White House says Trump may visit Texas, warns of Harvey: 'This is a serious storm'
Source: The Washington Post
2:51 PM
August 25 by Mark Berman
A top White House adviser on Friday urged people in Texas and Louisiana to take Hurricane Harvey seriously, pleading for residents to listen to state and local officials as the potentially catastrophic storm approaches.
This is a serious storm, as youve seen from the reporting, Thomas P. Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said at a briefing Friday afternoon. This could remain a dangerous storm for several days, and certainly we dont want to lose any life.
Bossert said President Trump is considering signing a disaster declaration Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) requested on Friday. In a letter to Trump, Abbott said that due to the increasingly dire forecasts, it appears Texas will be unable to fully handle the necessary emergency response.
Hurricane Harveys rapid intensification has furthermore resulted in strained resources, Abbott wrote to Trump. Considering time sensitivity and anticipated geographic scale of the storm, the scope of this event will rapidly overwhelm the states ability to provide response and recovery assets to save Texans and protect property and critical infrastructure.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-harvey-updates-preparation-evacuations-forecast-storm-latest/?utm_term=.1e4b78d2d233&wpisrc=al_alert-national&wpmk=1
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)It's a #FakeStorm, isn't it?
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)like the moon landing, and 9/11.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)get off your fat, lazy orange ass and sign it for chrissakes....
thegoose
(3,115 posts)The ass, I mean...
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)What do I care, I don't have a hotel or casino there.
I feel bad for the people down there. This terrible freak of nature about to bring terror and destruction. And then they have to deal with the hurricane.
Stay safe everyone.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)"And then they'll have to deal with the hurricane"
Welcome to DU!!
And yes, stay safe, everybody.
llmart
(15,552 posts)and look at the devastation out of the window of his personal aircraft.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Until all relief efforts are cemented and well under way. The last thing that's needed in a disaster zone is a primping premadonna expecting all eyes on him.
groundloop
(11,522 posts)When the truck arrives he'll pretend to be actually doing something just long enough for his fat ugly face to have it's photo taken, then he's back in his limo or helicopter.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Lokilooney
(322 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)He cannot *bear* for anything to take attention from himself.
Sign the damn paper and stay the hell out of the way.
area51
(11,920 posts)Then push for single-payer health care.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)N/t
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold
President Trump told me "good luck to everybody" when I asked what message he had for the people of Texas
Link to tweet
haele
(12,676 posts)And wondered why an expected Cat 3 Hurricane would warn Texas of a possible worse fate...
As for what Drumpf has said about Harvey hitting Texas - I'm totally appalled. I've experienced his comment before when one of my employers went public, and the MIC vultures were just waiting to buy off pieces of us in a hostile takeover to get rid one of the main competitors to their pet companies. Greed on all sides.
Any corporate "leader" who says "Good Luck" in the face of impending disaster implies "I got my Golden Parachute; as for the rest of you - You're on Your Own..."
Haele
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)Presidents should not go to disaster sites because they just get in the way. Some people who have not evacuated must be freaking out. The government has just told them to write their names and social security numbers on their arms so they can be identified.