Harvey threatens Texas
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Maybe if we're really lucky, Harvey will wipe some of the no-mind bigots out of these forums and kill their servers
all this talk about Harvey has me hungry.http://harveys.ca
I've just been thinking if we could get 1/10 of the rain that is forecasted for Texas this weekend, it would be enough to extinguish all our problems in British Columbia!
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a storm that hit New Jersey and New York in 2015, eight Texas Republicans voted against increasing flood insurance, and 23 voted against emergency funding for victims.
Both measures ultimately passed the House and Senate before being signed into law by President Obama. But the history of votes against flood insurance benefiting other needy states could come back to haunt Texas members of Congress should they have to apply for federal funding themselves after Hurricane Harvey. Projected damages from the storm could reach nearly $40 billion.
The first bill funding Sandy aid granted the Federal Emergency Management Agency a temporary $9.7 billion increase in borrowing authority for the National Flood Insurance Program, passing 354-67 in the House and by voice vote in the Senate
Several of the dissenters had previously pushed for flood funding when it affected Texas. The 32-member Texas delegation urged then-President George Bush to fund flooded areas in Texas in 2007
Gohmert, who voted against both measures, pushed then Gov. Rick Perry and then President George W. Bush to include eight additional counties in those that could apply to receive FEMA funding in 2008.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/wea...akers-now-bracing-harvey-voted-sandy-spending
Both measures ultimately passed the House and Senate before being signed into law by President Obama. But the history of votes against flood insurance benefiting other needy states could come back to haunt Texas members of Congress should they have to apply for federal funding themselves after Hurricane Harvey. Projected damages from the storm could reach nearly $40 billion.
The first bill funding Sandy aid granted the Federal Emergency Management Agency a temporary $9.7 billion increase in borrowing authority for the National Flood Insurance Program, passing 354-67 in the House and by voice vote in the Senate
Several of the dissenters had previously pushed for flood funding when it affected Texas. The 32-member Texas delegation urged then-President George Bush to fund flooded areas in Texas in 2007
Gohmert, who voted against both measures, pushed then Gov. Rick Perry and then President George W. Bush to include eight additional counties in those that could apply to receive FEMA funding in 2008.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/wea...akers-now-bracing-harvey-voted-sandy-spending
Good News for good people:
Hurricane Harvey lessens to Category 3 + Good evacuation measures.
I hope safety of all good Americans, with the exception of 3 or 2 Wicked Animals: a foul bird and a dirty bear and ? another Wicked Zionist may be (who deem themselves far away)
The Wicked Zionists are never far from God's mighty hand.
Hurricane Harvey lessens to Category 3 + Good evacuation measures.
I hope safety of all good Americans, with the exception of 3 or 2 Wicked Animals: a foul bird and a dirty bear and ? another Wicked Zionist may be (who deem themselves far away)
The Wicked Zionists are never far from God's mighty hand.
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Ya they are the ones directing God's mighty hand.
But it's no surprise you haven't figured that out yet.
Tell your wish to Trump .. durry the Wicked Zionist said: God listens to Trump .. so Trump will pray God and God will listen to Trump (only according to durry the Wicked Zionist) so the rain will come to Columbia
Your turn is coming soon, Wicked Zionists
What are you and you direct God's hand? It might be true when you directed His hand by Nabuchodonosor, or by Assure, or by Titus or by Hitler or .. lastly by the Mahdi inshaAllah.
You knew that companies won't insure certain storm prevelant areas ( mostly on shore lines), the government has to do it, so that people will build where in all sanity they shouldn't, because of storms, KNOWING the government will come good for it when private companies wouldn't touch the certain losses with a ten foot pole...right?
Summary (from the BBC)
>> Hurricane Harvey has made landfall in Texas as a category four storm
>> The storm - now category one - is the most powerful to hit the US in 13 years
>> Winds of up to 130mph (215 km/h) have battered coastal areas
President Donald Trump has signed a disaster proclamation for the state
A warning has been issued for record flooding in many regions
>> Thousands of residents have boarded up their homes and fled
>> Hurricane Harvey has made landfall in Texas as a category four storm
>> The storm - now category one - is the most powerful to hit the US in 13 years
>> Winds of up to 130mph (215 km/h) have battered coastal areas
President Donald Trump has signed a disaster proclamation for the state
A warning has been issued for record flooding in many regions
>> Thousands of residents have boarded up their homes and fled
Trump spoke to God and asked him to reduce the hurricane to category one, since God has a lot of respect for Trump and always listens to Trump, he reduced it to Cat. One.
