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They do, thank you for asking. My husband has spent a couple days stripping rugs, etc off the floors and we have a crew coming in today to begin remediation. Yucky stuff. But how do you replace old belongings of parents that elderly? That's the big question. Sigh. Lucky we are all ok. We live just 20 miles from poor Wimberely. Those folks had it so much worse.
Thrift stores, Craigslist, insurance will pick up some of it; furniture can be replaced, your in-laws cannot be! I hope their losses weren't too severe.
The state is too busy handing out tax breaks to corporations, building toll roads, and trying to think up new ways to punish pregnant women and homosexuals to pay any attention to practical things like dams.
Dams take a good deal of abuse from a substantial component of the environmental movement, and in fairness, no one really knows their effect over the long run. But I wouldn't put too much faith in the over-simplified arguments on either side of the controversy.
The only reasonabe approach is to monitor what's out there in order to detect serious trouble before the cost becomes too high.
Not nearly enough investment in infrastructure/public works projects to accomodate all the people who INSIST on moving here.
The state is too busy handing out tax breaks to corporations, building toll roads, and trying to think up new ways to punish pregnant women and homosexuals to pay any attention to practical things like dams.
There is plenty of spending on infrastructure. The problem is that the powers-that-be have become so enamored with toll roads that they neglect everything else infrastructure-related. I am, of course, speaking of what's left of the money after so much of it is "diverted" to other (non-infrastructure) causes.
There is plenty of spending on infrastructure. The problem is that the powers-that-be have become so enamored with toll roads that they neglect everything else infrastructure-related. I am, of course, speaking of what's left of the money after so much of it is "diverted" to other (non-infrastructure) causes.
We should build casinos in Texas to recapture all the money flowing out of the state into Oklahoma and Louisiana...and use THAT on infrastructure.
But rest assured, once the aid checks are cashed and the dams are rebuilt and things return to normal, the outwardly-expressed detachment from reality will resume. It always does.
The same can be said for the Jersey Shore and the entire California coast west of San Andreas.
Midlothian is a small town well south of DFW and residents in the line of fire have already been notified and encouraged to evacuate. It was all over the news this morning.
I'd hardly call it "stunning" or "horrifying."
It's the result of:
Too much rain in too short a period of time.
Not nearly enough investment in infrastructure/public works projects to accomodate all the people who INSIST on moving here.
The state is too busy handing out tax breaks to corporations, building toll roads, and trying to think up new ways to punish pregnant women and homosexuals to pay any attention to practical things like dams.
What do pregnant women and gay people have to do with flooding?
How exactly does a community build for massive floods? Mother Nature ALWAYS wins. There's nothing you can do except get the hell out of the way.
What do pregnant women and gay people have to do with flooding?
Pay attention to the Texas Legislature's agenda sometime.
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How exactly does a community build for massive floods? Mother Nature ALWAYS wins. There's nothing you can do except get the hell out of the way.
Correct. However, we can avoid building in flood-prone areas, keep up maintenance on dams, bridges, etc.
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My husband has spent a couple days stripping rugs, etc off the floors and we have a crew coming in today to begin remediation. Yucky stuff. But how do you replace old belongings of parents that elderly? That's the big question. Sigh. Lucky we are all ok. We live just 20 miles from poor Wimberely. Those folks had it so much worse.
