8/27/2017 Live Coverage: One Dead, Over 264,000 Without Power As Harvey Drenches Texas, Brings "Widespread Devastation"

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Live Coverage: One Dead, Over 264,000 Without Power As Harvey Drenches Texas, Brings
"Widespread Devastation"

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Hurricane Harvey Coverage LIVE on CBSN

Update 2: At least one death from hurricane Harvey was confirmed by local Texas officials. At a press conference Saturday, Rockport, Texas, officials said they
knew of one death, but declined to give details. The officials said damage to the town was extensive, but about 40% of the city’s around 20,000 residents had
decided to stay and ride out the storm.
***

Update: Shortly before 2pm ET, Harvey weakened to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph after lashing Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane Friday
according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm is forecast to linger over Texas for days bringing devastating flooding, including to Houston,
with as much as 40 inches of rain falling.  As of 12:30pm CDT 264,000 Texas customers are without power.

NHC Atlantic Ops Follow

@NHC_Atlantic

Tropical Storm #Harvey Advisory 25A: Harvey Becomes a

Tropical Storm Inland Over Texas. go.usa.gov/W3H
8:48 PM - Aug 26, 2017

2 170 90

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Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas on Saturday morning, "devastating torrential rain" and lashing the state's Gulf Coast with damaging winds over
hundreds of miles of coastline that braced for what forecasters predicted would be life-threatening storm surges.
According to CBS, no deaths were immediately confirmed in the hours after Harvey’s arrival, but officials noted emergency crews couldn’t get out in many
places due to high winds. Melissa Munguia, deputy emergency management coordinator in Nueces County, which includes Corpus Christi, said early Saturday
that it could be hours before crews could fully assess the damage in coastal communities.
Rockport Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax told The Weather Channel on Saturday that Hurricane Harvey hit his coastal community “right on the nose” and left
“widespread devastation.”

“This is going to be a very major disaster,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, hours before the storm hit between Port Aransas, just outside Corpus Christi,
and Port O’Connor, to the north. Utilities reported widespread power outages on Saturday, some of which emergency officials said could last for days
Harvey made landfall just before midnight on Friday between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor as a monstrous Category 4 storm - the first of that level to
strike the U.S. since Charley in 2004, and the strongest storm in more than 50 years to hit Texas.
By daybreak it had been downgraded to a Category 1 storm from a Category 4, according to the National Weather Service. But the storm was expected to settle
in over South Texas for several days. As much as 30 inches of rain is forecast to fall by next Wednesday, with some areas getting as much as 40 inches.

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Meanwhile, the storm surge could bring flooding of 6 to 12 feet to a coastal area that includes Matagorda Island and Port O'Connor. An estimated $40 billion
worth of damage is expected to be left behind.

Craig "Cajun" Uggen, 57, nearly floods his truck as Hurricane Harvey comes ashore
in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, August 25, 2017. Minutes later, high winds blew
off the camper carrying all of his belongings
Tyner Little, a spokesman for Nueces County, which includes Corpus Christi, said conditions were still severe in the area, but that winds appeared to be dying
down. But Saturday brought a new threat: more rain, and possibly days of it. Mr. Little said the region was bracing for severe flooding as the storm sat over the
coast with little signs of it dissipating anytime soon. According to forecasters, the storm could potentially cause devastating flooding in cities like Houston later
in the week.

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.@NASA releases new image of Hurricane Harvey as seen by

its satellites at 7 a.m. ET: cbsn.ws/2wdsMmt
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On Saturday morning, emergency workers and police spread out across coastal communities of Corpus Christi and Rockport to assess the damage, but
conditions were making such operations difficult. No fatalities were immediately reported from the storm, the first substantial hurricane to hit Texas since
Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast in 2008. The last Category 4 storm to hit Texas was Hurricane Carla in 1961, according to the National Weather
Service.

