the Small Business Administration.
Airmen from the 125th Special Tactic Squadron and the 304th Rescue Squadron board a U.S. Air National Guard C-130 Hercules at Portland National Air Guard Air Base to take to Texas
National Guardsmen board a plane at Portland Air National Guard Base in Oregon to fly supplies to Texas
People walk outside the Houston Convention Center which is housing evacuees from flooded homes after Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding
A woman and her child check into the Convention Center on Tuesday
Evacuees line up to apply for FEMA aid at the Convention Center which is housing people from flooded homes
A family prepares to sleep at Houston's Convention Center on Tuesday night
A man sleeps outside the Convention Center on Tuesday. As Houston's main hurricane shelter, the center was overcrowded with more than 9,000 evacuees
Evacuee Teddy Gifford, 90, waits for a medical evaluation with first responder Veronica Garza at the Lakewood Church in Houston Tuesday. Joel Olsteen and his congregation have set up their church as a shelter for evacuees from the flooding by Tropical Storm Harvey
Volunteers separate donated clothing from a huge pile at the George R. Brown Convention Center. 'I'm so proud how everyone is coming together,' said one woman in her second day of volunteering
Evacuees fill up cots at the George Brown Convention Center that has been turned into a shelter run by the American Red Cross to house victims of the high water from Hurricane Harvey
The president raised spirits as he addressed a crowd of fans at a firehouse in Corpus Christi, telling them: 'This is historic, it's epic, what happened, but you know what, it happened in Texas. Texas can handle anything.'
On Wednesday morning, Singapore's defense ministry says as many as four of its military helicopters will start assisting in Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts.
The CH-47 Chinook helicopters are stationed in Grand Prairie, Texas, as part of a decades-long partnership between the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Texas National Guard. Singaporean airmen who train there learn how to face large-scale emergencies.
The ministry says the helicopters will be able to airlift troops, evacuees and supplies in the relief effort.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the offer in a call with President Donald Trump late Tuesday. Both leaders are set to meet at the White House in October.
Singapore made a similar offer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
He promised to take care of survivors and help with rescue efforts, saying: 'We love you. You are special. We are here to take care of you.'
US lawmakers have already begun contemplating the massive rebuilding costs, leaving some Republicans in a tricky spot after they opposed federal aid when a storm devastated eastern states in 2012.
'I believe we need to put an aid package together for $150 billion' for emergency relief and recovery from Harvey, House Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee, whose Houston district remained largely underwater, told CNN
In Brazoria County, Texas, authorities posted a message on Twitter Tuesday morning warning that the levee at Columbia Lakes south of Houston had been breached and telling people to 'GET OUT NOW!!'
Brazoria County Judge Matt Sebesta said residents were warned that the levee would be overtopped at some point, and a mandatory evacuation order was given Sunday.
The levee was later fortified, but officials said they did not know how long the work would hold.
Engineers began releasing water from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs Monday to ease the strain on the dams. But the releases were not enough to relieve the pressure after one of the heaviest downpours in US history, Army Corps of Engineers officials said.
Both reservoirs are at record highs, with the Addicks even overspilled at 108ft.
The release of the water meant that more homes and streets will flood, and some homes will be inundated for up to a month, said Jeff Lindner of the Harris County Flood Control District.
The county is trying to determine where the water will go, Lindner said.
The bridge is on Woodforest Boulevard over Greens Bayou has collapsed and drinking water in Lake Forest is no longer safe due to a loss of water pressure.
Residents there must now boil water before drinking it and using it for cooking or brushing their teeth. Houston prisons were evacuated to save inmates from the floods. Six thousand prisoners have been bused to other correctional facilities across the state.
Mark Ocosta and his baby Aubrey Ocosta take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated the city
An evacuee is patted down as he is processed into the Houston convention center where people are taking refuge
Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm Ineos Group Holdings SA said it has been forced to shut Chocolate Bayou Works and Battleground Manufacturing Complex. INEOS Nitriles' Green Lake facility are following hurricane procedures and are temporarily shut down, spokesman Charles Saunders said.
