Fun Things To Do When It Floods
Odds are a tad better than average that my small town is gonna flood this weekend from the rising Brazos River. So, I’ve spent this morning gathering together important papers and some family heirlooms and putting them in the back of my car in laundry baskets. Bubba’s office is an old house pretty close to The River so he’s packing stuff up and backing up all the computers.
Yeah, it’s just awful but it’s just stuff so neither of us is freaking out. There’s plenty of stuff. Our neighbors, all Republicans, are.
We are trying to decide if they are freaking out over their stuff or the idea that they might have to take help from President Obama. So, I sent an email to the White House and offered the President our front porch for his announcement of aid to Texas. I’ll buy streamers, hire a band, and everything.
I’ll let y’all know how it goes. Don’t fret. We’ll be fine.
Stay safe and we’ll be sending lots of good thoughts your way. Would just love to see the president announcing federal aid from your front porch, especially if it sends the neighbors into conniptions. Hell, I’d even send a donation to help with the festivities!
1Wishing you the best, and I didn’t mean the naughty things I said about the flood victims…it all sucks. God bless.
2Wishing you, Bubba and all the good Texans the best! Hope President Obama does visit with you; he sure would appreciate some friendly faces in the crowd. If he visits, please ask Bubba to take pictures, moving pictures with sound would be great. President Obama has a great sense of humor, so the two of you trading quips would be awesome.
3I hope all goes well for you and Bubba. However, I am afraid that the President won’t be on your porch because all of your neighbors will surely refuse any Federal Aid. Tell them if they accept aid they might have to back OBAMACARE
4A lot can be said for good drainage. Please stay safe and if My President shows up on you front porch, treat him nice.
5Sue, you and Bubba stay safe. I will keep you in Higher powered thoughts.
6Dear Miss Juanita,
Your link goes to the newspaper. The newspaper tells us to go to the webpage for the City of Richmond. The city of Richmond tells us to watch the news. Libertarianism in action!
7JJ,
I sure hope the President takes you up on your offer. That would be great, might annoy the neighbors, which would be AWESOME~
8Stay safe and be sure to bring your computer with you so you can get the President’s response. It would be a great way to aggravate the neighbors. Perhaps the river will be kind and remember all the good you do.
9Be safe. As my mama used to say, we’ll see you soon, God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.
10Hope for the best; prepare for the worst. That’s what sensible people do. Panic and freaking out don’t help anything at all. But, then, whoever said Rethugs were sensible?
And, yeah, it would be insanely cool to have our President on your porch.
I just hope he doesn’t need to go there.
11Juanita Jean, this is why we love you!
12I hope you don’t have too much damage from water in your home and Bubba’s office. It can make such a mess!
It would be a treat for My President to enjoy your hospitality for sure JJ. A safe harbor in Texas is needed 🙂
13Only republi-can’ts will make a little rain into a reign of self-imposed terror.
14We here will help you keep a stiff upper lip.
Send us the invoice for the streamers.
Goddess keep you both safe.
15I just hope he doesn’t have to wade hip deep to get to your porch! 🙁 pls be careful; of course you will, you’re one of the sharpest tacks in the box! We used to do that prep thing every time a hurricane looked like it was gonna come nosing around. Partly why I no longer live two blocks from Galveston Bay, and have no wish to live there again!
16I know it’s counter-inuitive, but stock up on water. I went through the Des Moines, Iowa flood, when the water treatment plant and pumping stations went under, and having to run nekked under the eaves to get clean wasn’t much fun…. nor trying to cook, etc.
17Sure hope the flooding misses you and Bubba– cleanup always looks so awful. If Obama comes to your porch, give him a kiss on the cheek from me. Tell Bubba not to pick him up in a big hug like that one guy did, because picking up Presidents is a good way to hurt your back.
18Having been thru a house fire, the only “things” I truly regretted losing were photos of the kids when they were little. Fortunately, I have always lived away from my family, so I always had doubles developed & sent them to my mom. I was lucky.
Keep the powder dry!
19Wishing you and Bubba all safety.
