Texan Talks Flood Prep: Plenty of Water and Food, "Armed"
http://freebeacon.com/culture/texan-talks-flood-prep/
Amid flooding in Texas, some residents are relying on their own ingenuity to keep their communities safe during and after Hurricane Harvey.
Fox News correspondent Matt Fin interviewed Seth Irwin, a Columbia Lakes, Texas resident, who helped construct a levy to protect his neighborhood from rising flood waters. Irwin and his neighbors had been told by the county to evacuate, but he was quite certain the residents' work would keep the community safe.
"I'm staying. I live in a two-story house. I've got thirty-five gallons of water, I got food for freaking two months or more. Armed," he said before chuckling.
Irwin explained why he does not think the county's evacuation order is worth heeding.
"I don't know what they're thinking," Irwin said. "A couple of the guys are out here, and we told them, we're going to do what we can. They're trying to tell us all to get out. We've got 500 homes out here, we're not going to see it flood."
"We've got sandbags. The pressure on this wood here is not enough to push it over. We've got stakes in the ground, we've been watching levels. It's dropping, very slowly, as long as we don't get anymore rain I think we'll be good," he said.
Finn asked Irwin if he thought the levee would hold, and Irwin made clear he and his friends had made adequate preparations.
"There's a lot of homes being constructed out here, we've got tractors, we're moving these big piles of bricks. We've probably moved 10,000 bricks. We've got lots of materials. I don't see it happening. Not on my watch, man," he said.
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