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Maybe the religious right

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:54:03 +0000

Maybe the religious right will start to see this as God's displeasure with their idiotic choice.

In Texas, no less - they were supposed to be seceding to get away from Godless America - instead God's floating them off into the oil-spilled Gulf of Mexico himself - didn't even warn them to build an ark.

You remember the big ha-ha that Al Gore mistook one meetig with the FEMA director for another, showed he was a "liar". That was back in the days when Presidents knew how their FEMA directors were, and what their jobs were, and didn't arrange campaign appearances or birthday parties or twitterstorms during major natural disasters.

I once pissed-off a Detroit-native Catholic friend by saying maybe God has John Paul I "recalled". Wonder if I can recycle the joke somehow in our current setting.

All the attention on "Repeal and Replace" , you could be forgiven for thinking it applies to Trump himself.
Now that it looks like the pee-pee tape just might be real, Hurricane Harvey could be Trump's "hundred year water". But people don't like being pissed on - they *will* remember.

On hundred-year floods. You

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:40:56 +0000

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On hundred-year floods. You keep using that word, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.

And another article notes, if you put in a parking lot, you just changed the floodplain. So it's all shifting.

This is interesting, excerpt

artappraiser — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:57:43 +0000

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This is interesting, excerpt from a recent A.P. wire update, they do have some dams where they can alter the route of flooding:

6:15 p.m.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin releasing water into Buffalo Bayou from two flood-control dams on the western outskirts of the city.

Col. Lars Zetterstrom is commander of the Galveston District of the Corps of Engineers. He says water will be released from the Barker Reservoir and Addicks Reservoir very slowly on Monday morning to prevent uncontrollable flooding of downtown Houston and the Houston Ship Channel.

Downtown Houston is 17 miles (27.36 kilometers) downstream from the dams, which were built during the 1940s in response to a 1935 flood that inundated much of downtown area.

Zetterstrom says the water contained by the dams is “unparalleled in the dams’ history.” The waters are rising about 4 inches per hour.

Zetterstrom says the dams will impound water for one to three months as water is gradually released. He adds that some neighborhoods on the fringes of the reservoir are likely to see some floods.

Flood insurance splits GOP,

artappraiser — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:23:46 +0000

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Flood insurance splits GOP, spurs bipartisan dealmaking as deadline looms

Dozens of Republicans have fought proposals by the House Financial Services Committee that they say would make flood insurance unaffordable.

@ Politico.com, 08/27/2017 06:56 AM EDT

Blame it on the black guy.

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:15:00 +0000

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29% of Louisiana Republicans blame Obama for botched 2005 Katrina response. (28% blame GW Bush)

44% not sure. @AriBerman @LOLGOP
— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) August 15, 2016

“This event is … beyond

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:40:22 +0000

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“This event is … beyond anything experienced”: The National Weather Service‘s ominous warning on Harvey

Updated by Brian Resnick @ Vox.com, Aug 27, 2017, 1:30pm EDT

....Long-time weather journalists and meteorologists are saying this language is as dire as the National Weather Service gets....

followed with many Tweet examples of career weatherpersons being shocked by the NWS language.

As I recall, one prediction

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:43:53 +0000

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As I recall, one prediction was that a two week shutdown would spike gasoline to seven dollars a gallon.

They are also watching other

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:41:21 +0000

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They are also watching other tropical depressions forming in the Gulf and southern Atlantic. We need some walls alright, but not across the dessert. This storm might have been magnitudes worse if it had struck a ways further up the coast causing greater tidal surge up the Houston ship channel. I haven't heard anything about how badly the refineries and chemical plants have been affected but putting them out of commission for any extended time has been predicted to significantly effect entire world's economy.

CNN is good to check with

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:29:12 +0000

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CNN is good to check with their Live Updates because they get local people sourcing trying with videos to report for national attention, see whether they are getting help or not, things like this:

Nursing home residents waist-deep in water

About 20 to 25 people were rescued from La Vita Bella nursing home Sunday in Dickinson, Texas, the Galveston Office of Emergency Management said.

“They were up to their waist [in water],” Galveston County Commissioner Ken Clark told CNN.“If they were in a wheelchair they could have been up to their neck.”

Kim McIntosh, whose mother owns the nursing home, said her mother sent her this photo showing residents sitting in pools of water.

“Most of these people are in wheelchairs and oxygen,” McIntosh said. "They [were] waiting for helicopters or the National Guard."

weatherman on CNN TV just

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:28:37 +0000

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weatherman on CNN TV just said that the National Weather service has put out 111 tornado warnings!