{"id":42964,"date":"2017-08-28T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42964"},"modified":"2017-08-28T05:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:28:50","slug":"photo-of-texas-nursing-home-residents-in-waist-deep-water-prompts-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/photo-of-texas-nursing-home-residents-in-waist-deep-water-prompts-rescue.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue:- A startling image of elderly women in a Texas nursing home surrounded by waist-deep flood waters, covered by blankets and sopping wet personal items stunned viewers on social media Sunday morning and prompted an emergency evacuation of the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Galveston County Commissioner Ken Clark told ABC News that 20-25 residents at La Vita Bella Nursing home were safely evacuated from the flooded building in Dickinson. David Popoff, the city\u2019s emergency management coordinator told Galveston County Daily News they were rescued by helicopter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Timothy McIntosh, whose mother-in-law owns the nursing home, posted the photo and pleaded for emergency help.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCNkrgoRZY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oCNkrgoRZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Timothy J. McIntosh (@DividendsMGR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DividendsMGR\/status\/901805509950541825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cNeed help asap emergency services please RETWEET,\u201d wrote McIntosh. His tweets caught the attention thousands on social media and the national guard was notified of the nursing home\u2019s situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cLatest update on La Vita Bella home in Dickinson, TX.On &#8220;purple&#8221; high priority list. Coast Guard on route right now for rescue.#HoustonFlood,\u201d said McIntosh on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">By the early afternoon, McIntosh posted that the residents had been safely evacuated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cRESCUED!! Thank you to the National Guard &amp; the Galveston City Emergency crew for our rescue; @GalvestonOEM #houstonflood @NationalGuard\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RESCUED!!  Thank you to the National Guard &amp; the Galveston City Emergency crew for our rescue; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GalvestonOEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GalvestonOEM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/houstonflood?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#houstonflood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NationalGuard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NationalGuard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Timothy J. McIntosh (@DividendsMGR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DividendsMGR\/status\/901854734109331456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;We&#8217;re very grateful,&#8221; McIntosh told ABC News about the nursing home rescue. He said he believes the rescue would not have taken place so quickly without the attention his photo received on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/hurricane-harvey-photo-texas-nursing-home-residents-waist\/story?id=49452958<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/photo-of-texas-nursing-home-residents-in-waist-deep-water-prompts-rescue.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue Photo of Texas nursing home residents in waist-deep water prompts rescue:- A startling image of elderly women in a Texas nursing home surrounded by waist-deep flood waters, covered by blankets and sopping wet personal items stunned viewers on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[54871,878,55782,55784,55781,706,55786],"class_list":["post-42964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-flooding","tag-houston","tag-hurricane-harvey","tag-nursing-home","tag-photo-of-texas-nursing-home-residents-in-waist-deep-water-prompts-rescue","tag-us-news","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}