Hurricane Harvey

[JimC]

[pErvinalia]

Hope you not too flooded, Sean. Looks bad on the news..

[Hermit]

Boatloads of Xians on their way!!

Five hours huddling on your roof in the pouring rain with your family and pets and I reckon you'd happily get into a boat with a Muslim, or even worse, a Tory!!

Not unless you're the Mrs. Watkins type.

Mrs. Watkins awoke one spring morning to find that the river had flooded the entire first floor of her house. Looking out of her window, she saw that the water was still rising. Two men passing by on a rowboat shouted up an invitation to row to safety with them.

"No, thank you," Mrs. Watkins replied. "The Lord will provide."

The men shrugged and rowed on. By evening, the water level forced Mrs. Watkins to climb on top of the roof for safety. She was spotted by a man in a motorboat, who offered to pick her up.

"Don't trouble yourself," she told him. "The Lord will provide."

Pretty soon, Mrs. Watkins had to seek refuge atop the chimney. When a Red Cross cutter came by on patrol, she waved it on, shouting, "The Lord will provide."

So the boat left, the water rose, and the old woman drowned. Dripping wet and thoroughly annoyed, she came through the pearly gates and demanded to speak to God. "What happened?" she cried.

"For cryin' out loud, lady," God said. "I sent three boats."

[JimC]

That's a variation on a joke that committed, mainstream non-fundamentalist christians like to tell, with the moral being God helps those who help themselves.

J'accuse, Hermit!

Pandering to the opposition!

[Hermit]

J'accuse, Hermit!

Pandering to the opposition!

Amen to that.

[JimC]

[Hermit]

This Harvey turns out to be the real wallbanger.

[Rum]

Anyone heard from Sean?

[Brian Peacock]

Not today, but it is only 7 o'clock in the morning there.

[laklak]

Finally stopped raining here and beginning to dry out a bit. Had guys out to start putting in a French drain along the side of the house, have to do it. We were lucky as hell we didn't flood this time, and we're only getting Harvey's blow-bys, if it had gotten any closer we'd be underwater. 70 feet of excavation, tearing up and replacing part of the driveway, grading the yard. raising the air conditioner and water heater, truckloads of gravel, and 12,000 motherfucking bucks I wasn't counting on spending. Still, cheaper than a flood. 24 inches of rain in 72 hours.

Front yard yesterday:

I imagine that would look pretty good to Sean right now. Hope you're OK mate.

[Brian Peacock]

Blimey!

[Scot Dutchy]

What gets me is there no planning control? So much of Huston has been paved. It is in a basin somebody must have realised it needs a plug hole.

[Strontium Dog]

There's never any forward planning. It's the same here. They remove all the natural tree cover so they can farm sheep in the hills, then wonder why rivers in Cumbria and Wales burst their banks every few years causing millions of pounds of damage.

But people must have their roast lamb

[Brian Peacock]

Bah! Another example of woolly thinking.

[Scot Dutchy]

There's never any forward planning. It's the same here. They remove all the natural tree cover so they can farm sheep in the hills, then wonder why rivers in Cumbria and Wales burst their banks every few years causing millions of pounds of damage.

But people must have their roast lamb

Forward thinking seems to be an anathema to certain people. Well covering the whole area with paving as the same effect.