Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/27/2017 9:10:43 PM

is AMAZING.  All media is publishing numbers to call for help for people standing waste deep in water in their homes....like they have TVs, phones, cell phones, etc that work to pick up the info or work to call for help.  The idiot dimokrap mayor of Houston told everyone to stay at home and don't evacuate because it may cause traffic jams, now everyone is underwater and the idiot dimokrap mayor is making excuses at 100 mph.  Be really interesting to see how many homeowners have flood insurance!  Of course people on Lake Martin have to prove they won't be flooded, but I'll bet FEMA didn't touch the flooded homes in Houston....so the gubment (taxpayers) will pick up the whole ticket.  We have friends who are in their attic in Houston....or were the last communication we heard this AM.  Bad situation.

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Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/27/2017 11:03:45 PM

Just read that there are one million homes in Harris County (Houston) with no flood insurance.......here we go.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 12:22:07 AM (updated 8/28/2017 12:23:42 AM)

Instead of bitchin, why doesn't the Wizard explain how it should have been handled????  Houston is not like Dadeville dude, there's 2.3 million people in Houston and 6.4 million in the entire surrounding area including Houston.  Roads can't handle all that traffic. And, how do they all get back into the city? Imagine 6 million in cars and the cars are floating or motors are flooded. They are doing the best they can telling them to stay home.

If 6 million were stranded on the highways with water in there car, you would be complaining they should have stayed home. You are just bitchin cause the Mayor is a Democrat.

Imagine, how much rain if there was global warming????

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 6:59:08 AM

  Yes gfy, you million people leaving by boat is much better than those same folks leaving on dry roads. This "rain event" was known for days in advance when the roads and skies in Houston were clear. Almost every NE has a car, few have boats. Those that didn't have cars could have been put on bases, but just like Katrina, they sat idle. You only defend him because he is a Democrat. The Republican governor correctly left evacuation decisions to local officials, but strongly advised evacuation. Had he been a Democrat the mayor would have agreed said evacuate but that is the state of mind of Democrats today. NEVER agree with or admit a Republican may be right on any issue.

  I wonder where all the ghetto dwellers that landed in Houston after Katrina will end up this time? Wind Creek made such a wonderful FEMA camp before I wonder will it be used again? The entire Houston area is a flood zone yet folks stayed behind. Brilliant. I would bet my house that mayor and his family and even his entourage are  high and dry though so that's what's important. After all, the community is depending on his "leadership" to get through this. I think Ray Nagin, the former mayor of NO, is still in prison for his post Katrina leadership. I saw a story and pic of a dog with more personal al responsibility than 90+‰ of Houston population. He was on a screen porch but left when the storm hit, but carried his bag of food with him.

EVery bank that holds a mortgage in the area should be forced to eat the losses for selling a mortgage in a flood zone to folks who didn't have flood insurance, but you can bet your ass the good Ole dependable taxpayers will be their to bail them out for the poor decisions they made.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Answer for GOOF-COMMIE
Date:	8/28/2017 9:07:13 AM

Is it easier to feed and care for people on dry land in shelters or waist deep in sludge and sewage?  Dimokraps are so intent on keeping their welfare slaves under control, they will always make the same wrong decision.  Happened in New Orleans, same thing happened in Houston.....both with the same dimokrap leadership.  Mayor and all of Houston knew what areas were prone to flood, they knew record rains were coming, yet they did absolutely nothing.  So tell us GOOF-IDIOT......who is gonna come in and fix this mess that will last for years.  Will it be dimokraps?  Will it be tha HILDAbitch?  Obammiecare?

Name:	Moldyoldy -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 9:40:24 AM

It's trumps fault!!! He promised to build a wall, and if he had the wall would have kept the water away. Impeach him!

Sorry, just channeling my inner democrat.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 10:09:22 AM

I wonder how many homeowners, not required  by a mortgage on Lake Martin, have flood insurance?

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Yes wix
Date:	8/28/2017 10:16:26 AM

  I'm sure the Clinton Foundation is already fundraising so they can swoop in and save the day. You know, like they did in Haiti after the earthquake.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 10:18:07 AM

My guess is not many......but then again they aren't located in an area that is just a few feet above sea level and subject to frequent flooding from tropical storms and hurricanes.  Probably falls into the category of if you can get that insurance you probably can't get it and if you don't they will be happy to sell it to you.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Yes wix
Date:	8/28/2017 10:19:51 AM

Never let a good crisis to make a crap load of moolah for the Clinton Crime Family Foundation....

