Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Felya]

Is that saying the ocean will go inland up to 30 miles?!?!?!

No, the storm will... wait a minute... actually... uhm... run for your fucking lives bitches!!!! This is horrifying...

[Poopymonster]

Storm goes to Cat 4, parents and brother in Houston, friends right in the path on TX/LA border. FEMA under Trump.

Shit got really real, really fast.

[kaid]

From the article:


Is that saying the ocean will go inland up to 30 miles?!?!?!

Yes GTFO NOW while you still can.

[Paranoid Android]

The entire convention is just a mishmash of horror and ignorance (along with a Scarface size bowl of cocaine). Comparing the two conventions side by side, you would think they were different countries.

Post might fit better in General Election thread, but meh. It is a disaster and all they are doing is fear mongering and actually promoting they will be more fascist, more corrupt and divide this country more. The problem is I thought this was the same convention in 2016. People then said it was dark and was based a doomed United States. Trump still won.

Now this is a different election followed by much that has happened but I am saying that the Trumpers and others are not phased or believe this crap. So lets hope once again we find enough sane people who will do the right thing in November.

[unfilteredJW]

Storm goes to Cat 4, parents and brother in Houston, friends right in the path on TX/LA border. FEMA under Trump.

Shit got really real, really fast.

Yeah I just got done talking with my pops in Houston. He’s hunkering down and I can’t convince him to leave.

[cubby]

Almost 16 years to the day from when Katrina fucked up that area. Trump will now be using disaster relief for campaigning.

Plus, if it hits Houston, we can forget about TX flirting with blue this year. No way they recover enough to have a "normal" election...not that any of us will be having that of course.

My big worry for people staying is that they end up in mass shelters which could easily become covid super cells.

It's going to be pretty bad across the board for those people, and COVID-19 just makes all the assistance they might get (under Trump's FEMA it's unlikely they'll get much/anything) a horror because the virus will be right there, too.

[rayvio]

what, the US wasn't bad enough already? who did you guys piss off?

on a serious note: good luck, don't die, vote that orange monstrosity out

[unfilteredJW]

Almost 16 years to the day from when Katrina fucked up that area. Trump will now be using disaster relief for campaigning.

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My big worry for people staying is that they end up in mass shelters which could easily become covid super cells.

Yep. He’s been on the just a flu wagon from day 1 as well. Thankfully the new wife and kid keep him in check.

[Zan15]

From the article:


Is that saying the ocean will go inland up to 30 miles?!?!?!

i am no meteorologist, but i did minor as one in college that i slept through....

i think so

[Rasulis]

From the article:


Is that saying the ocean will go inland up to 30 miles?!?!?!

Depend on the topographic elevation. If it is relatively flat, yes. However, in this case I think they are referring to surge along the waterways (channels/rivers). We are looking at major flooding along these waterways. I ran a simulation for Houston using 1 in 500 probability flood event, and it looks pretty ugly.

I just looked at the weather map. I probably should have run a simulation for 1 in 1,000 probability flood event. Damn!

[Belize]

Storm goes to Cat 4, parents and brother in Houston, friends right in the path on TX/LA border. FEMA under Trump.

Shit got really real, really fast.

Oi, your friend in Beaumont?

[Polyxo]

You're basically saying, "the russian political machine has been adept at subordinating internal ukrainian politics and placing their agents throughout their political structure." I just don't know if you know that's what you're saying.

Somewhat, yeah. I mean, about half of Ukrainian politics is team Russia.

[Poopymonster]

Oi, your friend in Beaumont?

Friends there, they're fleeing. Locked the door, got their cat and dogs in the car, headwest northwest. Mutual friends north of OKC are hosting friends fleeing.

Guildmates from Everquest 1, about 20 years later and we're still looking out for each other IRL.

[Themius]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...l-girl/308348/

Like Palin, Nikki Haley had a beauty-pageant moment, but one with a more discouraging outcome. When her sister was 8 and she was 4, the two of them entered the Little Miss Bamberg pageant, Singh told me. In previous years, the judges had crowned one white and one African American winner, but they were baffled over what to do with the two Indian American girls. At intermission, they called all the contestants on the stage: white girls on one side, black girls on the other, with the Haley sisters standing alone in the middle. The judges then announced that they had to disqualify the sisters, and handed each of them crayons and a coloring book. Before ushering them off the stage, they let Nikki sing the song she had prepared, “This Land Is Your Land.”

Haley once described her childhood as “survival mode,” but these days she spins it more cheerfully. She does not like her sister’s beauty-pageant anecdote, for example. “It doesn’t show all the great things about Bamberg,” she told me. “I like to tell a more positive story. Bamberg is a great town of 2,500 people with a strong work ethic. And it’s there that I learned that neighbors need to take care of each other.”

If you just pretend the racism doesn't exist then it doesn't!

[Belize]

Friends there, they're fleeing. Locked the door, got their cat and dogs in the car, headwest northwest. Mutual friends north of OKC are hosting friends fleeing.

Guildmates from Everquest 1, about 20 years later and we're still looking out for each other IRL.

I'm just north of Beaumont, and staying (various reasons).

I can give ya'll updates assuming the house doesn't collapse on me

[Draco-Onis]

Plus, if it hits Houston, we can forget about TX flirting with blue this year. No way they recover enough to have a "normal" election...not that any of us will be having that of course.

Looks like Trump's luck strikes again he can easily milk this to win the election.

[Benggaul]

Looks like Trump's luck strikes again he can easily milk this to win the election.

How so? His record on natural disasters isn't exactly spectacular and the states most likely to be horrendously impacted by this are not likely to be voting for Biden.

[Draco-Onis]

How so? His record on natural disasters isn't exactly spectacular and the states most likely to be horrendously impacted by this are not likely to be voting for Biden.

You should never underestimate the short attention span of the American people, the biggest disaster was Puerto Rico they are not white so the people Trump wants to get to vote for him won't care. Trump just needs to act like a human for two months to get good press and watch his approval number go up.

[Breccia]

Is that saying the ocean will go inland up to 30 miles?!?!?!

Um...it's not as bad as it sounds, Louisiana is notorioiusly wet. This is one of the things that made Katrina so dangerous -- over the years, the bank of land that would normally have slowed or dampened hurricanes became loaded with warm water which made it worse. I saw it at the Katrina Museum...which is really depressing.

[Poopymonster]

I'm just north of Beaumont, and staying (various reasons).

I can give ya'll updates assuming the house doesn't collapse on me

Stay safe, and be well.