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Meanwhile, approximately 213,000 local customers were without power, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s power grid, said
Saturday according to the WSJ. About 162,000 people were without power in the Corpus Christi area specifically, according to American Electric Power, a utility
that serves the region. Early Saturday, Corpus Christi officials warned residents to reduce the use of toilets and faucets as the power outage had impacted the
city’s wastewater-treatment plant. A boil advisory was in effect for water use in the city, which has about 325,000 residents.
According the National Hurricane Center, Harvey was moving slowly over the state, and would continue to produce torrential rains. In a Saturday morning
bulletin, the center said that catastrophic flooding was expected over the next few days.”

According to the WSJ, the City of Rockport, along the coast near Corpus Christi, appeared to take a direct hit from the hurricane, local officials said late Friday
night. Larry Sinclair, a commander with the Rockport Police Department said damage in at least in some parts of city was significant.

Mr. Sinclair said that officers and emergency workers were trying to assess the extent of the damage to buildings and were checking to see whether
anyone was trapped inside. But he said wind conditions were making it difficult for emergency workers to evaluate the level of devastation the city and its
residents had suffered.
 
“We were pretty much ground zero,” he said.
 
Earlier in the day, the mayor of Rockport told a local television station that residents of his coastal city who don’t evacuate should use a marker to write
their names and Social Security numbers on their arms.

Defying forecasts that the storm would weaken as it headed inland, Harvey had picked up strength churning toward the Gulf Coast, and is expected to drench
the state with as much as 40 inches of rain in some areas, according to the National Weather Service. The National Hurricane Center warned of “catastrophic
flooding” from the storm. Even before the center of the storm made landfall Friday night, hurricane-force winds were being reported along the coast, according
to the National Hurricane Center. Friday night, 104,000 people had lost power, according to a tweet from a state power-grid operator.

Late on Friday, Texas Gov. Abbott said FEMA had granted his request for a presidential disaster declaration in response to Harvey. President Donald Trump also
tweeted that he had signed the declaration, making more federal aid available to the state. On Saturday morning, Trump congratulated the on-the-ground
response to Hurricane Harvey for avoiding mistakes his predecessor made in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“We have fantastic people on the ground, got there long before #Harvey. So far, so good!" he tweeted. He was responding to a warning from Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) the day before to “keep on top” of Harvey in order to avoid repeating the “mistake” former President George W. Bush made during Hurricane
Katrina.

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.@ChuckGrassley - got your message loud and clear. We have

fantastic people on the ground, got there long before #Harvey.
So far, so good!
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White House officials said President Trump had been briefed on storm preparations, and that he would have access to any staff or resources he might need
while spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Trump intends to visit Texas early next week as part of his response to the
hurricane, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, also a former homeland security adviser to Bush, spoke frankly of mistakes made during Katrina on Friday during a
White House press briefing. “I think it's not just what's on my mind but on the minds of all of the emergency managers in our community, especially those in
Texas and Louisiana,” Bossert said of Katrina. “That experience is still in their minds, in their muscle memory. Congress has gotten better, passed laws to allow
us flexibility to employ not just deploy in advance of an event.”
***

Before the storm made landfall on Friday, thousands of people fled inland, leaving behind deserted coastal communities with boarded-up homes and
businesses, and barren grocery stores. But others stayed behind, prompting fears from local officials as the hurricane grew more powerful.

Threatening the local energy infrastructure, major ports were closed, and oil operations along the Texas coast were suspended. There are more than 800 oil
platforms in the path of the storm and more than 100 refineries and terminals on the shore that could be disrupted, according to the consultancy firm
Riskpulse.

