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Three Live Hurricanes

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This is all sorts of terrifying:

Three hurricanes all in striking distance of the US. If Obama was still President the religious creeps would be saying it was a sign from Jeebus. Now they’ll probably just blame teh gays.

Meanwhile, if you are wondering why Trump sided with the Dems on a short term agreement on increasing the debt limit, this is why:

With Texas still reeling from Hurricane Harvey and another storm barreling toward Florida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is expected to run out of money by Friday, according to a Senate aide, putting pressure on Congress to provide more funding this week.

As of 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund, which pays for the agency’s disaster response and recovery activity, had just $1.01 billion on hand. And of that, just $541 million was “immediately available” for response and recovery efforts related to Hurricane Harvey, according to a spokeswoman for FEMA who asked not to be identified by name.

The $1.01 billion in the fund Tuesday morning is less than half of the $2.14 billion that was there at 9 a.m. last Thursday morning — a spend rate of $9.3 million every hour, or about $155,000 a minute.

I would not be surprised if all this stuff starts to add up to a couple hundred billion by the time this hurricane season is over.

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  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    Truth be told, I think God is still mad about Obama.

    Deity: “Me damn it, Obama, I told you to kick his ass, not let him be sworn in!”

  8. 8.

    A Ghost to Most

    If there were deities, I would assume that Calypso is really pissed at the southern states.

  9. 9.

    MJS

    I think attributing anything Trump does to anything beyond “X mean to me yesterday. Me do want Y want today” is giving him too much credit. My guess is Trump learned Ryan called the Dem’s proposal “ridiculous”, and that sealed it for Trump.

  11. 11.

    Feebog

    My sis sent me some pics from BVI. One, a beautiful little beach resort on Jost Van Dyke completely blown away. The second, a hurricane hole on Tortola with scores of sailboats destroyed and sunk. The economy of both the BVI and US VI is going to be devastated.

  12. 12.

    TopClimber

    Mar-el Largo in hurricane path, Trump cuts a deal so he can get out of town. Perhaps he can squeeze in one last round of golf before the sand traps turn into water hazards for who knows how long?

  13. 13.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    (reposted from the three thread)
    News from Antigua and Barbuda is grim–Antigua weathered the storm fairly well, given what Irma is, but Barbuda passed through the eye, which was apparently bigger than the entire island. Preliminary reports indicate structural damage is catastrophic, and they are conducting search and rescue operations now, with only one death formally confirmed at this point. The prime minister has stated that if José passes near Barbuda, they will need to evacuate the remaining population, as there’s really no place left to shelter.

    The island was completely out of communication once the storm hit–the cell tower–or towers–were broken off, and satellite communication was apparently not possible (it would have been affected during the storm, but perhaps the antenna(s) were damaged as well. The airport runway is apparently blocked by debris but they hope to get relief flights in tomorrow.

    The French government is also reporting extensive damage in their islands as well.

    Puerto Rico is now in the hot seat. Reports say the eye is missing San Juan, but not by much.

    The Guardian has fairly good coverage, and the FTFNYT appears to be making an effort as well.
    Be wary of Twitter–I have seen some good sources there, but a rumor can be magnified rapidly when it has no real support. For example, I’ve seen reports of a death toll of 1000 on Barbuda, when there hadn’t been official rescue efforts in place long enough to establish much of anything except “This place has been devastated.”

    Apparently there are already fund-raising scams in place for Barbuda, because some people are horrible.

  14. 14.

    Droppy

    This is God telling fundamentalist white evangelical Fox-watching olds, in no uncertain terms, that FDR, who was president when they were born, knew what the hell he was doing and that you have all forgotten what it takes to have a functioning society rather than a cabal of rich assholes running the place. That they all forgot this because Ronald Reagan seemed like such a nice fella is what all of us are paying for now.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m still trying to get into the timeline where the Cubs lost and Hillary won.

    Remember that Kinsella story where the Cubs win and Armageddon happens.

  16. 16.

    dr. bloor

    I would not be surprised if all this stuff starts to add up to a couple hundred billion by the time this hurricane season is over.

    And now imagine that year over year going forward. It’s like Mother Nature has decided we’re going to be on a high deductible health plan.

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    If Irma decides to visit Miami, the combined cost of Harvey and Irma is going to get close to a trillion.

  20. 20.

    Another Scott

    It’s probably already been linked (you folks are too fast!), but Evan Hurt’s coverage of the budget/hurricane/debt-ceiling/maybe-even-DACA-agreement is entertaining.

    tl;dr – The GOP team wanted 18 months. Chuck and Nancy said, “You’ll get 3 months and like it, and BTW, this is what else we want” and Donnie was, like, “Deal!”

    Maybe Trump really is a Clinton plot to destroy the GOP…. >;->

    We’ll see what happens, but we still need to fight them every single day.