20As a kid in Cherokee,iowa,whenever we had hard rains we’d grab popsickle sticks and place them in the gutter s and race them down the hill and around the corner to where Ist Street intersected HiWay 59-across the street from the A+W. Since you are having a mite more rain than we got,might I suggest racing oiltankers through town. Hard to believe how time passes when you are having harmless fun.( no intent to raise any hackles here)
21We’ve had floods over the years, both here and where I used to live in Michigan. Odd how when that happened I regretted never learning synchronized swimming. After all the hollering and praying, at least I could get some time alone and enjoy the water! Seriously! Hey, Michigan is surrounded by most of the Great Lakes. Can’t help thinking of water as something alien.
22My boss grew up in DC on a street that flooded often. She says that in a big rain, people would sit on their front porches yelling bets about whether the cars trying to get through the water would make it. Some of them earned good money hauling out the ones who didn’t make it. They were all kind of sorry when the city fixed the flooding; it ruined their best social occasions.
23I know you and Bubba will plan carefully and avoid being caught in the flood, but I also hope fervently that your home, office, and all your belongings are spared. Good thoughts, good thoughts, good thoughts — I’m working on it.
24Sounds like it would be a great time for Texas to secede !
25Wishing you and Bubba all the best as the water rolls on down. Please keep us informed as best you can.
26If President Obama does come to visit, ask him to bring along some Hurricane Sandy survivors to thank Ted Cruz for his efforts to get relief funds to New Jersey… oh, wait.
27Republicans are not ashamed to take federal aid. They believe they are entitled to it. It’s only other people who are moochers and should be ashamed.
28Stay safe! I’ll wave if I float by.
Since I’m just now catching up on posts, my dogs and I want to say how sorry we are about Hairy. I’m afraid my Boo will join him soon. Animals are good at breaking our hearts.
29Stay safe and you can come and stay at our house!
And bring POTUS Obama with you!!
The hypocrisy of the republicans knows no bounds and inquiring minds want to know what Denny Hastardt was doing all those years ago.
And finding out who was smart enough to have waited all these years till Denny was making the big bucks with a lobby firm to blackmail him!
Stay safe! And please let us know how you are. We are all concerned about you, Bubba and Momma!
30Wishing you and Bubba da best in these high water times.
31Wishing all of the “Blue Texans” the best through the rains and flooding…
As for the “Red Texans” I’m not offering anything, you’ll have to rebuild that themselves… Show us your principles and turn down that Gubermint Money…
32Very best of luck to you, JJ, but just in case, I’m asking Commander Abbot to call out his State Guard to monitor the floods, that is if he can locate them way out in Laughingstock, Texas.
33i’m thinking you need to inflate the giant donkey and ride him past your neighbor on your way out
34I live on a river here in Indiana.I have been through 4 severe floods in the last 25 years,but nothing of the magnitude that you folks are going through.I wish you well and hope that you recover quickly.Fortunately I have flood insurance and it has more than covered my losses.Most people don`t buy flood insurance.It may be costly but is worth every cent when you need it.Stay well.We need voices of levity from Texas.
35My tax-free yacht is in dry dock or I’d loan it to you.
36The large black lawn and leaf bags are your friend. Load them up with books and other things that cannot get wet. Don’t use a twisty-tie, instead tie a knot on the end. Duct tape the open end. Will be praying for you!
37Got a small taste of the scary as we were flying across Oklahoma/Texas to come to a graduation and christening in Ca yesterday…flights cancelled, delayed and rerouted all over the place, with bumpy and bouncy smashes against the seat belts for entertainment.
38Be safe.
Water and chocolate…that’s what I have in my emergency stash—I can, as my g-daughter (age 4) has said, “Seriously, we need chocolate!” recommend the chocolate and with the drought that we face in Ca–say the water is really important as well.
Best of luck.
I doubt if there is any force of nature that can keep you and Bubba down. Wishing you the best.
39Hope you made it to higher ground safely. Sanity is really helpful at a time like this. I fear many Texans will suffer because their minds are twisted and paranoid and won’t focus on what needs to be done. They will blame everyone but themselves for not reacting IF they had the time. I realize some did not have that chance.
40@AliceBeth
In the paper:
Ester Rubalcaba has lived in her house for 50 years and it has never flooded.
Unless there is a mandatory evacuation, she will stay at home with her faith.
“Well, I believe in God and hopefully everything is alright,” Rubalcaba said.
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