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BREAKING: Houston Mayor Has Vanished!
RedStateWatcher ^ | August 27, 2017

Posted on 08/28/2017 4:19:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Despite repeated attempts, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reported that he has been unable to reach Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Abbott has called Turner's cell phone "several times" to offer aid and whatever he may need in this time of crisis.

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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; houston; houstonmayor; hurricaneharvey; mia; sylvesterturner
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To: Bonemaker
Tell that to the schmucks and losers on their roofs now.

Have you ever experienced a Hurricane?

41 posted on 08/28/2017 4:56:37 PM PDT by Bayou City
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To: AndyJackson

I thought Marion Berry loved snow.


42 posted on 08/28/2017 4:56:44 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: BenLurkin

I lika dat Ben Lerkin!!! LOL


43 posted on 08/28/2017 4:57:24 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: PJ-Comix

The mayor is seen here flashing the big "W", indicating "WATER".   While flashing that sign, hizzoner was heard to exclaim, "There's a lot of water out there!   I'm outta here!", and he hasn't been seen or heard from since.

       


44 posted on 08/28/2017 4:58:21 PM PDT by Songcraft (Praise the Lord! Psalm 147:1)
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To: PJ-Comix

Ray Nagin II?

First time I heard this guy Thurs I said Uh Oh DS..


45 posted on 08/28/2017 4:58:28 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: PJ-Comix

This is Ray Nagin II ( is he out of jail?) this mayor was so bad that he didn’t even call for a voluntary evacuation. What an idiot!!!Send him the bill. I don’t want it.


46 posted on 08/28/2017 4:58:41 PM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: PJ-Comix

Looting?


47 posted on 08/28/2017 4:59:10 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: BenLurkin


48 posted on 08/28/2017 4:59:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Bonemaker
But should have urged splitting.

I thought most intelligent people would have a clue which areas were likely to flood, like those near a *river* and evac some of them.

I never saw why it had to be all or none.

49 posted on 08/28/2017 5:00:38 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: PJ-Comix

Checking to see if those rotten statues survived the storm. < /s >


50 posted on 08/28/2017 5:01:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: scbison
You can bet Huston has a team thats paid to come up with a civil defense and evacuation plan though.

I bet they are all Democrats too.

51 posted on 08/28/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: silverleaf

“Vote Quimby”!


52 posted on 08/28/2017 5:02:54 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Ancient Man

I hope he goes to Rockport and Port Aransas


53 posted on 08/28/2017 5:04:21 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: DannyTN; CatOwner
Yes, the Republican governor said they should probably evacuate. That he would if he lived there. The Democrat Mayor and the Republican judge over emergency services told them to stay put.

If I recall correctly, talk of evacuation was about the fear of a category 4 hurricane making landfall.

Corpus Christi was evacuating. Rockport was evacuating. South Padre Island was evacuating voluntarily. Galveston was talking about evacuating.

But Houston was not considering evacuating due to the fear of high wind and storm surge damage because they are a lot further inland.

At the beginning, nobody was talking about evacuating because of a fear of flooding days later. Most people expected the storm to bounce back into the Gulf and move east, so wind damage was top of mind.

-PJ

54 posted on 08/28/2017 5:05:32 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Is the mayor of Houston a Democrat?


55 posted on 08/28/2017 5:06:57 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Political Junkie Too

The hellride on 290 during Rita’s evacuation was because LIVs were getting out of their cars to walk the dog, pee, walk to McDonald’s etc. The cars kept rolling, maybe, about 1MPH.

Law enforcement was nowhere to be found the entire route. Gas station scuffles and what not were ignored.

Keep the cars moving and there wouldn’t be the problems.

And the news of the storm was there on Tuesday telling people to fill up their cars. Rain didn’t come to Houston until Saturday (minimal rains Friday).

Evacuating on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday wouldn’t have been a problem even with “24 hour driving conditions”. Waiting until the boss says “go home” at 11am on Friday is too late.


56 posted on 08/28/2017 5:08:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Political Junkie Too

By Thursday were were already aware that the storm was project to linger in the area dropping water with some models suggesting it would return to the gulf and pick up more water as Allison had done in 2001.


57 posted on 08/28/2017 5:11:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Bayou City

I don’t believe people stop to think what trying to evacuate Harris County and any surrounding counties entails.

It really can’t be done. You could try and take care of some small areas that would be really hit bad, etc. But trying to take care of any large metropolitan area would be impossible, no matter how much lead tome you had.

There are only so many roads and they would be jacked up from the git go, No traffic moving very fast, if at all. So there you are with all those people driving to no where and trapped on the freeways, some of which were flooded over.


58 posted on 08/28/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: BenLurkin

LOL

The sign language guy thing really needs to stop.

It’s 2017, there is instantaneous translation via closed captioning, and I know for damn sure that if you asked a deaf person to write down what he was being signed it would not be close to what the speaker is saying.


59 posted on 08/28/2017 5:16:45 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Political Junkie Too

2 million people pouring out of Houston, northward? Ridiculous.

In this magnitude of storm there are bound to be mistakes, but so far instead of 1900 dead, as Katrina, there are reportedly 6.

Those were in a car traveling.

The mayor did fine.

He was concerned foremost with his mandatory evac of the most vulnerable getting out of lower lying areas in a timely manner.

He is not the mayor of Rockport, I think.


60 posted on 08/28/2017 5:18:16 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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