Through Sunday morning, Harvey continued to unleash record levels of rain on Houston, causing “catastrophic” flooding in the city and in surrounding Harris County. At least one storm-related death in Houston was reported on Sunday, after a woman was found dead by her water-deluged car.
Over 24 hours, the greater Houston and Galveston area received 24.1 inches of rain. The National Weather Service warned of “additional catastrophic, unprecedented and life threatening flooding” into the next week, and placed flash-flood emergencies for all of Southeast Texas.
As the much-anticipated storm pummeled the country’s fourth-largest city — overwhelming the 911 system and sending some residents, against the advice of officials, into their attics to flee floodwaters — many asked the question: Should Houston have been evacuated? If so, why wasn’t it?
At least one official thought it should have been.
I sometimes give Texas a hard time. which they mostly deserve.
But right now my heart goes out the folks dealing with this catastrophe.
Flooding N Sam Houston E Pkwy sent from friend in Houston pic.twitter.com/xM4rQtRfz3— Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) August 27, 2017
Apparently Harvey has already dropped nine trillion tons of water.
I read that there may be four to five days more of this kind of rain, which means that the people of Houston, and the surrounding areas, may just be seeing the beginnings of the problems to come
Though I have to say it is hard to imagine how things could get much worse.Astounding video shows numerous boats maneuvering around stranded vehicles on flooded street in Dickinson, Texas. https://t.co/JZvofyopoP pic.twitter.com/J5J2ZNxwiP— ABC News (@ABC) August 27, 2017
Especially with this guy in charge.
Yep, he's on top of things.
You know if I were one of those kinds of people, you know which ones I mean, I might claim that this is evidence of God's wrath called down upon the people of Texas for trying to take away a woman's right to choose, or trying to suppress the vote, or anti-LGBTQ legislation, or sending Ted Cruz to the Senate, or because they keep threatening to secede, or any number of other offenses which might trouble an omnipotent being.
You know, if I were one of THOSE kind of people.
Which I'm not.
Update: Well SOMEBODY needs to act like a President.
And who better?Thank you to all the first responders and people helping each other out. That's what we do as Americans. Here's one way you can help now. https://t.co/iGfE8rAoAu— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 27, 2017
Fuck you for mocking the people of Texas during a time like this.
ReplyDeleteNot mocking the people of Texas.
DeleteI am mocking the idiots who claim that national disasters are the work of God to punish people for certain activities or political policies.
The fact that some of those people happen to live in Texas is simply a coincidence.
People have been warned about climate change and more severe storms. no sympathy for Texas one biotech.
DeleteSad that some people jump to wrong conclusions because they are incapable or unwilling to read/understand what is written.
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
Gryph's right, you know, 4:04 PM, and I believe in God. How much do we have to watch the likes of you destroy our country because YOU know God and we don''t?
DeleteOh, and please God, deliver me from the perpetually offended.
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
Leave it to Gryphen to be a jackass about a thing like this when the crisis is not even close to resolving.
DeleteSeriously, GeorgiaPeach, may I quote you real life? I'm going to!
Delete@ 5:47
DeleteSure. Quote away.
GeorgiaPeach
5:38 PM - either you have no reading comprehension or have no clue what's involved here.
DeleteBarack Obama is the POTUS on my heart, now and forever. Suck on that, Donnie!
Delete@5:36
DeleteLOL.
See 5:09
GeorgiaPeach
So for the god-botherer up top, how's she treating you these day? Are you in her favor or not?
DeleteWhat are we supposed to do 4:29 abandon Texas? Are you into Ayn Rand? Where should they go?
DeleteTrump will be handing copies of his huge electoral map win to the flood victims later this week.
Delete7:53 PM - it sure as heck won't be Trump, it will be people like you and me and they will take credit for it.
DeleteAs they sowed so shall they reap.
DeleteStick that up your bible-thumping ass.
I only hope the sane ones left the state so all of the climate change deniers and believers that Harvey was "fake news" remained behind to tread water for five days.
Nope. Not sending a penny. They can fucking pay state income tax like the rest of us and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
God helps them what helps themselves and all that drivel.
I tend to agree. Not giving one red cent.
DeleteI feel bad for my fellow nurses. I hope the hospitals in houston called evryone on and that everyone came. If not, right now you have the same shift of nurses who have been on duty since friday night. That is a catastrophe.
I also feel for the people in homecare who are ventilator dependent. Another potential tragedy if they did not evacuate. Family members may literally be bagging these people to keep them oxygenated once their reserve batteries and diesel generators are depleted.
Yeah, if I was one of those people, I'd be wondering if God was reminding them of what's really important - life, liberty and everybody free to pursue their own happiness (as long as it doesn't include taking advantage of minor children, the elderly or animals).
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Palin curse.
ReplyDeleteAin't Bristol in Austin?
Drumpf supposed to visit Texas on Tuesday. How much do we wanna bet he will make it all about him?
Last I heard, San Antonio bound? Yeah, because he can't show up to the actual devastation.