    Fingers crossed for all the people in the path, and those still suffering after Harvey. :-(

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who has elderly parents in central NC, and even there doesn’t look so great in some of the Windy models…”)

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    @dr. bloor:

    It’s like Mother Nature has decided we’re going to be on a high deductible health plan.

    With zero actual coverage from doctors.

  25. 25.

    Aleta

    Got a feeling that some of them prayerful types (my sister) are hellbent on winning Second Coming Bingo this week.

  26. 26.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Baud: maybe Bernie is available to run both chambers. The new story on my social mediaz is that he’s been doing all kinds of looking forward while that scheming bitch Hillary wrote a book about him instead of doing something constructive.

  29. 29.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    I’m waiting for the liberal media to tell me again how McConnell is the master of the senate when he can’t even get his own majority to pass a routine budget.

  31. 31.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @burnspbesq: IF?! Currently, Irma is around 400 miles across, and the eye about 30 miles across. The Florida peninsula averages 160 miles across. Miami may not get the very worst the storm has to offer, but it would take a major swerve for Miami to avoid serious, damaging contact.

    We talk about Wilma, Andrew, Katrina, and Camille, but let’s not forget the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, when we consider what Irma might do.

    Also, for those of you wondering why south Floridians aren’t all evacuating, the peninsula itself is around 500 miles long–it would be a long day’s drive in good times, when everyone else wasn’t trying to escape at the same time. Even if you can afford the cost, it’s going to take a long time to get far enough north to make much difference.

  32. 32.

    mai naem mobile

    @Cheryl Rofer: i.thought it would be Jose which would be Dolt45’s personal Katrina. BTW,how come we never hear X is going to be Dolt 45s Katrina like we heard with Obama with every minor anf major issue?

  34. 34.

    Baud

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    Speaking of the liberal media, this was the concluding paragraph in The Atlantic story about this deal.

    In true Beltway fashion, Democrats crowed over an agreement that will bring only a few months of fiscal peace. “This was a really positive step forward,” Schumer said, hailing it as a victory for the nation. But its significance was more in its precedent than the substance: A frustrated president, bereft of legislative wins and desperate to make a deal, turned away from his party and into the unlikely arms of the opposition.

    That’s crowing to them.

  41. 41.

    Mike J

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    But remember, this has nothing to do with climate change.

    I wish I could remember who came up with the steroid analogy.

    Can you with absolute certainty say that a home run hit in the seventh inning at Dodger stadium on June 19th was the result of steroid use? No. If a batter goes from a respectable 25 HR per year to 46, you can make a very strong inference that steroids had something to do with it.

  45. 45.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Baud: it reminds me of when Ryan et al were having a beer party on the rose garden, taking selfies, high fiving, after voting to take away insurance from 25 million people and the Village was instead outraged that some Dems sang “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Good Bye”

  52. 52.

    chris

    General Kelly is not universally admired. Who knew?

    “General Kelly is a hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear. He has no honor and should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists and those enabling the President’s actions by ‘just following orders,’ ” Gutiérrez said in a scathing statement, shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy will be phased out.

  54. 54.

    efgoldman

    @dmsilev:

    Can you imagine the screeching if Obama and Speaker Pelosi had gathered the 2009/2010 Democrats for a beer bash to celebrate the passage of the ACA?

    As often as we see this construction, I think it’s time to retire it.
    Every fucking thing Trumplethinskin and the RWNJs do would have been WAY beyond the pale for any Democrat, even if it was completely justified.
    Yes, it’s shitty. Yes, it’s not fair. yes, it is high Broderism at its worst. There isn’t a goddamned thing to be done about it; butthurt whining doesn’t help. Move on and work that much harder to get Dems elected.

  55. 55.

    Arm The Homeless

    So looks like we are going to ride out the storm here at home. Spent all day in meetings and on the phone trying to nail down staging areas for the 100 or so necessary employees we will need to manage the possible disaster.

    The waiting is the worst. And not a roll of duct tape or D batteries to be found

  56. 56.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @dmsilev: they wouldn’t even let him give a speech after he waged his presidency on the bin laden raid. they all screamed every gop talking point about how it would be inappropriate to give a speech at ground zero and how he was being mean to Dubya by denying him any credit.

  59. 59.

    Ajabu

    @Feebog:

    The economy of both the BVI and US VI is going to be devastated.

    Got that right. And St. Croix (our home) is sitll recovering from the loss of our local oil refinery in 2012.
    And we’re trying to go back home in the next two years. Oh well, I guess property will once again be cheap…
    ETA: I hate this even more because it makes Shitgibbon notice the VI exists as one more place he can fuck with.

  60. 60.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @chris: Palm Beach altitude is 6.89 feet. I was checking the highest point in Florida last night, which is over 300 feet, to see whether the reported storm surges of 20 feet would wash across the state. (Yes, I know, even if it were that low, friction, volume, yatta yatta.)

