Posted on 05/18/2024 1:24:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The city of Houston on Saturday opened new distribution centers to give out water as around 500,000 customers remained without power following severe storms blamed in the deaths of seven people in the region.
Houston was forecast to reach a high of 90 degrees Saturday as the city and Harris County recovers from tornadoes and 100 mph straight-line winds that struck with little warning on Thursday.
Seven deaths — four in Houston and three in unincorporated Harris County — have been blamed on effects from the weather, including from falling trees and a fire sparked by lighting.
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My daughter in Cypress managed to avoid the power outages from the giant high voltage towers that went down
I’m glad she’s okay
Prayers up for these people.
Wait until they build that 30 million acre wind farm in the gulf off west LA and Texas. To supply power(?) to 11 million. Uh, huh. Roughly 2.5 (+/-) acres per? That doesn’t sound right. Or right.
Oh they are absolute right! In fact back in the day, people blamed the flood on climate change. Noah just rolled his eyes. Sure.
Coming soon to all of us, if the left keeps up their normal science-illiterate, history illiterate, and totally illogical POS practices. There is only one solution - folks, to the problems caused by the left. It’s not pretty, but it’s the ONLY solution. We do, however, have to figure how to safely dispose of the remains.
This will be a boom to electric vehicle sales..
Bewhahahahahah
Cuz democrats are so good at planning for potential disasters like Hurricanes and floods. Last time Houston had anything like this was oh....Harvey in 2017, but that was Trump’s fault and we got rid of him.
I read that 1 wind turbine powers 600 homes.
I used to live in Lakewood Forest, which is in Cypress. I was without power for three weeks after Rita. It’s a nice neighborhood but it has lots and lots of trees and overhead power lines.
In Houston, the damage looks like Alicia.
BTTT!!!
Growing up in Houston I picked up the prepper habit as a kid, much as I assume people here from rural areas of hard winter and snow country did.
IIRC the ocean energy department posted the 11 million number. I could be wrong. Wait until a Cat 6 meanders through.
The uncertain weather in any coastal area is the main reason I’ve never wanted to live in one-hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, etc are frequent enough to keep you on high alert every time the wind gets high or you see a supercell forming, raise insurance rates into orbit, etc. But that weather has always existed in those areas-historical accounts are full of photos and accounts of those events-it isn’t any kind of BS climate change-just out of curiosity, where does your relative live?
For Alicia I had a company vehicle so I tried to drive around some during the hurricane for sight seeing, which was challenging and I was mostly just barely peering over the dashboard as things flew by, when the pickup started blowing off the freeway on the way home I had to pull into a Ramada Inn where other people were hiding out as the upper floors were suffering damage, it was a fun time in the bar.
“Windex makes glass so clean, it seems to disappeart.”
There will be a whole lot of instant coral reefs that day. Who said those windmills are worthless
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