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According to Bloomberg calculations, the hurricane has forced shutdown of approximately 1 million b/d of crude and condensate refining capacity in
Texas, which equates to ~10% of PADD3 refining capacity. It had also suspended ~22%, or 377k b/d, of Gulf of Mexico oil production. Among the shuttered
refiners are the following:
Citgo 163k b/d Corpus refinery is said to shut ahead of hurricane
Flint Hills Corpus Christi East, West plants shut; capacity 293k b/d; company declared force majeure on plant
Magellan Corpus Christi, Texas, condensate splitter; capacity 50k b/d
Valero shuts Corpus Christi East, West plants and Three Rivers refinery; combined capacity 478k b/d
Shell Deer Park said to shut largest crude unit; refinery capacity 316.6k b/d
The U.S. Geological Survey forecast that the storm’s power could significantly impact 65% of the state’s coastline.
Separately, Gov. Abbott said that in addition to strong winds, officials are concerned about flooding caused by the storm hovering over the coastal bend of
Texas.
“We are going to be dealing with immense, really record-setting flooding in multiple regions across the state of Texas,” Gov. Abbott said according to the WSJ.
“There will be a tremendous amount of rain dropped on miles upon miles of Texas.” People who hadn’t moved away from the coast face the possibility of going
a long time without access to basic necessities such as water, power and food, the governor said.
***
From small coastal communities to major ports such as Houston and Corpus Christi, which handled hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cargo last year,
emergency officials scrambled Friday to make final preparations before Harvey hit.

Houston officials said the city was preparing for significant effects from the hurricane, mostly in the form of heavy rains that could swamp the city. Police
and fire officials started preparing evacuation boats, high-water rescue vehicles and supplies in anticipation. Residents were being urged to have a week’s
worth of food and water on hand. Houston officials said Friday that no mass evacuations will be called for the Houston region, despite expectations the
area will see a massive amount of rain over the next several days. Officials say flooding is likely, especially as rainfall builds up in the local bayous.
 
“We want people to be alert, prepared, on guard, stocked up, patient, sheltered, calm and ready,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said as he urged people
to stay off the roads.
 
In an interview at Houston TranStar, a government emergency operations center where officials are coordinating storm efforts, Mayor Turner said storm
surge out of Galveston could also cause problems, as it blocks water from the draining into the Gulf.

In Corpus Christi, a city of roughly 325,000, city officials said that people living in low-lying areas were being strongly encouraged to leave, but officials had
not issued a mandatory evacuation order. Mayor Joe McComb defended the city’s decision not to order people out, saying he had consulted at length with local
officials. He added that many residents had heeded warnings to leave, though he didn’t have any estimates on how many had left.
Corpus Christi’s shoreline was empty Friday as rain and wind whipped against now boarded-up hotels that line the street, the occasional police car slowly
patrolling. Nearby, residents rushing to a HEB grocery store for last-minute supplies were turned away. The store, like many others here, had shut its doors
early.

Luis Perez watches waves crash in Galveston, Texas as Harvey intensifies: Photo AP

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NickPeeMe • Aug 26, 2017 9:34 AM

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Fake news. Just like Sandy Hook this didn't happen. They have even trick brilliant Trump into declaring an emergency. These fucking scientists will
stop at nothing to propagandize you

Looney  NickPeeMe • Aug 26, 2017 9:37 AM

 ... Over 200,000 Without Power

I wonder when someone will finally invent underground Power Cables.  ;-)
Looney

xavi1951  Looney • Aug 26, 2017 9:40 AM

And another Cat5 downgraded to Cat1.  Noaa has been wrong on "worst year" predictions for hurricanes, since Catrina.

Ajax-1  xavi1951 • Aug 26, 2017 9:44 AM

Just like the climate change Hysteria, it's all about creating a story where there is no story. Follow the mioney and you will have your answer..

Slack Jack  Ajax-1 • Aug 26, 2017 9:50 AM

Are hurricanes made worse by global warming?

So, why is the global rise in temperatures so worrisome?

For one thing, as temperatures rise good farmland will become desert (e.g., dust-bowl conditions will probably return to the American Midwest).

Another major problem is sea-level rise.

Have a look at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/

The U.S. Geological Survey people claim that;

The Greenland ice sheet melting will raise sea-level 6.55 meters (21.5 feet),
the West Antarctica ice sheet melting will raise sea-level 8.06 meters (26.4 feet),
the East Antarctica ice sheet melting will raise sea-level 64.8 meters (212.6 feet),
and all other ice melting will raise sea-level 0.91 meters (3 feet).

For a grand total of about 80 meters (263 feet).

