Hurricane Harvey: Storm and Recovery Thread
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ADevilYouKhow
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Might be a good time to make flood insurance manadatory and have congress reauthorize the bill's funding you pos
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they're talking about the hurricane on the France24 debate now /
One professor just said that congress has never authorized funding for the army corps engineers to review studies that were done and make improvements since Ike happened
One professor just said that congress has never authorized funding for the army corps engineers to review studies that were done and make improvements since Ike happened
mandatory for who?
Oh wow! I didn't know that tidbit. It really makes the people touting the private companies joining that market as an example that private insurers would be better suited as laughable at best. Damn.All but a tiny portion of U.S. flood policies are underwritten by the National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP, which was established in 1968 after private insurers left the flood insurance market because of large and unpredictable losses.
ADevilYouKhow
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Everyone maybe
Anyone in a flood plain or at high risk of flooding renter/owner/local gov
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Bloomberg
45 mins ·
They kept the lights on for 2 million customers.
How Workers Kept Texas's Biggest Nuclear Plant Going as Harvey Raged
Teams have been stationed at the South Texas Project power plant since early Friday.
BLOOMBERG.COM
well that's unsettling
45 mins ·
They kept the lights on for 2 million customers.
How Workers Kept Texas's Biggest Nuclear Plant Going as Harvey Raged
Teams have been stationed at the South Texas Project power plant since early Friday.
BLOOMBERG.COM
well that's unsettling
In a conversation with a friend earlier, who is not well informed on such things, about Harvey, Katrina and the aftermath was brought up....I was 19 at the time, and spent most of that year in jail, and in general, was just politically and socially ignorant, and uninformed, though not active for any embarrassing beliefs.
Point is, I, on a gut feeling, asserted that the rape and murder stories of the Dome, were largely right wing inventions, and were never confirmed by any valid sources, after doing some research I seem to have been correct, which is just evidence that the right wing race myths have been in motion long before 2008 or 2016, but have grown stronger each year since the 60's.
How sickening to portray groups of flood survivors as rapists and murderers, and snipers shooting police.....
The friend asked me, essentially, what would be different about Harvey, and I said, I don't think there were ever widespread rapes or murders, and there wouldn't be here either. Because, natural disasters do not turn people into rapists or killers for no reason.
Point is, I, on a gut feeling, asserted that the rape and murder stories of the Dome, were largely right wing inventions, and were never confirmed by any valid sources, after doing some research I seem to have been correct, which is just evidence that the right wing race myths have been in motion long before 2008 or 2016, but have grown stronger each year since the 60's.
How sickening to portray groups of flood survivors as rapists and murderers, and snipers shooting police.....
The friend asked me, essentially, what would be different about Harvey, and I said, I don't think there were ever widespread rapes or murders, and there wouldn't be here either. Because, natural disasters do not turn people into rapists or killers for no reason.
i have received internal emails about this
NY Times sent an alert this morning:
Two explosions have been reported at a chemical plant about 30 miles from Houston that was damaged by Hurricane Harvey
There were two explosions at the Arkema plant in Crosby, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Houston, around 2 a.m., the French chemicals company that owns the plant said in a statement.
It said there was a risk of further explosions at the site.
“We want local residents to be aware that the product is stored in multiple locations on the site, and a threat of additional explosion remains,” Arkema said.
CBS19, the Houston affiliate, reported the two explosions at the plant and showed photos of black smoke. The blasts were also reported by Fox 26.
Later, the sheriff’s office tweeted that company officials believed that the smoke inhaled by the 10 deputies was “a nontoxic irritant.”
Richard Rowe, the chief executive of Arkema’s North American division, told Reuters that the company had expected the chemicals to catch fire.
If they have a loan theres about a 99% likelihood the lender requires them to
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