Has Pat Robertson or any of his ilk weighed in yet, to blame this devastation on Texas’ failure to approve a transgender bathroom bill?
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread on the waterhandling scheme for the Houston region. We are REALLY flat here and no amount of planning and infrastructure will really account for all the water that falls during any storm, especially one like Harvey.
Houstonians and SouthTexans, get your insurance claims started.
A new law takes effect Friday, September 1, that was pushed by the tort reform crowd, including Rep. Greg Bonnen (R-Friendswood).
It was signed into law after the recently-concluded special session.
The main purpose is to spare insurance companies from overly broad and frivolous claims, and reduce the amount of the penalty they will have to pay if they are found to be late paying a claim.
“If insurance companies are late in paying claims as a result of a lawsuit, they must pay an additional penalty to policyholders. Under current state law, that penalty comes in the form of a fee that totals 18 percent of the claim. For claims filed after Friday, that rate will be determined by a market-based formula that is capped at 20 percent. Currently, the rate would be 10 percent.”
Joel Osteen closed his church tho. What a guy!
Shelter is by donation only.
I know!
Let’s rebuild Afghanistan.
Harris country voted for Demonic Hillary. They are deserving of god’s wrath.
Haitians did this. They cause all the natural disasters.
Wow. What a great read. Also explains why a major evacuation just wasn’t possible.
Thanks.
The Rita evacuation debacle (that killed 107 people all by itself) was almost exclusively caused by the mass hysteria of watching 24/7 the total destruction of New Orleans by Katrina. Rita spun up as a Cat 5 storm and its initial track took it straight into Galveston Bay and Houston. A huge proportion of Houston’s 6 million residents all hit the road at the same time, not heeding the orders to leave in “priority” zones. There was no way for the highways to handle the flow. Rita weakened at the last minute and veered a bit east, but by then everyone was stuck.
Unlike the “wall of water” flooding that occurs in canyon flash-floods and dam breaches, the floods brought by tropical systems tend (usually) to slowly fill the low-lying areas. People frequently wake up the the squish of wet carpet, disappointed that the water got inside “this time.” You still have damaged property and LOTS of people are displaced, but there is relatively little loss of life because most people can just wade out of their neighborhoods if they make the mistake of staying.
With Harvey, I suspect the regional managers knew they had to avoid drowning a million people, gridlocked on the highways. Some of the highways (acting as reservoirs and flow channels) were 10-15 feet deep. Getting wet at home was the lesser of the two evils.
One of the original money changers. I think he landed here in Houston when he was thrown out.
One gets the impression Harvey is like the angered wife that runs over her cheating husband in the parking lot and then puts it in reverse and backs up over him, then back in drive… well, you get the picture. I know Houston is the global capital of the oil industry, but even if Mother Nature is outraged over our carbon combustion, the track of Harvey looks like overkill at this point.