So, what does an 80 meter (263 feet) rise in sea-level mean. Have a look at the following map of the world after an 80 meter rise. It means that
over one billion people will have to be resettled to higher ground and that much of the most productive agricultural land will be under water.
Fortunately, at current rates, the Greenland ice sheet will take over a thousand years to melt and the Antarctica ice sheet, much longer. However,
the greater the temperature rise the faster the ice sheets will melt, bringing the problem much closer. Remember, the huge ice sheet that
recently covered much of North America, almost completely melted in only 15,000 years (today, only the Greenland ice sheet, and some other
small patches of it, remain). Since then (15,000 years ago), sea-levels have risen about 125 meters (410 feet), only 80 meters to go.

The ice sheets have been continuously melting for thousands of years. What is left of them today, is still melting, and will continue to melt.
Human caused global warning will cause this remnant to melt significantly faster. This is a big, big, problem.

For HUGE detailed maps of the "World after the Melt" go to:
http://preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23
Global temperatures are increasing. And by quite a lot each year.

2016 is the hottest year on record for global temperatures.

This is 0.0380 degrees centigrade hotter than the previous record year which was 2015.

0.0380 is a large increase in just one year.

2015 was the hottest year (at that time) for global temperatures.

This was 0.1601 degrees hotter than the previous record year which was 2014.
0.1601 is an absolutely huge increase in just one year (at this rate temperatures would increase by 16 degrees in a century).

2014 was the hottest year (at that time) for global temperatures.
This was 0.0402 degrees hotter than the previous record year which was 2010.

http://preearth.net/images/temp-anomalies-1880-2017.txt
The conspiracy to hide global warming data.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is given tax money to make global temperature records available to the public.
However, certain people at NOAA continually sabotage this aspect of NOAA's mandate. For example, these people have (deliberately) sabotaged
the web-page that delivers the temperature records.
Look for yourself:
Go to the page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php scroll down to the The Global Anomalies and Index Data
section and click the download button and see what happens. Well, you get the message:

"Not Found. The requested URL /monitoring-references/faq/anomalies-download was not found on this server."
I guess that the 2017 data must be truly horrible if they have to hide it away.
It turns out that this seems to be the case; NASA reports that:

July 2017 had the hottest average land temperatures on record.

The new July 2017 record was +1.20 degrees centigrade above the 20th century average (of the July data). The previous record average land
temperature for July was just last year. It was +1.10 degrees above the 20th century average.

Did the media bother to tell you about this? No!

http://preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23

svayambhu108  Slack Jack • Aug 26, 2017 9:51 AM

^Wall of text.

At least someone is building a wall

tmosley  svayambhu108 • Aug 26, 2017 10:03 AM

Damage reports starting to come in: https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/1ynKOVjgorvxR?
Lots of flipped trucks, trailers, buildings with walls destroyed, hangars at the airport collapsed. Big mess.

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CRM114  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 10:08 AM

Anyone with a trailer /truck parked outside in south Texas is an idiot - no excuses. Never mind the damage and deaths it could cause to others
when it lands.

tmosley  CRM114 • Aug 26, 2017 10:21 AM

What did you want them to do with them? Teleport them away?

God Emperor  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 10:53 AM

Maybe the hurricane will wash up the illegals.

Or just fucking drown them.

Trump Likely to End Obama’s DACA Program for Illegal Immigrant Children
http://dailywesterner.com/news/report-trump-likely-to-end-obamas-daca-pr...

Déjà view  God Emperor • Aug 26, 2017 12:36 PM

Rinse & repeat...'Taxplayers'...PRE-EXISTING coverage...
Can you imagine living in a property that has flooded 10 times? How about 20 times? It’s hard to fathom enduring that kind of situation, yet
owners of 2,109 properties across the United States experience just that. Not only has each of these properties flooded more than 10 times, but
the National Flood Insurance Program has paid to rebuild them after each flood. One home in Batchelor, Louisiana flooded 40 times and
received a total of $428,379 in flood insurance payments. 
These properties—and more than 30,000 others that have flooded multiple times—illustrate the current problems of the National Flood
Insurance Program.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rob-moore/flood-rebuild-repeat-need-flood-i...