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	GOOF-DUMMIE
Date:	8/28/2017 10:21:27 AM (updated 8/28/2017 10:24:28 AM)

Only a home with any part of the home structure below 492' msl, FEMA Flood Zone, should even consider flood insurance.  The record high for Lake MArtin is  492' msl.  Further, the top of the flood gates on the dam are only a foot or two above full pool so the water would go over the top even if the flood gates were not opened.  492' does not apply to those away from the lake on feeder creeks.  Been there, done that.

Now....4ft of rain????  Thank goodness we aren't close to the coast.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Reminds Me
Date:	8/28/2017 11:44:55 AM

Reminds me of the Eric Trump Foundation....

Eric Trump reportedly told Forbes for its article that nearly all the money contributed to the foundation goes toward St. Jude because his charity has been able to use the Trump family's golf course in Westchester County, New York, for free.

"We get to use our assets 100% free of charge," Trump said, according to the article.

But the article said: "That's not the case. In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it's clear that the course wasn't free — that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization."

"Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament," Forbes said.

Forbes reported that Donald Trump became aware that the golf course was not billing Eric's foundation, and demanded the charity begin being charged about six years ago.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	STAY ON SUBJECT GOOF-DUMMY...
Date:	8/28/2017 12:35:39 PM

GEEZ........

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	ADHD Meds and TDS
Date:	8/28/2017 1:17:05 PM

Goofy, it is very important that given you are suffering from TDS you must remember to take your meds so you can stay on task.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/28/2017 1:57:55 PM

Instead of trying to turn this into a political event,  Some people will have lost everything.  My father lives in Florida and was hit by two hurricanes in a row.  Although he was well insured, when he lost the sunroom to his house, he only got a fraction of the replacement cost.  Some houses in his neighborhood were completely wiped out. 

The thing about insurance is this:  you have a better chance of being fully compenstated if a disaster happens only to you and not thousands of people.  In a mass situation, your insurance company is not going generously view your claim, because they have about a million claims.  As a result, all of our insurance rates are going to rise because they have to pay for their losses somehow. 

People should have been smart enough to know they should evacuate - it shouldn't depend on what some politican says.  This storm didn't just happen, everyone knew it was going to hit and that it would be bad.  Now people are going to shelters, and being told their animals can't come in = didn't they learn after Katrina that people will not shelter if they can't take their animals? 

The best we can offer at this point is prayers and possibly donations to those who are affected.  It isn't just the material things that people lost, but it will also take a long time for them to recover psychologically.  They will no longer feel safe. 

Oh and btw, some liberals are questioning why Trump is waiting until Tuesday to visit the disaster - questioning if he really cares.  In my view, it is smart of him to wait, and I even question why the President needs to show up at all.  Usually their presence is more distracting than helpful. 

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	HOUND????
Date:	8/28/2017 5:53:20 PM

Where did you read this?????

"Oh and btw, some liberals are questioning why Trump is waiting until Tuesday to visit the disaster - questioning if he really cares."

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	HOUND????
Date:	8/28/2017 7:48:54 PM

She didn't have to read it goofball, she has acquaintances who are liberals.  She could have heard it first hand.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	GOOD POINT
Date:	8/28/2017 8:23:20 PM

HOUND where did you read or hear it???

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Humm...I wonder?
Date:	8/28/2017 10:02:36 PM (updated 8/28/2017 10:26:25 PM)

If the mayor of Houston was a WHITE REPUBLICAN who made the same decision regarding staying or going, would the Wiximbicile be popping off?

On CNN yesterday the WHITE REPUBLICAN Harris County chairman and county Homeland Security Director Ed Emmett strongly defended the Mayor's decision and called it ''outrageous'' that Gen Honore of Katrina fame was critical of the decision to not order an evacuation of the 2,000,000 living in the lowest lying areas.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Humm...I wonder?
Date:	8/28/2017 10:12:23 PM

Honore indeed "earned his stripes" in Katrina and his opinion should not be dismissed, no matter the political party affiliation of the naysayer.

BTW, Archiebelle, why do you inject politics into a very apolitical disaster?  

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Humm...I wonder?
Date:	8/28/2017 10:18:09 PM (updated 8/28/2017 10:24:58 PM)

Well Mr H, I am only following the lead of your friend Wix who introduced politica at the beginning of the thread with his assessment of the actions of the liberal ''dimocrap'' mayor of Houston.

