Public Radio International almost totally stole my generic headline... Is climate change making hurricanes worse?
Unless he's moved, he'll be fine. Houston will get a shitload of rain starting late Saturday or early Sunday, but probably not significant wind.
I am curious to see what will happen if it stalls as predicted between the two high pressure zones. Half on land and half at sea. Will it slowly weaken? Will it be able to sustain itself? Will it really just sit there for a week flooding everything.
The meteorologists are saying that this flooding will be worse than 2015 Memorial Day and 2016 Tax Day floods. I didn't get flooded either time, but with the Tax Day flood, the water covered the road in front of my house, coming to within 10 feet of my front door And, Dinner, that stalling and training is exactly what is predicted and feared
I like the house I grew up in/own now. The only way it will ever flood is if a good sized asteroid hits the Gulf of Mexico. If that happens my house flooding will probably be among the least of my worries.
Right now, there are several creeks and bayous out of banks. They are south and west of where I am. Earlier there was much concern about the storm spawning tornadoes, again west and south of my house.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/27/flood-insurance-deadline-looms-242068?lo=ap_b1 Republicans had been saying they wanted the National Flood Insurance program to be killed before they agreed to increase the debt ceiling (I.E. Congress already voted and spent the money but Republicans are refusing to pay for their debt after they already voted to charge up the debt). With hurricane Harvey though suddenly a bunch of Texas law makers are flip flopping. When it was other states getting flooded they didn't care but now that it is Texas flooding... Well, that is a different matter. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/27/flood-insurance-deadline-looms-242068?lo=ap_b1 Can it be any more obvious Republicans are just self centered pricks?
At least he is prepared. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/27/hurricane-harvey-katrina-lessons-louisiana-215543 As a country we still have not learbed the lessons of Katrine though.
Actually that food belonged to the dog. He just decided to wander around town with his food. He's locally known apparently.
'' I thought the link was related to your first statement in the post and not the second. At any rate the article at the link is very long. Could you summarize it?
Much of it has to do with the way the Congressional budget process works. Congress refuses to fund flood control systems (especially during the Obama years because Republicans just wanted government to stop functioning) because that appears as part of the deficit but then spends an order of magnitude more because emergency aid doesn't appear on the budget so they can spend big but magically it is not part of the official math. There are numerous other details which the article goes into at great length. Suffice it to say many things need to change if we are going to get ahead of the problem instead of just reacting after it happens.
