Hurricane Harvey 17

[JedClampett]

Not an engineering disaster, but there's going to be engineering fallout.

 

[HamburgerHelper]

epoxybot,

The state has a rainy day fund but I expect that it won't use it. The state is slow or won't fix things unless it is forced to. There are pollution sites up and down the coast and the state won't do anything because they are hoping the federal government will declare them superfund sites and pick up the tab. I think Texas will hope and wait for the federal government to fix it unless enough noise is made by the city and all the plants that shutdown.

The mindset of the state is very different from where I moved here from, Minnesota. Minnesota has much higher taxes but there are a lot of things that get resolved ,in my opinion, better because the state spends the money to resolve problems that affect everyone. Schooling ,almost, across the board is very good to excellent, even in the rural areas. In Texas, it is very hit or miss depending on how much tax revenue that school district can bring in. If you have a plant in your school district, you'll be flush with cash. Some of the high schools have football stadiums that are far better than the division 2 college I went to for most of my undergrad. Texas is just very different. The fact that a high speed train is going to be built between Houston and Dallas still blows my mind. I think that someone is getting a kick back or made a large donation or something. Public transit ,at least, in Houston is very subpar for a metro but I think that is due to the Texan independent mindset. Large expensive projects that will be paid for in a socialized manner are not a Texas thing.

 

[IRstuff]

Bill, you need to update the joke. She's 75 now, so it needs to start with "60 years ago.." ;-)

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[waross]

60 years ago. Wow. No wonder my memory was off.

Bill
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[drawoh]

50 56 years on Christine Keeler is still alive.
Years ago there were false assumptions that Christine Keeler had died,based on reports that her body had been found under an old British Peer.

My favorite peer joke is the one about the horse thief who is told he will be tried by a jury of his peers and then taken out and strung up. He asks what a peer is and they tell him.

"You mean I am going to be tried by a jury of horse thieves?"

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JHG