Y’all, Anna the Geek sent me this link early this morning to let me know I am not the only one having misery.

The White House communications team’s rapid response director, 31-year-old Andy Hemming, resigned on Monday. National news outlets probably knew him best as “that guy who tried to find positive news stories about Trump.”

This isn’t an uncommon role, but Hemming’s job reportedly included delivering a folder full of positive news articles twice a day to Trump. According to Politico, Hemming was paid “$89,000 a year to spot and distribute positive stories from the mainstream media.” He worked from 5:30AM to 11PM every weekday.

That poor guy could come to Houston to vacation this week and think it’s an improvement over his past job.

I am fine, and I tend to feel a little guilty about that.  My friends and neighbors in the path of Harvey are not so good.  I know the word catastrophic is overused right now, but I don’t know a better one.  This is Katrina.  People are on the roofs of their homes, big fancy two story homes included.  Hospitals are packed and the largest trauma center (Ben Taub) has backed-up septic system.  Even outside of the flooding, the roads are not holding up well. This is the road I take to the grocery store.

This is why they are telling people to stay home if they can.

It will take Houston years to recover.  On the plus side, we have a good mayor and county judge.  We also have a sense of humor and a whole lot of guys with flat bottom boats who just live for this so they can go rescue people.