Huntsman Corp said it has closed six chemical plants in Texas, along with its global headquarters and advanced technology center in Texas.
Although forecasters had feared that another two feet of rain could fall in some places, it appeared that the outlook had improved somewhat on Tuesday. The weather service said the amount of rain falling in the Houston area would be two to three inches, perhaps a little less in Houston proper, as the storm moved east.
But southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana still would see 'relentless torrential rains', with another six to 12 inches of rain across the upper Texas coast through Friday as Harvey continues to move slowly east over the Gulf of Mexico maintaining tropical storm force winds of 45mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Volunteers with The American Red Cross register evacuees at the crowded Houston convention center after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf coast with rain causing widespread flooding
A police officer carries Jessica Lopez, left, and her brother Avelia Lopez to dry ground as people evacuate a neighborhood that was inundated after water was released from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday
Kathryn Loder of West University separates donated clothing from a huge pile at the George R Brown Convention Center. 'I'm so proud how everyone is coming together,' said Loder in her second day of volunteering
Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday
A family is driven out of a flooded neighborhood in Corpus Christi on Tuesday
81-year-old Ramona Bennett is carried by Texas Army National Guardsmen Sergio Esquivel (L) and Ernest Barmore (R) after being evacuated from her home in Pine Forest Village
Huge fundraising efforts are underway by the Red Cross. The New York Stock Exchange has donated $1million and Facebook has raised more than $1million as well.
The cost of the storm will extend beyond state lines. Experts at Goldman Sachs say it is likely to reduce GDP growth by 0.2per cent. Oil prices surged as supplies became suddenly precarious on Tuesday.
The full extent of the damage is not yet clear and won't be for some time. For now, charities and volunteers are focusing on the immediate needs of the people who have been displaced.
Dallas is preparing super shelters for thousands of displaced residents. On Monday afternoon, military planes transported the first evacuees to the Lively Point Youth Center in Irving. The space has capacity for about 200 evacuees and the shelter will be run by the Red Cross and City of Irving employees.
Rescue efforts are ongoing in Texas where floods continue to wreak havoc on Houston and where almost 30,000 are taking shelter in refuges
The city's emergency management coordinator said they are planning for the shelters to run 'long term'. Evacuees and those working the shelters have and will be vetted through criminal background checks.
The City of Dallas is also planning to host more than 5,000 evacuees in a shelter at the convention center.
Over the weekend, Mayor Turner asked anyone with a boat to help with efforts. Many Texans responded bravely to his call to arms and were out in force on Saturday saving vulnerable neighbors and strangers from the floods.
Earlier this week, Mayor Turner came under fire for his decision not to evacuate Houston, but he said it would have caused more chaos to send millions of people on the roads without a well-organized evacuation plan.
And when the storm began on Friday, Houston was not immediately hit. It was safe from the battering winds which tore apart towns on the coast and many felt confident enough to remain in their homes.
However as the storm moved further inland on Saturday and Saturday, floods – the likes of which the city has never before seen – swept through.
Public health fears as diseases spread by flood water threaten Hurricane Harvey survivors
US public health officials warned Monday that flooding increases the risk of ills ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease.
The most immediate health risk is from drowning, especially for people trapped in vehicles, said Renee Funk, associate director for emergency management of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators is another threat.
'Unfortunately, we expect there will be people who die from that and people will be poisoned from it,' Funk said in a telephone interview.
But simply wading in floodwaters could cause skin rashes because so much of the water is contaminated with toxic chemicals that get washed out of people's garages and tool sheds.
'The number one thing we're concerned with in a flood is chemicals,' said Funk, who advises people to shower and wash their hands immediately after contact with floodwaters.
Mosquito-borne disease is less of an immediate threat because the floodwaters will wash out most mosquito breeding sites for disease-causing mosquitoes such Aedes aegypti, which spread Zika, chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever, she said.
