Hurricane News
It’s around noon on Saturday. We are doing great. We got about 7 inches of rain last night but it hasn’t rained since daybreak so we are draining great. There was a tornado last night in the county that left a mess in a residential neighborhood but amazingly, no one was hurt.
Here’s my all time favorite local news story. About an hour ago, my son and I were watching hurricane porn on the teevee, where local reporters – who never pronounce the names of any cities or streets correctly – stand in driving rain dodging deadly tree branches so you don’t have to.
So this reporter was bent in half in the wind, telling us it was so damn awful outside that you should stay inside and get in your closet. And he earnestly says to the camera, “I don’t know how much the camera can get of this, but the smell is awful.”
Praise God, the camera couldn’t get much of it.
Love those new reporters, but wasn’t there a saying about being smart enough to come in out of the rain? Maybe it was just water on the brain what made him say that.
Glad things are going well considering.
Remember, damn yankee is two words!
1That report is right on. The next advance in entertainment won’t be better, enhanced audio or better, enhanced video, it will be odor. That’s right we can share the breath of the 70 cigs a day smoker or that old coot on the train whose only bow to personal hygiene was a whore’s bath, once, around the time Richard Nixon resigned. Smell-o-vision they’ll likely call it or maybe THX-Odor!
2You can always tell who the newbies are: they’re the ones standing out in the rain, up to their hips in water, with 100 mph winds tugging at them! The ones further up the career ladder are safely inside with the green screens!
3BTW, I attended a FEMA workshop in Denton in spring 2016. One of the speakers told us he used this rule of thumb for gauging recovery after a tornado or such: every 24-hours law enforcement is on-site serving, protecting, and arresting looters, rebuilding and recovery will take a minimum of one calendar month.
4Those of us who are dry and comfortable need to see some of this to get a grasp of it.
Also:
Remember there are very sick infants and elderly and all in between who depend on wonderful Docs and nurses and techs of all sorts to keep them alive when hospitals and clinics are shattered.
As a dialysis patient I know I can’t keep myself alive but a team of competent and caring people are there for me continually. As I write this I know my dialysis provider, Fresenius, and others are doing heroic (not hyperbole) work getting patients and staff relocated and treated just like they did during Katrina.
5This is hard to do in text normally, but I watched one reporter pronounce Port Aransas as Port Arkansas. Damn, even the lackwit President we have now can apparently read a teleprompter.
6I heard one reporter on MSNBC that was talking about Port Aransas, and he called it Port Arkansas.
7mikey, I heard that one TV newsreader just about came up out of his chair the first time “Shiite” appeared on the teleprompter.
JJ, I hope you and everybody down there continue to be safe. Though if some Trump voters see this as retribution for their horrible mistake and resolve to live a better life, that would be okay too.
8Less than 3 in so far at my place in Bryan, so I’m hopeful that it will stay manageable where JJ is, too.
Wasn’t running (for exercise/pleasure) in or right after a big rainstorm how our beknighted governor got himself paralyzed? Isn’t he supposed to be the poster child for these guys?
Oh, wait…maybe he is…
9Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Maybe that poor reporter wasn’t thinking right, had water on the brain or something.
Glad y’all are okay.
10From the original Ghostbusters movie: “Listen! Do you smell that?”
But the smell could be a Cruz-Gohmert miasma. Take care down there.
11Here in Austin, KXAN about two o’clock Saturday telecast and web-streamed a live press conference from Rockport with the mayor of Fulton and the county judge of Aransas County. The video is still there at the KXAN website as of 4:15 p.m. One aside, separate from the hurricane, is that I want either or both of them, of whatever political party, to run for higher office (like statewide) to maybe replace who we have now. A neighbor I talked to on the phone agreed.
12Port Arkansas?
Reminds me of Barbara Walters calling pronouncing Biloxi, MS as Bi-Loxi, MS.
13So far as of this A.M. we have 9 inches of rain and still counting. We are off Crabb River Rd. and Thompson Hwy.
14Just saw this on the Hou Chronic website. Thought I’d share another make-you-smile story.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/hurricane-harvey-otis-dog-texas-food-mouth-viral-11990775.php
Been calm and dry here near Poe Elementary inside the loop Houston. We’ll see what tonight brings
15Rhea, I imagine he was reading that cold. Heh, I always thought the southern pronunciation he was thinking was she-it without an e. Sorry, mama.
16I wonder what all the representatives like Randy Weber who voted against Hurricane Sandy relief will say now?
17I wasn’t aware of the stink already(which will worsen as more unrefrigerated food swills around) up here in Damnyankee land we are still reeling from the stench of Trump’s pardoning of the Geobels clone, Arpaio.
18To anyone who ends up dealing with the aftermath of flooding, whether your own or helping others, please remember to be extra careful moving debris. When the cleanup of Bridge City started after Ike, the amount of critters that had made their selves at home was astounding. Especially snakes and some alligators. Leather work boots are a good idea.
19Glad to hear you’re OK.
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