Entire Texas National Guard Activated As Harvey Deluge Continues (so where are "they"???)

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4. So blame the live coverage.

Mostly what I've seen is citizens helping people or really wretched situations.

Here's one thing that the Guard did: They went door to door in some areas outside of Houston to make sure everybody knew that the nearby river was going to crest and they should leave, then offer help if they needed to. This wasn't in Houston. No Houston camera crews went with them. That flooding in Houston stretches from south of League City up to Livingston county, across SW through Victoria and east to the border. Parts of Conroe are being evacuated, and areas in Waller County are flooded.

Firefighters and police are scarce in some areas. TV crews can't get in or don't care to get in--why would people in Houston watch wall-to-wall coverage of people in Sealy and Rosenberg and Lake Jackson when there are local people similarly affected? So all the coverage is in Houston. That's where the Guard's going.

Today didn't even see the CG doing their jobs. But like the NG, they're just going about answering calls efficiently as instructed. But while the tv cameras cover a small area, they're operating in an area hundreds of miles long and 150 miles wide.

They're not going to be prominent because of the tv reporters' filters (focus on citizen rescues), tv-reporter priorities (Houstonians want to see Houstonians) and tv-reporter access (I can't get there but all rescues look the same).