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#1 Postby **Cookiely** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:35 am

What did you think of the movie? Excuse me but when the water started rising while the nurses were getting the blood, I said okay, I would do that. When the electric sparks started to fly, I would have been out of their in a heartbeat. Idiots. Did anyone think they should have evacuated sooner? I do.

The Big Dog · #2 Postby **The Big Dog** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:45 am

As in all movies "based on a true story," they exaggerate things to add drama. Who knows if it really happened the way they said it did. I give it a thumbs-sideways.

HouTXmetro · #3 Postby **HouTXmetro** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:57 am

Yeah, I wasn't all that impressed with the movie either.

#4 Postby **vbhoutex** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:40 am

I wasn't all that impressed with the movie, but some of the flooding of the lower floors, basement floors is pretty much close to what occured, either there or at other places. We literally had walls and "flood doors" breached in our tunnel system downtown. I do not know what if any type of protection from that there was at Hermann Hospital when it happened. The depiction of all of the electrical being in the basement was, unfortunately right on. That is no longer the case. At least in that part they have learned their lesson.

beenthru6 · #5 Postby **beenthru6** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:53 am

I am always up for a good disaster movie, however, this one was a bit of a "yawner" .

chadtm80 · #6 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:02 pm

Dang.. I forgot all about it

depotoo · #7 Postby **depotoo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:29 pm

chad - you didn't miss much - it was a good movie in the since of seeing the way they evacuated teh hospital and i commend them. but from a storm standpoint - they really didn't show much other than the flooding.

southerngale · #8 Postby **southerngale** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:52 pm

chadtm80 wrote:Dang.. I forgot all about it

It comes on again Wednesday. I missed it last night and I'm going to tape it because I won't be home Wednesday night.

HouTXmetro · #9 Postby **HouTXmetro** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:56 pm

depotoo wrote:chad - you didn't miss much - it was a good movie in the since of seeing the way they evacuated teh hospital and i commend them. but from a storm standpoint - they really didn't show much other than the flooding.

In actuality thats all there was, alot of flooding. IMO they could have integrated more of the scenes where people were being rescued from their vehicles and 2nd stories of flooded apartments. This movie had so much wasted potential. Then again it was TNT.

#10 Postby **wxman57** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:26 pm

I particularly liked the parts where everyone outside was wearing a coat and you could see their breath in the air. Those June mornings can get really cold here in Houston! ;-)

Also, you could see mountains in the distance on the helicopter flight in the opening scenes. The only mountains around here are overpasses.

Oh, and the satellite photos were of what looked like Floyd east of the Bahamas.

depotoo · #11 Postby **depotoo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:43 pm

i also thought the part palyed by kris kristofferson was very lame. what was he supposed to be - city manager or what? whatever it was - i would think that whoe ever the real guy was was insulted - surely he did more than absolutely nothing til the end.

Lindaloo · #12 Postby **Lindaloo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:43 pm

Glad I forgot.

#13 Postby **Roxy** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:50 pm

Was this movie about Allison?

I totally missed it, but hearing you guys...it sounds lame anyway, so that was probably a good thing.

Josephine96 · #14 Postby **Josephine96** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:01 pm

Didn't see or hear about the movie lol

#15 Postby **jeff** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:38 pm

It was an OK movie. A little research would have gone a long way in getting the correct figures however. 73,000 homes were flooded not 3,000. There was little to no wind during the event as shown in the movie and I can promise you the Harris County OEM director would not say there is nothing he can do.

In the movie it seemed a little unclear where the water was coming from and how it was getting into the hospital. The intense rainfall rates of 4-7 inches per hour completely overwhelmed the underground drainage system throughout most of Houston. With the drainage system full to capacity the run-off used the streets and flowed to the lowest land point in the area. TMC sits at a low point along the N bank of Brays Bayou and the confluence with Harris Gully. Water flowing 4-5 feet deep through the streets entered the underground basements and parking levels through the street access. Failures of flood protection doors and walls allowed the water into the sensitive areas of many hospitals within the TMC resulting in the failure of back up power supplies. I thought the evacuation was depicted well in the movie.

Similar flooding happened across downtown Houston as overflowing Buffalo Bayou entered the tunnel system through underground parking areas.

There were many stories of heroism from Friday evening through Sunday morning. I was interning at KHOU channel 11 that evening (the TV station which flooded) and will never forget around 400-600 in the morning when one person called in and were begging for help. They were in their attic with water up to the fans in the house. That is when it really hit just how bad it was and how many people were being affected.

As a final note to show just how incredible the rainfall was: The rain gage at the station recorded 7.12 inches in an hour and 20 minutes between midnight and 120am and then reached 8.30 inches during the following 10 minutes. So a 1.5 rainfall rate of 8.30 inches.

For more information on TS Allison you can visit the TSARP webpage a joint project with FEMA and HCFCD at http://www.tsarp.org/index.asp?flash=yes

iceangel · #16 Postby **iceangel** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:18 pm

chadtm80 wrote:Dang.. I forgot all about it

I did too, but I caught the encore!! I wasn't all that impressed with it from the git-go...I only half watched about 20 minutes of it...It just didn't get my attention. I ended up getting on the computer for a bit then went to bed!!

The Big Dog · #17 Postby **The Big Dog** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:18 am

southerngale wrote:
chadtm80 wrote:Dang.. I forgot all about it

It comes on again Wednesday. I missed it last night and I'm going to tape it because I won't be home Wednesday night.

Hey, it's a TNT production. They're going to beat this to death and then some. If you can't find the time in the next month to catch it, you're not trying very hard. :-)

GalvestonDuck · #18 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:09 pm

I'm catching a repeat tonight (missed it the first time due to DH and other shows and I knew there'd be reruns).

Already not impressed after seeing mountains and one satellite image with FL instead of TX. :roll:

I've tried to find out where it was filmed but to no avail...yet. My guess -- Canada. At least the Houston police cars and Memorial Hermann lifeflight copters look real.

#19 Postby **vbhoutex** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:15 pm

It was filmed in an abandoned hospital outside Vancouver I believe.

#20 Postby **MSRobi911** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:06 pm

Duckie the credits at the end say it was filmed in Canada......do what? since when do they have Hurricanes or Tropical Storms....

The movie was OK, but like the others said, it had a lot of potential but it wasn't done, I guess being a made for TV movie. Wish they would have had a bigger budget to do a better job, would have been a good full length feature film.

Mary

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