Harvey

[billy.pilgrim]

This storm will be here for a long time.

As I post this constant dumbass Fredrick's whitfield with CNN is allowing Ted Poe to lie about why he voted against Sandy Aid. Someone please explain to her that she can look up facts before the interview.


http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... story.html




"Of the 24 GOP members of the Texas House delegation in 2013, all but one voted against the Sandy relief package in 2013. The one “yea” vote was Rep. John Culberson, whose district includes Houston."

[rstrong]

This storm will be here for a long time.

Hurricane Irma is expected to reach "Major hurricane" status (wind speed greater than 110 MPH) within hours.

/thread hijack

[Vrede too]

Already Cat. 2.
Cat 2 Irma Rapidly Intensifying in Eastern Atlantic; Big Long-Range Questions
"... another tropical cyclone could develop in the western Gulf of Mexico next week...." Ugh.
Irma Cat. 4 within 5 days, whoa.
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/ ... icane-irma

Meanwhile, the length of Baja is about to be raked by Tropical Storm Lidia.
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/ ... torm-lidia

Andrew Beatty‏ Verified account
@AndrewBeatty

White House @PressSec explains the President's earlier tweet about seeing the horror of Harvey 'first hand'

That's 2nd or in many cases 3rd hand.

[billy.pilgrim]

A picture is worth a thousand being theres and trump sees lots of things that aren't there

[Vrede too]

Some interesting facts from NRDC here:

Hurricane Harvey: Another American Deluge
As we lend our immediate support to Gulf Coast communities, we must also protect people from such future disasters by addressing infrastructure, safety measures, flood policies, and climate change.

In just three days, more rain fell on the Texas Gulf Coast than what flows out of the Mississippi River in three full weeks. Tiny Cedar Bayou got 51.9 inches, the most ever measured for a single storm in the continental United States. Hundreds of thousands of people were washed out of their homes, and more than 32,000 huddled in makeshift shelters. In the words of the National Weather Service, “This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced.”

... Much of the water is laden with a toxic mix of chemicals seeping from area refineries, chemical plants, and abandoned industrial and waste sites. Strange smells sweeping through the area underscore reports of air pollution emissions from the refineries that dominate the region and explosions at one chemical plant. We don’t know how much has been released because air monitors have shut down, but press and local reports estimate the number in the millions of pounds of volatile organic compounds, like benzene, and other nasty chemicals....

As we’ve seen in past disasters, low-income communities and people of color tend to suffer disproportionate exposure to these dangers, often without receiving adequate care. Proximity to the sources of the contaminants, lack of information, and poor access to protective measures or the resources to just up and leave until the dangers are gone all conspire to make the impacts even more burdensome to these communities. That’s why, again, the needs of these communities must be front and center in the days and weeks to come.

Of the roughly 800,000 households in Houston, fewer than one in six has flood insurance. That means a lot of people won’t have money to repair or rebuild. Even those who do will find it extremely difficult to receive federal aid that might help them move to higher ground. Some 43,000 families were on the wait list for affordable housing in Houston. That list is likely to grow, as local housing costs rise in response to the lack of supply, and if communities don’t quickly move to replace lost housing for low-income residents, a recurring problem after a flood disaster.

Between 2005 and 2014, the federal government spent more than $278 billion on disaster rebuilding and recovery efforts―most commonly for floods, the nation’s most frequent and costly form of natural disaster.

To fix the problem, we put in place the Federal Flood Protection Standard in 2015, which requires better planning and protections for flood-prone infrastructure built with federal funds. Unfortunately, just as Harvey was beginning to stir in the Gulf of Mexico, President Trump rescinded those standards, part of what he called a “disgraceful” permitting process. It didn’t take long for Harvey to show the folly in that. Now it’s time for Congress to demand a more responsible approach....

[Vrede too]

Hurricane Harvey from space: devastating before-and-after satellite images

Twitter Burns Joe Walsh For Claiming Charlie Hebdo Never Attacks Muslims

Joe Walsh - Hat trick of stupid, twofer of cowardly.

