#1157 Postby storm_in_a_teacup » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:45 pm
Hopefully next season we'll be able to rely on a little more than thoughts and prayers. I know Harvey was an oft-discussed scenario, but Houston dragged its feet on the flooding problem, and batted around a lot of ideas without paying for any of them. I'm sick and tired of having to rely on major storms to get officials to actually even *attempt* to address the neglect and vulnerability that plagues our cities.
...Sorry if that is too political, but I literally was reading about how my hometown suffered the most losses and deaths in the U.S. due to flooding a month before Harvey hit, and the year before that I read about the glaring vulnerability of it to a major storm, and a year before that the Weather Channel straight up rated it as the city most endangered by hurricanes. I'm kind of mad about how we literally see risks coming from decades away, and then say it's "too expensive" to do anything about them...until the city gets destroyed and makes the expense of the plans look like pennies.
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storm_in_a_teacup on Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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I know I can't straddle the atmosphere...just a tiny storm in your teacup, girl.