Kidbuck  Déjà view • Aug 26, 2017 12:42 PM

Know a guy in northern Florida whose cheap/shoddy condo building flooded in the last hurricane. The US government paid to rebuild the whole
building as a much more luxurious complex. Never even thought to say, "Thanks suckers."

DWD-MOVIE  Kidbuck • Aug 26, 2017 4:52 PM

I’m making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look
into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do… http://disq.us/url?
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jobproplan.com%3A68UoF1LgzM-Yo3S...

MANvsMACHINE  DWD-MOVIE • Aug 26, 2017 5:03 PM

If you find any statues of men (or transgender women) named Harvey, please tear them down. I'm offended at the thought of it.

Déjà view  God Emperor • Aug 26, 2017 12:42 PM

What would Tejas do without 'Feral' Uncle Sugar Daddy...
Aid May Be Available to Repair or Replace a Vehicle Damaged by April Floods

Release date: 
May 9, 2016
Release Number: 
NR-011
AUSTIN, Texas – Texans whose vehicles were damaged or destroyed by this April’s flooding may be eligible to receive federal assistance to
repair or replace the vehicle.
“Those who may be eligible include not just residents of the designated counties, but also those who were working in or visiting those areas
between April 17 and April 24 and had disaster-related damage to their vehicle,” said Federal Coordinating Officer Kevin Hannes, who is in
charge of FEMA’s operations in Texas.
The eight counties included in the federal disaster declaration are: Austin, Colorado, Fayette, Grimes, Harris, Parker, Waller and Wharton.

The following conditions apply to assistance for a damaged or destroyed vehicle:

https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2016/05/09/aid-may-be-available-repair...

Pool Shark  God Emperor • Aug 26, 2017 2:02 PM

For those who believe Confederate statues are 'keeping them down' I AM OUTRAGED AND TRIGGERED AT THE GRATUITOUS USE OF
"HURRICANE" IN ADVERTISING!!!
Why is it that something that causes mass death, destruction, and human misery is celebrated by advertisers???

I DEMAND THAT ALL SPORTS TEAMS AND WATER PARKS IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST USING THE WORD "HURRICANE" IN THEIR
TITLES (University of Miami, Disney, I'm looking at you...)
I demand that all public uses of the word "Hurricane" be stricken from street names and businesses.

This must be done IMMEDIATELY!!!!

Anyone who opposes this common-sense initiative is clearly a "WEATHERIST"!!!
 

Giant Meteor  Pool Shark • Aug 26, 2017 5:06 PM

Please report to central command immediately. Your gender is being abolished ..
Also, you seem you have an attitude problem ..
Report to FEMA immediately after your gender abolition ..

CRM114  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 11:34 AM

Drive away; there's been at least 4 days of reliable warnings of when and where it would strike, and that it would be very powerful. The nature of
this storm meant that moving vehicles to North Texas would be sufficient protection.

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tmosley  CRM114 • Aug 26, 2017 11:45 AM

Ok, so you have all your drivers drive out of there.

Whoops, that's only a fraction of your fleet of trailers.

Send your drivers back in, with a hurricane barreling towards them? No thank you.
Four days warning of a storm, and 1 days warning of a major hurricane is not enough to move much out.

CRM114  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 11:51 AM

Thank you for replying.
I would estimate an 8 hour round trip to move each trailer out and get back, beyond Austin would do. I do not know how many drivers a US
company normally has relative to the number of trailers, or how many they can get at short notice. Perhaps you could enlighten me. Only the
trailers which could not be put into storage would need to be moved.

tmosley  CRM114 • Aug 26, 2017 12:09 PM

>storage

Trailers are "stored" outside, in parking lots.

They are also insured, so you don't have to go back and forth through hurricane evacuation traffic to move them when a hurricane comes.

CRM114  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 12:19 PM

Are those lots in places where loose trailers could end up on the highway/residential areas?
If not, then I don't have a problem with it.
I should have said that unsafe trailer owners are idiots. My apologies for being too sweeping in my initial comment.

