BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 04:27 PM

About 1 in 6 rescues are of people's pet dog. Some video is actually cute.

That makes me wonder how the https://www.houstonzoo.org/meet-the-animals/ animals are doing.

I bet the giraffe is OK and the tigers had surprise snacks.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 03:01 PM

like all good ideas...

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 02:55 PM

Train plows through flood

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 02:31 PM

I just heard on FOX cable News; "Thank God the water is receding".

to be fair and balanced, water will recede from some areas in the same way we still have cold days in the midst of global warming.



There is an opportunity for Trump to become a folk hero by parting the waters with a Trump Train to Houston with 100 freight cars full of Red Stripe beer.

Riding to the City once called Houston
Oklahoma Central, Monday morning rail
Hundred cars and a thousand tons of beer,
3 conductors, 25 sacks of mail

All along the southbound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kankakee
And rolls along past houses farms and fields
Passing trains that have no name, and freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Good morning America, how are you
Said don't you know me, I'm your hit and run
I'm the train they call the Trump train to Houston
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Dealing card games, with the guardsmen in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keeping score
Pass the paper bag that holds the warm can
Feel the wheels, rumblin' 'neath the floor

And the sons of new immigrants, and the sons of millionaires
Wait for Trump train's magic carpet, made of steel
And mothers with babes nearly drowned, are waiting for the train
And the rhythm of the waves is all they feel

Good morning America, how are you
Said don't you know me, I'm your sickly pun
I'm the train they call the trump train to Houston.
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Nighttime on the Trump Train to Houston
Changing cars in lake Charles Louisiana
Halfway home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea

But all the towns and people seem, to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The tons of beer in the cans feel the pressure burst seams
This train got the disappearing railroad blues

Good night America, how are you
Said don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the Trump train to Houston
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 12:09 PM

I have a Yankee doityourselfism streak. Then the so called 500 year floods came.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 11:47 AM

I'm not a native Texan, my roots are in the far upper reaches of the Pacific Northwest. We did a lot of do-it-yourselfism projects up there also. :)

If need be I'll load the dogs in the SUV and head to a friends house - uphill.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 11:25 AM

Acme I respect your proud stoicism for the Texas do it yourselfism and private sector support. The political meme in TX is that FEMA is the disaster.
All Federal help is frowned upon, until it saves you.

Maybe I'm just the kind of person who forgot the Alamo so I don't have experience with the Don't mess with Texas independent psyche. I hope they get all the federal support that Trump has so carefully planned.
I hear it is the greatest ever.

This will effect more than Chip availability even in the Dallas area Acme. In short...

I said nothing except check your own radar.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 11:06 AM

Houston has had several deaths from the storm. This is an odd one - it still has a foot in the gulf but is a tropical storm (this morning) and is just hanging out, slowly creeping north (it looking pretty ominous for all of north and east Texas as it moves.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 09:51 AM

Gee Steve sorry you got 3-5 inches of rain on moving day.

Can you imagine 3 to 5 FEET of rain? This has not happened in thousands of years anywhere on Earth.

I have seen what 1 foot of rain can do in 7 days.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 08:20 AM

The rumor is that 60% decided to ride out the storm. It appears that very few decided to evacuate.

Why would anyone take heed at early forecast reports of 3 to five feet of rain? !!!sarcastic!!!

People of 'belief' simply did not believe the news/
Could this be the result of the fake news campaign??
Of course some had no means of escape.

A new development could add another 3 feet of rain in addition to the 3+ feet already predicted. But that is from Lame stream Media.

Decisions were made for children and nursing home folks to not evacuate. I feel for the innocents of this waterclsym.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Aug 17 - 11:08 PM

So far, there is only one death known from Hurricane Harvey. The storm is decreasing in intensity, but one minute the news says winds have dropped to 60, then ten minutes later they say 85. That's a big difference.

The storm is slow moving, which means it is dropping massive amounts of water over one area. Overall flooding and flash flooding are great dangers.

Tornadoes are also possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 17 - 07:50 PM

Though I seem to live in the redest city in the nation, most of the urban areas in Texas are blue. It is predicted to be purple pretty soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Aug 17 - 06:58 PM

Public Service Announcement:

Y'all keep voting Republican - global climate change is a hoax.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 17 - 09:05 AM

On this very day in 1986 we finally left Essex and moved to Cornwall. It was the day on which the energy sucked out of Hurricane Charley by an Atlantic storm system swept huge amounts of rain and gale-force winds across Britain and Ireland. Records were broken. Our furniture was going into storage for several months and we watched in horror as the removal people loaded it into their van in the pouring rain (it survived). Off we trundled, two rattled and knackered parents, two little kids, two distressed cats and two ramshackle cars through terrible weather on the 300-mile drive to Bude. I don't know where we got the energy from to do it. But we've never looked back, not for a single minute. We had the same kind of weather on our wedding day in 1976. We're still here!

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 17 - 08:04 AM

I suspect that beer and chips in Texas means an entirely different thing to beer and chips this end. Once the sun's below the yardarm, say "beer and chips?" to me and I'm in heaven...

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 10:44 PM

Let us hear from you after the storm. I'll be another one praying for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 10:05 PM

And - H-E-B Preparedness just forwarded the national weather bureau announcement that Harvey has made landfall.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 10:02 PM

I have friends who are sheltering in place (Houston) and a friend who evacuated (Corpus Christi). One of her cats refused to be caught so is will spend the next few days alone in a townhouse, okay, hopefully. Photos the Houston friend posted of the grocery store are amazing. On the chip aisle everything but a few of the absolutely worst flavors, but a whole row (they're about waist high in a rack in front running the length of the chip aisle) of untouched jars of dips. She was able to get what she wanted at a local gas station convenience store. I think she has been stocked for this kind of thing for a while anyway, so the beer and chips are just for the long evenings. She recently moved in with her mother after her father died. I hope they like double solitaire or pinochle, they may well lose power for a while.

We're a few hours north of the coast, but will be under one of the outer bands of the storm, bringing winds (not the kind to peel roofs off of houses) and rain (might cause flooding - we've already had a very wet summer, and the ground is saturated. This without a hurricane in the mix.) There are a few of us up in this area, and also a number of Mudcatters in the Austin area - all of you stay dry and safe. And everyone, remember, if there is water over the roadway, turn around, don't drown.

But wait, the story isn't finished here. This IS Texas, after all. The agency with a lot of clout and respect for helping people in the affected area isn't a state or federal agency at all. It's a home-grown grocery store called H-E-B. Say each letter, that's the name. I think the original founder was Howard E. Butts. But for now, find them on facebook or facebook messenger as H-E-B Preparedness. You have to love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 08:25 PM

It looks like its beer o'clock boys/ Its going to be a mighty long night. Drink up and leave your boots on.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Janie
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 08:05 PM

Wishing safety for all in harm's way.

Subject: RE: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Greg F.
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 06:48 PM

The trumpets gave them warning, they had better quit that place
But no one thought of leavin' till death stared them in the face.

Here's hoping folks in Texas have learned a bit since 1900.

Good luck, y'all.

Subject: BS: Flippin' 'eck, good luck,Texans!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Aug 17 - 05:42 PM

Harvey is sounding a bit horrendous. Our weatherman said that you're going to get Bude's annual rainfall in about three days. Gird yer loins and hopefully enjoy good fortune.