on the internet yesterday. it was quite noticeable how few blacks were shown as rescuers, rescuees, or even just bystanders.

The small percentage of incidents that we see on tv aren't necessarily a random sample. Sunday's coverage was all along fairly clear roads within 5 miles of downtown, and uphill of downtown. Not only were minority communities that flooded east of I-45 not on the news Sunday because they were inaccessible, minority communities in, say, the Fondren or Harkin area that didn't flood weren't included--the focus was on what was originally the ritzier and white flooded Braeswood area. Flooded areas further west, in the south, and in the north, largely white, didn't get covered. It really was geographically restricted.

When road drainage let roads open up into some areas coverage expanded. So we got NE Houston and Spring-Klein yesterday, mostly because a few flooded spots in I-45 and hwy 8 drained.

Today's a bit better, but it's still geographically restricted. They're showing photos posted to a social media account on tv because camera crews just can't get to a lot of areas. The damage is from west of Victoria maybe 40 miles SW of Houston to the Louisiana border, from the coast to about 150 miles inland. You see only Houston, that's a 20 mile circle cut out of a 250 mile x 150 mile area. And you only see the flooded areas at that--refugees in the hundreds of thousands, I'm guessing, out of a population of 4+ million. We got info from Crosby only because an ammonia plant there was being evacuated. Otherwise outlying areas are represented by social media still shots sent in by viewers.