Tropical Storm Don to Hit Texas Within 18 Hours

[FarCenter]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-29/tropical-storm-don-to-land-in-texas-within-18-hours-u-s-department-says.html

Hopefully it won't be too bad, since FEMA will not be able to make any disaster releif payments if the debt ceiling isn't raised.

[Ineeda]

1. Recessionist Perry would be just fine with that..

:sarcasm:

[Purveyor]

2. Enjoy the rain Texas. From the reports I've seen you need it really bad.

We were dry here around mid-michigan but got our 7 inches of rain in the past 2 days.

Was a bit much for some areas in such a short period of time but we were alright here.

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[kentauros]

4. Except for the fact that the USDA

(you know, the federal government?) has declared each and every county in Texas (there are 213 counties here) as disaster areas. That's because each one has had 30% or more in crop damage due to the weather. So much for the feds not helping us when we need it.

Now, as for the remains of Tropical Storm Don, it was going into Texas just north of Brownsville this afternoon, making a track across the Rio Grande Valley and northern Mexico. From the computer models I've seen, it will peter out somewhere around El Paso, with a weak possibility of heading on over to Arizona and up into the continent. It won't even be a depression by then, but could carry enough moisture for more rain to the western interior of the country.

If Don had ever become a hurricane of sufficient power to wreak death and destruction upon Texas, I really don't expect you'd ever get to see your fantasies of a federal turn-down realized. In fact, I would never fantasize about that for anyone in our country, no matter what perceived evil their area might have had on the country. Our government should never be exclusionary in their help to those in dire need, no matter what!

[Urban Prairie]

5. Agreed, children of whackjob rightwingers are innocent of their parent(s) ideology, don't want

to see them needlessly suffer, even if they grow up to be as stupid, biased, sociopathic, hateful, ignorant and bigoted as their parent(s), always a chance one or more may reject that blatant hypocrisy.

[SheilaT]

6. You are absolutely right, and I know

I shouldn't ever be cavalier about others' misfortune, or dismissive of anyone's needs. But I am so angered by those who vilify our government, and then run for a handout, by those who make absolutely no connection between taxes and the common good, that I find myself wishing ill upon them. "Do unto others" is a very powerful statement (I'm only guilty of thinking, as bad as that is, and not actually doing) and I don't understand why the mean-spirited don't better understand that.

[WolverineDG]

7. A good way to have a whole lotta bad stuff happen to you

is to wish it would happen to others.

dg

[blogslut]

8. It hit the state and fizzled out

Up here in the Panhandle, we got a nice little storm out of it so that was cool.

As scary and damaging as tropical storms may be, I had kind of hoped Don would have had more oomph. Our entire state is parched.

[Odin2005]

9. That has to be the fastest fizzle EVER.