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Houston – Bottling Companies Welcome Flooding
Some rain pours down on south Texas. Media panic ensues. Poor planing and building codes will take their toll.
More severe and more deadly flooding though is happening in Nepal, Bangladesh and India. People in those countries are the most affected by climate change.
But why not make a good business out of events in Houston and elsewhere. Sell the very same stuff that pours down, packed in a material which causes climate change, to the people fleeing its effects.
On offer at Best Buy on Highway 290 in Cypress, TX.
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The use, waste and commodification of water is one of the biggest issues "western" societies need to tackle.
@ Rodger…
Excuses? I try to tell people facts on the ground down here, that’s it. I have my opinions, and express them as is my right. Yes, my perspective is my own, just as yours is. I have been shuttling people since Sunday, and clearing out ruined homes since Wednesday. I type these things when I come home to scrub it off.
So, what are YOU doing to help, Rodger? Other than playing backseat driver and second-guessing Sammy?
This is BEYOND the hundred year flood planning – has that fact eve tickled the walnut you use for a brain? Nobody, not even our illustrious FEMA, has plans for what happened here. I doubt that anyone up north has plans for 60 feet of snow to fall in 72 hours, do they? Because that is the equivalent.
I said before, many people left areas known to flood – but you cannot force people to evac – they must want to. Just as I cannot force you to come here and lend a hand, much as it would delight me to see you sweating in our now sunny skies. My guess is that the nursing home evac, well, they thought they could wait it out, because they had always been high and dry, or mostly so, in previous storms. If that wasn’t their reasoning, then it may be the owners of the home simply don’t live here and couldn’t give a hoot about their residents – which is a huge problem all over this country for nursing homes. Conflating that that singular incident in the midst of thousands of others to show how “heartless” we are is quite a pointy spear for you and for the “news” outfit that released it, eh? I doubt those in that nursing home were from other states, and yet where are their families? Why didn’t they call and ask for help? Or maybe they did? I have no idea – nor do you. All you KNOW is what someone else told you on TV and how trustworthy are they?
Arkema? The reason we have so many chemical plants here is the proximity of feedstock – oil – for processing. Texas and Louisiana are the two states with the most chemical plants – whose products the rest of the country rely on. They have to be built somewhere. We elected to have them here for business reasons. We do this for ourselves and the rest of the country. Crosby is not a dense metropolis – which is why that plant is where it is and not down next to the Houston Ship Channel.
REPEAT – this was much more than a 100 year storm, Rodger. Nobody had plans for this, and nobody could have executed them in the time we had prior to landfall. Designing for a 1000 year storm would make many things you take for granted terribly expensive, whether you realize it or not. Everything is a compromise, unless you have unlimited funds and unlimited power. Texas has chemical plants because we are a large state, have oil, port facilities and refineries – makes no sense to ship things back and forth across the country unless you have to.
We are doing the best we can in light of the immense amount of water bombed on us. There has been far more loss of life in many smaller areas with lesser storms and lesser flooding. I never said Texas was perfect, but we do pull together and we do push through. If you don’t like Texas, then don’t come here; if you think we are stupid, then the best thing you could do is suggest that the Union expel us – that would tickle me to death. But be aware that we are one of a very few states that send the feds more money than we get back from them – where does your state sit in that regard?
Kunstler was saying we will never recover – LOL. He has no idea about Texas and Texans. And you, sitting in your glass house, far away from a disaster which nobody planned for, well, you might want to grow some bigger stones…because Texans have thick hides and windows.
@ Krollchem…
The CG and NAVY are not setup to do things like this. Nobody is. The fancy MRAPS we got from the Feds are useless in this – they don’t do well in high water, go figure. What we need is what we are getting – small boats with shallow draft – fishing boats and swamp boats. No government agency has the types of boats we need – because they simply never envisioned the need, not even after Katrina. And they have great difficulty thinking small – they are the Fed, and think bigly.
Irma? Geez dude, she’s not even near the Gulf yet. We will worry about Irma when she gets in the GOM. We got our hands full just now, so give us another week?
Take anything you get from the major networks with a large dose of salt – they are in this for profit, and that means getting eyeballs on TV screens and websites. The hyperbole is stunning, even in this scenario.
Posted by: Oilman2 | Sep 1 2017 21:03 utc | 100
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