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#61
RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:28 pm
City sewage is overflowing so we broke down and bought a few cases of bottled water. I've never done that for any other hurricane here. Also, everything is closed tomorrow so we get to sit around and watch it rain.
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RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:29 pm
(August 27, 2017 at 9:28 pm)Rahul Wrote: City sewage is overflowing so we broke down and bought a few cases of bottled water.  I've never done that for any other hurricane here.  Also, everything is closed tomorrow so we get to sit around and watch it rain.

Are you catching rain water? Yum Yum!
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#63
RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:32 pm
(August 27, 2017 at 9:29 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Are you catching rain water? Yum Yum!

In Texas?  Do you know how much we pollute?  lol
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#64
RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:35 pm
Dear Texas,

Remember, you voted for him.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trump-st...re-harvey/

Quote:Trump struck down Obama’s flood risk regulations two weeks before Harvey

Quote:Trump’s decision to roll back the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard was praised by business groups including the National Association of Home Builders, who felt flood regulations had pushed up the cost of housing, but faced criticism from environmental groups, Reuters reported.
Former director of public affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Rafael Lemaitre told the news service at the time that Trump was undoing "the most significant action taken in a generation" to protect infrastructure from climate change.
"Eliminating this requirement is self-defeating; we can either build smarter now, or put taxpayers on the hook to pay exponentially more when it floods. And it will," he added.

And it is.
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RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:36 pm (This post was last modified: August 27, 2017 at 9:38 pm by Rahul.)
I specifically voted for the other person on the ballot.

So did Houston.
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#66
RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:43 pm
(August 27, 2017 at 9:32 pm)Rahul Wrote:
(August 27, 2017 at 9:29 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Are you catching rain water? Yum Yum!

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

I'm sure you ain't pollutin that much during the storm. This should all be clean gulf evaporate by now. 

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

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RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 9:58 pm
(August 27, 2017 at 9:36 pm)Rahul Wrote: I specifically voted for the other person on the ballot.

So did Houston.

Yep.  It's those other assholes who are going to drag you under.
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#68
RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 10:14 pm
I hope everyone in Texas, apart from the extremist Republicans, come through unscathed and safe.
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RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 11:00 pm
Is Thumpy safe tonight?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

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RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 27, 2017 at 11:25 pm (This post was last modified: August 27, 2017 at 11:25 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
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.
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