Posted on 10/17/2017 5:05:43 PM PDT by Ennis85
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — Jefferson County, Texas, was drowned by more than 60 inches of rain during Hurricane Harvey, which left wide swaths of the county in ruins. Last November, Jefferson flipped from voting Democratic in presidential elections to instead back Donald Trump, who has dismissed the concept of climate change as a hoax and has worked to undo regulations meant to mitigate its damage.
Scientists say climate change doesn’t cause hurricanes but that warming and rising seas supercharge those already forming. Some who lost everything in Harvey’s floodwaters say they’re starting to take the threat of climate change more seriously now, and they want Trump to show more leadership on the issue. But this is a place that depends on the petroleum industry, and others applaud Trump’s efforts to reverse environmental policies that they see as harmful.
Here are some of the voices from the rebuilding in Texas.
“IT’S A WAKE-UP CALL”
Greg Gunner slumped down on his front stoop and dropped his head in his hands, feeling for the first time since the flood claimed his home that the weight of his troubles might overwhelm him.
Day after day, he had tried to keep smiling as he pulled up the carpets and tore out the baseboards. Inside the damp house, his 99-year-old grandmother, stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, lay in bed in a white nightgown and his 74-year-old mother’s joints ached from rheumatoid arthritis.
He had carried them out of the house in Port Arthur as the floodwaters rose, telling his grandmother they were going fishing to try to keep her calm. He cracked a front tooth as he hoisted her into a rescue boat. A week later, they returned to their home of 50 years to find the
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Baloney.
I guess people have forgotten about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane that leveled the island
Makes the Huston storm look like a spring shower.
Uh, hurricane season?
If they lived in Port Arthur this wasn’t their first rodeo.
Perhaps the Global Warming alarmists would have more credibility if they did not blame EVERY single bad weather event on Global Warming.
Erma Gawd what stupid people. They get lucky having a decade with zero hurricanes and they go stupid when they get one
If you don’t like the weather in TEXAS, wait an hour...
I live in Nederland, TX, in between Port Arthur and Beaumont (The epi-center of the rain).. I had NO flooding, Close, but none... I give all credit and praise to the professionals at Drainage District Number7 for their work during this period!!!
Right. I’m here in the middle of the Nunn’s Fire which they are going to blame on climate, not 53 years of unchecked, mismanaged fuel build up.
Paging Mr. Goebbels, Mr. Josef Goebbels.
These hurricanes, tropical depressions and the like have been around since Spot was a pup and in this instance, I’m Spot. I was born and raised in southeast Texas and I see nothing different from times past and I’ve been through quiet a few of these frog stranglers......;)
Wonder if they have factored in “Chem Trails” (GeoEngineering) into their theory of “climate change” producing “super storms”?
Not just going to say B.S....but think its good to break it down.
They conflated "climate change" with the "warning" and "rising" seas in this little sentence. A little funny since it used to be called "global warming" and now its just "climate change"...but it seems they want us to think of it as a cause of warming in this particular case.
Does the man made portion of "climate change" cause hurricanes? we have no fricken idea but its very unlikely it had much effect, because the patterns of hurricanes are not very unusual. And the change in climate has not been unusual since mankind has been sinning against the global warming gods.
Does waming in the seas cause hurricanes to be more intense? Yes. This has been about as well established as any theory about weather can be. But since the warmth of the seas has not been that unusual, the hurricane patterns have not been that unusual.
What about sea level rising? Its very slow, only a few centimeters per century for the past 8000 years or so. By contrast the earlier sea level rise from the start of our current interglacial period (about 11,700 years ago) was much more pronounced. What a few centimeters of rise per century has to do with hurricanes being more intense as it relates to human contribution to climate change seems to be a pretty pointless conflation.
When I see Venice go underwater, I will be worried.
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