Chauncey Gardener  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 2:30 PM

Define "storage." Like in a warehouse that could flood? Or in an enclosed parking lot that could flood?

Utopia Planitia  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 12:16 PM

No, park them under the giant wind turbines that are harvesting all that wind power!  WHOOOOOOSH!  Flocks of chopped up birds, flying tree
stumps (maybe pigs too), and  burning wind turbine generators!  Oh the humanity...  Well, there's going to be lots of orders for replacement
parts and fix-it men, so I guess the economy is going to get quite a boost!  The locals should go smash a few extra windows for good measure.

WakeUpPeeeeeople  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 2:44 PM

When does the looting start?
Not until they bus in some negroes into the area. But be warned, in TX if you loot they shoot-and its legal.

83_vf_1100_c  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 5:32 PM

Suppose he thinks all of us Texans have an 8 car garage out behind our mcmansion.

Troy Ounce  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 10:56 AM

 
Maybe an idea to start building real houses instead of plywood.

You know, bricks. Heavy things you have to carry. 

tmosley  Troy Ounce • Aug 26, 2017 11:46 AM

Brick walls get knocked over just the same as wooden ones. You'd have to convince people to build half dugouts to defend against a storm like
this.

Not My Real Name  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 12:10 PM

Octagonal homes are the answer for places that are subject to hurricane force winds. Of course, the only way to reduce risk of flooding is to
build those homes on higher ground.

Kidbuck  Not My Real Name • Aug 26, 2017 1:16 PM

These Texas boys believe in building low houses and high pick-up trucks. IQs are inversely proportionate to height of truck.

TuPhat  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 12:24 PM

You are completely wrong as usual.  A half dugout would get swamped in the storm surge and you would be dead.   My all brick house was
weathered several hurricanes since it was built in 1987.  Lost some shingles but that's all.                             

tmosley  TuPhat • Aug 26, 2017 3:54 PM

You are retarded as usual.
Don't think you shitty brick faced, lumber frames house stood up to 140 mph winds, as was the question here.

The Cooler King  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 4:10 PM

As long as they can 'hunker down' with their BITCOIN wallets, I'm positive that they'll feel EMPOWERED!

<--- & whereby, mosley, the VICE PRESIDENT of bitcoin, after fonestar, downvotes the comment  which can only naturally mean that...
(NOTWITHSTANDING bitcoin wallet holders in the storm, which, mathematically speaking, is probably only a 1 in 10,000 or worse probability,
THEY STILL FEEL HOPELESS).
 
You just can't MAKE UP the 'COMEDY' you get on ZH each & every day!

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Whoa Dammit  Troy Ounce • Aug 26, 2017 12:22 PM

Light weight concrete is the best material to build houses with. It's used extensively in the Carribean for housing and in Ireland for embassy
walls when the IRA was active. It can stand up to a hurricane and to being hit by a tank. It's inxpensive & termite proof. A friend of mine's dad
who was a builder from Ireland tried to build with it here and got a lot of push back from the trades who didn't understand it. 

TuPhat  Whoa Dammit • Aug 26, 2017 12:27 PM

A guy on my street is building a concrete house.  The construction guys he hired screwed it up and the city is making him tear it down.

pods  svayambhu108 • Aug 26, 2017 10:05 AM

And Slack Jack fucks up yet another thread. 
Perfect. And Francis gets banned over and over again. But this guy? Nope. 
ZH is on autopilot anymore. 

pods

Bay of Pigs  pods • Aug 26, 2017 11:13 AM

Sure appears that way.

Also interesting how there are nonstop stories all week long and then the weekend Tyler shows up and nothing gets posted.

TuPhat  Bay of Pigs • Aug 26, 2017 12:28 PM

I miss Francis Sawyer and I miss the old Tylers.

pods  TuPhat • Aug 26, 2017 1:05 PM

Francis is still here. Just have to look closely. I'd say more but don't want him getting tossed again and have to figure him out all over again.
 Truth is, he's always been here.
pods

clade7  TuPhat • Aug 26, 2017 5:56 PM

In an effort to console you in your time or grief.."Fuck You Joo!"  There? feel fbetter?

gmrpeabody  Bay of Pigs • Aug 26, 2017 1:11 PM

What about Cheeky Bastard..?

