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Pretty much describes all of Austin.
Can't have density without lots of public transit.
Pretty much describes all of Austin.
Can't have density without lots of public transit.
How a Texas bowling alley became a beacon of hope after Harvey's deluge
ORT ARTHUR, Texas — Adults chatted next to the bowling balls as kids ran around the video game arcade. Loudspeakers barked out names to come to the front desk, where white shoes in varying sizes were lined up in neat rows.
The bowling alley was full. Not of bowlers, but of survivors.
"We're all here," said Reyna Flores, 31, of the nearby town of Groves, one of 19 people of her extended family sheltering in the bowling alley, where they had slept on the hard wooden floors in front of the lanes, arranged around the ball-return machines.
Thursday morning brought an unusual visitor to the Gulf Coast town of Port Arthur: the sun. Unfortunately, daylight revealed the same sights of flooded neighborhoods that have become the hallmark of Tropical Storm Harvey's rampage across huge swaths of Texas.
All those homes had been filled with people who had to escape to somewhere. In Port Arthur, one of those somewheres was the Max Bowl bowling alley, one of the unlikeliest evacuation centers of the disaster.
The whole setup happened by accident — or, more accurately, by necessity. As floodwaters rampaged through the town Tuesday night, Max Bowl's general manager, Jeff Tolliver, got a phone call: Someone had jimmied the lock on the alley's doors and people had come inside.
By the time Tolliver arrived the next day, 600 to 800 flood survivors had filled the building, along with their pets: dogs, cats, iguanas and one monkey.
The bowling alley's parking lot had been a staging area for boat rescuers to drop off flood survivors. But so much of the town was flooded, they had nowhere else to go. When it started pouring rain again, the survivors took shelter inside.
Tolliver sized up the situation. Then he rose to the occasion.
Max Bowl, still partially surrounded by floodwaters, would become an evacuation center.
By Thursday, evacuees had organized themselves into an amateur version of the Red Cross, sorting donations and handing out supplies.
"You need some socks?" asked one survivor-turned-volunteer, Brigitte Duplechain, 55, standing behind the shoe-rental counter as a survivor came up. He nodded, and she handed over a fresh pair.
Thousands of donated water bottles were stacked like ziggurats by the front doors. Mounds of donated clothes were stacked just inside, where someone was trying organize them into neat piles. A pontoon boat came bearing a stack of mattresses. EMTs set up a medical office.
Some survivors volunteered to keep the bowling alley clean, including its bathrooms.
"These guys haven't stopped working," Tolliver said, marveling at their work. "I asked if these guys are retired" — because he wanted to hire them.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how...ge=AAr3Thj_1|6
but we don't have showers
-Osteen
Tech billionaire Michael Dell pledges $36 million to Harvey relief efforts
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/01/tech...page_tech_pool
A huge thanks to #Dbacks fans for helping us raise $372,923 this week through the 50/50 Raffle for the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
Stricter building rules, supported by Obama but rejected by Trump, helped certain Harvey-hit communities
As Hurricane Harvey pummeled the Gulf coast in Texas, the
city of Seabrook had an edge over flood-swamped nearby towns
and the devastation in Houston, just a half-hour drive away.
Years ago,
the city imposed higher elevation standards for buildings that were stricter than existing federal guidelines on construction in flood-prone areas.
Before leaving office, President Barack Obama sought to toughen those national rules, to bring them more in line with those in communities like Seabrook. President Donald
Trump, however, revoked Obama’s executive order last month.
Harvey, which has displaced around a million people and flooded swaths of Houston, has proven an early test of that decision.
Floodplain experts wrote to Trump this week, urging him to rethink his reversal of Obama’s order.
“As we come to the conclusion of Harvey, we have suffered some damage to our community, but not to the extent that some of our neighboring communities have. That is partly because of our (elevation) requirement,” said Seabrook deputy city manager, Sean Landis.
Although Obama’s order had not yet come into effect when Trump rescinded it, some communities had been concerned about the cost of elevating existing buildings to comply with the new rules. But Landis said more stringent rules have paid off in Seabrook.
“We feel more resilient,” he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/stricter-building-rules-supported-by-obama-but-rejected-by-trump-helped-certain-harvey-hit-communities/
I remember a few years ago when the lake-front residents on Lake McQueeney wanted taxpayers to pay for elevating their flood-zone houses.
"What a turnout!"
-Trump
and the best public transit for large, high-density cities is underground, not surface. Of course buses and regional light rail play significant roles.
Public, rail transport in USA has been blocked by BigAuto/BigOil to maximize vehicle and fuel sales.
Burnet could've used a left turn lane.
Snake Lives Matter
Last edited by SnakeBoy; 09-02-2017 at 07:54 PM.
If Harvey happened on the east coast
Does anyone still live in DelawareIf Harvey happened on the east coast
Texas senators would vote against aid.If Harvey happened on the east coast
So would current Energy Secretary circa 2016
A photograph of protestors forming a human chain across a major highway has gone viral over the last couple of days. It’s appeared on multiple far-right and alt-right websites and social media feeds, usually accompanied with a caption that reads something like,
“Black Lives Matter blocks hurricane Harvey rescue effort to protest Trump.”
There’s just one problem. The photo is from 2015, and it was taken at a protest in Boston.
None of this has stopped prominent Conservative websites and social media pages from sharing and retweeting the phony story.
http://verifiedpolitics.com/trumpers...y-aid-problem/
So now you KKK/Nazi assholes are CONVINCED BLM blocked Houston aid.
His issue is really with patent law but he is too stupid to nuance it out.
It was $60 billion and it was theirs to begin with. Why do you think the US should steal to fix things?
You mean there is no snow on the ground in east Texas in August?
A photograph of protestors forming a human chain across a major highway has gone viral over the last couple of days. It’s appeared on multiple far-right and alt-right websites and social media feeds, usually accompanied with a caption that reads something like,
“Black Lives Matter blocks hurricane Harvey rescue effort to protest Trump.”
There’s just one problem. The photo is from 2015, and it was taken at a protest in Boston.
None of this has stopped prominent Conservative websites and social media pages from sharing and retweeting the phony story.
http://verifiedpolitics.com/trumpers...y-aid-problem/
So now you KKK/Nazi assholes are CONVINCED BLM blocked Houston aid.
Ducks
Climate change?
Figures those sons a es would block aid to Harvey victims. This is what the Democrats stand for these days.
A photograph of protestors forming a human chain across a major highway has gone viral over the last couple of days. It’s appeared on multiple far-right and alt-right websites and social media feeds, usually accompanied with a caption that reads something like,
“Black Lives Matter blocks hurricane Harvey rescue effort to protest Trump.”
There’s just one problem. The photo is from 2015, and it was taken at a protest in Boston.
None of this has stopped prominent Conservative websites and social media pages from sharing and retweeting the phony story.
http://verifiedpolitics.com/trumpers...y-aid-problem/
So now you KKK/Nazi assholes are CONVINCED BLM blocked Houston aid.
Wake Up Sheeple!
I'm seriously calling bull that any alt-right actually fell for this photo. Hey boutons, do you mind linking the actual articles that used this photo? You said there were numerous ones
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