Floods typically cause a rise in nuisance mosquitoes, such as the Culex variety, and these, too, can carry disease.
A year after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, regions in Louisiana and Mississippi affected by the flood reported a doubling of cases of neuroinvasive West Nile virus – cases in which the virus caused severe inflammation in the brain or spinal cord, said Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
'A year from now, we'll have to look very closely at West Nile and other mosquito-borne viruses,' said Hotez, who is riding out the storm from his Houston home while his lab at Baylor is closed.
In the immediate aftermath of Harvey, bacterial diseases are a concern, although cholera, a scourge in the wake of many natural disasters in developing countries, is likely not a worry in Houston, he said.
'Bacterial infections are really important, such as salmonella and E. coli infections,' Hotez said.
Shelters could also pose a public health risk, said Dr Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
'If you are in a small enclosed area in an alternate care facility and you have really bad diarrhea, it's going to be hard in these situations to practice proper infection control.'
To donate to the Red Cross Hurricane Harvey relief fund, click here or call 1-800-435-7669.


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Social Action Committee News
Annette DeMarco, Chair
Mitzvah Mall–Held December 2nd
The Adas Emuno Mitzvah Mall was a great success! The Jewish Family and Children's Services of Northern New Jersey/Kosher Meals on Wheels, Tenafly Nature Center, Jewish Federation Emergency Relief Fund, and Hackensack Riverkeeper, were the four recipients of the funds raised.
Thank you to everyone who worked to put this program together. A special shout out to Lauren Rowland for lending her artistic talents to create our beautiful cards and charity inserts and to Sandy Zornek for never giving up on having the nature center bring our very special guest. To our school staff and director, Cantor Horowitz, for relinquishing classroom time to attend this event and to everyone who shopped at the mall! The major THANK YOU here goes to our students [and their parents] for the exuberance they showed throughout the presentation, their insightful questions their generosity in buying "gifts which keep on giving" in order to bring tikkun olam to the world. Those whom you bought for received some very meaningful gifts. And, todah rabah to Rabbi Schwartz for once again matching all mitzvah mall donations. This is generous and appreciated by us and by the recipients!
Is it SUPER BOWL or SOUPER BOWL? It's SOUPER BOWL!!
During the month of January, please bring soup of any brand and variety, any packaging and any size, to the vestry room. We collect through Super Bowl Sunday (February 3rd ). Donations will be delivered to the Center for Food Action in Englewood. It's Team A.E. vs. Team Hunger and we haven't lost a game, yet! Thank you ahead of time for getting in the game and ensuring a win!
Volunteer Opportunities:
New Jersey Conservation Foundation
Works to preserve/reverse wildlife decline by cleaning up/protecting habitats
Contact Lauren Ramos: 908-234-1225 x 102 or lauren at njconservation.org
Friendship Circle (for our teens)
Opportunity to work with children with special needs in social, Judaic and educational experiences
Orientation: Sunday, January 13th 10:30 AM [with adult]
Contact: Zeesy Grossbaum at 201-262-7172 or Zeesy at BCFriendship.com
Location: Yeshivat Heatid, 1500 Queen Anne Rd., Teaneck
Wishing everyone a very happy and healthy 2019!
social action at adasemuno.org
Barry L. Schwartz
Student Cantor
Joseph Flaxman
Religious School Director
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Tanya McKenzie-Sleeth and Adam Glasson share a motivation to improve secondary education in Greater Shepparton shaped by their own experiences as students, parents and now community leaders.
Tanya, as the new President of Greater Shepparton Secondary College School Council, and Adam, as Vice-President, will help provide oversight and governance for the new school in its first year of operation.
It is familiar territory for both. Adam, a product of Shepparton's North Tech before its closure, returned to education as a school council member in recent years – serving as President of the Mooroopna Secondary College School Council for the last two years.
Tanya's old high school has also closed its doors. Tanya's children were third generation students at the former Shepparton High School, where she served on its school council before also stepping up as President for the last two years.
