Hurricane Harvey

[Clueless Morgan]

We had a pretty horrible flood back in 1996.  The Columbia came over the levees in a lot of places, the Willamette came over the seawall in downtown Portland.  Lower lying areas were just fucked.  The basement parking garage at work was completely flooded.   We had 6 inches of water in our raised-floor data center, and our office was flooded about a foot deep, including our operations center.  We sandbagged and did what we could but the water just goes where it wants.

Phew, I remember that flood.  My neighborhood creek flooded at least 3 feet deep over the only street to my house but my neighbor's mom still managed to get us to school.

Are you catching rain water? Yum Yum!

In Texas?  Do you know how much we pollute?  lol

The pollution should mostly have been washed out of the air by the leading edge of the hurricane, it should be relatively clean water compared to the sewage-water alternative.

Plus what's a little toxin when you're facing dehydration and death. 

Live Man, Live!!!!

And poo-water.  Take the easy way out and catch the rain before you give yourself dysentery or something.

In any case, glad you were able to find some bottled water.  Makes me think I should stock up for the Cascadia Quake.  

Not sure why we are making this about politics when people's lives are on the line and their homes being destroyed. In times like these, it's best to remember that we are all human rather than concern ourselves over who voted for who.

I totally understand the sentiment and generally agree that these things shouldn't be political, but when politicians cut funding for disaster prevention and/or management or, like Trump did, eliminate regulations that would prevent future natural disasters from being much worse it makes natural disasters inherently political.

So long as we have politicians in charge of regulating infrastructure and funding disaster relief, natural disasters will be political.  It's unfortunate but that's reality.