Breaking on Velshi: Hannah now Cat 1 Hurricane hitting Texas

[progressive nobody]

[MineralMan]

1. My great-niece, Hannah, says: "The Storm is HANNA, Not Hannah!"

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Nice break from Covid 19. nt

[spinbaby]

15. Except it's a covid hot zone

South Texas is where, if I remember correctly, they’re so overwhelmed that they’re having to decide which patients get treatment. Now a hurricane. What could go wrong?

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. Sorry. I was being sarcastic. nt

[essme]

3. It's a Cat 1, do you live near a coast

?

Why the drama of the "head banging?"

[secondwind]

4. Lots of head bangers on DU. I don't get it either.

[essme]

5. Maybe this person is from the uppper midwest

or out west?

It's a freaking Cat 1.

[Baclava]

6. Good place for it between Brownsville and Corpus, just a rainstorm in nowheresville, over in a day

[2naSalit]

7. Lots of produce comes from there...

If you like to eat and not pay exorbitant prices for your tomatoes and onions and other stuff grown there, you have a pretty cavalier attitude about what qualifies as nowheresville. There are also many communities of poorly paid farm workers there. Just in case you haven't ever been there.

[HotTeaBag]

8. Yeah, 'just a rainstorm in nowheresville'.

I guess Katrina was 'just a flash flood in shitsville'.

I just hope there's no COVID problem in Texas or anything.

[ananda]

11. Snort-chuckle

I hear that.

[Baclava]

10. Then they probably need the rain. I live 5 miles from the beach, takes a Cat 2 or up for real damage

How far from the GOM do u live?

[2naSalit]

12. Far enough away to be glad that I will never be

Mistaken for a Texan. I hauled produce out of there for years, large population of nonwhites there so I guess to some it's nowheresville because brown lives just don't matter.

[csziggy]

19. I live nearly 50 miles from the Florida coast in the Big Bend

Hurricane Kate, back in 1985, crippled this area for nearly a week. It was several days before we could get into town and a solid week before we had power back - which meant we had no running water for us or the horses.

Hurricane Kate was just a Cat 1 when it hit the coast and had weakened to a Tropical Storm by the time it got to Leon County. It still did a lot of damage with wind, rain, and storm surge along the coast.

Don't discount what a Cat 1 or even a powerful tropical storm can do.

BTW, I have lived in Florida all my life and have been through numerous hurricanes and tropical storms, so I know what they can do.

[LeftInTX]

20. This is South TX with storm moving SW

When it crosses into Mexico, it becomes a mountain storm and loses it's tropical fuel. However the main risk over there are mudslides. Terrain and water availability totally different than upper and eastern Gulf Coast.

[csziggy]

21. Yeah, just because a storm is "only" Cat 1 or a tropical storm

Does not mean that it won't do serious damage. I was responding to the comment "takes a Cat 2 or up for real damage." That is so wrong.

In 2008 during the campaign, Tropical Storm Fay hit here. There was more flooding that I have ever seen from a hurricane. Our power was out for a couple of days and there was water running over the road into town - we'd never had flooded roads before.

The big problem here are the trees - get the ground saturated and have heavy winds, the trees fall down, block roads and take down power lines. We had a bad down draft with a thunderstorm the other day and the power was out over an hour.

[Gothmog]

9. It is raining fairly hard in Houston

Link to tweet

[roamer65]

13. Thank goodness it's not a cat 4 or 5.

Be safe down there folks.

[DFW]

14. We had all better just face up to it

Texas is a place inhabited only by Republicans and other rednecks who all have COVID-19, but refuse to admit it. The last living Democrat in Texas was LLoyd Bentsen.

Texas is a place that doesn't grow or produce anything, and never really had people like Ann and Cecile Richards, Molly Ivins, Barbara Jordan, Beto O'Rourke, the Castro twins or Jim Hightower. They are all figments of Howard Dean's imagination, made up to justify including Texas in his 50 state strategy.

All polls show Trump winning over Biden in Texas by a margin of 98-2. The 2% are university students who come from other states.

Oh, and the proper spelling and pronunciation of the place is "Tex-ass."

Right? Don't bother answering, I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

BTW, for the several on DU that apparently believe all of the above to be indeed correct:

[LisaL]

16. I don't know about all that, but TX is a place that regularly has hurricanes.

This one formed right in the Gulf, so it's not going to get as much power as the ones that form near Africa.
Whatever people think of TX, it's not like thinking is causing hurricanes or can alter where hurricane goes.

[DFW]

17. Of course

But some people just look at a map, and say, "well no one lives there, and nothing comes from there anyway, so who cares?"