Tag: Hurricane Harvey

10 Hurricane Harvey Stories That Will Give You Hope For America

Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,

While it’s true there are a lot of stories about division and heartlessness, there are many stories coming out of storm-torn Texas that will give you hope for humanity again.

Kindness and love for our neighbors isn’t dead, despite a politically divided country. This is proof that we can work together and give selflessly.

This isn’t to underplay the death and destruction, but to highlight our humanity in the face of disaster.

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No, hurricanes are not good for the economy

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Yes, GDP may get a temporary boost from rebuilding, but there’s nothing positive about destruction

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Think of the increased production of motor vehicles to replace all those flooded trucks!

Once the immediate danger of a natural disaster subsides, and the loss of life, property damage, cost of rebuilding, and degree of insurance coverage can be assessed, attention generally turns to the economic effect. How will Hurricane Harvey affect the nation’s gross domestic product?

You will no doubt hear assertions that the rebuilding effort will provide a boost to contractors, manufacturers and GDP in general. But before these claims turn into predictable nonsense about all the good that comes from natural disasters, I thought it might be useful to provide some context for these sorts of events.

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HOPE@ZERO KELVIN REPORTING FROM HOUSTON

Guest Post by Hope@Zero Kelvin

It is even worse than this article suggests. We are scheduled to get more rain and the big reservoirs have to start releasing water before they break (!!!). Livingston and Conroe dams are due to start releasing water as well. This will make the flooding even worse. We are watching the worst weather event to hit a major American city since Galveston got wiped off the map last century. Fortunately, the loss of life will be minimal (I think) but the property damage is going to be greater than Katrina. The impact on the gas/oil industry is yet to be determined.

All our major highways are either underwater or their access roads are. Our two airports, Bush and Hobby, have suspended operations until Wed. Fortunately, most places have power. The Houston metroplex is about 1/2 through this disaster.

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Shocking Drone Footage Shows Harvey’s “Unprecedented” Devastation, “No Parallel To Any Rainstorm In US History”

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by Tyler Durden
Aug 28, 2017 8:40 AM

Based on the number of people affected, amount of water involved, and other factors, meteorologists have warned, there may be no parallel available to any other rainstorm in U.S. history as Mashable’s Andrew Freeman reports Tropical Storm Harvey has dropped more than 11 trillion gallons of water on Texas, triggering catastrophic, unprecedented flooding in the Houston area.

The rains have broken all-time records, exceeding the rainfall totals seen during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001… and it could be about to get a lot worse as forecasters are expecting the storm to turn back and drench what is left of Houston once again midweek.

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HOW CAN THE MSM BLAME TRUMP FOR HARVEY

Good luck to all Texas TBPers. A year’s worth of rain in a couple days is scary.

It will be Trump’s fault. Al Gore was right. The BLM, Antifa and SJWs will claim Harvey is a white mans name and is further proof of a white supremacist conspiracy. Wolf Blitzer will agree. CNN is already preparing stories about the awful Federal response due to Trump’s budget cuts that haven’t happened.