Now, I do not discount the opinion of Gen Honore.  I too question the decision not to order a directed, orderly and gradual evacuation of some areas.  But, I do not suggest that the mayor's decision is in anyway related to the fact he is a ''dimocrap'' as Wix does.  Neither does the Republican leader of the Harris County Commission.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Humm...I wonder?
Date:	8/28/2017 10:22:06 PM

So you and Wix are on an equal plane.  If it were me I wouldn't be proud.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	ARCHI-RACIST
Date:	8/28/2017 10:30:21 PM

No one brought up the race of anyone on this whole thread except YOU.  I see absolutely no difference in a purple, green, white, yellow, or black DIMOKRAP.  To say that someone is a DIMOKRAP says all you need to say....race is immaterial.  In my judgement the worst word one could use to describe another human being is DIMOKRAP.  Got it ARCIH-RACIST.

Lifer is correct...you ARE a RACIST.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	And BTW
Date:	8/28/2017 10:36:59 PM

Flood insuranc for homes in a designated flood zone is required for a home that has a mortgage on it.  If you are NOT in a designated flood zone or own nothing on your home no flood insurance is required.  The problem is, the ''non existant'' global warming has caused areas, that have never been prone to flooding in the past, flood!  Of course since this is all a ''Chinese hoax'', the feds will probably not be permitted to update the flood maps used to determine designated flood zones subject to the flood insurance requirement.

Name:	Moldyoldy -	Reply
Subject:	And BTW
Date:	8/28/2017 10:54:45 PM

Bingo! We have a winner!! Who was it that picked Monday in the pool for when the first democrat would try to blame this on global warming?

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Archy implies Houston wasn't prone to flooding
Date:	8/29/2017 2:28:06 AM

  I know for a fact much of the Houston area has been flooded numerous times prior to this rain event. I hope some body that cares enough will fact check archy, and me for that matter. His opinion is of so little consequence to me I won't even bother.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Thanks Wix
Date:	8/29/2017 9:56:08 AM (updated 8/29/2017 10:00:22 AM)

Your personal condemnation is alway a good start to my day.

Now answer my slightly altered question...if the mayor of Houston was of ANY political persausion other than ''Domokrap'' and if he or she made exactly the same decision would you still hold him or her in the same low esteem?  Answer the question for once in your life!

Now, let me also thank you for making it clear how you automatically condemn ANYBODY who identifies as a ''Dimokrap''.  Thap make it pretty clear what you think of all those ''dimokraps'' who have bled and died over the decades to save your sorry butt and make it safe for your to spout your hate for anyone who is not a crazy and stupid as you!

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Archy implies Houston wasn't prone to flooding
Date:	8/29/2017 10:09:39 AM (updated 8/29/2017 10:10:23 AM)

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2017/08/why-houston-flooding-isnt-a-sign-of-climate-change/

not even the worst hurricane or flooding to hit houston.

There have been many flood disasters in the Houston area, even dating to the mid-1800s when the population was very low. In December of 1935 a massive flood occurred in the downtown area as the water level height measured at Buffalo Bayou in Houston topped out at 54.4 feet.

Downtown Houston flood of 1935.

By way of comparison, as of 6:30 a.m. this (Monday) morning, the water level in the same location is at 38 feet, which is still 16 feet lower than in 1935. I’m sure that will continue to rise.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	ARCHI-RACIST
Date:	8/29/2017 10:14:55 AM

Dimokraps (learn to spell the word) are taught to blindly follow the leader (mayor).  Exactly the same situation happened in New Orleans, with the mayor not giving an evacuation order and the dimokrap subjects (slaves) just sitting there waiting on further instructions....and the welfare check.  Houston has an even greater problem than New Orleans because the water will just sit there for weeks.  Who is gonna feed these dimokraps, house them, etc.  I find it super interesting that the mayor of Houston gave refugees from New Orleans a big welcome after Katrina and something like 60 - 100 thousand refused to go back to New Orleans after the storm......welfare was much better in Houston!  Crime rate went up in Houston and down in N.O., and the Houston mayor was kicked out of office. Oh, and New Orleans mayor went to prison.  GOOD DIMOKRAPS 

To specifically answer your question:  I will condemn stupid decisions made by any politician of any color, or political ideology.  I find that dimokraps are far more dependable when it comes to making stupid decisions.  Got it.

Name:	El Cid -	Reply
Subject:	ARCHI-RACIST
Date:	8/29/2017 12:18:17 PM

So true! 

