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On August 25 2017 01:25 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I must say that I'm shocked by the fact that so many charities don't wish to support our Nazi-supporting president /s

Tropical Storm Harvey is getting stronger and could make landfall in the middle of the Texas coast as a category 3 hurricane Friday night, the National Hurricane Center says, warning of the potential for a deadly storm surge and flooding along the Gulf of Mexico.

The storm's winds are currently rated at 65 mph — but they could reach 115 mph in the next 36 hours, forecasters say, announcing that the Middle Texas Coast is currently under a hurricane warning.

Harvey "intensified quickly" Thursday morning and could bring a storm surge of 6-10 feet above ground level; rainfall of 12-20 inches could bring floods, with some areas getting as much as 30 inches of water from Friday into next week, the National Weather Service agency said in an advisory Thursday morning.

"On the forecast track, Harvey will approach the middle Texas coast on Friday and make landfall Friday night or early Saturday, and then stall near the middle Texas coast through the weekend," the hurricane center says.

A storm surge warning is in effect for hundreds of miles of the Texas coastline, from Port Mansfield near South Padre Island to San Luis Pass just south of Galveston.

Beaches and schools in the storm's path are closing. The Corpus Christi office of the National Weather Service is urging residents to finish their preparations for the storm now, before conditions deteriorate. To combat flooding, the city of Corpus Christi is currently providing residents up to 20 sandbags each.

The forecast for Harvey "has become quite concerning," the hurricane center says, after an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft found the storm's center early Thursday. The storm was seen at the verge of becoming a hurricane, with central pressure that continues to fall and the storm predicted to strengthen as it passes over warm water.

Calling the intensification "astounding," NHC forecasters say they now see "a 70 percent chance of Harvey's winds increasing by 45 kt [some 50 mph] over the next 36 hours."

As of Thursday morning, Harvey was moving toward the north-northwest at nearly 10 mph and was expected to turn toward the northwest later today.

The deepest storm surge will hit the coast near the center of the landfall and to the northeast, "where the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves," federal forecasters say.

On August 25 2017 02:06 Plansix wrote:
I checked and couldn't find anything. Do we have a head of FEMA yet?

On August 25 2017 03:36 Danglars wrote:

Are we seriously back to not attacking the tweet and pivoting to an unserious standard of researching every user before you retweet their comment?

Absolutely pathetic. It's like you want to lose.

On August 25 2017 03:36 Danglars wrote:

Are we seriously back to not attacking the tweet and pivoting to an unserious standard of researching every user before you retweet their comment?

Absolutely pathetic. It's like you want to lose.

On August 25 2017 02:30 zlefin wrote:
Asked what racial group they think faces the most discrimination in America, 45% of Trump
voters say it's white people followed by 17% for Native Americans with 16%
picking African Americans, and 5% picking Latinos. Asked what religious group
they think faces the most discrimination in America, 54% of Trump voters says
it's Christians followed by 22% for Muslims and 12% for Jews.

On August 25 2017 04:07 TheYango wrote:

I'm curious what kind of warped logic leads people to believe that White Christians face *more* discrimination than minorities.

I get that they probably receive more than they did 20 years ago, and maybe more than some are used to. But the idea that it's *more than minorities* is just so patently absurd that I don't know what kind of logic gets you there.