Hurricane Harvey

[Ooh-Rah]

Wife read this quote to me yesterday- I guess we have learned a little bit since Katrina in communicating the seriousness of an event.

People not evacuating for hurricane told to put Social Security numbers on arms

He should add...."and we'll send your asses a bill if we need to send a helicopter to rescue you".

 

[Poccington]

I hope all the Texas based SS members and family members have a relatively uneventful few days.

Stay safe.

 

[DA SWO]

Still waiting for bad weather.
winds 25G35.
Environmental Liars are promising rains and TS winds tonight.
We shall see.

 

[Marauder06]

I cast a spell of hate and disgust at cock-fucks who profiteer during times of crisis....(I'll never forget the evening of 9/11 and nearly every gas station in Minneapolis was selling for well over $5/gallon.

Man confronts alleged Texas price gouger in Harvey prep | Daily Mail Online

I mock those who are forced to pay profiteers such prices because they are not prepared. At any one time, I am sure to have enough water/canned goods/gas to weather a pretty serious power outage or snow storm.

Come on people, just pick up an extra case of water at the grocery store from time to time. It's not that complicted.

Interesting perspective on price gouging:Why Economists Love Price Gouging, And Why It's So Rare

 

[Frank S.]

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If you die, can I have your truck?

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Interesting perspective on price gouging:Why Economists Love Price Gouging, And Why It's So Rare

Yeah but....

I would submit that there is a distinct difference between price gouging and profiteering.

- Snow storm and the price of snow blowers go up? Price gouging, but legal and fair.
- City drinking water is contaminated and you skyrocket the price of bottled water? Profiteering and shady as fuck.

Who deems which is which? I don't know, and I'll fall the way of former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's often misquoted take on what defines "hard-core pornography, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."

 

[Diamondback 2/2]

If you die, can I have your truck?

Sure if you want the payment that goes with it.:dead:

 

[Frank S.]

I was gonna leave it in your name. You know, as a tribute like. Yeah that's it.

:-"

 

[Red Flag 1]

I was gonna leave it in your name. You know, as a tribute like. Yeah that's it.

:-"

My hero Frank S., morphs into the John Lovitz of SS.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Weather Channel Guy gets mopho bonus points....

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155766292640921

 

[Kraut783]

That was nice....respect!

 

[Red Flag 1]

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[DA SWO]

Wimpy storm as far as San Antonio is concerned.

 

[TLDR20]

Wimpy storm as far as San Antonio is concerned.

Aren't you like 150 miles from the coast?

 

[Kraut783]

San Antonio got lucky when Harvey started to turn away from that area.....family in Bryan/College Station area is only getting pounded with rain...but a lot of rain and it's not letting up. Too much of a good thing.....

 

[81FO]

Hey, just wanted to offer prayers and support for anyone in the strike zone. Any memebers affected?

Been through several in my life, can empathize with the stress.

 

[DA SWO]

San Antonio got lucky when Harvey started to turn away from that area.....family in Bryan/College Station area is only getting pounded with rain...but a lot of rain and it's not letting up. Too much of a good thing.....

We had a dry slot over the city that killed everything coming over (1.94" at the airport).
53mph gust was recorded, that's nothing really.

 

[TLDR20]

We had a dry slot over the city that killed everything coming over (1.94" at the airport).
53mph gust was recorded, that's nothing really.

You are lucky. Houston looks underwater...

 

[Ranger Psych]

I will more than likely be a commercial vulture executing loads in support of relief/recovery efforts. Good money there for a flatbed.

 

[Devildoc]

My sister and her family, and my mother used to live just north of Houston. My mom's dead now, but my sister and family are in Dallas. My sis texted me a pic of her former home, about 6' under water.

I do have some friends in the Houston area and haven't heard squat. I am sure they are OK.

They are evacuating Ben Taub, a level 1 trauma center with many ICUs. No small task, and can't fly out a single patient. Herculean operation.