It is probably the case that both conditions existed at the same time in different areas outside and inside Houston.
Houston has quite a few connections outside the city. Someone inside the city may not have noticed the same conditions as they were not immediately affected (or aware) of the blockages leading to the city borders. Best guess at least.
For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction. -- Anonymous
You are absolutely correct Fore.Originally Posted by Fore
Ike's path took the eye over Galveston Island leaving Galveston bay to it's east side and many small bedroom communities and industrial towns also to the east as well as a line form the southeast to northwest of the 610 loop. So everything on the east side was hit harder than anything to the west, though I must say "hit hard" is a relative term when talking about a hurricane.
Many variables are at play! For instance, the east side that borders Galveston bay is lower and therefor subject to storm surge greater than that to the west of the line of the path, being marginally of greater altitude, again, depending where you are, what a complex issue. Not to mention tornado's associated with the storm.
Still my sister (who was there) said (Houston the city) was not that badly hit, yeah, power outages and you didn't want to drink the water, and yes of course some downed trees and sign and the like but I think they were more affected by flooding than that, and as we all know flood water is notoriously hard to bulldoze. That is not to say on the other hand that there were not boat on the roads, yards and parking lots along the bay. there are plenty of boats for that to have happened. Heck I lived on a 40' sloop in Seabrook shipyards for years and can also confirm there are plenty of neglected boat with rotting mooring lines that parted during the storm. Can anyone say yay insurance payoff again...
That being said, my heart goes out to those who did suffer, It would be foolish to say there were none or to minimalize in any way what others may have experienced!
For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction. -- Anonymous
I heard on a radio news station, there is call to halt travel from select nations into the United States.
Actually I think it goes more to the fear side of things rather than reality. Don't get me wrong but I mean look at the statistics for flu deaths (about 36,000 average per year, though in pandemic years up to 50 million). Ebola? (maybe 4 to 5 thousand?) 2014 so far.
What do we do? As far as I know we are spending trillions to kill each other. Can we guess who the we biggest spenders are? Not sure how much we spend to find a way to avoid pandemic. At the end of Vietnam Nixon initiated operation linebacker tried to bomb Hanoi back to the stone ages with smart bombs... Didn't work. Even though we the people ended up dropping more tonnage of HE than we dropped during all of WWII.
Sound familiar?
As long as our apparent collective priorities are so screwed up, I don't know that many answers or plans to thwart pandemic, or any of the myriad problems we (the human species) face are going to be forthcoming. Though there may be no easy answer one way or the other. For what it's worth though I would rather the epitaph say at least we tried than they left behind such and such mega tons of weapons.
We must not be frozen or rushed pell-mell by fear. Not now!
Wow I had no idea.
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock."
http://www.dailypaul.com/327741/nbc-...ola-quarantine
Yeah, she did it. Not like anything will happen to her for breaking quarantine though.
She even blamed her own crew for going out of the car and picking up the food in the restaurant. She even disguised her own appearance and sat in the backseat. I wonder why?
For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction. -- Anonymous
The press acts like they are more entitled than any other group in our society. Politicians and the police also have exagerated attitudes of entitlement, but the press should limit themselves in their entitlement as they are supposed to have the public trust. Acts like this put that to being a lie.
She was losing out on the face time she was getting used to on the little screen so she had to do something.
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