"I stepped up to contribute and support school council because I saw gaps in engagement in education when I was going to school," Tanya said. "Back in my day paretns weren't really part of the child's education journy and the schools didn;t really encourage them to get involved.
"I want that to change and while it has been challenging, this community is now more engaged in education than ever before, which is a great thing."
With children in Years 1, 3, twins in Year 12 and two others having graduated, Tanya is more than familiar with the Shepparton education system. As a parent who attended discussions about possible school mergers in 2010, and the development of the Better Together Alliance of Greater Shepparton's secondary schools, Tanya saw improvements in education delivery but not the extent of change she felt was needed.
Adam's inspiration to join school council stemmed from his Fairley Community Leadership Program experience in 2016 and having a daughter at Mooroopna Secondary College.
"I've been a CFA volunteer for many years and when the opportunity came up to join the school council, I thought I could contribute a little more," Adam said.
Both Tanya and Adam say being part of the Greater Shepparton Secondary College development and its innovation and investment is a unique and historic opportunity.
For Adam, a major bonus will be replacing the tired buildings and outdated facilities of all the existing campuses with a state-of-the-art development. "The students will see an amazing difference and so will the staff, who've put up with the old for too long."
For Tanya, it's not so much the "bright and shiny" facilities she is looking forward but the learning and development opportunities the merged model will bring.
"I went into hairdressing at 16 and you know what? You could use a $45 pair of scissors or a $2,000 pair of scissors but what mattered most is what you learnt to do with them," she said.
"What will change with Greater Shepparton Secondary College? It's the broader curriculum and teaching methods the school will be able to deliver and the support, encouragement and diverse opportunities for our students to get the better outcomes they deserve.
"We're already seeing excitement without the new facilities," she said. "The kids are engaged, they look great, they're arriving on time – I haven't seen such bright, enthusiastic kids at all the campuses until this year."
The inaugural Greater Shepparton Secondary College School Council will serve the school community until elections are held for the next council in 2021.


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It's time for our weekly look at which NFL draft prospect's stock is rising, and who's stock is falling.
Stock Up
The biggest winner had to be Oklahoma State cornerback Justin Gilbert. He recorded the fastest time of any DB in the 40-yard dash (4.37 seconds) while also showing explosiveness with a 35.5-inch vertical and 10-foot-6 broad jump. He looked fluid in his on-the-filed drills and moved very well with his 6-foot, 202-pound frame.
The NFL is looking for bigger cornerbacks now like Richard Sherman (6-foot-3), Charles Tillman (6-foot-2), Aqib Talib (6-foot-1) and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (6-foot-2) to cover the Calvin Johnsons, Alshon Jefferys and Brandon Marshalls of the world. Gilbert fits the bill. He entered the combine in a battle with Darquez Dennard as the draft's best cornerback, and Gilbert's combine performance enforced that belief.
It also helped that Dennard posted a 4.51 40, which isn't great for a 5-foot-11 corner. Dennard also looked tight in the drills and didn't move as fluidly as Gilbert. Needless to say, look for Gilbert to be the first corner drafted this year.
Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby was projected as the draft's best cornerback entering the year, but struggled throughout the year and was routinely beat for big plays.He was also suspended for the first game this season after he was involved in a bar incident in July.
Roby has elite speed and great ball-skills. His eight picks and 32 pass breakups in three seasons showed that, but he needed to have a god combine to remind people of the elite cornerback he was in 2012, and not the subpar one we saw in 2013.
"This kid Bradley Roby from Ohio State, he's got some really good tape and some really bad tape," draft analyst Mike Mayock said at the combine. "The tape against Wisconsin, [wide receiver Jared] Abbrederis caught 10 for 207 yards on him, and I'm telling you it wasn't just on zone matchups. He matched him all game in man, and Abbrederis ate him alive, so he needs to run well."