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	ARCHI-RACIST
Date:	8/29/2017 12:39:44 PM (updated 8/29/2017 12:40:01 PM)

As someone from the Texas area - do you watch the weather and if it looks like its going to be a $hitstorm do you wait on someone to tell you to head to higher ground?  

From your comment I expect that the answer is that you do what you have to do regardless of what politlcal a$$hat told you to stay put or run.

Welcome aboard - and be safe.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Do you morons even read English
Date:	8/29/2017 12:53:39 PM

Please point out SPECIFICALLY where I opined that the current situation in the western Gulf of Mexico is the result of Global warming and while you are at it please point out SPECIFICALLY where I claimed that Houston was not prone to flooding.  It is amazing how you nut cases read something and let your brains, warped and washed by constant "fake" news from FOX, jump to your own preconceived "conclusions"!

I have no idea whether Global warming bears any of the blame for "weather" but it does have a lot to do with "climate"!  I have never had the privilege to visit Houston and am unfamiliar with the topography or flood maps of the area.  I do know that Trump's FEMA director has public ally stated that areas that have never flooded before are underwater at this moment!

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	ARCH-IDIOT
Date:	8/29/2017 1:38:28 PM

READ YOUR POST MADE LAST NIGHT AT 10:36:59.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	GOOD POINT
Date:	8/29/2017 2:01:26 PM

Bitching by liberal friends and additionally it is all over FB.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	And BTW
Date:	8/29/2017 2:07:05 PM

Sorry to say you are wrong, Achitect.  If you are in a flood plain, you can get your property surveyed and provide the lender with a letter of map amendment.  you must have forgotten that everyone on Lake Martin was told they were in a flood plain (FEMA changed all the maps) and everyone got a letter of amendment done.  This happened a couple of years ago. 

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	I repeat...do you morons even read Englishh
Date:	8/29/2017 2:12:31 PM

i do.  That post does NOT say anything about Harvey being a product Of Global warming nor does it say Houston is not or was not subject to flooding.

Wix, I really hope most of what you say is tongue in cheek, cause if it ain't you need to be institutionalized!

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	GOOD POINT
Date:	8/29/2017 3:08:51 PM

Thanks for clearing that up. Looks like you have a great source. Have you checked with your deplorable sources?

Name:	AC Gal -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/29/2017 5:02:35 PM

I work for a Houston software company.  It always floods.  Hardly a month goes by where I hear a story from someone about how an area or streets are flooded.  At our annual sales meeting in January, many were trapped in the company apartment because the parking lot was flooded.

Everyone in Houston should know what areas are prone to fast flooding, admitting this is historic in the amount of rain.  

I don't think I would need someone to tell me to leave, if I watched metorologists.

Thankfully everyone at my company is mostly dry.

I'm no expert, but Houston is growing so fast, that I don't think the infrastructure can keep up and that whole is almost concrete.  No place for the water to go.

I know a profesor as UGA who did a calculation....he put houston and the nearby coast in a triangle, did a bunch of mathy stuff anc calculated that within that area - enough rain has falled to fill up Lake Martin 6 times.

I'll look for his article and post.

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	News media ignorance and stupidity.....
Date:	8/29/2017 5:55:29 PM

Just read the article. It really puts things into peespective. Thanks!!!.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Freudian slop or pun?
Date:	8/29/2017 6:55:02 PM

Eother way "peespective" made me smile.

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Freudian slop or pun?
Date:	8/29/2017 8:44:47 PM (updated 8/29/2017 8:47:16 PM)

Eother or either, it was just a slip and glad everything turned out ok.

Name:	Shortbus -	Reply
Subject:	Time for some leadership
Date:	8/30/2017 9:56:36 AM

The weather guys knew it was coming.  So wait and see?

My system from the zillions of FEMA dollars for flood prone areas would be such:

Take the topo maps and make a cellphone/web site that gives you a red yellow or green screen.

The position of the phone or your address punched in gives the result.

Red get out now.  Yellow you decide.  Green stay.

It also might have the closest place to go and GPS directions to that area.

Turn all 6 lanes into the heck out of the city direction.

I just don't see letting your car swim while you eat cold chicken noodle soup in the dark a viable alternative.

Wonder if dysentary and demokrap will be used in the same sentence?

Name:	Shortbus -	Reply
Subject:	Time for some leadership
Date:	8/30/2017 10:01:15 AM

The weather guys knew it was coming.  So wait and see?

