Early Thoughts on Hurricane Harvey

This is too much to put onto my Facebook page, even if it might reach more people. FB is already too cluttered with nonsense. I don’t Tweet…besides, this has too many characters. It qualifies as a rant so it belongs on my own personal space…where few will see it. So be it.

Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, June 2, 2015

I recognize this is a new age…one where we elected a president and a Congress who believe government should only be there to help rich people get richer or else get out of the way. If anything comes out of the Harvey/Houston disaster, I hope it’s a serious discussion about how (and where) we choose to grow and develop.

Texas prides itself on its pro-growth ethic. The City of Houston has NO zoning codes, nor do any of its ordinances address land use (apart from subdivision). You own the land and you can do anything you damn well please with it. What we’re seeing on the news is not just due to the unprecedented storm. The storm water has nowhere to go but into our new spaces.

People, by that I mean the VOTERS, especially the ones who stay home on Election Day, need to understand what happens when you pave over so much land that was already low-lying and wet. Harvey may have been ‘The Big One’ but HOUSTON WILL FLOOD AGAIN.

Those liberal, elite, godless scientists have been trying to tell you this for years. You ignore science and facts and logic and truth at your peril. Go ahead. Cut those unnecessary science budgets. Fire all those lefty egg-heads. See where it gets you. See what happens to our standard of living and this country’s standing in the world.

As someone once said, “We elect the government we deserve.”