At the combine, Roby's 4.39 40-yard dash ranked fourth among the defensive backs and was the seventh-fastest 40 time turned in by any player in Indy. He did well in
Stock Down
Missouri defensive end Michael Sam entered the combine with much of the spotlight on him for reasons
He also looked stiff in positional drills and didn't seem confident in his ability. Sam was noticeably "tense" during most of his drills and even had a false start on his 40-yard dash, in which he only recorded a 4.91.
As an undersized defensive end, Sam needed to do better than he did to show he was athletic enough to possibly become a 3-4 outside linebacker in the NFL, as his 6-foot-2, 262-pound frame would prevent him from ever being a full-time end.
It looks as though Sam will be merely a situational pass-rusher in the NFL for the first few years of his career. Whether he's given enough time to develop into something more remains to be seen. Same needs to get used to being a solid special teams player if he wants to last in the NFL.
Alabama offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio, a 6-foot-5, 322-pound mammoth in the mold of Andre Smith, was named a Walter Camp All-American selection after a great 2013 season and was projected to be one of the draft's top offensive lineman. He many not ever go in the first round now after failing several team physicals and performed poorly during the combine while looking noticeably out of shape.
He entered the weekend as a likely top 25 pick in the draft, and he left it as a Day 2 pick if his knee checks out before the draft and he performs better at his Pro Day.
The same goes for Tennessee offensive tackle Antonio Richardson. He to failed several team physicals as the result of a previous knee surgery while looking out of shape and unprepared for the combine. Richardson was also a potential first-round pick, but not after this weekend, and he needs a good Pro Day just to keep from falling out of Day 2 of the draft.


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The first meeting of Vignesh Sivan with Nayantara has taken place in a hotel when he went to tell the story of Nanum Rowdy Dhaan and her role of her in it. At the time when Vignesh Sivan said the story to her Nayantara has laughed a lot. That's one of the important moments that happened between them the director said.
|Nayanthara Vignesh Sivan Love Story
After some days the first hugging selfie of Nayantara and Vignesh Sivan was posted in social media. Since then they are living together, where ever Nayantara goes, Vignesh Sivan goes with her.
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"When just about every man gets pushed into a corner, the tough guy is going to come out swinging and he's going to come out giving his best effort. Some would get back into a corner and cower or give up. We don't have that mentality at all."
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Detoxing AND… every year I personally do a detox to change from the winter season to the spring, sort of like a spring cleaning for your body. And I also believe, that it is more about detoxing our habits so that we can move forward afterwards rather than feeling stuck and confused (still) about how to take better care of ourselves.
A detox of your body and of your habits.
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If any readers can make it to Grasmere on June 6th, you might want to check out this exciting series of talks at the Wordsworth Trust on the legacies of Waterloo.
Wordsworth, War, and Waterloo Day
6 June 2015
Jerwood Centre, Grasmere
As we approach the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo (18th June), join us for a day to prepare for the international celebrations to come. Join us for five hours of talks, readings, music and refreshments, or just part of the afternoon as you like. Attendees of the event will have free entry to the Wordsworth, War & Waterloo exhibition.
The first part of the afternoon looks closely at the battle and its immediate aftermath, in particular, how news of it reached Britain and its people. Brian Cathcart, award winning author of The Case of Stephen Lawrence, Were You Still Up for Portillo? and The Fly in the Cathedral, will describe how the most momentous news of the battle took three days to travel from the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo to the decorous dining rooms of Regency London. In his new book, The News from Waterloo, The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory, Brian reveals how news was …read more
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Five years ago, illustrator Emily McDowell seemed to have reached the pinnacle of success. Her line of Empathy Cards, which she'd launched through her own company, was a massive hit, and a book she'd co-authored was garnering significant press.
Today, however, McDowell is an advocate for quitting. Her podcast, "Quitted," co-hosted with Holly Whitaker, focuses on quitting anything tied to one's identity — a career, relationship, religion, long held belief or dream — that no longer serves a purpose.
The podcast, she said, is meant to address critical questions about life transitions: "What happens when you make the choice to walk away from something that has made you who you believe you are? How do you make that choice? How do you navigate your way through that? And then what happens afterwards?"
