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This looks worse than Katrina after 24 hours. But then again, there were failing levees add to the clusterfuck during Katrina, I guess at least that's not gonna be a factor for this?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:This looks worse than Katrina after 24 hours. There's a dam threatening to collapse
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my wife has family in Rockport they're ok, didnt evac and prolly had to be rescued.
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Activate the goddamn army and navy reserves. This looks insane.
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LingcodKilla posted:Activate the goddamn army and navy reserves. This looks insane. There are going to be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people displaced by this.
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I'm considering reaching out to my half sisters family to host them in WA to recover.
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LingcodKilla posted:Activate the goddamn army and navy reserves. This looks insane. national guard was activated a while ago also FEMA did stage for this ahead of time, they had stuff set up mostly in San Antonio
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I wonder where the Texan Diaspora will go. Will they stay in Texas? Or will they all go to Atlanta like in Katrina.
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https://twitter.com/BenNollWeather/...23post475799158 God is loving PISSED at us
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KildarX posted:I wonder where the Texan Diaspora will go. Will they stay in Texas? Or will they all go to Atlanta like in Katrina. Well, a good chunk of the Katrina diaspora ended up in Houston, so if there's a town you'd like wiped off the map in ~10 years...
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Mr. Nice! posted:FEMA like many federal agencies is running headless and is missing basically any appointed position because Trump hasn't nominated anyone. He didn't mobilize any recovery effort in advance despite the multi day warnings of "this is going to be bad." FEMA has a director- the former head of Alabama's emergency management agency, and he apparently does know his poo poo. It seems like the state hosed up by not mobilizing the National Guard or ordering evacuations well in advance; I don't know what, if anything, Trump ordered FEMA to do. Given the amount of rain that has fallen and is still to come, if you didn't get out ahead of time and don't have a safe place in your home now, you're hosed beyond measure. Also, once the rain stops, it'll take days before relief makes it in to the city. This could seriously be worse than Katrina.
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Quick, somebody call Kanye and Mike Myers so they can do the opposite of that thing that did
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Quick, somebody call Kanye and Mike Myers so they can do the opposite of that thing that did This timeline isn't that great.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Quick, somebody call Kanye and Mike Myers so they can do the opposite of that thing that did "Donald Trump does not care about people"
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suboptimal posted:FEMA has a director- the former head of Alabama's emergency management agency, and he apparently does know his poo poo. It seems like the state hosed up by not mobilizing the National Guard or ordering evacuations well in advance; I don't know what, if anything, Trump ordered FEMA to do. Brock is definitely a guy who appreciates the magnitude of what's happening (he was FEMA's Hurricane PM during Katrina) but don't know what resources he has to work with: https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/901796230929539072
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who would be the best people to donate to for the relief effort? the red cross?
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lmao my local CBS station is following up coverage of people struggling to wade through flood waters with the loving Tough Mudder.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:who would be the best people to donate to for the relief effort? the red cross? Red cross is always a good place to donate. I believe that guy is technically the acting FEMA director but i could be wrong. Not like it really matters. They're doing what they can. Also they couldn't practically evacuate houston. By the time they realized how bad it could get, it was too late. If they ordered evac on friday we'd have people stuck in their cars still on freeways right now.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:who would be the best people to donate to for the relief effort? the red cross? https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation They have a donation option specifically for Harvey.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Red cross is always a good place to donate. Naw, he was confirmed back in late June as one of the few not-totally-insane appointments in the admin so far.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Naw, he was confirmed back in late June as one of the few not-totally-insane appointments in the admin so far. Well that's good news at least. I haven't kept up on the appointment tracker in a bit.
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Not really sure what else could have been done. They weren't anticipating Houston getting hosed so bad and didn't force evacuation due to traffic, if I recall correctly. Can't just evacuate everyone from everywhere based on what-ifs. Looking at the news and it appears everyone is definitely doing all they can with what they have, but with a storm like this that's still ongoing when no one was evacuated? poo poo, I'm imagining that even the response units are having a tough time getting on-scene. All they can really do now is activate more national guard, request coast guard personnel from all over the nation to get there for when the storm ends, because the current response assets are going to be loving depleted in short order.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Well, a good chunk of the Katrina diaspora ended up in Houston, so if there's a town you'd like wiped off the map in ~10 years... gently caress you
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Red Cross, Salvation Army, SPCA of Texas are all good choices. Also organizations like Team Rubicon (mostly volunteer vets) that go in and help provide services and assist people with clean up are good too.
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i'm slowly finding out that i have more friends stuck in houston than i though. gently caress.
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Cruz, Cornyn back Texas gov's request for disaster declarationquote:Republican Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz pressed President Trump in a letter on Friday to grant Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) request for a major disaster declaration for the state as Hurricane Harvey nears its coast.  These people have no loving shame whatsoever.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Red cross is always a good place to donate. ....wellllll... http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy-anniversary-red-cross-under-scrutiny TL;DR: Red Cross took donations for Katrina and then DIVERTED the funds away from Katrina and drove empty Red Cross trucks around New Orleans to give the image of relief. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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BigDave posted:https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation Doesn't the Red Cross have a history of mismanaging disaster relief funds? e: ...and beaten
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What's a better option? I feel like Doctors Without Boarders might not feel like coming to save Americans for some reason.
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Dum Cumpster posted:What's a better option? I feel like Doctors Without Boarders might not feel like coming to save Americans for some reason. Hey if anything America helps them by giving them constant work.
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Dum Cumpster posted:What's a better option? I feel like Doctors Without Boarders might not feel like coming to save Americans for some reason. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Hurricane-Harvey-How-to-help-victims-of-the-12003372.php Houston Chronicle has several charities listed, Salvation Army might be a good alternative.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Hey if anything America helps them by giving them constant work. We also help speed along promotions and turnover.
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BigDave posted:Houston Chronicle has several charities listed, Salvation Army might be a good alternative. Unless you are gay  I tend to avoid giving money to Salvation Army, since they regularly use it to fund their religious missions instead of disaster relief.
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CommieGIR posted:Unless you are gay  OK, so the Red Cross will misuse my donation and the Salvation Army hates gays. Is there anyone else?
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i'm all the way in VA about two hours outside of DC so i doubt this is much help but if anyone you guys know gets displaced by the hurricane they can come stay with me and Monty free of charge.
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https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/hurricane-harvey-relief-fund/ GlobalGiving is starting a relief fund for Harvey, goal is two million. And here's their prospectus: https://www.globalgiving.org/pfil/29357/projdoc.pdf
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/901859440084824064 Isn't this the Governor that has been bitching/blaming the Democratic cities for things? So why isn't that shocking? CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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