Delete"I did a flyover" -- Alec Baldwin voice/mannerisms
"Heckuva job, Brownie!" -- Dubya Katrina
"Tut Tut Looks like rain!" -- Priss Briss
DeleteExcept Palin's help everyone.
Delete5:17 - does that include you, fat alicia?
DeleteSure. We can expect Sarah Palin to show up in some evangelist's private jet and hand out cookies. That will be soooooo much help. It will probably solve the entire mess!
DeleteOh, you poor little thang, 5:17 PM.
DeleteDo you understand the difference between "except" and "accept?"
I'll just bet that you have apostrophes down, also too.
Can you just see it. Bristol " My Teemmi Tea Blends gave me the energy to stay on top of a major disaster! Use the code Shit we are screwed to get 20 percent off!
Delete8:04 PM - and she's nowhere near it. That's the Palins for you! If you can make a quick buck doing nothing.
DeleteHe'll have other pressing obligations that just came up.
DeleteWill send Jared and Ivanka.
Or maybe Kellyanus to explain that that isn't a hurricane and there is no climate change.
Is this an alternative shower Kellyann?
DeleteI wonder if any illegals rescued or in shelters are gonna be deported?
ReplyDeleteI read they were keeping check points open during the evacuation under President Trump.
DeleteI hope that none of them stayed in dangerous homes because they feared deportation. If any of them die because of his orders to search for undocumented immigrants during the evacuation, Trump will be directly responsible for each and every one of those deaths.
Delete659 PM - if undocumented immigrants die in the floods that would be a feature, not a bug to the Nazis in the White (Supremicist) House.
DeleteWe, the other, are not people to Lord Dampnuts regime. Sooner that fact is acknowledged country wide the sooner true healing can begin.
Some people still believe that a total eclipse of the sun is Satan saying, "I'm still here!" GOOD LORD.
ReplyDeleteI'm in San Antonio and not affected much by this storm. I think god is hating us because of Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. Just wish she would focus on the two of them.
ReplyDeleteYep. Saw at least one idiotic comment on a photo of a dog walking down the street carrying a bag of dog food - "You can tell it's a Texas dog because he can take care of himself." My response was just keep pushing that sentiment, buddy, and we all might just let you take care of yourselves.
ReplyDeleteAh, Texas. As we like to say up here in AK the best thing we've ever seen is a Texan leaving Alaska with an Okie under each arm.
DeleteBless ya Texas...little sister to a state that has more severe weather than you can dream of, even with that little flood thing you have going on. That being said, hope you are being smart and cautious but from most of the videos I've seen you're being "all in Texas" and throwing caution to the wind.
Please, whatever happens remember your pets. They suffer the worst in these sorts of weather events.
Check this out.
ReplyDeleteTrump Rescinded Obama’s Flood Risk Rules Weeks Before Hurricane Harvey Hit
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/27/1693763/-Trump-Rescinded-Obama-s-Flood-Risk-Rules-Weeks-Before-Hurricane-Harvey-Hit
You might want to take a look at Houston's zoning codes or lack thereof. While it's a mixed bag, my guess is they have a lot of issues that should have been better mitigated. https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-houston-really-does-have-zoning-sort-of/#.WaNsJyiGPiA
ReplyDeleteIt really is so sad. Governor Abbott told them to evacuate, their mayor told them to stay. A lot of people can't just pick up and move out...it takes $$ and somewhere to go.
DeleteMayor Sylvester Turner is a Democrat and has been a great mayor. Greg Abbott has spent his time and energy worrying about what restroom the transgender people are using. Abbott is an idiot.
DeleteIn a previous evacuation, 100 people died, so that might have been part of the issue. Maybe with their highway system, there could have been a danger of a severe traffic jam which could have led to more casualties?
Delete7:21 That sounds ike an infrastructure problem imho. Texas abuts the gulf coast. The gulf coast gets hurricanes. Maybe they need to invest in evacuation routes and plans.
DeleteGov Rick Perry did famously pray publicly for rain. It was a long time ago, but - poor baby - he's a bit slow.
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what I thought. Why am I not hearing the most holy and righteous public preachers hollering about God's wrath on Texas?
DeleteOf course, it is a pointless and bigoted response, but theological ignorance has not stopped the likes of Rev. Paula White, Franklin Graham, and others for bleating out warnings of 'God's wrath' whenever it feels that the right-kind-of people are being punished. At the same time they can support this #45 POS-POTUS.
Lord have mercy of us all.
dowl
My heart goes out to the people in Texas who are sustaining devastating losses.
ReplyDeleteThe disrespect of the people effected by the hurricane by our idiot president is unbelievable. His conduct is shameful.
ReplyDeleteCalling Pastor Pat Robinson. Pastor where are you?
ReplyDeleteOn speed dial with Palin chopping up store bought Pillsbury cookie rolls because she's too damned lazy to makw them from scratch is my bet.
DeleteThey had a news report tonight about the impact that development is having on the severity of weather like this: all those roads and houses and commercial buildings being built without taking the watershed into account. These floods are only going to get worse.
ReplyDeleteWell, this will certainly take care of the houses and commercial buildings, now, won't it?