McDowell is intimately familiar with these questions. Almost immediately after introducing her Empathy Cards in 2015, her work went viral. She received heaps of praise and was included on Slate's list of "11 Modest Designs That Made the World a Better Place in 2015."
Finding the courage to quit
But as her eponymous brand was taking off, McDowell was falling apart. "The workload was so insane," she says. "I made myself physically ill by trying to do it all." She was burnt out, and last year stepped away from the company she'd built from scratch.
Next Avenue recently spoke with McDowell over Zoom
about her career, what she's learned about quitting, and the pitfalls of being a human brand. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Next Avenue: You did an interview with Next Avenue in 2017, when you'd just co-authored a book. "There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love." At that time, you were getting a lot of positive press for your work. What was going on with you personally?
Emily McDowell: That book was what pushed me over the edge. From the outside, it looked like I had this enviable life where everything was going right [and] I was living the dream. And in some ways, I was. But I was also drowning. I was living on caffeine and CLIF bars, just running and running and running. I worked 80-plus hours a week, never took vacations, never took time off. Even if I traveled, I was plugged in. The amount of responsibility was not workable for me. I knew at the end of 2017 that I was going to have to do something different.
First step: Sell control of the company
I sold the majority of the company [Emily McDowell Studio] to our sister brand, Knock Knock, which had been around since 2004 and was founded by a friend of mine. [She was] its CEO and had successfully made the transition from being its sole writer and designer to building a creative department and slowly backing away from doing all of the creative herself. She said, 'Do you want to join us? We've built this infrastructure that you're struggling to build. We'll run as two brands under the same roof with a shared back end.'
So, I made the transition to Creative Director of [the newly named] Em & Friends and Strategic Adviser on Knock Knock. The end of 2018 was when I was finally able to say, 'No matter what, I am carving out time for myself. I cannot be a human brand anymore. I have to figure out how to take care of myself.'
I see people on social media talking about leaving their jobs and going out on their own. But once you go it alone, you're expected to brand yourself, build a platform, generate a following — all of which can mess with your personal identity. Can you talk about how running a brand that was named after yourself figured into your displeasure with your career?
It is not easy to sustain over a long period of time. There is a spiritual death that happens when you commodify your humanity. I think it's different if you're somebody who provides services that only you can provide. [If] you're a freelance writer or you're a massage therapist, you're a service-based provider, versus something where you are literally creating a customer-facing brand, where you have a team and you have employees.
I named the company Emily McDowell Studio not from a desire to be the face of the brand, but literally because I didn't have a better idea. There was so little thought put into it. It was a blessing to have this name that now had some modicum of recognition, [but] that piece of it was the only blessing.
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Me vs. my brand
The whole idea of branding is to be consistent, to have rules and parameters, for customers to know exactly what they're going to get, and for it to not change. And as a human being — the whole point of being here is to change and grow, and to not be the same person that we were five or ten years ago.
What became really strange was that the brand fixed my personality at a specific point in time. As I grew and changed as a person in the ten years that I ran this thing, I found an increasing split between what the brand was and who I was inside. I felt like I was living a version of myself that didn't exist anymore. Because my public identity was tied to something specific in look and feel and voice, and a lot of people's jobs were predicated on those products continuing to sell, it felt really limiting in terms of me being able to evolve and change and experiment or do different things.
You launched the EmilyOnLife Instagram account in 2019, and in one of your very first posts, you stated you were going through an "excavation." What did that process look like for you?
At the end of 2018, I started a series of practices that were designed to get me into my body, because I had spent my life basically living like a floating head on a stick. For most of my life, I believed that talk therapy was the way to make change, the way to grow, the way to understand yourself. I'd had 30 years of talk therapy, and I was still a mess. I was still in a place where I had driven myself to the absolute edge of unhealthy behavior, unhealthy mental patterns, unhealthy everything.
I still believe therapy is amazing, [but] I needed to start listening to my body. I didn't know what the vagus nerve was and how to regulate your nervous system, but as soon as I started to read about it, I was like, 'This is me. I am in dysregulation all the time. I don't have the tools to stop myself from spiraling into anxiety.'
