Harvey

[RandomGuy]

And the crotch and underarms in high humidity. This is just flat out miserable. It's the skin that's covered and constantly wet.

Ouch. I had been blotting that part out, but yes, thanks for reminding me. "Crotch rot" (ugh) Been sort of planning the first trip in my head, have to keep that in mind. Probably bring along our super-awesome fan.

[RandomGuy]

They're not going to be able to rebuild anything without a lot more immigrants. If the feds don't make some new Bracero program all of southeast Texas is going to become a de facto sanctuary region.

One can hope that a lot of the well-to-do Republicans that tend to support anti-immigrant policies may change their minds when they have to hire the people they have been ting on to help them rebuild their homes.

[Thread]

Ouch. I had been blotting that part out, but yes, thanks for reminding me. "Crotch rot" (ugh) Been sort of planning the first trip in my head, have to keep that in mind. Probably bring along our super-awesome fan.

Reminds me of when Pierce had it during the '10 Finals. That's the Finals where Artest head faked him on a drive 23+ feet from the cylinder and then snatched the life right of 'em with a howitzer from 23+ feet from cylinder.

Pierce had wooley boggers in his pits.

[Thread]

One can hope that a lot of the well-to-do Republicans that tend to support anti-immigrant policies may change their minds when they have to hire the people they have been ting on to help them rebuild their homes.

They're illegal. No.

[RandomGuy]

Some people were too busy making memes.

How much has the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated?

How much has Donald J. Trump donated himself?

This is getting ridiculous.

That is going to be a really good question. How will our nation's billionaire leader handle his first disaster? Will Sandra Bullock give more than Golfy McVroom Vroom?

[boutons_deux]

[RandomGuy]

Yeah.
Its all about skin color.

It is for DarrinS

[RandomGuy]

Anyway, enough political sniping for now. Let's get the important stuff here.

How to help victims of Harvey
Gabby KaufmanStaff Writer,Yahoo News•August 30, 2017
https://www.yahoo.com/news/help-vict...212340221.html

Red Cross


Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recommended that those who want to help victims should donate to the American Red Cross, which he called a “tremendous asset.” A number of other organizations at the national, state and local levels will provide vital assistance to residents in the coming days, weeks and months.

I gave poor Darrin grief about the RC, which I don't -particularly think is effective. That was undeserved, although I still have reason to think RC could do better. Anything helps, and my apologies DS, it was uncalled for.

http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey2

[RandomGuy]

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
The Salvation Army exists to meet human need wherever, whenever, and however we can.

[RandomGuy]

FWIW:

GIVE MONEY.

That is the big message that most relief professionals say.

Materials have to be stored, catalogued, sorted, and transported.

Money is vastly more flexible, as it lets organizations buy/do what they need most.

[RandomGuy]

https://secure.savethechildren.org/s...a/sd/donor.asp
Hurricane Harvey Children's Relief Fund

[RandomGuy]

https://missionaries.namb.net/projec...arvey-response
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR)

[RandomGuy]

http://www.hearttoheart.org/

Heart to Heart International strengthens communities through improving health access, providing humanitarian development and administering crisis relief worldwide. We engage volunteers, collaborate with partners and deploy resources to achieve this mission.

HHI Responds to Hurricane Harvey

Heart to Heart International had a disaster response team and mobile medical unit deploy from Kansas City on Friday, August 25th to arrive in Texas ahead of the storm Hurricane Harvey. Over the last several days we have worked with local partners to identify areas of greatest need and provide medical support and aid distribution.

[RandomGuy]

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/disa...ricane-harvey/

Samaritan’s Purse Will Send Five Disaster Relief Units to Texas

(saw these people first hand in San Marcos, not impressed, Southern Baptists had better plans/efforts, but here they are anyway)

[RandomGuy]

http://www.texasdiaperbank.org/about...s-diaper-bank/

Established by ten local United Methodist Churches in San Antonio, Texas, since 1997 the Texas Diaper Bank has been working to meet the basic needs of vulnerable babies, children with disabilities and seniors. The organization’s mission of: to address the diaper gap and its impact on individuals in crisis has led the organization to provide a continuum of basic needs services combined with educational opportunities that strengthen a family’s self-reliance.

[RandomGuy]

https://teamrubiconusa.org/

Disasters are our business. Veterans are our passion.

Team Rubicon unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.

[RandomGuy]

https://www.feedingtexas.org/

(state-wide food banks)

WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING

At this point in the disaster, the best form of support is financial.

Here is the contact information for all local food banks:

Houston Food Bank
832-369-9390
houstonfoodbank.org

Galveston Food Bank
409-945-4232
galvestoncountyfoodbank.org

Food Bank of the Golden Crescent (Victoria)
361-578-0591
victoriafoodbank.org
Closed Friday

Corpus Christi Food Bank
361-887-6291
foodbankcc.com

Southeast Texas Food Bank (Beaumont)
409-839-8777
setxfoodbank.org

Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley (Pharr)
956-682-8101
foodbankrgv.com

Brazos Valley Food Bank (Bryan)
979-779-3663
bvfb.org

Central Texas Food Bank (Austin)
512-282-2111
centraltexasfoodbank.org

San Antonio Food Bank
210-337-3663
safoodbank.org

For more information on all of these food banks head to feedingtexas.org.

[baseline bum]

GMOs are simply allowing much faster tailoring of crops to specific needs. We are learning how best to do this, just as we have had learning curves for every new technology we have discovered.

At some point, the ability to modify genomes will become cheaper, and cheaper, and this technology will be "pushed down" to the local and individual levels.

What will you say when it is the individual farmer modifying their crops?

It's so funny when people complain about man made foods as if all the we're eating wasn't man made already. And I don't mean in that hey WTF are Twinkies made of sense, but in the sense that man made corn as we know it today, while wild corn would be almost useless as a food source.

[RandomGuy]

http://www.humanesociety.org/

https://www.spca.org/news_hurricane-harvey

[RandomGuy]

Blood:

http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey2
http://www.carterbloodcare.org/donate-blood/
https://weareblood.org/

[RandomGuy]

Airbnb has set up an Urgent Accommodations page, allowing evacuees to find a place to stay for free with the help of those able to offer their space at no charge.

Urgent Accommodations
All service fees are waived for those affected by the disaster and checking in between August 23, 2017 and September 25, 2017.

https://www.airbnb.com/disaster/hurricaneharveyevacuees

Will probably force my kids to double up again, in order to free up a room.

[Thread]

I was right. Me.

[[[Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced Thursday that he authorized 500,000 barrels of crude oil to be drawn down from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The reserve is made up of a complex of tanks and deeper underground storage caverns.
The move is aimed at shielding Americans from gasoline prices, which have begun to rise sharply due to a shortage of gasoline caused by refinery shutdowns. Port closures have also left refineries still operating with less access to crude oil shipments.]]]

[RandomGuy]

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I strongly urge this for others. Whoever is behind this account never has anything worth reading. IMO. I hate information bubbles and read things that I disagree with as a matter of habit, but at some point, a pointless troll is a pointless troll.

[Blake]

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/disa...ricane-harvey/

Samaritan’s Purse Will Send Five Disaster Relief Units to Texas

(saw these people first hand in San Marcos, not impressed, Southern Baptists had better plans/efforts, but here they are anyway)

Yeah, no on giving to Samaritan's purse.

[Blake]

I strongly urge this for others. Whoever is behind this account never has anything worth reading. IMO. I hate information bubbles and read things that I disagree with as a matter of habit, but at some point, a pointless troll is a pointless troll.

I literally just thought this minute about seriously using it for the first time.