Hurricane Harvey

[Sean Hayden]

All good here guys, thanks! -got out yesterday. Time to get to helping now. The rivers are still going crazy, but the water is receding near me, and if Harvey will fuck off we can get busy getting back to normal.

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ps time to buy some rainwater tanks?

[laklak]

Good to see you in one piece, how's your house?

ETA checked out the boats, both are fine. Bilges dry, batteries charged, A/C running. Floating docks are the only way to go.

[Rum]

Good to see you in one piece, how's your house?

Ditto - well done for surviving!

[Sean Hayden]

Thanks guys, others have it so much worse. My parents house has flooded, they've called for a boat. If things continue to improve, my house should be fine. You may be able to fish the neighbors yard from my porch, but it's receding.

[Brian Peacock]

So glad to hear you and yours are safe mate - specially considering some of the news reports. But more importantly, did you manage to save the guitar?

[Sean Hayden]

-the neighbor's yard from my porch, taken before leaving yesterday

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[Sean Hayden]

The guitar! I went back for it after making it out yesterday. -fool

[Brian Peacock]

Good man.

[JimC]

Hope they manage to save some of that water to help you through your next drought, Sean...

But glad you made it!

[Sean Hayden]

Thanks Jim. My parents barely did. Apparently they had to call 911 a second time, and the dispatcher said they had no record of the first call. So nobody was on their way! Thankfully they got picked up by a boat and then by the fire department. A lot of people are helping everywhere. My mom's being optimistic. But it doesn't sound like they'll be moving back soon. The water rose quickly and the river behind their house is still rising today.

It's hard to believe this bullshit. We had two 100 year floods within a month of each other last year, and this is what, an 800 year flood, one year later? I feel so bad for the people around here that have lost everything again.

[NineBerry]

Don't worry. North Korea will send some nukes to Texas to end the suffering.

[Sean Hayden]

Well, if they land without incident -which is likely given their origin- I guess we could sell them. I hope one lands in my yard. I can sell it to some Middle Eastern despot, provided that's alright with you?

[Brian Peacock]

Thanks Jim. My parents barely did. Apparently they had to call 911 a second time, and the dispatcher said they had no record of the first call. So nobody was on their way! Thankfully they got picked up by a boat and then by the fire department. A lot of people are helping everywhere. My mom's being optimistic. But it doesn't sound like they'll be moving back soon. The water rose quickly and the river behind their house is still rising today.

It's hard to believe this bullshit. We had two 100 year floods within a month of each other last year, and this is what, an 800 year flood, one year later? I feel so bad for the people around here that have lost everything again.

It's shocking indeed. I really hope that things will work out well for those who've been caught out. Some of the stories of people helping each other have been quite inspirational, showing that the innate decency and compassion of regular folks really comes to the fore in a crisis like this. Well done Texas!

Unfortunately things are pointing to this happening more and more. Creeping rises in sea levels and temperatures are gong to make the Gulf even more of a breeding ground for larger and more frequent storms. Communities like Houston etc can only take so much of this before the option of permanently abandoning low-lying and exposed coastal areas seems like the only rational thing to do. That's sad, because action could have been taken already to minimise these growing risks.

[JimC]

And, as Scot is already said, better land-use management can reduce the problem as well.

But that requires government planning and regulation; anathema in Trump's America...

[NineBerry]

To be fair, what happened or didn't happen over the last 30 years, is not Trump's fault.