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Discovering what I want to do, and doing it
So, the excavation was really about going back to the basics. Who am I underneath all of this? Where did things start to go sideways? How do I find my way back to what is going to feel fulfilling? How do I stop doing things based on what other people want for me and from me, and start doing things based on what I want, even if it means disappointing people, even if it means some people won't understand?
How did 'Quitted' come about?
"Quitted" came about because Holly Whitaker, my co-host, who I had been friends with on Instagram, reached out to me and said, 'I am in the process of quitting-slash-being kicked out of the company that I founded in my own name. I've watched you take a smaller role in this brand that you founded that has your name and face all over it, and I know that you've been working on extricating yourself from it. I wonder if you would talk to me because I think you might understand what this feels like.' We started talking about quitting and why we stay in things that we know aren't serving us, [like] staying in a marriage you know isn't right or questioning a religion but staying in it because it provides you community.
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Familiarity is often overrated
What are some of the things you've learned from your podcast guests?
The thing that keeps coming up is the willingness to take a risk [and] how afraid most of us are of doing things differently. There's a biological basis for this. Our brain wants patterns, and our brain chooses familiarity, even if we hate it. [Podcast guest] Martha Beck talks about it like, 'I'm going to eat this [vile] sandwich, and I'm going to continue to eat it even though I hate it. Because what if what's out there is worse? What if there's a worse sandwich? At least I know what I'm getting with this one.'
In order to make a choice to leave something, to do something differently or change a way of thinking, you have to leave the safety of what's familiar. What's been really interesting is hearing the stories of how people have done that, and the relief [they've felt]. Like, the relief that comes when you are in alignment with who you are and what your soul needs, even though there's so much fear of the unknown. There is so much uncertainty, there's a loss of community, there's the loss of the future you thought you'd have, a sort of grieving the identity. At the same time, there's the relief component that comes from being in alignment with what your deepest heart knows is true for you.
Change doesn't have to be drastic
What advice do you have for to those who would like to quit something but are afraid to?
Martha Beck talks about one degree turns in her book, "The Way of Integrity," and that is a strategy to use when the turn that you want to make feels insurmountable. Take one very tiny step every day toward making a change in the direction that you want. It can be tiny, tiny, tiny baby steps. There are really effective ways to make a change that don't have to be drastic. They don't have to feel like jumping off a cliff.
We started off by talking about where you were a few years ago, but what about now? What is the latest with your company?
In mid-2021, my business partner decided that it was time for us to sell. I had about a year before the sale went through, [and] over the course of that time, I came around to the idea of selling. I also came to the understanding that my desire to hold on [to the company] was based more on fear than anything else. It was not based in what was best for the longevity of the brand. It was not based in my passion for the business.
When I took a step back and was like, 'What do I want to be doing in five years?' It wasn't running a consumer brand. I love what we built, I love the brand, I love our team, but I had been working for a few years to reduce my role. So, this was an opportunity. I am now a part-time consultant [for Em & Friends], which I will be doing for another nine months, and then my role ends.
What's next? Who knows?
What do you see as the next step in your career?
I have no idea, and that is so deeply uncomfortable. It also feels really important to not just slap a new identity on. I am very conscious of my ego, brain, whatever you call it, to be like, 'I want to be this! I'm going to be this! I'm gonna be this!' Because the not-knowing place is uncomfortable. I don't have an answer to, 'What do you do?'
I need an income; I can't retire. I need to get another job. I genuinely don't know what it's going to be. I'm feeling like it's time for me to just to sit with myself and contemplate and see what comes forward.
Sandra Ebejer lives in upstate New York with her husband, son, and two cats who haven't figured out how to get along. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Writer's Digest, Shondaland, and others. Read more at sandraebejer.com or find her on Twitter @sebejer.
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What is a birthkeeper? A birthkeeper is someone who is reclaiming birth from the medical industrial complex.
