The immediacy of assistance is never the moment any of us wish to be burdened with. Life becomes a blur, and decisions once made with the comfort of time, ramble, ram and course through our veins, with the loudest sometimes reaching our brains first and the result is to react. Having lived in Houston for 10 years, I had the opportunity of first making acquaintances and luckily turning those into pure, honest friendships. I became a part of the community of Houston, and albeit, we were still in Texas, my community was a solid, loving, caring and comforting group of people. I am watching the miserable and mind-blowing devastation taking place in the greater Houston area, wondering how might I cope with this disaster, and wishing that those effected have the strength to make the next move, take the next step, and the courage to provide assistance to everyone around them. This is difficult no matter how many wishes and prayers are extended.
Trump is obsessed with the successes of president Obama, and has gone out of his way to be a petulant child rather than a professional president, and has declared war on anything with the Obama name in front of it. He has written executive orders as if he was the Imperial power, and in one of his obsessed filled tantrums decided that infrastructure improvement toward flood prone localities must end. Of course this was done not for practical purposes, but for spite, the only real emotion Trump is capable of sharing. As Trump hides in some cushy room at Camp David, the only presidential decision he has made IS which new baseball cap SHALL he wear to show his allegiance with the suffering victims of Hurricane Harvey. Along with his selection of baseball caps of course Trump has his phone, and ever the narcissist Tweets a few words of encouragement (sort of like W saying,”Good Job Brownie”), thinking that anything stated by Trump is all the world needs. Then there is Congressman Blake Farenthold ( R) from Corpus Christi, a member of the Freedom Caucus, (who fought tooth and nail to NOT provide any more FEMA or Federal support for the victims of Sandy), being interviewed explaining in the typical Republican Double Speak Language of Hypocrisy), that THIS time socialism is good for America and money coming from the big bad Federal Government is different, then it was for Hurricane Sandy!
All the while the people of Houston are suffering from the newest most apocalyptic natural disaster (notice, how every time a once in a hundred years hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake is the newest apocalyptic event, but Climate Change is just a liberal lie). I watch, helplessly as brave people exhibit qualities of survival, neighbor to neighbor, person to person, and wonder what will come next.
