http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/20...r_n.html#incart_river_home_pop?li_source=base An editor needs to get fired for this.
It's only about me because people asked how we were. This thread is more about the political agendas of others than anything else.
You told us how you were. You've been in the chemically polluted water. It's just a matter of time until you turn into the Toxic Avenger.
I was hoping you'd pull Meyers' head off his body. https://media.giphy.com/media/Y9rNPRuGWhKqA/giphy.gif
A little over 100,000 homes flooded in Houston. I don't know if they are including other cities in that total.
5 in 6 have no flood insurance. Average FEMA grant per family will be $5,000. Max federal loan to repair home will be $50,000 but that could take years to get for many people. The people of Houston are truly fucked. ... The good news is you guys don't have many environmental laws so most people will just throw up new sheetrock and paint and call it fixed. And the NW used car lots will be "flooded" with cheap flood damaged Texas cars with clear titles.
Cars will most likely go to Mexico. That's whete most wholesale cars go anyway. Like I said earlier. I am one of those that does not have flood insurance. For me it's a matter of risk over cost. For others it's that they live in a damn flood plain and can't get flood insurance. Sucks.
Can't speak to that, but mine was quoted a couple of years ago at $180 per month, on top of my regular homeownets insurance. Maybe because of my proximity to the river?
Only the government could sell flood insurance to home owners with a house where it can flood. umm, that is not really insurance.
I sincerely hope you and all get through this without too much loss....thoughts with you and yours MM....I've lived through something similar...it's no fun bro..as to mosquitos and other pests.....when I lived in Taipei and the SARS virus happened, the only thing that stopped it was bleach...they put 50 gallon drums on every street corner and had everyone spray the neighborhood with it....also good to wear a surgical mask..it was law in Taipei to wear the mask in public and you had to have your temperature checked just to go into a store....eventually they contained it....wash your hands really often also helped...it was strange riding the subway when everyone wore masks.....only could see folks eyes...hope you find high ground if the floods hit home!
I worked at a medical college for the Tsi Chi Foundation for many years.....Jane Goodall and the Dalai Lama were involved with their disaster relief program..I was honored to meet them both. .they are first responders in Africa, Asia and were first responders for Katrina....we gave 20 bucks a month for decades to the foundation and volunteered for beach cleanup yearly in eastern Taiwan....the lack of funding for UNICEF and Doctors without borders is shameful...I'm a believer in the good works these folks do...disasters are no time for political bickering..they are a time for stacking sandbags....I grew up in the floodplains of the Missouri River Valley in Iowa...we had tornados and floods all throughout my childhood....communities bonded behind these disasters...the best of humanity will be found in Texas helping folks deal.
Our national leadership is part of disaster relief and the conversation.....it's valid to address what's being done..it's also a time to set aside differences and look beyond popularity polls
