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In reply to the discussion: I am in Houston [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)104. Thank you so for your vivid descriptions from your part of the scene, Lurker.
I confess the middle of a great emergency is not my favorite time for looking for stones to throw. Beautiful, wonderful Houston is built on a swamp near the Gulf Coast. The worst turned out to be worse than almost anyone reasonably expected. Okay. In a climate change world, turns out hurricanes can and sometimes do stall in place. In retrospect, virtually every adult among the seven million and more people involved would have altered some of their decisions based on what we know now. If nothing else, upped the insurance and shipped the piano and themselves to relatives.
It's 10:44 p.m. now. I hope all of our people down there are doing okay and have dry beds.
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Indeed, I heard a report that many citizens of Rockport assumed that this storm would be
calimary
Aug 2017
#96
I don't think that was in Houston city limits? It was in Dickinson Texas. But I could be wrong.
SweetieD
Aug 2017
#12
Watching the news all day, that's what I saw. People with big trucks, boats, whatever it took...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#10
ABC News showed two Black men rescue a woman from California that got flooded in deep water.
Blue_true
Aug 2017
#18
My "purpose" was simply the observation that I saw no Blacks on the news I watched...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#43
I'm here, I'm watching the shit 24 seven, you know what the fuck you're talking about
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#21
I suspect hat's a typo and you meant to say I don't know wtf I'm talking about...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#44
Again, I am implying nothing, simply mentioning I haven't seen Black or black neighborhoods...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#45
Actually, that was my first thought-- I didn't think it necessary to list all the possibilities...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#60
Yes but unfortunately & too many believe that we don't care or help...
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Aug 2017
#66
I do understand-- I never once doubted the humanity of the black community...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#67
Stop. The news here is live and they're not editing out the black, Asian, Indian and Latinos.
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#75
Sleep well-- it's a good thing you're doing, and from what I see, everyone's...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2017
#61
Thanks for posting this...I've been sweating bullets over that Addicks, Barker Dam stuff
LeftInTX
Aug 2017
#107
Are consumables (gas groceries) being restocked, mail getting through, school and work open?
Not Ruth
Aug 2017
#77
Thank you so for your vivid descriptions from your part of the scene, Lurker.
Hortensis
Aug 2017
#104