My system from the zillions of FEMA dollars for flood prone areas would be such:

Take the topo maps and make a cellphone/web site that gives you a red yellow or green screen.

The position of the phone or your address punched in gives the result.

Red get out now.  Yellow you decide.  Green stay.

Tallapoosa county EMA can call you with chosen disaster preferences.

Turn all 6 lanes into the heck out of the city direction.

It also might have the closest place to go and GPS directions to that area.

I just don't see letting your car swim while you eat cold chicken noodle soup in the dark a viable alternative.

Wonder if dysentary and demokrap will be used in the same sentence?

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Time for some leadership
Date:	8/30/2017 2:39:02 PM (updated 8/30/2017 3:56:23 PM)

Dont remember which hurricane it was ( may have been Frederic, could have been Andrew) but all interstates lanes were one way - get the F' out.  Remember not being able to get to a meeting south of Montgomery because it was all north bound lanes long before the weather got bad in Alabama.

Website evac makes too much sense.  Requires effort, and knowing the website address.

Houston evac due to Rita - note all lanes outbound, but total cluster f' due to loads of people - broken down cars, out of gas - must not have been enough prepared boyscouts.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	I repeat...do you morons even read Englishh
Date:	8/30/2017 5:16:15 PM (updated 8/30/2017 5:16:29 PM)

Name:   architect  -  Subject:   And BTW Date:   8/28/2017 10:36:59 PM

Flood insuranc for homes in a designated flood zone is required for a home that has a mortgage on it.  If you are NOT in a designated flood zone or own nothing on your home no flood insurance is required.  The problem is, the ''non existant'' global warming has caused areas, that have never been prone to flooding in the past, flood!  Of course since this is all a ''Chinese hoax'', the feds will probably not be permitted to update the flood maps used to determine designated flood zones subject to the flood insurance requirement.

I read englishh just fine.  

"so "non existant" global warming is causing areas, that have never before been prone to flooding to flood" - not that poor planning, draining and overpopulation had anything to do with it.

your comment about non existant global warming in the middle of a discussion of flooding in Texas to me would seem to be equivocation on your part.  

MoldyOldy - I missed by one day - I chose Sunday :)

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	But of course he won't provide evidence
Date:	8/30/2017 6:14:18 PM

  When challenged about his absurdly stupid claims like placing flooding that have never flooded before he will run and hide in his mommas basement. I'm still waiting on just one example of the left wing nuts from Blm, a Tifa etc showing up and NOT causing violence.

Name:	Shortbus -	Reply
Subject:	Time for some leadership
Date:	8/31/2017 8:14:18 AM (updated 8/31/2017 8:20:51 AM)

OK all 6 million people.  Ready.  Get set.  GO!

Looks like everyone got the red screen at the same time.

A stalled hurricane means certain people need to leave first.  The lowest lying places.  No brainers.

The powers that be see you driving to work, driving home.  The position of everyone with a cell phone can be tracked, traced, and even

worse stored for several years.  Combine that with cameras on the streets converting license plate data to ascii with the location and 

time.

No problem to let you know to leave where you are.  We'll just call you at work and say not to bother going home.

So you would call/text/email any phone in the geographical flooding cells and all cell phones whose address of registration is in a flooding

zone.

If your phone is on, it lights up a color and suggests places to go.  Tap the location and you get directions. Not sure what roads are

passable?  Your map has impassable road sections marked.  Pregnant? That's on the special needs page.  

Immobile?  Put in queue for public servants  (not politicians) and good ol boys.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Time for some leadership
Date:	8/31/2017 9:05:02 AM (updated 8/31/2017 9:05:28 AM)

And when you have some notice of some possible threat - go fill your damn car(s) up and a few gas cans you have in the garage for the mower - better to be prepared then spending $40 a gallon when it hits the fan, or stuck on the side of the road in rising water.

With the possibililty of tornados I did just that - mixed up some fresh 2 stroke for the chain saw, prepped the tractor and made sure its fluids were good, checked the trailer just in case - better to do it before it rains and be ready for nothing, then to be trying to figure it out in the rain/show/insert disaster here.

Not the first time I have had to get trees off of neighbors cars or unblock the neighborhood from debris, probably wont be the last.  

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	ARCH-MORON
Date:	8/31/2017 11:05:21 AM

Read phil's comment for confirmation of the level of your lying and denial abilities.  I do believe I have determined what type of architect you are.  If you are any type of architect you must have been the architect of the HILDAbitch's campaign.....for that job you are well qualified.