He also spoke to God about all the useless Muslims in the US, stay tuned to see the results.
Canada might be hit if second hurricane Irma develops
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 04:41 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017 04:49 PM EDT
HALIFAX — Although Hurricane Harvey isn’t expected to have much of an impact on Canada, forecasters are warning of another potentially powerful storm that could blow through eastern parts of the country next week.
Halifax meteorologist Jim Murtha said Harvey — which strengthened to a Category 2 storm as it steered toward the Texas coast on Friday — could bring some rainfall anywhere from southern Ontario to the Maritimes in several days.
“We’re not talking copious amounts of rain by the looks of it. The bigger worst-case scenario is the development of the next storm. That’s the one that right now, we really want to pay attention to,” said Murtha, who works out of the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth.
Murtha said the storm could develop over the weekend off the east coast of Florida.
He said the system has the potential to be “quite a storm” and could bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to parts of Atlantic Canada mid-next week or beyond.
“It’s a little bit of a domino effect. What happens to Harvey and how long it lingers along the Gulf Coast, and what happens to the remnants of that... will have an effect on the evolution of this second system off the coast of Florida,” he said.
Murtha said the centre is hoping forecasts become clearer over the weekend.
If the storm forms and unfolds with tropical characteristics, he said the next name on the list is Irma.
Forecasters in the U.S. said Friday Harvey had strengthened to a Category 2 storm with the potential to swamp communities more than 160 kilometres inland.
The slow-moving hurricane could be the fiercest to hit the United States in almost a dozen years. Forecasters labelled Harvey a “life-threatening storm” that posed a “grave risk” as millions of people braced for a prolonged battering.
Landfall was predicted for late Friday or early Saturday along the central Texas coast, between Port O’Connor and Matagorda Bay.
The storm had the potential to produce winds reaching 200 kilometres an hour and storm surges of four metres.
— With files from The Associated Press.
Canada might be hit if second hurricane Irma develops | Canada | News | Toronto
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 04:41 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017 04:49 PM EDT
HALIFAX — Although Hurricane Harvey isn’t expected to have much of an impact on Canada, forecasters are warning of another potentially powerful storm that could blow through eastern parts of the country next week.
Halifax meteorologist Jim Murtha said Harvey — which strengthened to a Category 2 storm as it steered toward the Texas coast on Friday — could bring some rainfall anywhere from southern Ontario to the Maritimes in several days.
“We’re not talking copious amounts of rain by the looks of it. The bigger worst-case scenario is the development of the next storm. That’s the one that right now, we really want to pay attention to,” said Murtha, who works out of the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth.
Murtha said the storm could develop over the weekend off the east coast of Florida.
He said the system has the potential to be “quite a storm” and could bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to parts of Atlantic Canada mid-next week or beyond.
“It’s a little bit of a domino effect. What happens to Harvey and how long it lingers along the Gulf Coast, and what happens to the remnants of that... will have an effect on the evolution of this second system off the coast of Florida,” he said.
Murtha said the centre is hoping forecasts become clearer over the weekend.
If the storm forms and unfolds with tropical characteristics, he said the next name on the list is Irma.
Forecasters in the U.S. said Friday Harvey had strengthened to a Category 2 storm with the potential to swamp communities more than 160 kilometres inland.
The slow-moving hurricane could be the fiercest to hit the United States in almost a dozen years. Forecasters labelled Harvey a “life-threatening storm” that posed a “grave risk” as millions of people braced for a prolonged battering.
Landfall was predicted for late Friday or early Saturday along the central Texas coast, between Port O’Connor and Matagorda Bay.
The storm had the potential to produce winds reaching 200 kilometres an hour and storm surges of four metres.
— With files from The Associated Press.
Canada might be hit if second hurricane Irma develops | Canada | News | Toronto