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Pray For Houston: Hurricane Harvey
- Flooding considered some of the worst in US history.
# Pray For Houston…
Folks, it’s time to #Pray For Houston and the surrounding areas of Texas.
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On Friday night, Houston, the 4th largest city in America, was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey. The end result of the devastation is now being called one of the worst flooding natural disasters in US history.
Damage is said to be in the billions. The clean-up efforts to return Houston back to its original form is predicted to take years.
Whatever your beliefs, or however you pray, please #Pray For Houston. They need you!
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Praying for everybody down there. God bless.
Watching this catastrophic event unfold over the weekend was just heart-breaking. And it’s still not over yet, which makes it even more heart-breaking.
My “better half” resides in a beautiful suburb about 30 minutes outside Dallas. They are being spared this nightmare in terms of weather.
But she and I both are so frustrated that in 2017, we live in a nation that put a man on the moon, but somehow local, state and federal government STILL CAN’T come together and enact a coordinated plan to effectively get people OUT of harms way in a TIMELY manner when facing a natural disaster such as a Category 4 hurricane!?!
It’s sickens me. Something.Has.Got.To.Change.
On a related note……Read it and weep.
This investigative research article reveals why Houston has been a sitting duck for this kind of calamity for quite some time and why nothing has been done to address this critical issue.
“Hell and High Water”
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Why isn’t Texas ready? […]
by Neena Satija and Kiah Collier for The Texas Tribune, and Al Shaw and Jeff Larson for ProPublica, March 3, 2016, – https://www.propublica.org/article/hell-and-high-water-text
H/T: Morning Joe, MSNBC