DeleteIf they insist on burying their heads in the sand about everything, it certainly will.
DeleteGotta admit i thought the same thing when i saw that this was the first hurricane to hit since 2005.
ReplyDeleteBut Sandy was in there. That was a tropical storm.
How is trump going to pay for his stupid wall when Texas is going to cost billions to rebuild.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me the priority here and now is the State Of Texas! You know American citizens at this point who gives a shit about Trumps stupid wall. And as President the last thing on his mind right now should be another ego driven rally. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. He knew this was coming and he went to Camp David for the weekend and you can bet your ass he will try to take credit from the real people who did the work, all that ass did is sign a paper saying " Ok you can have federal aid" Some hero.
Promotes a book, promotes himself.This is a catastrophe and instead of making a public statement before the press he resorts to twitter because he is no leader and frankly is too dumb to answer questions from the press.We never see Trump all we see is his sycophants answering to the press, making excuses for this third rate con artist.
Where is our so called First Lady? You would think as a Mother she would put in her two cents. We are a ship without a rudder right now and rely on others to pick up the slack so Trump can take the glory and he will try to take it.
Watch his tweets once he goes to Texas.
"Was in Texas! Many people are doing a great job! I won Texas by the way. great, great people there. Together we will MAGA!.
NO one is clamoring for "First Lady" interviews. NO one.
DeleteYeah, this is Trump.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/my-city-is-underwater-houston-sports-journalist-blasts-trump-for-feckless-harvey-response/
Would I be a bad person for hoping George HW and Babs mansion gets washed away?
ReplyDeleteha! Hadn't thought of that. I's rather W. got flooded. In his drinking stupor he could die of hypothermia.
Delete" on Trump and 666Pence’s campaign website." "rump I$ wearing baseball caps during Hurricane Harvey teleconferences that are for sale on his website for $40 each.
ReplyDelete" the red and white hats are more examples of Trump views the presidency as a QVC hour" The presidency has been replaced by an infomercial for Donald Trump and his crappy merchandise."
The presidency has been replaced by an infomercial for Donald Trump and his crappy merchandise.
The presidency has been replaced by an infomercial for Donald Trump and his crappy merchandise.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/27/trump-profit-hurricane-harvey-presidency-sell-hats.html
God: "I'll teach them to gerrymander and suppress the right to vote!"
ReplyDeleteWonder how many Texans still think climate change is "fake news?"
They are going to by sucking on the taxpayers' teet for quite a while. Trump declared them a disaster before he left on his weekend vacation. They don't have state income tax so the only pot of money they have will be sucking up our Federal dollars to pay for shit they should have done, didn't do or did a fucked up crappy job at.
Yeah, "God" is pissed at you, Texas. Why don't you bow your heads and contemplate what you have done to anger him? Have you killed any minorities or LGBTQ lately? How many Alt-right, skinhead, White Supremacist, White Nationalist, Fascist, domestic terrorists did you send to Charlottesville? How many did you send to the Bundys?
WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR? The Fascist or the rational, level headed, intelligent, qualified one?
God isn't crying tears of sadness on y'all.
He's PISSING on you.
There is no god. It is stooopid to think that that a sky fairy is in charge of our destinies. We are.
DeleteBut they believe there is an invisible cloud man and insist on dragging him into everything. Just providing some fodder for the grist.
DeleteMaybe all those CONfederate flag waving bullies will git their rumps down there and help out texas. The fly over land. The big bad succession bullies will be right there to help out. Trump dumped fema and aid.
ReplyDeleteAnd modeling the "make America great again" bathing suits and 10 gallon hats in texas will be_________. Trumps texas rally will reveal the new line of maga swim wear and next new rump model.
ReplyDeleteWill trump inspect HIS proposed new wall site in texas while vacationing there?
ReplyDeleteAll snark aside, We, the People will do what we always do when disaster strikes. We help each other because that is what it means to be American.
ReplyDeleteOf course we will ride those of is who've been doing their best to divide us - that's what we do too. If we didn't no one would think we loved them.
Looks like the east coast is facing their own tropical storm warnings. Lol. Two storms back to back?
Glad Lord Dampnuts administration is fully staffed.
Oh, wait...
Houston is going through hell and it seems like Trump is bragging about this storm like it is an accomplishment.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/sherrishavon/status/902110814550859776
I'm in west Houston and very, very lucky. Still dry where I am, but the bayous and reservoirs are cresting. Please pray or order Harvey to move on. We really need the rain to stop.
ReplyDeleteJust fyi....the cities of Houston and Galveston are pretty blue. And Sandy hit mostly blue states. So if there were a SkyDaddy with a temper, maybe he hates liberals and gays (it canceled Austin Pride too).
ReplyDeleteAnd.....in a country that needs uniting not dividing right now, let's stop dividing people into Texans/nonTexans, us/them etc. It's just not a long jump for some people (hopefully, no one at this site) to take "us/them" into race, gender, etc.
DeleteWhy isn't there some process just to divert .1% production of diapers water,... to the redcross sites or some such percentage.
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