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Does Darrin have an update on black donations?
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Nope, fact, not opinion
Trump's Immigration Policies Could Hinder Harvey Rebuilding Efforts
yeah because people are not wanting to be builders is all trumps fault
maybe lack of TECH schools
The money will be there to finance reconstruction in Houston, but with a shortage of labor that existed before Harvey, will there be enough help to get the work done?
President Donald Trump's immigration policies have scared away Mexican workers long before Harvey brought a 500-year flood to Houston, NBC News reported.
Drivers form a human chain to save a man as floodwaters sweep away his SUV
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/us/hum...nd1216PMVODtopAs they waited in stalled traffic, they watched a horrifying scene unfold in front of them.
Floodwaters had picked up an elderly man's SUV and were sweeping it away.
"My heart started beating fast," Castillo said.
Without pause, the couple and dozens of other drivers jumped into the water to help.
"Somebody said, 'Let's form a chain.'"
So, they did.
Their arms linked, the drivers and passenger inched toward the SUV.
This economist sees potential for 1 million jobs lost to Harvey
Just two weeks after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans in 2005, economist Cary Leahey of Decision Economics Inc. sat down and wrote a report to his clients estimating that total damages would total $125 billion, making the storm the nation’s largest natural disaster ever.
A dozen years later, Leahey’s estimate stands the test of time. In fact, the official government estimate of the cost of the storm is $125 billion in nominal terms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA.
Leahey now thinks that the damage from Hurricane Harvey could be “mind boggling” and rival or even exceed Katrina. Estimates he has seen from some major Wall Street banks are too timid, he said.
Read: Damage from Harvey may make it fourth-worst all time
“No analyst is willing to suggest that the impact on GDP growth will be worse than 0.5% to 0.75 percentage point reduction to GDP growth,” that was the ultimate impact of Katrina, Leahey said. But he said he is leaning towards thinking the drop in GDP could well be 1% or larger.
There could be a potential one million workers dropped from payrolls in the September employment report, Leahey said. That would be four times the government’s unofficial estimate of the 230,000 lost jobs from Katrina.
http://www.marke ch.com/story/eco...ger-2017-08-30
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...will-it-changeBy comparison, undeveloped lots in the exurbs may be seen as less attractive, both for investors and for potential transplants. If laws or norms change to take flood risk into account, that raises the cost of low-density development, making higher-density development relatively more attractive. Harvey could push Houston away from sprawl and toward a more sustainable density.
Obviously not a substantive article, but I see a scenario where there's a concerted push away from suburban sprawl towards urban density. Given the consistency of flooding in Houston over the past 5 years, it's not like Sugarland or Missouri City or Cypress is going to be safer the next time a big storm hits town.
Workers trapped by Harvey at a Mexican bakery feed a hungry Houston
Jorge Agundis was baking pan dulce on the overnight shift when the first rains of Hurricane Harvey began to fall.
He says the water started to ac ulate quickly — in 10 or 15 minutes.
His thoughts turned to his wife and three young children. Would they be OK? In the four days since the storm landed, the kitchen manager at Houston's El Bolillo Bakery still hasn't been able to get back to the trailer park where he lives with his family.
But Agundis has done more than worry.
Instead, he's baked. And baked. And baked.
He and two fellow employees at the Mexican bakery's Wayside branch found themselves trapped in the store on Saturday. By the time his night shift was over, the roads outside were impassable. He learned that the freeway to his family's trailer park was underwater.
That's when Agundis's children began calling his cellphone.
"My son's calling me, saying, 'Hey Daddy, where you at?'" Agundis recalls. "I'm worrying, worrying, worrying for my family."
So Agundis and his colleagues decided they'd get busy with the 4,000 pounds of flour they had on hand. They baked day and night for two days straight.
They filled every shelf in the store's kitchen.
El Bolillo owner Kirk Michaelis saw his employees' handiwork when he was finally able to rescue his staffers Monday morning.