The Cooler King  gmrpeabody • Aug 26, 2017 3:02 PM

Cheeky Bastard, now, makes $7k a month giving fellatio lessons to 'Slack Jack' whenever Al Gore becomes dissatisfied with the performance.

& whereby, CHEEKY BASTARD, & fonz, & kito, & Slewie the Pi Rat, & others... I wouldn't consider are 'fellatio' artists... BUT... notwithstanding...
They're 'clever entrepeneurs', & whereby have probably developed methods to instruct OTHERS, like Slack Jack...

 
& whereby, the 'fellatio' doesn't end with AL GORE... It 'used' to include such 10 gallon hats as TURD FERGUSON, but has systematically, worked
its way to a SATOSHI bukkake party.
 

& thus, the cycle is completed.

 
THE END (because on a long enought timeline...)

tmosley  Slack Jack • Aug 26, 2017 9:53 AM

>Exageration is suppression

That's right, we're all going to boil to death next Thursday. 

GUS100CORRINA  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 10:45 AM

Live Coverage: Over 200,000 Without Power As Hurricane Harvey Brings "Devastating Winds And Rain" To Texas

An Observation: I want to propose something so preposterous that it becomes unimaginable and unthinkable.
Question: Which congressman is from the Houston area? Answer: Rep. Al Green
Below is article describing recent efforts of Rep. Al Green who is a corrupt MARXIST PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL with REPROBATE MIND.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-democrat-rep-al-green-starts-...
Isn't it funny how a tropical depression appears in the Gulf and within 4 days becomes a catagory 4 hurricane? Where have we seen this before?
Maybe RITA and KATRINA?

So, what if this is GOD's REMEDIAL JUDGEMENT on an AREA of TEXAS that is SO UTTERLY CORRUPT as to stupify the mind.
HOUSTON, TX is a cesspool of corruption and immorality that is almost as bad as California. Remember how the the Houston Mayor attacked
local Pastors of Houston, TX for their stance against immorality? 

Be interesting to see how this ends. I suspect, it will NOT END WELL. By the way, I was on teams for two years helping people clean up from
KATRINA and RITA in Louisiana. I remember from that time that New Orleans was a GODLESS community where they were practicing VOODOO in
Catholic and other Churches. Apostasy and herisy was rampant everywhere in New Orleans at that time. It was believed by many in that area
that GOD brought a swift end to the evil when the storms occured.
We do live in interesting times.

tmosley  GUS100CORRINA • Aug 26, 2017 10:45 AM

>Hurricane hits area that is prone to getting hit by hurricanes

>GOD DID IT TO PUNISH THE WICKED

*facepalm*
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*facepalm*
If God wanted to punish the wicked, the wicked would be fucking punished and the rest of us would be fine. There never would have been tribal
savagery, no communist revolutions, probably not much evil at all.

Normalcy Bias  tmosley • Aug 26, 2017 11:09 AM

If God did this to punish the wicked, there sure are areas of the country that would make far more appropriate targets.

Swampster  Slack Jack • Aug 26, 2017 10:31 AM

SEE BS JEWS:....blah blah blah, it's windy, blah blah blah Trump is raycess, blah blah blah, it's rainy, blah blah blah all white countries have to
go.....

MANvsMACHINE  Swampster • Aug 26, 2017 12:13 PM

Just wait for Hurricane Moishe. Gonna knocks yo socks off!

Blue Dog  Slack Jack • Aug 26, 2017 11:11 AM

You're behind the times. They gave up calling it global warming. Hurricanes were supposed to become more frequent. The opposite happened.
So now they call it "Climate Change". The earth isn't warming. It's lies, half-truths, and fraudulent data.

voting machine  Blue Dog • Aug 26, 2017 2:45 PM

The planet does shit
Always has and always will

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