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We’reTexas

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  1. I mean, there’s been a $15B upgrade to the levee system, and there is likely no other area in the country with such dedicated federal and state focus on hurricane preparedness- but yes, definitely. I’ve never understood how Teedee just accepted that the century-old pump system was shit. But we also need to focus on the huge role coastal erosion has had on hurricanes, our natural hurricane barrier, the result of climate change and human activity.
  2. From one of my favorite Pic (Advocate, whatever) reporters:
  3. IMO, the lack of preparation for evacuating people who don’t have cars - which is a lot of New Orleanians. Obviously COVID complicates things, but with the utter outrage 16 years ago over the lack of transportation for the city’s poor, there’s really no excuse. People in the 7th, 9th and 3rd wards and New Orleans East are going to die in the next week from heat stroke, dehydration and lack of access to medical care. Obviously they won’t open up the Dome again because of the optics - this time it’s the Convention Center.
  4. Needed 12-24 hours. I’ve been following NOLA Twitter reporting for the past 48 hours and it seems that people have been very proactive and early in evacuating - after the voluntary evacuation order was issued yesterday, people did wake up in the middle of the night to leave. Anecdotally, it looks like I-10 was packed in the morning and there was a big lull around noon. Yeah, there’s definitely the broader question of how to enact contraflow when these things always pop up so quickly, but all in all in hasn’t been too bad. Keep in mind it was August 28 when Nagin and Blanco said that this was the big one and we needed to GTFO immediately.
  5. Well, to be fair, the Dome didn’t really hold - the top ripped open, making it more of a hellhole than it already was. Katrina in New Orleans was about the levee failures. I’d wager most deaths were from folks returning home after the storm passed - Lakeview and the Lower Ninth, particularly - and were surprised from the rapidly rising floodwater from Lake Pontchartrain following the 17th Street and Industrial Canals, respectively. I’m not super worried about the levees given the massive scrutiny on the Army Corps of Engineers. With SW&B’s utter failure to fix the drainage system, however, I think there’ll be significant flooding, like there usually is, in Mid-City, Gentilly, Broadmoor etc. Also really sucks for the brand new Four Seasons in the WTC - hope they don’t take any wind damage. As others have mentioned, the coastal parishes are about to get fucked. Wonder how much longer Grand Isle holds on.
  6. I’m fairly confident in the levees given the backlash after Katrina. The biggest danger is flooding. In 2017 severe rainstorms uncovered significant problems with SW&B’s drainage system, and as you’d expect the city hasn’t done much to alleviate the problem on its own. Latoya basically shrugged and said, “This is a city that floods”, and now you’ll get a nice tweet letting you know you can park your car on the neutral ground.
  7. Only the Strong Survive, Texas Monthly 1979
  8. Same. He went on to note he would take the vaccine because he “was a 52 year old man that won’t get pregnant”, so he's still mired in misinformation. Reminds me of those nature videos where you see some stupid prey animal like an impala get saved from the jaws of a crocodile by a water Buffalo or something and then promptly continue to trot along the river bank, floating through existence like a jellyfish.
  9. It was literally the French Laundry thing. They were already butthurt about the shelter in place and mask mandates, but the FL incident is what sparked the first petition. The second shelter in place only made it worse. So the reason is, muh freedoms.
  10. Jackson’s was a solid Saturday spot. It’s still there, really, as The Patio. At its peak, Vintage was like the Studio 54 of Houston. If you went to UT (and especially if you were Greek) you knew 80% of the crowd. I’d argue that it was one of the best post-grad bars to have existed anywhere in the country at the time, besides Smith Point in DC when the Bush twins graduated. True Recession millennial grads had their moms drop them off in the PetSmart parking lot.
  11. Well I think I’m @billfromlaketravis’s age or so, the Gallant Knight was my Thursday spot in 2008-2009 (before Vintage Fridays, RIP) and was definitely not a scary place. The Silver Slipper wasn’t either - older crowd that got dressed up for dancing and Zydeco. Admittedly, it felt a little voyeuristic in that we were crashing in on a spot that was totally off the spatial geography of white Houston. But those moments waiting for an Uber to confirm they’d come pick up you at 1 am in the Nickel? Pretty terrifying.
  12. Ever been to the Silver Slipper? Old music club that’s a vestige of Frenchtown, the Fifth’s old Creole neighborhood. When Uber came to Houston a few of us finally braved it - really cool place, though the crowd was blown away that a couple of white guys stumbled in on a Saturday.
  13. Sorry, I phrased my question poorly. Yes, of course I know you can vote in person. I actually waited to vote in person last fall because I was excited to partake in the quirky city tradition of residents volunteering their garages as polling stations. But for some reason, the polling station on my block had closed, so I went down to City Hall, where I was given the exact same ballot I had on my desk at home. As a Texan used to voting machines, my trek downtown seemed pretty pointless to me. So to rephrase my question, if all registered voters are mailed ballots, is there any indication that Republican voters would wait to vote in person?
  14. Dumb question from a transplant: is there really true in-person voting in CA? All Californians were mailed recall ballots. In San Francisco County, voting in-person voting is just filling out a mail-in ballot on-site. It’s pointless. Regardless of how other counties conduct elections, I’d think the universal mail-in ballot would undermine the national narrative of Dems voting by mail and R’s voting in person. But it should give Newsom an edge by making it easier for otherwise apathetic Dem voters to vote.
  15. My favorite was when baby Gaga began copying and pasting Facebook posts as arguments in the CRT thread.
  16. CNS News lol got a chuckle out of seeing a Hunter Biden headline for the first time in a while.
  17. Antone’s is still around but unfortunately it’s history and significance isn’t really appreciated, which is unfortunate because it’s one of those unique Texas things this thread is about. I’d add parisa in Medina County.
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