Something we saw after a flood here (don't think it was 2011 this time) was (IIRC) a great big semi trailer with setup washing machines and dryers* for cleaning up flood damaged clothing. A family friend of mine also took in laundry (had numerous hampers in her garage for folks) and she'd do laundry at home, filling the hampers with cleaned and folded items. She loved being able to help, and didn't have to leave her home to do so.

*I think the company that makes Tide sponsored it. Salvation Army might have had a semi for that too. (it's been 10-15 years, trouble remembering the particulars)

Also, while I was helping pack up materials for the 2011 flood, I kept seeing 'younger' people running around filling and placing sand bags. They all had green T-shirts and I thought they were 4-H kids. Well, the 4-H kids were helping but they didn't have green T-shirts. Those folks were from TD Ameritrade, and boy were they organized!! They were filling sand bags at a central location, stacking them on pallets, and then the pallets were hauled to where they were needed. Very efficient.

I bet Texas is seeing similar organized task forces !!

(August 30, 2017 at 7:32 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Something we saw after a flood here (don't think it was 2011 this time) was (IIRC) a great big semi trailer with setup washing machines and dryers* for cleaning up flood damaged clothing.  A family friend of mine also took in laundry (had numerous hampers in her garage for folks) and she'd do laundry at home, filling the hampers with cleaned and folded items.  She loved being able to help, and didn't have to leave her home to do so.

*I think the company that makes Tide sponsored it.  Salvation Army might have had a semi for that too.  (it's been 10-15 years, trouble remembering the particulars)

https://tide.com/en-us/about-tide/loads-of-hope

yeppers, that be it !!

We had lotsa help for our flood, Texas will be inundated (snicker) with help too !!

(August 30, 2017 at 7:44 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: yeppers, that be it !!

We had lotsa help for our flood, Texas will be inundated (snicker) with help too !!

Livin' in Tornado Alley I see it rollin' several times a year down I-44. Joplin, Mo, a few years ago.

STOP SHOUTING!

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(August 30, 2017 at 10:51 am)Luckie Wrote: Want to help? 

Stop SHOUTING!

(August 29, 2017 at 3:10 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:

(August 29, 2017 at 2:40 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Some hurricanes form in the Gulf.

Weird because all of the ones I've ever seen, form off Africa and come this way. Thanks for the education.

Yeah, when I was a kid that was the path.  Right off the Cape Verde Islands off the West Coast of Africa and then the trade winds would carry them across. 

Now those rarely make it across because they get deflected by High Pressure systems that form over the continent.  The ones that get through are far to the south and start with the Antillies Islands and work their way up through the Bahamas.

But the first time I heard of one forming in the Gulf wasn't that long ago and I was surprised.  I didn't think the Gulf was big enough but it sure as hell has gotten warm enough.

Oh yeah... climate change is a chinese hoax according to the orange turd and his energy company scumbag buddies.

Remember how Joel Osteen kept his megachurch closed?

What a wonderful Christian.

Could you just imagine if a group of people were telling them this the same way the blame bad weather conditions on homosexuality. They'd be like Err Merr Gord Don't Oppress My Religious Freedom.

It's just gotta be His holy outrage at all the divorce and remarriage in Texas. He is purging the whores and fornicators with His mighty flood.
Praise Jesus !!!