    But a storm surge of 20 feet could be quite nasty along the coast.

  62. 62.

    VOR

    @Cheryl Rofer: Per Crooks and Liars, Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners Irma is a liberal plot. Apparently early notice of hurricanes are not an attempt to save lives, but instead a devious plan to promote climate change. Does he know who the Governor of Florida is?

  69. 69.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Cheryl Rofer: we’ve got hundreds of miles of seawalls, much of which are 30 years, or more, old. I’m not looking forward to the rush of building permits after the storm has moved on.

  71. 71.

    mai naem mobile

    @chris: I don’t trust Gen Kelly like any of Dolt45’s appointees. One of the DACA article made it sound like he tried to stop Miller and Sessions from talking to Dolt about DACA. It also said he reached out to Congressional leaders to give them a heads up. I just wonder if this is when he reached out to the Dems about this debt ceiling/Harvey deal. Ofcourse it’s Dolt45 so maybe Mar A Lago and his Caribbean property damage is on his mind and part.of the picture.

  72. 72.

    Mike in NC

    When asked his feelings about Hurricane Irma, Trump with typical eloquence said, “Not good, believe me, not good”.

  73. 73.

    Origuy

    The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda took an aerial tour of the island. He plans to evacuate the the island before Jose hits. An interview on Antigua TV.

    Added. One infant is reported dead, but no other deaths known. Nearly everyone lives in one town.

  74. 74.

    schrodingers_cat

    @chris: Well, he wants to use DACA a hostage strategy/bargaining chip. We will give you DACA if you cut legal immigration by half and build the wall.
    McClatchy (?) News was reporting last week.

  75. 75.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    @Gravenstone: Maybe.
    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You forgot to blame Roger Ailes for dying, as the Grim Reaper’s had to work overtime to balance the books.

    And to be perfectly honest, I was one of the people cheering for the Cubs. I sometimes fantasize about a Cubs 2016 loss, but then I realize 1) fuck Chief Wahoo; 2) Cleveland already ended their drought with The Block, they don’t really need the World Series as well; and 3) SO FUCK Chuef Wahoo.
    @TenguPhule: Indeed.
    Fuck Kyle Shanahan too, while we’re at it.

  81. 81.

    Davebo

    With Irma? Figure $300 billion minimum.

    Makes “tax reform” kinda hard to square with “I hate federal debt”.

  82. 82.

    tybee

    latest tracks look highly amusing for the SC/GA border.

    i think i’ll slither inland a bit to the ‘boro, loveliest village upon the plains east of auburn, and acquire a case of the blues.

  83. 83.

    chopper

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    thanks to a lucky break in ocean bathymetry Miami is less prone to storm surge, unlike, say, galveston. however it’s more prone to bigger waves on top of the surge. likewise, the Miami hurricane of ’26 still had a respectable 15 ft or so of storm tide (surge plus tide) and that was a cat 4. also, it looks like the eye is gonna hit or rake Miami at high tide which is going to be another 3 feet on top of the surge. could be almost 20 feet if things are at their worst, worse in the bay. coupled with the low elevation it could be really bad.

  84. 84.

    Shalimar

    @Mike J: That strong inference seems logical, but it really doesn’t track well with history. Examples of hitters who had 75% more home runs in one season than they did any other in their career happen with greater frequency than you would suspect, and most of them were before the steroids era. I’m not great at sorting stats, but a good statistician could go through the data and see if it has been happening more often the last 30 years or so than earlier.

  86. 86.

    J R in WV

    @chris:

    No!

    We visited the Turks and Caicos, wonderful small native run lodge, called me back to be sure I understood there was no casino nor nightclub, just the beach and the ocean, 50 feet from our door. I don’t know where the residents could have sheltered, really. Maybe there’s a really solid concrete building with no windows?

    Looking very bad for the Islanders!

  88. 88.

    J R in WV

    @chris:

    Showing a 15-20 foot tide surge in the Turks and Caicos/Bahamas! Are any of those islands that high?

    Repeated without offensive word:

    No! They’re low lying coral limestone outcrops. They use reinforced concrete to build with is the only saving grace.

    We visited the Turks and Caicos, wonderful small native run lodge, called me back to be sure I understood there was no casino nor nightclub, just the beach and the ocean, 50 feet from our door. It was wonderful, quiet, we took many books, and swapped with those in the hotel’s library when we ran out.

    I don’t know where the residents could have sheltered, really. Maybe there’s a really solid concrete building with no windows?

    Looking very bad for the Islanders!

  89. 89.

    Cermet

    Still time for the storm to head out to sea and miss the US but not counting on it – while, nice if tRmps over-blown resort gets flatten, the poor people of Florida deserve better – living near the ocean even w/o AGW is risky. Soon, thanks to AGW, it will be suicidal.

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