Wow, and antifa isn't there to help
-Darrin
Would SA used HBG Convention Center?
Empty city buses line up on Interstate 59 near Houston on Saturday in case their bus shelters flood. Mark Mulligan / AP
I think the death toll will be more than we can bear. This car is probably empty.
Trump Just Bragged About The Crowd Size Of Hurricane Victims At Texas Firehouse
After this morning’s Presidential press conference with Texas Governor Greg Abbott,
Donald Trump went outdoors to address the hurricane victims waiting outside to hear from the ostensible leader of this nation – and
for the second time in an hour, made it immediately about himself.
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/902591642976256000
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/08/2...xas-firehouse/
He went to Corpus. Could've stayed there. Or gone anywhere else the storm hit.
Don't forget BLM. I don't see any BLM T-shirts out there, so obviously they're not helping.
Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast some 175 miles (280 kilometers) from Houston, but the nation's fourth-largest city has never needed a direct strike from a catastrophic storm to flood.
Regularly inundated by floodwaters ever since its settlement in the mid-1800s, Houston looked on warily even before Harvey roared ashore. In Houston, the chronic deluges that have repeatedly swamped its neighborhoods are getting worse and more costly — not just for locals, but for federal taxpayers.
An Associated Press analysis of government data found last year that if the county that is home to Houston were a state, it would have ranked in the top five or six in every category of repeat flood losses. That's defined as any property with two or more losses in a 10-year period each totaling at least $1,000.
Nationally, repeat federal flood relief payouts averaged about $3,000 per square mile (2.5 square kilometers). But in greater Houston, the payouts were nearly a whopping $500,000 per square mile (2.5 square kilometers).
Harvey, which blasted ashore as a major Category 4 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm, has swamped roads and paralyzed neighborhoods throughout the city. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said more than 2,000 calls for help had been received by midday Sunday. Flooding was so bad that residents were being urged to seek refuge on their roofs.
Here's a look at some of the reasons Houston has been so susceptible to flooding:
GEOGRAPHY
Founded on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou, Houston barely rises above sea level. Making matters worse, its flat terrain and clay soil are prone to the flooding of a humid climate that produces extreme rainfall. At least three dozen major floods have been recorded since Houston's founding, including one in April 2016 that claimed eight lives.
INADEQUATE INFRASTRUCTURE
Floods prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build reservoirs in the 1940s in the western area of Harris County, which encompasses Houston. That addressed some problems, yet few notable flood-control efforts have been undertaken since, experts told the AP last year. Houston in recent decades has focused on improving drainage and building thousands of detention ponds, concrete-lined pools capturing stormwater and piping it out. But, residents say, some developers have skimped on the flood-prevention systems.
MANAGING GROWTH
In the last quarter century, greater Houston has added a million people and its commercial development has cut in half the amount of wetlands per capita that could soak up stormwater runoff. Paved land generates five times more runoff, and those surfaces in Harris County increased by more than 25 percent during that same time, researchers have said. Houston is also the only major U.S. city without zoning, and critics say local leaders have been pro-developer.
CLIMATE SHIFTS
As if Houston's natural elements weren't challenging enough, intense downpours, measuring at least 10 inches (250 millimeters), have doubled in frequency during the last three decades. Rising average temperatures have packed 7 percent more moisture into the atmosphere over Houston. Contributing to that is warmer water in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/l...-prone-houston
Does car insurance cover floods?
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