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2naSalit

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

Reply to Baclava (Reply #10)

Sat Jul 25, 2020, 10:33 AM

Jul 2020

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.

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Breaking on Velshi: Hannah now Cat 1 Hurricane hitting Texas [View all] progressive nobody Jul 2020 OP

My great-niece, Hannah, says: "The Storm is HANNA, Not Hannah!" MineralMan Jul 2020 #1

Nice break from Covid 19. nt leftyladyfrommo Jul 2020 #2

Except it's a covid hot zone spinbaby Jul 2020 #15

Sorry. I was being sarcastic. nt leftyladyfrommo Jul 2020 #18

It's a Cat 1, do you live near a coast essme Jul 2020 #3

Lots of head bangers on DU. I don't get it either. secondwind Jul 2020 #4

Maybe this person is from the uppper midwest essme Jul 2020 #5

Good place for it between Brownsville and Corpus, just a rainstorm in nowheresville, over in a day Baclava Jul 2020 #6

Lots of produce comes from there... 2naSalit Jul 2020 #7

Yeah, 'just a rainstorm in nowheresville'. HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #8

Snort-chuckle ananda Jul 2020 #11

Then they probably need the rain. I live 5 miles from the beach, takes a Cat 2 or up for real damage Baclava Jul 2020 #10

Far enough away to be glad that I will never be 2naSalit Jul 2020 #12

I live nearly 50 miles from the Florida coast in the Big Bend csziggy Jul 2020 #19

This is South TX with storm moving SW LeftInTX Jul 2020 #20

Yeah, just because a storm is "only" Cat 1 or a tropical storm csziggy Jul 2020 #21

It is raining fairly hard in Houston Gothmog Jul 2020 #9

Thank goodness it's not a cat 4 or 5. roamer65 Jul 2020 #13

We had all better just face up to it DFW Jul 2020 #14

I don't know about all that, but TX is a place that regularly has hurricanes. LisaL Jul 2020 #16

Of course DFW Jul 2020 #17