That's why Hurricanes don't happen in the winter months someone already figured that out and made the adjustment?
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The Chinese purposely killed a half million people by flooding the Yellow River to slow down Japanese advances in 1938.
Mariah wasn't a hurricane but it's as close as you'll get that caused a massive rain/snow event.
The population of China is 1.4 Billion so 4 million is a rounding error.
China cant feed or house a lot of the population so they live where they shouldn't next to rivers etc.
I always say build you house on the high ground and visit the water not the other way around.
Lots of agenda defense going on here. But that's the way of the world today.
As someone posted, sometimes (in both cases) "sh*t just happens". You choose to live in an area prone to such storms, due to the amenities or lifestyle or whatever reason, you take your chances, to a degree. When they come, deal with them best you can I feel for the people, especially elderly, children etc. and have made a donation, but storms like that effect places like that. How it was, is, and will be.
It's starting to get politicized. The criticism of the black Democrat mayor for not ordering evacs (I think the mayor's point of trying to evac 6 million people or whatever, does hold some water, no pun intended, but there did seem to be a sense of nonchalance given to this storm...though I attribute that more to plain old Texas arrogance more than any particular political bent).
Now the president will be sticking his gawky frame in there. That's not the place for presidents, any presidents. Not while there is still an active scene. It just distracts and takes away vital security and responder resources for what is nothing more than PR. If he wants to go there a week from now and "assess" or whatever, so be it. But the real critique will come soon, when FEMA (aka Trump administration) starts to inevitably get blasted for "inadequate response", probably by some of the same posters here now defending the Houston mayor for inadequate response because "sh*t just happens". We know this because the same happened with Katrina, which the Democrats and their willing media used as a whipping post for Republicans for "sh*t happening". They would not do so for a Democrat FEMA. It is just how it is, too.
Rule of thumb for Hurricanes.
If its a wind event you can try to hucker down and you may survive as long as its not a Cat 5 event.
If its a water event get out of town early!
Some of the residents of Rockport TX told authorities they were staying. One official told them if you stay write you last name on your arm so we can ID you quicker.
If its a wind event you can try to hucker down and you may survive as long as its not a Cat 5 event.
If its a water event get out of town early!
Some of the residents of Rockport TX told authorities they were staying. One official told them if you stay write you last name on your arm so we can ID you quicker.
He reminds me of another person on here when he argues, no matter how outrageous his takes are, he doubles down.
Two different events though between when Harvey, a Cat 4 came ashore and Harvey the meandering, stationary Tropical Storm sits above.
Rockport and those towns basically got blasted off the map. Houston just became a big punch bowl and there is really nothing they can do about it. The storm had the misfortune of strengthening then striking between two High Pressure systems, which caused it to spin, and spin and not move anywhere. Just luck or "shit happens".
Politically, the poster is right. It is amazing how the sides politicize this. I am certainly not a Dem sympathizer, but the Mayor of Houston is right, where do you evacuate ~6 million people to? Where? Especially when you don't know exactly what is going to happen. Look at some of the football games, they moved to New Orleans. Whoops. New Orleans is next in line for Harvey's wrath.
Trump, I mean he is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. He doesn't go, he doesn't care. He goes, he is in the way.
It is amazing how so many otherwise smart people get caught up in these politics not realizing all they are doing is playing tic tac toe.
With all due respect to a previous poster, the reason the Mayor of Houston didn't order a mandatory evacuation of the city had nothing to do with Texas arrogance. During Hurricane Rita, an evacuation was ordered and over 100 people, including 24 elderly people, lost their lives because they were trapped on the highways around the city when they flooded. Houston officials didn't want a repeat of that. I'm not saying it was or wasn't to correct call, but that's why he made the decision he made.
It is raining in DC now... kind of have 2 weather systems coming up to the burgh... it may get ugly
The best part is that we're told the effects on Johnstown, Pa, as tragic as they were for those involved, were greater than what is happening to the fifth largest metro area in the US of A.
20 + thousand > 6.5 million in his math world.
I remember visiting the flood museum as a kid and doing a project about it. From what I recall, it was almost an entirely avoidable tragedy. Using that as a comparison for this storm is outrageous.
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i was referring to the one in 1889. I have no clue about anything that happened there in the 70's. 41 people died in 1977, that's a typical weekend in Chicago. who cares about that?
"Between midnight Friday and 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, 49.20 inches of rain fell in Texas -- a record for continental US from a landfalling tropical cyclone, the National Weather Service said."
And hey, they were only expecting another 8-12 inches at that point, so again, what's the big deal?
And hey, they were only expecting another 8-12 inches at that point, so again, what's the big deal?
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