Okay, So What’s Causing the Flooding in Texas?
California Republican State Assemblywoman Shannon Grove has discovered what is causing the droughts in California. Abortion.
Yeah, you never figured that, did you?
Grove usually spends her time drafting right-wing legislation that never makes it out of committee. Last week, though, she hit the publicity jackpot when she told the California ProLife Legislative banquet that the drought is God’s punishment for California’s legalization of abortion.
But if you’re wondering what that has to do with me in Texas, I am fixing to tell you.
In her remarks to the Sacramento gathering, she cited what she said was Perry’s experience with a situation identical to California’s: “Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience, referring to a measure that banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. “It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California.”
First off, that never happened. Perry signed that bill on July 18, 2013. There as no rain on that day.
Hellfire, it did not start raining in Texas until after Rick Perry resigned and left office.
Plus, you might want to be careful what you pray for. Last month, Texas got enough rain to cover the entire state with 8 inches of water. Twenty two people died in the floods and our self-sustaining Republican leadership had to go begging President Barack Obama for disaster relief.
Torrential rains have already given Texas the wettest month on record, according to Texas A&M climatologists. And extreme river and creek flooding has broken many records and swept away hundreds of homes.
Annndddd …. look what’s headed our way.
They are saying a foot of rainfall south of Houston. Where do I live? South of damn Houston.
So if this sucker gets here and my house floats away, I get to blame Rick Perry and lack of choice for women? Heck, that might be worth it.
So God is being nice to Texas by hitting them with massive flooding? Last I heard, God used floods to punish people – Noah’s Ark and all that stuff.
1Hold on a second. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that a woman caller confidently claimed on the rightwing talk radio show hosted by Bryan Fischer that the floods in Texas were caused by all the “sodomites” that live here? And he agreed with her. I’m confused.
2Frankly, they’re both wrong: it’s the sunspots reflecting off the planet Ceres and affecting the lunar atmosphere which disturbs the magnetosphere of the Northern Hemisphere. So there.
3So if you have any water or flood damage you send a bill to the Right-To-Life people. When you get to court, you can use Ms Grove as an ‘expert’ witless.
4Yeah I went all fundie pastor on my poor spouse this morning and declared that God is unimpressed with open carry, campus carry, and being mean to gay people, African American people, and just generally anyone else who is poor or not-like-us…
5By the way, there is a tropical something brewing up off the Yucatan that is meant to head in here between S Padre and Galveston Bay sometime Tues-Wed timeframe. I blame Abbott, Paxton and Patrick, the modern Three Stooges; not a wise guy among them!
Y’all meet soon-to-be TS Bill (links below), who has just drifted through the Yucatan and is now in the Bay of Campeche (southern Gulf of Mexico). It was first just a <10%'er, now up to 70% chance of TS formation.
I've been watching this closely since Thursday with the NHC, et al (I'm a WXnut), it is progged to move NW, which takes it almost certainly to the Texas coast, likely from Corpus to Galveston. Dang, got to secure the boat ASAP, these Yuc/GOM storms usually move up here quick.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Latest Tropical Discussion on it at the NHC:
Atlantic 2-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2
200 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A surface trough of low pressure has moved off of the Yucatan
peninsula and into the southern Gulf of Mexico this afternoon. The
system is accompanied by an area of thunderstorms and winds to
near gale force well to the east of the trough, but it does not yet
have a well-defined closed circulation. This weather system is
expected to move northwestward over the next couple of days across
the western Gulf of Mexico, where upper-level winds are forecast to
gradually become more favorable for tropical cyclone formation. An
Air Force Reserve Unit reconnaissance aircraft will investigate the
system late this afternoon, with another mission planned for
Monday morning. Interests in and along the northwestern Gulf of
Mexico should monitor the progress of this system. For additional
information, please see High Seas forecasts as well as products
issued by your local National Weather Service Forecast Office.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…high…70 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…70 percent
And:
…SPECIAL FEATURES…
A SHARP TROUGH OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE YUCATAN
6PENINSULA AND SOUTHERN GULF IN COMBINATION WITH AN UPPER-LEVEL
LOW OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO…CONTINUES TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF GUATEMALA…BELIZE…THE
YUCATAN…AND ADJACENT WATERS. UPPER LEVEL WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR SOME DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT DAY OR
TWO AS THE SYSTEM MOVES NORTHWESTWARD INTO THE WESTERN GULF OF
MEXICO. HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THESE AREAS
TODAY…ALONG WITH WINDS TO NEAR GALE FORCE OVER PORTIONS OF THE
NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO.
The thing I really don’t understand is that this woman thinks that her particular god is causing suffering to untold millions of his worshipers because some woman went and got herself a legal abortion. Why didn’t he just smite her if it bothers him so much? Really, her god sounds like a particular ass. Yet she still thinks her god is all that great and such? She could do better. Jain in an oddly nice deity if you must have one.
7The big point these fools Don’t get is abortions don’t stop when you shut down clinics, just Safe Medical Abortions do.