[rstrong]

Back on Tuesday Quebec offered blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products to help all those displaced by the flooding. And of course the usual equipment and crews to help restore power. Hydro-Québec sent 250 technicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in addition to crews from all over the rest of Canada. The same happened after Hurricane Sandy. It's normal.

Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos turned them down and asked for prayers instead.

[Vrede too]

A Republican MBA lawyer with degrees in biology and Hospitality Management probably should not be making rescue and recovery decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolando_Pablos

[billy.pilgrim]

Back on Tuesday Quebec offered blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products to help all those displaced by the flooding. And of course the usual equipment and crews to help restore power. Hydro-Québec sent 250 technicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in addition to crews from all over the rest of Canada. The same happened after Hurricane Sandy. It's normal.

Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos turned them down and asked for prayers instead.

everyone in texas needs to know this, but they don't (and won't) and they will continue to vote republicon

[rstrong]

"We're trying to help the people whose lives are literally underwater, and you want to have a conversation about climate change."
- Kellyanne Conway scolding CNN's Chris Cuomo

[billy.pilgrim]

"We're trying to help the people whose lives are literally underwater, and you want to have a conversation about climate change."
- Kellyanne Conway scolding CNN's Chris Cuomo

after which she conversed about president Donnie having a lot of cheap $40 hats for sale the 1st whore actually wearing actual tennis shoes during a photo op somewhere

[Vrede too]

... the 1st whore actually wearing actual tennis shoes during a photo op somewhere

Melania was widely griefed for wearing stilettos getting on the plane to TX, unfair IMO. The response was that she got off the plane in TX wearing sneakers. She did the same thing today.


According to Americans for Tax Fairness:

Trump’s 2018 budget, which Congress will address as soon as it returns next week, would do the following:

Cuts more than $200 billion from existing infrastructure programs;

Cuts FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) by $667 million -- an 11% cut;

Cuts $967 million from the Army Corps of Engineers, which provides critical hurricane and storm damage reduction infrastructure, helps restore power in affected areas, and assists in other disaster response missions;

Eliminates HUD’s (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which includes disaster recovery grants that help lower-income communities recover from disasters.

[GoCubsGo]

What happened to rebuilding our infrastructure??

[Vrede too]

What happened to __________________??

The template for many discussions. I think the most sensible and widely applicable answer is 'Covfefe'.

[rstrong]

Back on Tuesday Quebec offered blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products to help all those displaced by the flooding. And of course the usual equipment and crews to help restore power. Hydro-Québec sent 250 technicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in addition to crews from all over the rest of Canada. The same happened after Hurricane Sandy. It's normal.

Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos turned them down and asked for prayers instead.

Apparently Florida chose the hydro crews option.

[O Really]

Apparently Florida chose the hydro crews option.

A large number of Naples winter residents are Hydro customers.

[Vrede too]

Apparently Florida chose the hydro crews option.

A large number of Naples winter residents are Hydro customers.

No one spends time in Texas that doesn't have to.

The article should have mentioned Texas' foolish rejection of aid and shown a pic of idle Canadian utility crews praying.

[billy.pilgrim]

Apparently Florida chose the hydro crews option.

A large number of Naples winter residents are Hydro customers.

No one spends time in Texas that doesn't have to.

The article should have mentioned Texas' foolish rejection of aid and shown a pic of idle Canadian utility crews praying.

not needed, the article paints a good picture

the question is if the weenie DNC will use the image in their campaigns - along with the list of repug pols who voted against sandy aid

[Vrede too]

Apparently Florida chose the hydro crews option.

95 Canadian Tourists Not Allowed To Board Air Canada Evacuation Flight

If necessary, I will volunteer to help rescue Nova Scotia Power and Hydro One employees. No one should be forced to stay in Florida longer than they have to.

[Vrede too]

I haven't confirmed it but I've read that Mexico rescinded its offer of aid to Texas in order to send its crews to deal with the 8.1 earthquake that no one is talking about.