Underwater: Today in Tweets

@ Weirwood:

The latter is going to depend on Trump and the Republican congress to get their shit together and fund clean up and rebuilding and take care of people who’ve lost their homes and/or businesses. I’m not too optimistic about that.

I’d like to think that Trump and the Republicans will expedite Harvey relief efforts, if only because there must be a lot of GOP voters caught up in the disaster. But who knows these days?

P.S. So glad that all Mammotheers in the path of the storm are okay.

I, too, hope any Mammothers in the effected area are safe. I’m not holding my breath, but if nothing else, let’s hope that Trump’s blithe attitude towards this whole incident garners some political fallout.

Could anything like this happen in New York, LA or Chicago? Because if so, then what would the logistics of evacuation, response and reconstruction be like then? Are any Mammothers geologists or seismologists? Cause if so, then I’ve always wanted to know – is the scenario of a giant earthquake in California just a disaster movie trope, or is it actually possible?

Gijoel
August 27, 2017 at 4:20 pm

Can’t wait for Trump to fly Airforce One over Texas.

Now for something nicer. A big fluffy dog gives an inspirational speech

And David Tennant tells us that everything will be okay.

[video of adorable David Tennant's words of wisdom]

Thank you bunches! I love that guy and that’s a great video! I remember when it came out after the dopey Brexit vote but it applies to everything going on, now. As long as we stay strong and keep up a good fight, everything will be fine. There are more of us (who value peace, freedom, kindness and love) than there are of them (hateful bigots and greedy Robber Barons).
Oh; Tenni is SO CUTE!….
….Here’s some very-vintage “Baby”-Tenni *swoons*. This is my main Tenni-squeeze, here; As adorable hypomaniac mental patient and deejay, Campbell Bain from the 1994 Scottish Miniseries, Takin’ Over The Asylum. The whole 6-Part show’s very bittersweet but I only really enjoy the first half (3 episodes) and take them together as a stand-alone 3-Part Idealistic tale….
https://syddygurl.deviantart.com/art/Originally-From-Journal-Need-To-Make-More-Room-682938202
….I explain my point better, here and even present my own fan edit “movie” which combines the first three episodes into one fun little movie.
I confess that the full-version was written to make a point and show how the mentally ill are mistreated by society and only accepting the first half misses the point. However; I feel my take on it and use of “Fanon Discontinuity” still makes a good point of “Fighting The Man and Winning” (with the Mental Hospital as just a setting).

Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile
August 27, 2017 at 4:54 pm

We Mammotheers need cheering up:

Trump is shedding supporters like no other president in modern history

Why are so many Trump voters edging away?

Pollsters who have conducted detailed interviews and focus groups say the most important factor may be that many have been disappointed by Trump’s failure to deliver on some of his biggest promises: new manufacturing jobs, a middle-class tax cut and lower healthcare costs.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-trump-polls-20170827-story.html

These voters don’t seem to be afraid of the hatred Trump promotes. But IMO, deep down they know that the hatred is part of the Trump package (the largest part) and that it promotes economic and political instability. And I think that they know that although instability might benefit the rich in some ways (for example, Joe Kennedy, father of US president John F. Kennedy and US attorney general Robert Kennedy, made an economic killing during the 1929 worldwide economic Depression), it’s highly unlikely to benefit them. Trump voters, the next time you vote, kindly check your id!

….Glad to know that many Trump-voters aren’t really bigots and simply voted for the guy despite his awfulness due to his economic promises and “business genius” they assumed he had. This gives me hope for this country. Glad they are waking up. Trump and the GOP have been so hateful and ridiculous that even the more moderate Conservatives, Centrists and such are realizing they were fooled.

The Emperor has no clothes! Everything about him is fake! He’s a childish, irrational, toddler-like egomaniac with no real business acumen. Can’t make a deal to save his life, his wealth is really his dad’s as well as from stealing from and stiffing people. His autobiography was made-up and written by a ghostwriter who now refutes him. On top of that, he’s a Fascist Tin-Pot-Dictator-Wannabee who’s a White Supremacist Neo-Nazi-sympathizer!

Time to reach out with compassion to the Trump-voter’s-remorse folks who voted for him for economic reasons and bring them to our side. Don’t laugh at them. That would drive them away. We need to come together under the banner of economic and social justice.

