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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:03 AM
Houston and the rest of Texas going to need a lot of help... 4th largest city in the Country... multiple days of punishment. Have to feel for the people there. Also, Houston took in thousands of transplants after Katrina.... have to imagine some of those being impacted today, were New Orleans residents back then.
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:05 AM
Houston metro quickly becoming just an extension of the Gulf of Mexico. We wish we could report the worst is over, but we have a ways to go.
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:06 AM
View from Rosemont Pedestrian Bridge @ 9 am. Yes, this is normally a major road. #MemorialDrive #Houston #HurricaneHarvey @HoustonChron
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:07 AM
@weatherchannel 33m33 minutes ago
Gas prices may jump as #Harvey hammers the Texas oil industry. What you need to know: http://wxch.nl/2vt01kM #Harvey2017
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:08 AM
To help people affected by #HurricaneHarvey, please visit http://rdcrss.org/harvey or text the word HARVEY to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 11:11 AM
The Atlantic: Photos: The Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
https://www.theatlan...-harvey/538143/
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Posted 27 August 2017 - 10:14 PM
Loved that city when I visited, shame to see it like that.
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Posted 28 August 2017 - 08:43 PM
To help people affected by #HurricaneHarvey, please visit http://rdcrss.org/harvey or text the word HARVEY to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
The Red Cross may not be the best choice.
https://www.propubli...secret-disaster
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Posted 28 August 2017 - 08:47 PM
The Red Cross may not be the best choice.
Well... that doesn't inspire confidence. Don't know of a better choice though... suggestions?
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 07:55 AM
The pictures of Houston are just insane.
The local government is also going to have to do a lot of explaining. They told people not to evacuate and predicted half the rain totals they've gotten. Maybe it was another wrong prediction as is the case with weather often, but it seems like they were tragically off the mark with this one and went out of their way to discredit some people predicting much higher rain totals.
Example: a lot of posts from people on Facebook who claimed to know people with inside info and predicting 50+ inches of rain and catastrophic flooding were outed as fake by local government and media, yet all those Facebook postings are becoming a reality.
A full scale evacuation probably would have been a disaster, and stranded people on those highways that were flooded with 12+ feet of water, but you have to wonder about being able to evacuate a city in this day and age when you have a storm this big barrelling toward you, intent to do damage.
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 08:13 AM
The pictures of Houston are just insane.
The local government is also going to have to do a lot of explaining. They told people not to evacuate and predicted half the rain totals they've gotten. Maybe it was another wrong prediction as is the case with weather often, but it seems like they were tragically off the mark with this one and went out of their way to discredit some people predicting much higher rain totals.
Example: a lot of posts from people on Facebook who claimed to know people with inside info and predicting 50+ inches of rain and catastrophic flooding were outed as fake by local government and media, yet all those Facebook postings are becoming a reality.
A full scale evacuation probably would have been a disaster, and stranded people on those highways that were flooded with 12+ feet of water, but you have to wonder about being able to evacuate a city in this day and age when you have a storm this big barrelling toward you, intent to do damage.
He's already explained it: You can't put 6.5 million people on the road. You just can't. If you try, half of them will stay put anyway, and the other half will get washed off the road while they're stuck in the mega-traffic jam. (Which they already know about from what happened with Rita.) So, then you have 2 mega-crises instead of just 1.
As for the estimates, the NOAA people flat-out said that what is happening is beyond anything they know how to think about. This wasn't about bad calls. It's about a huge storm being way more stuck in one place than any huge storm anybody has ever seen.
It's made worse by they fact that much of the natural drainage features of the land has been paved over with disregard for flood plains and other relevant things. Good planning has been anathema to the pro-developer attitude of the area.
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 12:31 PM
Stoner, is bringing up Osteen in play? Because...you know...
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 12:47 PM
Stoner, is bringing up Osteen in play? Because...you know...
I guess.
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 01:02 PM
I guess.
I'll take that as a soft "no."
LOL.
One of the few good things about situations like this one, as well as the one in Ellicott City (though to a much lesser extent, obviously) is seeing the GOOD in people, when crap is going south around them. It’s great to see. The mattress store owner, Mattress Mack, is getting a ton of publicity for just doing the right thing. Certain schools, churches and mosques have opened their doors to everyone that can get there. It’s…beautiful, if you don’t include the dire straits.
On the other hand, it’s pretty easy to shine a light on the people who…aren’t good at all. And that’s a shame.
la cerveza está muy fría
Posted 29 August 2017 - 04:13 PM
JJ Watt is kicking ass in his fundraiser. He's over 3.25 million now.
@fuzydunlop
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 06:04 PM
Good for him. That's really awesome. I think his target was like 1 million, right?JJ Watt is kicking ass in his fundraiser. He's over 3.25 million now.
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