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i'm all for taking climate change seriously but claiming this is the result of climate change is VERY dangerous. why? because it makes it easy to dismiss ALL climate change if you can show that this isn't

this is the first hurricane to hit the mainland US in like a decade. al gore and the chicken little club were running around after katrina saying this was going to happen all the time now... and then... it didn't. now you're gonna do that again?

what was that story, about the boy who cried wolf?

i would not hitch that wagon to climate change. that's a terrible idea

as for city planning... i dunno. seems odd to plan for epic disasters, doesn't it? like a once in several hundred year event? hurricanes happen, we know they do, and sometimes conditions make it terrible for some localized part of the country. huston is completely f**k right now, but there is very little that can be done. it's all f**k flat as the ocean and there's nowhere for the water to go. only thing that could make some sense is to have multistory buildings with cars parked on ground floor. this is just mitigating the flooding effects, but still doesn't stop it from happening. because you can't stop that. you saw the highways, they are nearly up to the overhead signs filled with water. what do you want them to do, build giant canals everywhere for water that might come again within a 1000 years, or might not? i recommend just not living there

Kane, there are already plans for these kind of things. Before we start pointing fingers we have to understand that this storm went from nothing to becoming one of the most destructive storms in 3-4 days. Houston, literally one of the largest cities in the United States and the entire southern Texas gulf border can't just be picked up and moved in days. It's literally impossible.

Even the meteorologists and experts were completely wrong on this one. The original messages coming out of the area was that people did not have to leave and then rapidly the situations changed and it's now one of the worst disasters we will ever have because the storm simply isn't moving. It's just sitting there.

this storm has dropped something like 11 trillion gallons of water on texas already. this is one twelfth of the volume of Lake Erie

Most of Houston received an entire years worth of rain in under 24 hours.

In 2005 over 100 people died during the evacuation of Huston, including 23 nursing home patients who died from their bus exploding

There's a number of things at play. I think in the short term the priority is to help those who need it. Long term will be to get lessens learned

I saw a stat today that Houston received nearly as much rain in 48 hours as Dallas has this entire year. Dallas has had a pretty wet year so far....ffs

I'm very familiar with the term 100 year flood (dealt with it in low elevation developments), but I saw a 500 year flood mentioned today (clearly a projection).

TBF, the incredible rain amounts were being predicted before it made landfall. I've got quite a few friends in Houston, and they're all ok right now. A few have been posting videos of their neighborhoods and it's crazy to see a street sign barely sticking out of the water..

I do have a good friend who's an avid deep sea fisherman who canceled a planned trip this weekend. He's still got an amazing boat moored in Port O'Connor he hopes. Harvey is projected to head back out to sea right over Port O...

You know, I couldn't help but notice the food choices of those featured in the article. You don't know if you have enough food to last, so you bought hotdogs, hamburgers, sheet cake and pizza?

I dunno man. I dunno. Something about that smells like actors. Is this a false flag?