"I was amazed," Michaelis says. "All the racks were full with bread, just stacked to the ceiling."
City officials picked up more than a thousand bakery items and distributed them to flood victims throughout the city.
Michaelis was amazed by his employees' dedication.
"Jorge said, 'Well, I couldn't think about my family because it was killing me,'" Michaelis recalls. "He has small children in that trailer, and he was afraid it was going to float away. So he just immersed himself in baking."
In fact, floodwater had risen around Agundis's family home and was about 6 inches from reaching the trailer doors. But the water stopped there.
For the past two nights, Agundis and his colleagues have been staying in Michaelis's home. Agundis isn't as worried now because he knows his family made it through the storm.
And his boss, Michaelis, says he's doing his best to unite the baker and his family.
"I have a friend on that side of town that has an airboat. If we can't get [Agundis] there by car, we'll get there by boat and get his family," Michaelis says. "They're more than welcome to come and stay with me."
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-...hungry-houston
Really good point. Multi-story development would make a flooding a lot less impactful squarefootage wise.
Mixed use development with retail in the bottom floor. Many places like this is Austin. That kind of development wouldn't leave people homeless if the bottom floor floods entirely.
I can see that kind of stuff going in.
Not surprised tbqhWorkers trapped by Harvey at a Mexican bakery feed a hungry Houston
Jorge Agundis was baking pan dulce on the overnight shift when the first rains of Hurricane Harvey began to fall.
He says the water started to ac ulate quickly — in 10 or 15 minutes.
His thoughts turned to his wife and three young children. Would they be OK? In the four days since the storm landed, the kitchen manager at Houston's El Bolillo Bakery still hasn't been able to get back to the trailer park where he lives with his family.
But Agundis has done more than worry.
Instead, he's baked. And baked. And baked.
He and two fellow employees at the Mexican bakery's Wayside branch found themselves trapped in the store on Saturday. By the time his night shift was over, the roads outside were impassable. He learned that the freeway to his family's trailer park was underwater.
That's when Agundis's children began calling his cellphone.
"My son's calling me, saying, 'Hey Daddy, where you at?'" Agundis recalls. "I'm worrying, worrying, worrying for my family."
So Agundis and his colleagues decided they'd get busy with the 4,000 pounds of flour they had on hand. They baked day and night for two days straight.
They filled every shelf in the store's kitchen.
El Bolillo owner Kirk Michaelis saw his employees' handiwork when he was finally able to rescue his staffers Monday morning.
"I was amazed," Michaelis says. "All the racks were full with bread, just stacked to the ceiling."
City officials picked up more than a thousand bakery items and distributed them to flood victims throughout the city.
Michaelis was amazed by his employees' dedication.
"Jorge said, 'Well, I couldn't think about my family because it was killing me,'" Michaelis recalls. "He has small children in that trailer, and he was afraid it was going to float away. So he just immersed himself in baking."
In fact, floodwater had risen around Agundis's family home and was about 6 inches from reaching the trailer doors. But the water stopped there.
For the past two nights, Agundis and his colleagues have been staying in Michaelis's home. Agundis isn't as worried now because he knows his family made it through the storm.
And his boss, Michaelis, says he's doing his best to unite the baker and his family.
"I have a friend on that side of town that has an airboat. If we can't get [Agundis] there by car, we'll get there by boat and get his family," Michaelis says. "They're more than welcome to come and stay with me."
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-...hungry-houston
Us berracos are like that. Plus they were probably blazed as and had the munchies
Really good point. Multi-story development would make a flooding a lot less impactful squarefootage wise.
Mixed use development with retail in the bottom floor. Many places like this is Austin. That kind of development wouldn't leave people homeless if the bottom floor floods entirely.
I can see that kind of stuff going in.
That's actually the trend inside the loop. There is en explosion of mixed-use residential/commercial. Downtown, they're doing the same with mixed use parking/retail.
