Best wishes to Amor and any others caught up in this, hope everyone is coping ok.
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American natural disasters always result in at least one solid story of lines that cannot be crossed no matter the circumstance.
For Houston, that line is buying a Dallas Cowboys cooler.
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Originally posted by caja-dglh View PostAmerican natural disasters always result in at least one solid story of lines that cannot be crossed no matter the circumstance.
For Houston, that line is buying a Dallas Cowboys cooler.
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Originally posted by Gerontophile View PostOr Home Depot charging $42 for a 24 case of water.
http://www.newsweek.com/dont-outlaw-...et-work-655927
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Incidentally, as someone from that region I can say that flash floods are a regular occurrence after heavy rains. You might see 4 or 5 a year, as I recall. I don't know what could have been done to mitigate a storm like this, knowing their vulnerability. I guess the answer was nothing realistically.
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There are multiple reasons for that, all of which make the situation worse.
The city has some of the least absorbent soil in the entire country and continues to be built over at an increasing rate (including building in flood plains). Add the bayous and the Gulf Coast's exposure to downpours and you have a recipe for disaster.
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Poor planning probably plays a role. Good planning and zoning would have allowed them to reserve space to build a future network of drainage channels of some kind.
And good old fashioned racism, apparently. (Article from two days before the hurricane hit the coast).Last edited by anton pulisov; 29-08-2017, 12:06.
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Absolutely.
The geological, meteorological and sociological situation in the greater Houston area requires a robust, intelligent and coordinated governmental response, but the dysfunctional politics of the area (including the multiplicity of jurisdictions and the fetishisation of libertarian "principles") makes that virtually impossible.
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Originally posted by Bruno View PostThere will also be legions who think you can't do anything about a disaster like this, because God.
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I don't really get counties in America. They seem to be too small to be sensible as a unit of administration. Going from downtown to my brother's house, we pass through Harris, Walker, Montgomery to Madison.
It's almost as bad as driving along the Head of the Valleys Road. (Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda CT, Methyr, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire). Though that's just a quirk that the road goes through the narrow bit in each area.
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US counties are very odd, and I don't really understand them. There's no consistency at all, even within a state. In Texas, for example, Harris County has roughly 4 million residents, and Loving County has something around 100. How can they be expected to provide the same function?
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