I know it is easy to get angry at Dixie, but there are good people who could shint when the time comes. All I would ask is that if Ted Cruz tries to lie to you, remember where his warm toasty ass was when teh waters rose.

real things done you can't shut down the government.

Is so important.

I've been wanting to explain the problems I see with Anarchy philosophy, but been lost for words.

This is perfect. Succinct.

Thank you!!!

Texans and what great people they were pulling together and helping each other. That was fine but they insinuated that there were
other places where people didn't help each other but instead looted and whined about nobody helping them. I wonder who they were
referring to with that charge.

white families look for food and find it in a very inspirational survivalist way while black families loot.

Thought the same thing. You put it eloquently. Thank you!!

… I simply cobbled together the words that reflect what SO MANY of us are thinking and saying.

After the darkness of Charlottesville, Texas is shining a truly brilliant light on our country AS IT IS – and not as some want it to be, or are trying to make it become.

That was so perfect.

Thank you for your graceful prose.

Love for our fellow citizens. Love for human decency and compassion.

Great post Nance! Makes me proud to be an American and a human. Sorry for the overtures about President Obama and Trump, but it is true. Obama is about Love and decency. Trump is about Trump and how he can take advantage of others.

That is wasn't the people from Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio that put them there.

But there's an awful lot of the crazy down there, everything is bigger in Texas.

... that many of those same Texans are risking their own safety in order to save the lives of everyone they can - and they're not the least bit concerned with who voted for who.

.. who has made it harder to collect insurance
starting September 1st.

while the more liberal areas of Austin, El Paso, and the border areas are not being punished for their sins. God Hates Texas!



Seriously, the president, governor, and 2 senators' badly bungling of this crisis should help wake people up to the need for government services and infrastructure. A lot of immigrants will be involved in rebuilding people's homes and businesses.

What specifically leads you to believe anyone on DU would forget that Texans collectively voted for a GOP government?

Further, what is the specific relevance of that in regards to a simple and positive sentiment for flood victims?

This one is sweet-sweet-sweet, Nance!

Houston has demonstrated for days now that there are indeed angels among us. We happen to have Beelzebub in the White House at the moment, but, fortunately, many many angels much closer by.

anyone who is able, please google HURRICANE HARVEY HOW TO HELP <----------------

Texas is going to need a LOT of help - this is only the beginning

I have donated to the Houston Food Bank, and will also be donating to a pet rescue group

hopefully that asshole "president" of ours will realize Texas DOES NOT NEED THE WALL now

Well said, well done!

I would not wish this disaster on anyone on earth, but sometimes we humans need a good shaking (I'm remembering my mama) to remind us we're all in this thing together and it's time to get back to the good basics of life.

In some way, as each of us are able, I hope we can send some love to those suffering in Texas and Louisiana tonight.

Real Americans and Trump sympathizers, I stand with Real Americans.

This is the America that the world believed us to be.

We have ALWAYS helped each other, irregardless of race, religion, or politics.

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My son and i cannot get back to houston until friday. The airports are closed through noon thusday and the roads between our houses and the airport are flooded

express the way so many of us feel.
Thank you.

Rec

for your wonderfully touching piece about the heart and soul that's being displayed in TX right now. This is truly what makes us Americans and what we need to recognize and fight to keep.

He's opening his stores as shelters for the victims of the flooding with no questions asked. Everyone is welcome!

Well said!!!

I keep thinking about how it shows that most people really are hardwired to be community, to help each other.

I wish I could understand what happened to the others to make them so hateful and ugly and insular.

It's a shame that it takes a crisis to remind us that people are, as a species, basically good. We tend to lose sight of that in the quagmire of political, religious, and just individual differences.

Our ethics, morality, and altruistic instincts pre-date, by millions of years, the current religions practiced today. It's true that people sometimes do terrible things, but in an emergency we forget our differences and just pitch in to help.

Thanks for reminding us, Nance.

These type of actions occur in every disaster and they always renew our faith. During the Loma Prieta earthquake the San Francisco Bay Area had people like this helping others.

Americans are truly a decent lot who will help any stranger in dire need.

Appreciate the kind words. I'm seeing fellow Texans reach out in ways I've never dreamed. It is humbling and it is reassuring. We've certainly got our share of assholes. Especially the politicians!! Who would dispute that!!! LOL But right now, the only "race" down here is the HUMAN race.

If anyone doubts how useless he is as president they're lying to themselves. Power to the people!

As an Arkansas guy, it pains me to say this - but - good on Texas.

to make aid available to whites only?

I keep expecting to hear some nuance somewhere

So many heroes, so much giving. Keep on keepin' on, Texans, we're proud of you.