Trust our friends in Houston and other storm hit areas are safe.I've been getting info from friends over there saying parts of Huston and other areas are all under water. I see pictures of people in waist deep water getting away from their houses. Currently safer areas are also expected to go under if the threat of heavy rain later today materializes. There is a small chance that the storm will shift it's direction.
I hope all our friends in these areas are safe . Hope the storm does move away and brings an end to the devastation.
I hope all our friends in these areas are safe . Hope the storm does move away and brings an end to the devastation.
Brad Kieserman, VP of Disaster Operations and Logistics with American Red Cross stated in an NPR interview today that without caveat or qualification this is the worst natural disaster he's encountered in his over 30yr career. 50+ inches of rain has to go somewhere, until it does the flooding is expected to continue until well after Labor Day, turning south and central Texas into an inland lake the size of Lake Michigan.
This is scary frickin stuff, and the recovery will take years.
This is scary frickin stuff, and the recovery will take years.
We've made it through ok but we had one scary moment where one of our trees split right down the middle and came crashing down on our roof around 3 am just over our son's bedroom. He is just 8 so I grabbed him and carried him off quickly. Thankfully the roof was able to handle it but now it's going to take some work to get it all down from the there. We are nowhere near the coast but this storm covered a huge part of the state.
Sagan or Gore?
I don't remember with precision, but from the Carl Sagan's series or in the Al Gore's movie (or elsewhere), I learned that man returned to the atmosphere too many CO² in 200 years like the Earth has absorbed over millions of years (And accumulated in plants and animals in form of carbon). So, the Earth is unable to process this excessive energy in too little time. So, it is giving us back all we did to it.
Here in Buenos Aires, excepting 3 or 4 days, from 2 months we don't see Sun. Fog, rain, storms, clouds, humidity, drizzle, puffff. We are near to get roots. My plants has their foliage yellow in place of green. Ah, temperatures in midwinter are 22°C, in place of, say, 10°C. Humidity of 95 to 100% and dew in walls and corners of the house.
I don't remember with precision, but from the Carl Sagan's series or in the Al Gore's movie (or elsewhere), I learned that man returned to the atmosphere too many CO² in 200 years like the Earth has absorbed over millions of years (And accumulated in plants and animals in form of carbon). So, the Earth is unable to process this excessive energy in too little time. So, it is giving us back all we did to it.
Here in Buenos Aires, excepting 3 or 4 days, from 2 months we don't see Sun. Fog, rain, storms, clouds, humidity, drizzle, puffff. We are near to get roots. My plants has their foliage yellow in place of green. Ah, temperatures in midwinter are 22°C, in place of, say, 10°C. Humidity of 95 to 100% and dew in walls and corners of the house.
Knowing what we do now about the carbon cycle, to see the burning of fossil fuels as anything other than madness, is itself a madness 😡
Houston is bad getting worse, lots of flooded and displaced folks, great see people flocking in with boats to help rescue.
I live just little north on Lake Conroe and got luck so far.
I live just little north on Lake Conroe and got luck so far.
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