Part of it might be wishful thinking on my part living here, but there has been a concerted effort at increasing density inside the loop and being a more "urban" city. I don't think Houston will ever be NYC, but the one silver lining I see to Harvey is an increased push for more density closer to the city's core. It'd be more feasible if the city sucked up and paid for an L-type system along the lines of what they have in Chicago.
US military sends warships, aircraft to Texas
Washington (CNN)With floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey swallowing entire Texas cities, the US military is mobilizing its resources from states across the country to help local law enforcement and civilian volunteers in the rescue effort.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has activated the entire Texas National Guard, which is made up of roughly 12,000 troops.
State, local and military rescue units have plucked thousands of stranded residents from the water and deluged homes.
On Sunday, the Defense Department and Abbott agreed to establish a "dual-status command" that would allow a single commander for both federal and state forces overseeing and coordinating the response efforts.
"It is imperative that we give our military and first responders on the ground the most efficient method of execution when responding to the urgent needs of Texans," Abbott said in a statement.
On Monday, Military surgical teams, communications teams, maintenance and other military support elements totaling more than 400 personnel were given orders to be prepared to deploy within 24 hours.
These are the military forces being sent and on standby to assist with rescue efforts:
They need to send Tommy Lee Jones in that mofo
HOUSTON'S TRUCKING LIFELINE RUMBLES BACK IN HARVEY'S
AFTERMATH
George Bush Intercontinental and Hobby Airports, which together move 55 million passengers and 442,563 metric tons of freight every year, shut down for three days, with airlines rerouting flights and waiving change fees for travelers. The airports reopened Wednesday, and traffic should begin to return to normal
Out in the Gulf of Mexico, ships delayed by the storm will make up lost time over the next few months, either by rearranging schedules or spending money to run faster.
During Harvey, ships likely skipped Houston for at least two alternate landing spots situated relatively nearby.
German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd, for example, canceled its call at Houston "for schedule recovery purposes," and will unload its cargo at the Port of Altamira in Mexico, 500 miles south. Others will likely head for Mobile, Alabama, 400 miles east.
But when it comes to supplying Houston and its 6.5 million residents the vital goods they need—bottles of water, loaves of bread, diapers— the horizon looks a little hazier.
“Roads, ports—everything’s in real trouble,” Shah says.
“Local distribution is a mess and will continue to be a mess, perhaps even impossible.”
“It reminds me of Katrina,” says John Esparza, CEO of the Texas Trucking Association. “It’s amazing how this continues to be an ongoing emergency situation.”
In the days before the storm’s arrival, FEMA hired hundreds of trucks to haul provisions like bottled water, medical supplies, meals-ready-to-eat (MREs), and tarps to San Antonio, before dispatching them to smaller staging areas in and around Houston.
As of Thursday morning, Houston transportation agency TranStar still listed 95 high water locations.
At least some stretches of each of the half-dozen major roads passing through or around Houston remained shut down.
preexisting driver shortage has triggered a jump in the cost of trucking.
Urrutia says, it costs about $2.40 per mile to have someone carry a truckload of your stuff between Dallas and Houston. Right now it’s between $8 and $10 per mile. McElroy confirms the trend: “We’ve seen rates go up 350 percent on average,”
https://www.wired.com/story/hurrican...rucks-resupply
That is one way to ride out a hurricane.Not surprised tbqh
Us berracos are like that. Plus they were probably blazed as and had the munchies
Where to go, what to do, and what to bring.
http://swamplot.com/the-best-way-to-...ed/2017-08-29/
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/1676697549089959/
RG's a good man. Wishin you and everyone like you and all those in need all the best!
.... you know that's a hoax..
my sources are impeccable, irrefutable
those things have turned burnet into a ish drive from 4-7pm.Really good point. Multi-story development would make a flooding a lot less impactful squarefootage wise.
Mixed use development with retail in the bottom floor. Many places like this is Austin. That kind of development wouldn't leave people homeless if the bottom floor floods entirely.
I can see that kind of stuff going in.
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