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FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/901928809473114112

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FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

Deadulus posted:

News report was saying the water is currently 2 feet from the top of the levee now. Also that the water is rising at 4 inches per hour even with controlled release.

If that rate holds the levee will be topped late afternoon today.

Is that levee different from the Barker and Addicks (drat autocorrect) reservoirs? Sorry for a dumb question, just wondering because the reservoir sensors don't appear to be that high yet according to the website.

FourLeaf fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Aug 28, 2017

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

WrenP-Complete posted:

They are super high, I don't know what you're seeing?

https://www.harriscountyfws.org/

But levee can also refer to Conroe dam:
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=08067600&agency_cd=USGS

They're definitely dangerously high but neither is only 2 feet from the top as of now.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

WrenP-Complete posted:

Oh that's because the spillway isn't the same as the levee.

Ah, OK. Is there a place to get real-time information about the levee?

e: oh you edited

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
Looks like the Addicks dam successfully dumped some water.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/902199433906888704

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

farraday posted:

Wouldn't bet on it. Addicks measurement has been a little glitchy since they started outflows.

Welp. Up to 103.79' now

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

TGLT posted:

For real though what kind of loving thought process is "ow I stabbed myself -> wait what if I said antifa did this???"

edit: oops, read the article wrong!

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

Willo567 posted:

Jesus christ, why the gently caress won't any of his staff stand up to him? loving hell, reporters need to give him hell when they see him

When it comes to reporters and the media, some are still desperately invested in the idea that the current situation is manageable and only slightly outside the norm, instead of a festering political crisis. Essentially George W. Bush except wackier.

You could see this especially clearly after he launched the Tomahawks at Syria. You could practically hear half the media go "Thank God! He's JUST a neocon warmongerer!"

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

EugeneJ posted:

Don't worry Hillary's running again and has a swank new website

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/904484186291089408

What exactly is this website even supposed to do? Besides being an obvious target for trolls?

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
This thread is really the worst.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

KickerOfMice posted:

How does a Persian girl get her hair up that high? <--- Pressing question.

Apparently after the news came out that she lied about being attacked by Trump supporters, her parents made her shave her head :psyduck: Or that might have been because they were mad she was dating a Christian? That whole case is strange.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/809506871648260096

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

Shbobdb posted:

Funny how we always learn those lessons when bad things happen to white people and then unlearn them again when brown people start having them.

The idea that drug addiction is being treated better now that the crisis is gripping more white populations is really only true in terms of rhetoric. More police officers, legislators and DAs certainly use progressive language about (white) heroin addicts, but in reality they continue to ramp up the War on Drugs. More states are passing laws to make selling, giving or even telling a person where to buy drugs first degree murder if they later overdose. The private prison industry is also expanding into "treatment centers" where addicts who haven't been convicted of a crime (or even arrested in certain states) can be involuntary committed.

The War on Drugs is too profitable for them to allow it to end just because more white people are getting crushed under the wheels.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
So, what happens next when he fires Mueller?

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
Well that was strange

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FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
sigh. wrong thread!

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