The Trump-voter’s-remorsers who left Trump because he wasn’t “Nazi” enough and couldn’t fulfill his biggest BIGOTED promises (that goofy wall that will never be built and those Muslim bans that don’t really go anywhere, for example), however….We can guffaw at those guys! They have no excuse!

Oh; About those “Scary Maurauding Mexicans of Doom”….
http://www.snopes.com/mexico-sent-troops-to-u-s-to-help-after-hurricane-katrina/
….They actually were very active in aiding us when Katrina struck. They picked up the slack when the US Govt. picked their noses. This was basically buried because it didn’t fit the narrative the Far Right and “Corporate Media” wanted to sell.

To the State of Texas….Especially those most hit….
….HERE’S A BIG FUZZY TEXAS-SIZED BIT O’ENCOURAGEMENT!
BEEG TEX THE CAT SEZ: “HANG IN THAR, PARDNER! *Meeeeooww*”

Stay safe everyone affected by the hurricane! I hope you all doing ok.

abars01:

For NYC, Sandy already showed a hint of how a catastrophe could strike.

For LA: just yesterday morning I was reading an article about megathrust earthquakes. Can’t have one on the CA coast. So you’re safe from a magnitude 9 like the Sumatra-Andaman or the Tohoku. And cold ocean currents mean that rainstorms are also going to be limited to the merely very bad.

For Chicago: I don’t know how you’d get a major disaster like these. A devastating drought could happen, but that doesn’t just kill you right away, you’ve got time to move.

The silver-lining to all this is that the sheer malice & ineptitude of “Jabba Don & The GOPer Bunch” is bound to lead to record numbers of DECENT & PROGRESSIVE people at the Ballots in 2018 & 2020.
Also; Although Arpaio was pardoned, the universe is gonna give him the stink-eye, he’s no longer in power, his dumb “Tent-City” is history and any attempts at running for office his bound to get a flood of voters who will be motivated to vote in the other candidate. Only bigoted weirdos like this guy!

Arpaio’s just some dumb grumpy old man who yells at Mexico shaped clouds, now….and he’s probably paranoid (not a clinical diagnosis, ‘WHtM’) as Hell! Plus; There’s pretty of dirt to sue him for….and it won’t involve milking dry taxpayer cash….HE’LL have to pay.

Don’t ignore the horror but always seek the silver-lining and keep up the fight and retain high morale….
….Like “Campbell Bain” here! Never gave up and became a cool deejay….also applies to the guy who played him.

SciAm reports that Harvey is drawing new evaporating moisture from both the nearby sea, and the flooded landscape it’s currently sitting on.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-harvey-why-is-it-so-extreme/

In effect, Gulf of Mexico has expanded into southeastern Texas.

Could Harvey exist as a self-perpetuating rain machine over land?

Masters says meteorologists cannot answer this question yet. “If it were to stay perfectly still, could it maintain itself for a long period of time?” he asks. “That’s an interesting theoretical question. We just don’t know.”

Well, it wasn’t a hurricane anymore by the time it got there, but Hurricane Ike in 2008 did cause significant flooding in Illinois, and Chicago was in a state of emergency for a time.

Oh, yes. I live in NWI, and we flooded pretty badly here. My daughter was in a few photos of the devastation that appeared in newspapers around the country.

I am so done with Republicans, forever. The party needs to be dissolved.

In acid?

Hurricane Ike in 2008 did cause significant flooding in Illinois, and Chicago was in a state of emergency for a time

Huh. I don’t remember it at all, despite that I lived in Chicago at the time. This year’s midwest floods were pretty epic though (according to various friends).

Hurricane Irene still has signs cursing her out in the White Mountains and Adirondacks, damage to trails is still apparent, and there’s washed-out streams all over.

The great Galveston hurricane of 1900 moved inland as a spent tropical storm, encountered another low, then re-intensified. People died in flash floods in Wisconsin, hurricane-force winds pounded the Great Lakes and ships were sunk, ships were sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence before it finally moved out into the Atlantic (Read “Isaac’s Storm”).

Some years ago (I forget the exact storm) we drove from Toledo OH to Syracuse NY with rain like a garden hose on the windshield the whole way. We caught a spent tropical storm that still had a ton of rain. There’s a big high over the plains that could spin the remains of Harvey up into the Ohio Valley.

Taking Tyra to the vet for the last time in two hours 🙁
She hit the place where no food or attention will make her happy.
Now Mischievous who has always had other cats around her will be home alone while my wife and I work until we get Tom and Dooder properly socialized.
I hate reality.