{"id":25458,"date":"2017-10-16T02:07:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25458"},"modified":"2017-10-16T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T02:07:41","slug":"real-disaster-struck-texas-no-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25458","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Real disaster&#8217; struck Texas &#8230; no kidding!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Harvey_tilted_power_lines_TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25463\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Harvey_tilted_power_lines_TT-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Harvey_tilted_power_lines_TT-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Harvey_tilted_power_lines_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Harvey_tilted_power_lines_TT.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas emergency officials have reported that Hurricane Harvey has killed 88 people.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-eight families have lost loved ones. They are grieving to this day. Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast twice, first as a Category 3 hurricane and then as a tropical storm.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the storm&#8217;s savagery from afar, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that it constitutes a &#8220;major disaster.&#8221; The hurricane blasted the Coastal Bend region with killer winds and storm surge. The tropical storm deluged Houston and the Golden Triangle with unprecedented rainfall: 50 inches in one 24-hour span of time, a record for the continental United States of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2017\/10\/13\/harveys-death-toll-reaches-93-people\/\">Harvey hit us real hard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to mention this because of something that Donald John Trump Sr. told our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico. He seemed to chide them because &#8212; at the time of his visit &#8212; &#8220;only&#8221; 16 people had been killed by Hurricane Maria, which destroyed the island&#8217;s power grid and its potable water supply.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the president seemed to suggest that Puerto Rico was &#8220;fortunate&#8221; to have suffered so little loss of life, unlike what happened to New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina stormed ashore.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess I ought to remind the president that the Texas coast didn&#8217;t suffer the amount of deaths that other storms have brought, but he dare not dismiss the damage from the Coastal Bend to the Golden Triangle as anything short of a <em>major disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas emergency officials have reported that Hurricane Harvey has killed 88 people. Eight-eight families have lost loved ones. They are grieving to this day. Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast twice, first as a Category 3 hurricane and then as a tropical storm. Watching the storm&#8217;s savagery from afar, I am convinced beyond a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25458\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Real disaster&#8217; struck Texas &#8230; no kidding!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[1424,7268,2221,7330,4728],"class_list":["post-25458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-harvey","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-hurricane-maria","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25464,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}