The entire city of Houston is shutdown. Everyone was told decades ago to expect this. Oh, what can rain do? The correct answer is a lot. The costs of the climate crisis is ridiculous and it is hitting the federal government in a challenge to take care of people. The country needs a tax increase to pay for vital programs and rise to the occassion of dire emergencies. Everyone was told.
All this could have been averted if it weren't for Republican dinosaurs elected to office throughout the country.
April 18, 2016
By Jon Herskovitz
Large parts of Texas (click here) were under a flash flood warning on Monday after a storm system dumped as much as 20 inches (51 cm)of rain in areas near Houston, causing hundreds of canceled flights, closed roads and massive power outages.
The National Weather Service also issued a flash flood watch extending through much of central Texas, into the Houston area as well as western Louisiana and Arkansas.
In Houston, more than 70 residential subdivisions reported flooding and Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled his State of the City speech planned for Monday, instructing all non-essential city employees to stay home.
"If you do not have to be out, please stay put. This not the day to be on the roads in the city of Houston," Turner told reporters, adding seven area rivers have exceeded their banks....
All this could have been averted if it weren't for Republican dinosaurs elected to office throughout the country.
April 18, 2016
By Jon Herskovitz
Large parts of Texas (click here) were under a flash flood warning on Monday after a storm system dumped as much as 20 inches (51 cm)of rain in areas near Houston, causing hundreds of canceled flights, closed roads and massive power outages.
The National Weather Service also issued a flash flood watch extending through much of central Texas, into the Houston area as well as western Louisiana and Arkansas.
In Houston, more than 70 residential subdivisions reported flooding and Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled his State of the City speech planned for Monday, instructing all non-essential city employees to stay home.
"If you do not have to be out, please stay put. This not the day to be on the roads in the city of Houston," Turner told reporters, adding seven area rivers have exceeded their banks....
