REPORT: Trump Makes Massive “Hurricane” Announcement

Hurricane Harvey Dumps 9 Trillion Tons Of Water
AUGUST 27, 2017
Words cannot describe the catastrophic situation unfolding in Houston and Southeast Texas. As daylight dawned this morning, the scope of the devastation began to come into clearer focus, and it will probably take months, if not years, to fully recover from damage of this magnitude.The total rainfall from the storm is likely to tally up to a widespread 15 to 30
inches, with a few localized spots picking up 50 inches or more. Many textbooks have the 60-inch mark as a once-in-a-million-year recurrence interval, meaning that if any spots had that amount of rainfall, they would essentially be dealing with a once-in-a-million-year event.
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Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water
By Matthew Cappucci August 27 at 8:54 PM

Words cannot describe the catastrophic situation unfolding in Houston and Southeast Texas. As daylight dawned this morning, the scope of the devastation began to come into clearer focus, and it will probably take months, if not years, to fully recover from damage of this magnitude.

[Catastrophic flooding ‘beyond anything experienced’ in Houston and ‘expected to worsen’]

The total rainfall from the storm is likely to tally up to a widespread 15 to 30 inches, with a few localized spots picking up 50 inches or more. Many textbooks have the 60-inch mark as a once-in-a-million-year recurrence interval, meaning that if any spots had that amount of rainfall, they would essentially be dealing with a once-in-a-million-year event.

High-resolution NAM model projects an additional 15 to 30 inches of rain in Southeast Texas through Tuesday night. (Pivotal Weather.com)
Regardless of whether we reach that 60-inch benchmark, “it’s fair to say it will produce more rain than we have ever seen before in the U.S. from a tropical system and over the fourth-largest city in the country,” said Eric Fisher, chief meteorologist at WBZ-TV in Boston. “Looking at those two factors, it will likely be an unprecedented flooding disaster affecting a massive number of people. It’s hard, if not impossible, to compare this to any other storm. It may stand alone when all is said and done in terms of rainfall.”

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Hurricane Harvey causes catastrophic flooding in Texas

Weather officials downgraded Hurricane Harvey to a tropical storm Aug. 26, yet catastrophic flooding continues to plague Southeast Texas in the wake of the storm. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)
Putting this much rainfall into perspective is challenging; after all, the sheer volume of water is incredibly tough to visualize. Fortunately, we crunched the numbers — here’s how they stack up.

So far, just the rain that has already fallen across the greater Houston area and Southeast Texas tallies to 9 trillion gallons. That’s only what has already come down, and keep in mind that 5 trillion to 10 trillion additional gallons could fall before things wrap up midweek.

The 9 trillion gallons of water dispensed so far is enough to fill the entire Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City — twice! It would take nine days straight for the Mississippi River to drain into Houston and equal the amount of water already there. If we averaged this amount of water spread equally over the lower 48 states, that’s the equivalent of about 0.17 inches of rain — roughly the height of three pennies stacked atop each other — occupying every square inch of the contiguous United States. Imagine one downpour large enough to cover the entire country!

This amount of water could fill 2.3 percent of the volume of the mountain range containing Mount Everest in Nepal and is enough to occupy 33,906 Empire State Buildings, from basement to penthouse.

But here’s the kicker: Just how unprecedented is this? Well, remember the flooding that New Orleans experienced with Hurricane Katrina? Most places saw about 10 to 20 feet of water thanks to levee failure, inundating about 80 percent of the city. Now, if we took the amount of rainfall that Texas has seen and spread it over the city limits of New Orleans, it would tower to 128 feet in height — roughly reaching as high as a 12-story office building.

Sometimes, there simply aren’t words. This is entirely uncharted territory. For years, many had watched movies like “The Day After Tomorrow” and thought, “Someday …”

Unfortunately, that day is today. Welcome to the future of weather. Stay safe.

Editor’s note: We’ve corrected the number of Empire State Buildings this volume of water could occupy.

REPORT: Trump Makes Massive “Hurricane” Announcement
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As we speak, the great state of Texas is experiencing one of the worst natural disasters in its history. President Donald Trump recognizes this and has risen to meet the challenge.

According to recent reports, President Trump plans on visiting Texas this Tuesday. President Trump plans on surveying the damage done by Hurricane Harvey, and will also examine how FEMA and local authorities have responded to the crisis.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the media that the president and his team are “coordinating logistics with state and local officials.” Sanders also reminded everyone that: “We continue to keep all of those affected in our thoughts and prayers.”
So far, Hurricane Harvey has claimed six lives, most of which were lost due to “historic” flooding following days of heavy rainfall.
The City of Houston, which is the largest in Texas, has seen its freeways turned into oceans of brackish water. Other parts of coastal Texas have also been hit hard by the storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane.

Although Hurricane Harvey has decreased in power, widespread power outages and flooding still necessitate the designation of coastal Texas as a disaster area.

According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), President Trump promised to provide the “Lone Star State” with any and all federal assistance.

” He called and said, ‘Governor, whatever you need, you’ve got,” Abbott said.

President Trump likewise contacted Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D), in case Harvey’s path shifted. So far, Louisiana has been spared the hurricane’s wrath.

The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey drew comparisons to the hurricane that flooded Galveston, Texas in 1900. That storm, which is one of the worst natural disasters in American history, similarly made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm. However, that earlier disaster claimed between 6,000 and 12,000 lives.

Hurricane Katrina, which is rightfully considered a horrible disaster that exposed the incompetence of FEMA and local authorities in New Orleans, claimed 1,836 lives.

It is highly likely that President Trump remembers Hurricane Katrina and how President George W. Bush failed to respond to that disaster adequately. During his second term, Bush’s already dwindling popularity sank even lower after the media broadcast images of starving people in the Super Dome. President Trump’s robust response to Harvey shows that he does not want to repeat the mistakes of his Republican predecessor in the Oval Office.

The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey has left the State of Texas, and especially Houston, as a designated disaster area. Were the actions President Trump took to prepare for the distribution of emergency aid for Texas enough?
Unfortunately, despite the fact that such natural disasters should rally the American people together to help the victims, many in the mainstream press have been pushing the idea that President Trump is using Hurricane Harvey as a cover for his nefarious deeds.

Some who believe this feel the president jumped on the opportunity to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio while the rest of the country was focused on events in Texas. Others have simply disparaged President Trump for supposedly “playing politics” while Texas drowns
When President Trump visits Texas on Tuesday, it is a safe bet that the media will not cover the event fairly.