Posted on 08/28/2017 10:38:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
One danger evacuees and first responders are dealing with along with the flooding in Houston is fire ants.
Islands of fire ants!
CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca tweeted a photo from Houston as the ants formed a protective island in the high water.
According to Orkin.com, fire ants can exist in colonies of up to 250,000 workers and will sting intruders repeatedly. Fire ants feed on animal or vegetable sources of food according to the web site.
No reports yet of anyone getting bitten by fire ants.
Tropical Storm Harvey continues to head back toward the Gulf of Mexico at a slow pace.
In its 10 p.m. CDT Sunday advisory, the National Hurricane Center reported that the storm still had sustained winds of up to 40 mph and is centered 20 miles east of Victoria, Texas, about 120 miles southwest of Houston. It continues to creep to the east-southeast at 3 mph.
That means it remains virtually stalled near the coast and continues to drop heavy rain on the Houston and Galveston areas. In the past 48 hours, numerous spots in the region have measured more than 25 inches of rainfall.
The hurricane center says Harvey’s center was expected to drift off the middle Texas coast on Monday and meander offshore through Tuesday before beginning “a slow northeastward motion.”
Those skeeters will be so big, you’ll need a shotgun to go skeet shooting.
The naked jungle.
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I recall reading that book in the ‘50s, when I was a teen!
Those army ants destroy everything in their path when they are on the move.
Yes sir. It will work.
Or as we called them back then, the "pickle suit." Were you issued 1505's too?
You’ve got to see the movie.
And on land also. Amazing stuff.
I remember “pickles,” and “canned pickles” when we got our name tags sewn on. Don’t know what 1505’s are, by that name.
1505's were the khaki uniform, like the blue uniforms were 1549/1550. I was one of the last BMT flights to get that issue in 1975 and they were so old and mismatched that the khaki trousers had a pink hue. We suspected that they had tried to clear out the old Army Air Corps supply from before 1947.
No, we didn’t get those. I was in ‘81-’85. They kept floating rumors that we’d get the suede boots and cammies, but no. Just perm press fatigues and boots we had to shine.
Eventually burns itself out in water and you have removed a nest of red devils in the process.
Unless it makes it to a house first.
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