The Texas Progressive Alliance suggests a donation to the United Way Houston Relief Fund to help everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff celebrated the federal court ruling that halted enforcement of the “sanctuary cities” ban before it went into effect.
SocraticGadfly, from up in North Texas, offers his take on both the politics behind Harvey, and pseudoskeptics, including an alleged actual skeptic in Houston, the politics behind Harvey everything behind the Arkema explosions.
After getting his 91-year old mother out of the calamity that Harvey left behind in Beaumont, PDiddie at Brains and Eggs collected some observations about the looming environmental catastrophes threatening the Texas Gulf coast.
South East Texas soil, air and water are awash in toxic chemicals thanks to deregulation by Trump and Abbott. Trump’s gutting of the EPA ensures that the destruction and suffering will have the maximum effect. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wishes each of them could experience all of the suffering they are causing themselves.
Neil at All People Have Value said you don’t have to be “Houston Strong” regarding Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey if you don’t want to be. Do what you need to do to move forward. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Space City Weather, which got some well-earned national attention for its coverage of Harvey, assures us we will get though this.
It’s Not Hou It’s Me shared their pictures of high water around town.
Katharine Shilcutt found the helpers.
Therese Odell rounded up more examples of Harvey heroism.
Lone Star Ma made it through Harvey in Corpus Christi.
Dan Solomon mourns for Port Aransas.
TransGriot knows that a general evacuation of the Houston metro area would have been an unmitigated disaster.
Maggie Gordon documents the effort to save the Waugh Street Bridge bat colony during the height of the flooding.
The Overhead Wire explains why the lack of zoning in Houston had little to do with Harvey-related flooding.
The Lunch Tray details how to help Houston school kids.
Raise Your Hand Texas discusses how school districts affected by Harvey are coping.
Juanita calls your attention to a couple of folks feeding people who need it in Fort Bend.
BeyondBones tells you what you need to know about floatinf gire ant mounds (spoiler alert: stay away).
Better Texas Blog answers your questions about Harvey and health care coverage.
Angelia Griffin begs you to choose the things you donate to disaster relief carefully.
No doubt you saw that crack from PDiddie about ‘Houston’s allegedly leading blogger.’
Splitter.
The Overhead Wire piece continues the myth that we would have been far better off if only we limited development to inside the Loop(I assume that’s what Core means), and forced everyone to move into mid or high rise buildings. This is one reason I will never support a full progressive agenda. It usually totally ignores human nature, or else assumes that most folks will just go along with the “we know better than you how you should live your life” message. That’s not to say the right is any better, but we aren’t talking about them right now.
@Charly:
I went back and read that piece since you commented on it. Douchebag move by the other dude. I may disagree frequently with Kuff, but he’s OUR man in the H-Town blogosphere……not digging the personal attack. Also, a past Kuff link to his blog interested me enough to comment on one of his pieces, and he didn’t have the balls to post it. His blog, his rules, his right to censor, of course, but I think it says something when you don’t permit contrarian opinions, even when written politely and respectfully.