Birthkeepers may or may not be doulas or midwives, and may or may not be officially credentialed.
However, birthkeepers are women (yes, women) who recognize that the current system is deeply damaging.
Instead of continuing to work within (and unwittingly prop up) the system, while witnessing the re-traumatization of mothers - birthkeepers are calling bullshit and teaching women how to take back their power.
A doula working within scope is always walking a thin line between what her clients need and want, and what she knows the medical system expects from her (i.e. cooperation and compliance, to stay out of their way).
Doulas are often relegated to the role of peacemaker.
For a long time, I've reckoned with the peacemaker version of mySelf…the 'me' I conjured up in order to survive in a world where I was just too much.
After my epic freebirth in 2011, my 5th baby - I knew, bone-deep, that trusting birth, trusting women, and trusting the mother-baby connection that spans across time is REAL.
The Truth about birth is that it's inherently safe, in all its primal, raw, rule-defying wildness.
And yet…as I moved from fierce freebirthing mother into the role of a mama who needed to make a living, I realized that a lot of traditional doulas regarded me as a strange anomaly.
I spoke about freebirth, about the cascade of interventions, about changing our beliefs, about intuition, empowerment, and the spiritual side of birth that's so palpable it's hard to ignore--
…but it seems to be 'more professional' (easier?) to not talk about any of those things.
My bone-knowing wisdom that is carried forward on the red thread that connects all mothers to their Goddess-knowledge, their sacred intuition...
…all that feels awfully out of place in a stark hospital room where the mother is expected to ask permission to eat a meal or use the restroom.
It's worth noting that when I first began attending births in hospital as a doula, it took some time for me to contend with my own PTSD from birth trauma.
Logically, I knew that I was safe, and not even the one checking into labor and delivery - but that didn't stop the bile rising in my throat as I walked down the starkly-lit hallways.
I learned to detach myself from the outcome of my clients' births, because after all, a "good birth" is a highly subjective concept…but I wonder whether this also made me numb and disconnected in ways that' weren't helpful…?
In the classes I taught for the doula collective I worked with, my dear fellow birth professionals gently-but-clearly explained to me that if I wanted to teach with them, I'd need to teach a lot more about what to expect at the hospital.
My own classes were created to empower women with the clarity of choice and voice…
They were taught women's-circle style, no men or partners allowed - and they provided a unique space of vulnerability where women could explore their feminine nature, question the origins of their beliefs, and dig deep into their fears about birth, motherhood, breastfeeding, and more.
None of that seemed to fit within the confines of doula world.
Not much room for renegades like me.
So I learned to change how I spoke about birth, in order to be less 'shocking' to the majority.
That led me to become a very busy birth doula in 2014-2016....and it also lead to major BURNOUT. I didn't know who I was or what I even wanted to do in the birth world for some time.
Now - it's 2021, and anything that's not in alignment with your core truth as a human has got to go!
The false narratives are crumbling all around...and for me, that has to do with affirming the kind of birth advocate I truly am.
I lost my way as a birthkeeper because I was busy being a peacemaker.
Now, I recognize that I may never fit in among birth professionals who choose to birth and work within the system.
I'm ready to own my truth as a FREEBIRTH ADVOCATE.
I'm also a beacon of hope for those who may find themselves birthing within the system against their better judgment.
Not everyone feels ready to choose the path of sovereign birthing - but for those that ARE - I'm here as your guide to labor land and through the sacred portals of time.
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Battlefield 3™ leaps ahead of its time with the power of Frostbite 2, DICE's new cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering enhanced visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and character animation utilizing ANT technology as seen in the latest EA SPORTS™ games.
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At 1920×1080, the new GTX 770 is able to pass up the HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card even though at 2560×1600, it is just a bit behind it. The results are close enough to be called a tie and neither single card configuration has any kind of frame time variance or stutter to be seen. At the triple monitor result, 5760×1080, the HD 7970 is still faster leaving the GTX 770 and the GTX 680 under it.