Who will be the first to blame Trump for the flooding and ‘lack of response’ to the emergency in Texas…
So far, the loss of life is, thankfully, very low. Property damage will probably be in the billions when it’s all over, most of that due to flooding, which is ongoing and more rain predicted for the next few days, as the remnants of Harvey stall over south Texas and eastern Louisiana.
My bet is Sheila Jackson-Lee… After the Major, judge, and chief of police said don’t evacuate, stay home, we’ll save you, well, we see how well THAT is working out. As of yesterday morning, over 2000 calls for rescue, and it’s only going to get worse.
When even the WAPO starts questioning a Dem, you know it’s bad, HERE.
The other thing is the loss of oil/gas production, which few are mentioning. Production has been cut by roughly 1,000,000 barrels a day, and all of the refineries in Baytown, Pasadena, and Houston are shut down for the near future. Expect prices to go up, because there WILL be a shortage.
Thoughts and prayers continue, not only for those who didn’t leave; but the rescuers, National Guard, and Coasties that are having to go get them. Honestly, I would not be surprised to see the damage exceed that of Katrina, due to the duration of the rains/flooding.
Recovery is going to be a long term effort…
This is Houston, an area which has had long time issues with flooding after a rain event. Its bayou country, after all. A large hurricane stalling over any large (4th largest in nation ?) municipality is going to do some damage – I do agree this is going to be very expensive, probably larger than New Orleans.
Similar to NOLA, its replacing – repairing homes – businesses and infrastructure SIMULTANEOUSLY. I would not be surprised for many displaced residents to move elsewhere. Seriously.
Gas price hike for sure (I hope $4 a gallon is NOT the future price).
Bad times for East Texas – prayers that the important things like people are safe.
Very shortly it will be Trump’s fault that the hurricane ever existed. He will be blamed for any losses of life & property .
You see it’s global warming that causes all that mayhem and Trump is responsible for it. Next, he will be blamed for any perceived shortcomings of the relief effort, real or imagined.
Lets face facts. Trump will be excoriated no matter what he does or does not do.
Trump was getting blamed for everything wrong in the world as it was,does anyone seriously think the democRATs will let this opportunity to further bash him pass by?
Anon- Agreed! ‘Stuff’ is replaceable, people are not.
Roger- Sigh, you’re probably right.
If Hillary was president, she’d have appointed Al Gore to be weather czar and none of this would have happened.
The news is not covering the full extent of the flooding. The area bordered by Conroe in the north, Baytown in the east, Galveston in the south and Katy to the west is basically under water. It’s an area much bigger than Katrina and probably about three times the people. Expect your flood insurance premiums to increase. This will not be fixed quickly.
As far as the refineries….Unless they have all their electrical stuff (motors, switchgear, transformers) elevated to about 8 feet they will be out of service for a while.
LL- Snerk, yep…
PE- Understood, and agreed.
The Republican Texas Governor Abbott suggested vouluntary evacuation for everyone living in low areas before the storm hit and the Democrat Mayor Sylvestor Turner of Houston said stay in place and hunker down. The weather service guys were telling us here in Texas two days before the storm hit about the two high pressure areas which would stall the storm out on the coast instead of the storm coming on inland and wearing itself out in a few hours.
This storm has been a double whammy with the Port Aransas / Rockport area being hit hard by the hurricane and then the circulating wind continuing to pump rain inland over Houston for days just as they predicted only a more and more. I am really concerned about the devastation that will be left behind and the entire infrastructure that will need repair, first electricity, then water and sewage, roads and bridges and after that homes and businesses. This is a big damn deal and the local Democrats own a big portion of it since they make up the municipal government of Houston.
The mayor was talking about the risk of a major evacuation and in 2005 the hurricane Rita evacuation was a total goat screw but they have learned a lot since then about how to keep fuel trucks moving in and bleeding off traffic as folks move on out and not letting it build up at stop lights and signs getting off of the interstate and yes the evacuation of the whole city would have been a mess but if there was a plan in place to move people out of low areas before the water built up on the local expressways they would not need as many boats as they do today.
There is a general call out for people with boats to fuel up and head for Houston so we will see how that works out. And by the way, up to yesterday afternoon the Houston Mayor did not have time to return calls to the Governor but he did have time to talk to the media.
Dunkirk.
That pitiful excuse for a mayor in Houston needs to be immediately recalled for malfeasance – his ‘advice’ to shelter in place – particularly in the low lying areas of town was at best gross negligence if not downright criminally absurd.
Long time residents in H-town already know the areas that flood from a good old fashioned Texas gully washer, they shouldn’t have had to be told to vacate. Sadly, many chose to listen to the idjit. Fortunately loss of life has been minimal, so far.
Old Tex- The mayor, police chief, and the county judge ALL stood up there and blathered about that. The ‘smart’ folks heard the weather forecast and bailed early. My comment in the post stands, they WILL turn this around to be Trump’s fault.
Ed- Yep!
Gomez- Agreed! My relatives left last Wednesday…
You are so right they did not need to evacuate the whole metro area but there are some low areas that they knew well ahead of time would flood if the predicted 30″ rain fell due to the two high pressure areas trapping Harvey in place. Same with the goober heads who did not start releasing water soon enough, that is alway an argument here in Texas because they want to end up with a full reservoir and it takes knowledge and some guts to empty it down to receive more from upstream. Now they are dumping so fast they are flooding homes downstream to avoid spillways giving way.
Trump could walk across the flood waters and the MSM would scream “Trump Can’t Swim!”
Absolutely gaRANdamTEE you that the same people who critisized Bush for NOT landing in NOLA after Katreena will criticize Trump FOR landing in Houston.
Political correctness?
Screw that.
It’s time to use humor to put smiles on people’s faces.
SJL looks like Aunt Jemima.
But I bet she can’t make a decent pancake.
Stuff is replaceable, people, not so much.
I worked S&R after Katrina, and would not willingly do it again for any amount of money. That said, if they call and ask me to go, I’ll be saddling up and heading out. Got some friends from work who are leaving tonight, please keep them in your prayers, if you don’t mind.
Saw a picture, couple hundred pickup trucks with boats on trailers behind them, strung out along I-10. Caption said “Hang on Texas, the Cajun Navy is on the way!” Just one of many things I love about living in the South!
Stretch- True…sigh
PH- Oh yeah, you know it’s coming….
GB- LOL
RS- Yep, same here. And it IS the South. We help each other, in spite of what all the progs/left say…
Already the jackasses are braying the intensity of the storm is because of ‘climate change’.
WSF- I hadn’t heard THAT yet…sigh… Not surprised.
One of the “climate change” stories.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-215547
Also saw this today, every time the mark for stupidity is reached, someone lowers the mark.
https://www.yahoo.com/style/melania-trump-confuses-twitter-storm-stilettos-heads-texas-hurricane-harvey-relief-163418597.html
They where blaming Trump before the hurricane even made landfall. A major media source GQ? WAPO? was already “setting the narrative”. I was unable to find the story with a quick google search.
It’s always blame the nearest or highest republican.
Oh it’s even better than you predicted. All the media can talk about is Melania’s shoes. Sigh.
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