I grew up in an age where you could use an opened wire hanger for 2 things, a DIY abortion , and open your car door if you forgot your keys. I don’t think the kids today understand this. If this stuff continues they will learn the second use for knitting needles.
8J.J., have you got any friends on higher ground? I’d start getting myself invited for a week or so. Be safe.
9These Old Testament soothsayers are part of the “facts are an inconvenience” gang and love to blame people who don’t agree with their particular philosophy, so they make their”god” do it for them.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say heavy rains caused the floods.
10My, my. She sounds so certain. But when a tornado
11wipes out a town in the Bible Belt? Crickets. Her god
works in mysterious ways.
@JAKvirginia and others: Yes, for an all-knowing, all-powerful supreme being, the Kristian* God sure does generate a bunch of what the Pentagon calls “collateral damage.” Odd how being all-knowing and all-powerful doesn’t also give one better aim and more selective punishment methods.
Satan, now – I could see Satan killing lots of innocent people and then trying to blame the Christian God for Satan’s actions. Perhaps Ms. Grove should ask the being with whom she communicates for some ID?
*Kristian = fake Christian.
12montag: re your “you can use Ms Grove as an ‘expert’ witless.” Is that a typo, or did you just sneak a snark in on us? If a snark, I applaud it.
13Ms Grove is so typical of the hallucinating, lying right wingers. These people are so moral they would back their truck over their own mother. So pay no attention to the strange woman behind the curtain . . .
14The women needs more science and less religion.
15And fast.
Shannon Grove is what happens when you remove your intellect and replace it with religion.
16Always hard to digest the fact that some people still have “religious” beliefs like this in the 21st century. I wonder if she thinks the Internet is a long tube connected directly to Satan’s mouth (or other orifice).
17Nowhere does it say that insane people can’t be elected to public office.
18She is one more “Christian” who is bound and determined to create her God in her own psychopathic image.
19Dog was answering Shannon’s prayers and opened up the spit valve on Oklahoma?
Given the range of disasters, the Christo-fascists should halt all prayers, except one for the Dog to improve its aim. Or, at a minimum, check the wind direction before they start praying.
20I can only see about three things that cause floods and abortion isn’t one of them. For us landlocked lubbers,heavy rains cause the floods. In some places where there is heavy snow melt can cause floods. Otherwise you pretty much need a storm surge along a coast via a hurricane/tropical storm.
Since so many fauxknee religious nuts are being caught up,maybe their god is pissed at them for assuming his/her/its duties.
21According to Shannon Grove, drought is caused by abortion. I wonder what stupidity is caused by. Oh yeah…religion.
22Getting rid of Perry did the trick.
23One thing I’ve never quite understood: how come you hear about people being sodomized but you never hear about people being Gemorahized?
24That crazy woman is among many where she lives. It’s in the central valley of CA, and is the 2nd Bible Belt…….believe me. Way too much craziness in that part of the world. She represents Bakersfield, where the churches compete with the Mexican restaurants to see who can build the most the fastest. I think the churches are winning. If you think she is crazy, she can’t even hold a light to a woman who is on the city council in Bakersfield. The crazy never takes a breather for either of them.
25Scott, we were Gemorahized in 2008 with no thanks to John McCain. Gemorahized would be a perfect description of ‘Palin speak,’ but “word salad” won the popular vote regarding whatever shot out of that woman’s mouth.
As for natural disasters, conservatives are a confusing group. Maybe it’s a patriarchal thing with them that they cannot appreciate Mother Nature, while they are quick to blame God for everything they don’t like. It’s like a love/hate relationship with conservatives and their religion. They’re quick to blame the Man they profess to love for everything they dislike. I’m no Freud, but if I had to guess, they have daddy issues.
26scottybeamer, great points in understanding the diversity of California. Home to Governor Moonbeam was also the fertilized crescent of the John Birch Society. As we used to say in NV, “jokers to our left (CA) and jokers to our right (UT).”
Those were the ‘good old days,’ before the rigors of the desert heat fueled by Shelly’s money spawned the Tea Party. Now we have the jokers within our borders, so we’re not so glib or gleeful these days. Nevada, home to Cliven Bundy, (and that is only one example of many) demonstrates that our Wild West has become the Weird West.
27We are having a severe drought in California, but to the best of my knowledge it hasn’t killed anybody.
I don’t know if this is the cause of the flooding in Texas, but the accumulated drool of right-wing Texas politicians can’t be helping.
28PKM,
It’s actually pretty simple. It’s called “the allusion of control”. If God is responsible for all disasters then I control my own fate by obeying God’s laws. If I am forced to admit that:
1) God does not choose where natural disasters strike because God created the world with natural laws.
2) Natural disasters are more or less random.
Then I must admit that I am not completely control my own fate. That’s extremely scary for people that micromanage every aspect of their lives.
29Actually, this gal has it half right. God punishes, and Shannon Grove is God’s punishment wrought on California.
30Oh lordy. Would an inflatable mattress work for a raft? I keep hearing 20 inches of rain. Our yard is going to be impenetrable, this keeps up.
31I think all natural disasters are caused when five people take photos in the naked taken on Mt Everest.
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