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Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi. After the hurricane... yeah. It's still difficult to ju
by enraged_camel 9y ago
Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi.
After the hurricane... yeah.
It's still difficult to judge the full scale of Harvey's damage, but major roads and bridges are starting to collapse, which means it will be incredibly difficult to even bring in supplies and equipment to start rebuilding.
Houston, the fourth most populous city in the United States, will not recover from this for months.
- cylinder 9y agoHaven't seen any reports of major roads collapsing. Bridges? There are no major bridges in Houston. America has a knack of encouraging people to move to completely unsustainable places and not planning for the growth at all.
- r721 9y agohttps://twitter.com/RosenbergPolice/status/901837267299430400 https://twitter.com/RosenbergPolice/status/90183726729943040...
- cylinder 9y agoThat is not going to prevent any supplies from reaching anyone.
- enraged_camel 9y agoThe worst of the rain has not arrived yet. If gigantic sinkholes are appearing now, things will get much worse.
- Markoff 9y agoyeah very dramatic, let's all pray /s
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- enraged_camel 9y ago>>Haven't seen any reports of major roads collapsing. https://twitter.com/RosenbergPolice/status/901833657891119104 https://twitter.com/RosenbergPolice/status/90183365789111910... You gotta realize Houston is basically built on clay. Once the clay is washed away, like what is happening now, many buildings and lots of infrastructure will collapse.
- cylinder 9y agoSure. But I thought everyone living in Houston was aware of this risk? How do you live there without knowing this? Most of these outer areas are full of people constantly harping on about the government staying the hell out of their business, but will now beg for federal help and financial bailouts for the uninsured. And before anyone calls me a Yankee snob... Born and raised in Houston and our house flooded many times in the last decade. It gets worse because they keep allowing massive paving and megablock development with no regard for environmental planning. Most of the residents love this as the city hates zoning, regulations, and people love the growth from development and population growth. It's one of the most environmentally disrespectful places in the world and then they freak out when they remember Nature exists. You should see the massive parking lots they created on what was just green fields, for so called "power centers" (HEB, Costco, etc). Instead of requiring garages to be built instead on a smaller footprint and reserving the rest for a reservoir, they allow any development because they can only compete by being as cheap as possible for everything, and that would increase development costs! So now we get more flooding in residential areas. And I haven't even started on the massive cooling costs of these ridiculously oversized buildings, the carbon from the SUVs being driven everywhere, the heat island effect of the massive concrete parking lots (which are not required to have covers or trees planted over them ...),the quarter mile wide I10. But Texans love this lifestyle! They reap what they sow. "pray for Texas y'all!" Yeah that'll do it! Unfortunately, in the classic American tradition, the east side of Houston (poorest) will get hardest by the rest of this, while the wealthier west side appears to be okay.
- rhizome 9y agoThis isn't the time for that.
- moyix 9y agoFEMA is saying they'll be there for years, not months: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/politics/fema-harvey-brock-long-cnntv/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/politics/fema-harvey-brock-lon...
- mlinksva 9y ago> Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi. What? It was a bit smaller than the 100th largest city in the U.S. both 1890 and 1900, with StL and SF >10x its size, and many other west of the Mississippi cities smaller multiples of Gavelston. The 1900 hurricane was devastating but it devastated a minor city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census#City_rankings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census#City... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_Census#City_rankings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_Census#City... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas#Demographics
- fuzzfactor 9y agoThe 1900 Hurricane devastated Galveston when it was the largest port west of the Mississippi, likely second in North America only to NY at the time.