Hurricane Harvey

[Minimalist]

I doubt Phoenix will be one of them.

[chimp3]

Now there are floating fire ant colonies:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-har...57278.html

[Court Jester]

Now there are floating fire ant colonies:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-har...57278.html

WOW!!!

[mlmooney89]

The other side of the coin.  There always is one.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/houston-...gulations/

Houston is drowning—In its freedom from regulations

We do value our freedom here in Texas. As I write from soggy Central Texas, the cable news is showing people floating down Buffalo Bayou on their principles, proud residents of the largest city in these United States that did not grow in accordance with zoning ordinances.

The feeling there was that persons who own real estate should be free to develop it as they wish. Houston, also known as the Bayou City, is a great location because of its access to international shipping in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not a great location for building, though, because of all its  impervious cover. If water could easily sink into the ground, there would be less of it ripping down Houston’s rivers that just a week ago were overcrowded streets.

Yeah... the market works just fine!

To be fair Houston has always been a *sings* danger zone. Seriously they have had to rebuild that city more times than... well you get the point. You see Texans are too proud to give up and there is too much money to made during the good times to let that spot go. Actually our capital was on the coast for awhile till they decided they had enough of swamps and mosquitos and moved it to Austin.

A friend tells me they had an 11 hour power outage?

My coworker had power out from 9pm to 2am but that's the worst I've heard in this area. Maybe someone closer to the coast or near a flood area had it longer? Fun fact there is only ONE natural lake in Texas and it is on the border of Louisiana. The rest are man made and not meant to take as much water as Texas likes to give during her non drought times. A lot of places flood because of this. The town of Wimberly was nearly taken off the map a year or two ago. My husband is a paramedic so he gets to listen to all the radio talk. Apparently 10 arrests have been made for people moving barricades and then getting stuck and calling 911 to be rescued. People are stupid.

Now there are floating fire ant colonies:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-har...57278.html

Oh. My. God. Texas fire ants are the spawn of Satan. (can you tell I'm from the bible belt with my lingo? lol) My poor sister stood in a pile when she was not quite 2 and had to go to the ER from over 200 bites. I've never seen my step dad so terrified as when he realized why she was screaming bloody murder and rushing her to the closest water. She still has scars on her legs.

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https://www.facebook.com/texasislife/pho...=3&theater

(I'm too lazy to get this as just a picture so you be less lazy and click the link)

HEB has been a fucking miracle store. I will never shop anywhere else.

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Also Also my aunt lives in Texas City on the coast and said Harvey is coming back. They are starting to flood. I don't think this is as over as we thought! :0

[A Theist]

Just now reported on the news. Texas rainfall sets new continental record at 49.32 inches.

[brewer]

Hearing stories of looting and armed robbery. Anyone surprised?

Glad I'm hearing more stories of rescue and support.

[Brian37]

Just now reported on the news. Texas rainfall sets new continental record at 49.32 inches.

Damn good thing we have all those science deniers in the White House.

Yea and who do his gullible supporters think will pay for hurricane relief if we never raise taxes on billionaires and corporations? Somebody has to make up for what they don't pay. GOP cuts look great on paper short term, but the borrowing long term leads to another bubble.

Yea lets keep doing that so maybe next month or next year the gulf or east coast can have a Cat 5 that will make Harvey look like a kid's squirt gun.

Amazing how humans are so desperate for impossible utopias they will vote against their own self interests. 

God didn't cause or allow either Katrina or Harvey, your gullibility and those supporters of the GOP for decades has lead to bad economic/environmental policy which is why you now are dealing with those numbers. 

Allah didn't allow are cause them either, neither did Poseidon. Just like Thor does not allow our cause lightening.

But, there are gullible people like you that let politicians con you.

[Minimalist]

Just now reported on the news. Texas rainfall sets new continental record at 49.32 inches.

Somehow I doubt they'll be chanting "We're #1."

To be fair Houston has always been a *sings* danger zone.

But, see, that really is not an excuse to say "fuck it let's keep doing what we're doing."  Because what?  It worked so well before?  If you have recurrent floods - and granted this one is a doozy but I assure you it will not be the last to hit the region because they are right off the Gulf of Mexico which is a hurricane generator then you should be doing whatever you can do to minimize the impact of flooding. 

Somehow I simply cannot shake the notion that the developers and their un-indicted co-conspirators in the banks do not give a flying fuck about people who get flooded out as long as they can keep building shit so that they get flooded by MONEY.

[A Theist]

Just now reported on the news. Texas rainfall sets new continental record at 49.32 inches.

Damn good thing we have all those science deniers in the White House.

Yea and who do his gullible supporters think will pay for hurricane relief if we never raise taxes on billionaires and corporations? Somebody has to make up for what they don't pay. GOP cuts look great on paper short term, but the borrowing long term leads to another bubble.

Yea lets keep doing that so maybe next month or next year the gulf or east coast can have a Cat 5 that will make Harvey look like a kid's squirt gun.

Amazing how humans are so desperate for impossible utopias they will vote against their own self interests. 

God didn't cause or allow either Katrina or Harvey, your gullibility and those supporters of the GOP for decades has lead to bad economic/environmental policy which is why you now are dealing with those numbers. 

Allah didn't allow are cause them either, neither did Poseidon. Just like Thor does not allow our cause lightening.

But, there are gullible people like you that let politicians con you.

Really? In THIS thread?

[Joods]

News is reporting two deaths near Corpus and hundreds of high-water rescues in Houston.

What a damn shame. I really feel for those who had no choice but to stay.

I do not understand, for the life of me, how some people chose to stay in their homes with how this hurricane was being covered. People knew what was going to happen. Evacuation orders were announced. There was time to get shit together and get the hell out. And if they say they don't watch the news, then all they had to do was look around them and see people boarding up windows, buying up supplies, packing their cars, etc. This isn't rocket science and we don't live in the Dark Ages. People just knew period. Sure... if a person had absolutely no way of evacuating, they're sorta screwed and they have to stay, but when a person has the means to leave, why stay? I just don't get it. Why can't more people execute common sense when it comes to these types of disasters? 

Rescuers have to stay. It's part of their job. And I understand that because not everyone has the means to evacuate and rescuers have to be there to assist, if necessary. But if people have vehicles, can safely get to higher ground or go somewhere else until all threats of harm are gone, then fucking go. It's really selfish to want to stay because you're "excited" at the thought of "surviving a cat 4-5 hurricane". And really - let's be honest. Those who choose to stay are doing so, in part, because of the excitement that this storm brings. Let's not lie about that. We all know that's one of the big reasons why. People wanna record shit in this day and age and are willing to put not only their own lives, but other people's lives in danger just for a bit of video in the hopes that it will "go viral". Please. If a person is willing to be that stupid - rescuers should first focus on those who had no choice to be there instead and leave the fools to figure it out for themselves. 

I'll probably get told I'm being insensitive but IDGAF at this point. I have a very good friend of 30+ years as well as numerous other friends in my life who risk their lives every day rescuing people from disasters. Disasters, I might add, that people really had no time to prepare for like car accidents and fires. They have loved ones who would just be devastated if anything were to happen to them on the job. Why intentionally put yourself in harms way, so that you can ask someone else, to put their own life in harms way because of your own ignorance? It's just not necessary if you are able to get the fuck out of town. I swear. Consideration for others' lives is a rarity now a days and common sense is all but gone because people just don't care about the consequences that their own actions bring to other people. 

More deaths will probably be reported and what's really sad is that some of those might have been prevented if those people had just left when they had the opportunity to do so.