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The devastation in Houston requires a nationwide response.  There are several ways to send help:

 Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, established by Houston Mayor S. Turner.  Tax-deductible online credit card donations should be sent via www.ghcf.org. (a small fee will applies.) 

American Red Cross. Go to  redcross.org,  or call 1- 800-RED CROSS.

Salvation Army: Go to www.helpsalvationarmy.org or call 1-800-725-2769.

Catholic Charities USA: Go to catholiccharitiesusa.org.

 

The Washington Post notes: “The rain from Harvey is in a class of its own. The storm has unloaded over 50 inches of rain east of Houston, the greatest amount ever recorded in the Lower 48 states from a single storm. And it’s still raining. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas state climatologist, said a rain gauge near Mont Belvieu at Cedar Bayou, about 40 miles east of Houston, had registered 51.9 inches of rain through late Tuesday afternoon. This total exceeds the previous record of 48 inches set during tropical cyclone Amelia in Medina, Texas in 1978.”
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Unlike the botched response to Hurricane Katrina by former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, (D) (who was eventually convicted to a 10-year sentence for bribery and fraud committed while he was in office,) and the incompetence of former governor Kathleen B. Blanco, (D) the response by President Trump, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been timely and effective.

American Thinker reported that “President Bush declared the state of Louisiana a disaster area 48 hours before Katrina made landfall and asked Blanco to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Aug. 27, a full two days before the hurricane hit. Neither Blanco nor Nagin ordered city buses to help evacuate those residents who couldn’t leave on their own even though the city’s own emergency plan mandated it and acknowledged there were at least 100,000 people who couldn’t make it out without help…After not evacuating the city, the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security blocked a convoy of Red Cross trucks filled with water, food, blankets and hygiene items from the New Orleans Superdome after Katrina struck.”

A number of pressure groups have attempted to use the disaster to further political rhetoric.  Climate change extremists have attempted to blame warming for the event, but that overlooks the actual reason the damage has been so severe.  As noted by RealClearScience  “storms striking Texas represented problems long before…One of the deadliest storms in US history occurred in 1900, when a hurricane swept ashore over Galveston, killing more than 6,000 people – more than triple Hurricane Katrina’s death toll in 2005. We often do not know details about the strength of past hurricanes or the height of their floodwaters. But we do know that fewer people lived – and much less infrastructure lay – along the storms’ paths. Yet tragedies such as Galveston still manifested…”

Absurdly, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, as reported by Glen Beck, asked whether illegal immigrants would be deported if they went to storm shelters. To our knowledge, no such action had even been contemplated.

Because of the exceptionally expensive and prolonged cost of returning to normalcy in the wake of Harvey, Congress will have to make some decisions.  Some fear that regional hard feelings may come into play, since some Texas representatives were not considered cooperative in providing funding following Hurricane Sandy, which affected the Northeast. However, those fears appear unfounded as of this point. As U.S. News , Northeastern Representatives have already tweeted their intentions: “Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., on Monday said …I’ll vote 4 Harvey aid. NY won’t abandon Texas…Above all, true Americans must stand together. New Jersey Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo agreed. “I will support emergency disaster $$ for those impacted,” he wrote. “Disasters & emergencies are just that…disasters & emergencies. Must stand together as Americans.”