Hurricane Harvey is going to be devastating

Precious Roy wrote:

Possibly the only department appointment that Trump made who wasn't someone who was diametrically opposed to the mission of the agency they were appointed to head was the appointment of the head of FEMA.

Ummm... ever heard of David Shulkin?

How about James Mattis and John Kelly?

What would be more devestating is what I would do to Emma's tailpipe.

9/11 could easily have been prevented by Bush's actually listening to the seriousness of the situation with all the evidence piling up of an imminent attack. Richard Clarke among others was warning, but their eye was just on the prize of Iraqi oil.

Hurricane Harvey wrote:

This storm is sneaking up on everyone. Rapid intensification and it's barely getting media attention. It's going to hit Texas as a Cat 3 or 4 and then stall. Absolute nightmare scenario. That means extremely heavy flooding. FEMA better have their act together!!!!

And look what's happened so far. Exactly what I described. People are going to blame each other and get angry but the reality is that there's nothing that could have been done to improve the situation. This was a long time coming. Houston has been a sitting duck for many decades with its infrastructure problems and it was only a matter of time before a storm like this would expose the inefficiencies.

Hurricane Harvey wrote:

And look what's happened so far. Exactly what I described. People are going to blame each other and get angry but the reality is that there's nothing that could have been done to improve the situation. This was a long time coming. Houston has been a sitting duck for many decades with its infrastructure problems and it was only a matter of time before a storm like this would expose the inefficiencies.

You're not a psychic, dumb ass. Not sure what you were paying attention to but this was all over the news.

As I said - President Trump is demonstrating exceptional leadership during this crisis. Thousands of lives have been saved, and you can be the recovery will come in record time, unlike the utter disaster that was hurricane Sandy during obama's "presidency."

Before it's all over, Trump will be cemented in the history books as not only the greatest president in the history of the USofA, but as one of the greatest leaders in the history of the world!!!

Hurricane Harvey wrote:And look what's happened so far. Exactly what I described. People are going to blame each other and get angry but the reality is that there's nothing that could have been done to improve the situation. This was a long time coming. Houston has been a sitting duck for many decades with its infrastructure problems and it was only a matter of time before a storm like this would expose the inefficiencies.

What you say is true about property damage. Houston made its bed long ago and has to lie in it as far as not treating potential flooding seriously enough. However, a serious effort at evacuation probably would have saved lives and avoided many unnecessary rescues.

Trumper wrote:

milf pumper wrote:

HAH HAH HAH HAH

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/348015-cruz-cornyn-back-texas-governors-request-for-disaster-declaration

That prune face hypocrite is the worse flopper.

What we will see is the usual situation of privatized profits and socialized losses.

People object to the government telling them where they can and can't build despite a high potential for flooding and property damage, but when disaster strikes, people expect the government to bail them out and spend billions in disaster aid and assistance for rebuilding. It happens all along the Florida and the Gulf Coast and now it will happen in Texas.

Don' mess! Schadenfreude is a bitch, Texas.

Most flood damage in the US wrote:

Hurricane Harvey wrote:And look what's happened so far. Exactly what I described. People are going to blame each other and get angry but the reality is that there's nothing that could have been done to improve the situation. This was a long time coming. Houston has been a sitting duck for many decades with its infrastructure problems and it was only a matter of time before a storm like this would expose the inefficiencies.

What you say is true about property damage. Houston made its bed long ago and has to lie in it as far as not treating potential flooding seriously enough. However, a serious effort at evacuation probably would have saved lives and avoided many unnecessary rescues.

Problem is it didn't become likely that the storm would seriously affect Houston until the day before landfall. Not enough time to evacuate the whole city safely. It would have been chaos like during Rita except worse because millions would be trapped in their cars while the flooding occurred.