Texas river flood leaves at least 13 dead and 20 children missing; camp evacuated by helicopter

ThatOwlWoman said:
Physicians in most states can give approval for a handicap placard. Unlike what Toxic and FatLame are claiming, though, you can't just go to any doctor to get on Medicaid. They have approved doctors you have to see who decide on your eligibility, assuming you're applying because of a disability. You also have to jump through major agency red tape hoops. Once approved you have to keep going to their docs for the duration of your benefits.
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Getting and keeping Medicaid is fucking hard. You have to be reevaluated every year, and despite the sheeple cries, you have to be an American citizen.
 
Jade Dragon said:
Getting and keeping Medicaid is fucking hard. You have to be reevaluated every year, and despite the sheeple cries, you have to be an American citizen.
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And yet the pediatrician next to my Arlington Texas office had an office full of mothers that spoke ZERO English and had several kids that he took care of. The moms used to change diapers and throw the old ones out into the parking lot. Our office and other office complained and the landlord made the pedi's staff pick up dirty diapers every day. pick up diapers every day. The moms were such bad drivers that they were constantly hitting parked cars. Our staff started parking on the other side of the building. Then one of the pediatrician's patients parents hit his Mercedes :laugh: So after that he even parked on the other side of the building. I have done labor epidural and C section crash inductions on illegal aliens on Medicaid. When an illegal mom shows up for a delivery she is put on Medicaid and the delivery is paid for by Medicaid so yes illegals can get Medicaid.
 
Jade Dragon said:
Getting and keeping Medicaid is fucking hard. You have to be reevaluated every year, and despite the sheeple cries, you have to be an American citizen.
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Yep. My daughter who was DYING from cancer had to have a pet medicaid doctor confirm it; her own physicians could not. The same is true of those disabled folks on social secutiry/Medicare disability. They must also jump through hoops just to be approved, and then submit to an annual visit with a pet Medicare doc to confirm their disability. My late husband had an ejection fraction of 15% (measure of heart's volumetric ability to pump blood, normal is 60% (55-70). We can verify with "Doctor" Fat Lame. lol He could barely walk to his truck in the driveway w/o getting short of breath and having angina. Yet one Medicare dr. said he could work. He was a machinist who worked on his feet all day and had been able to lift the heavy bars of metal into the machines for tooling. He could lift me up off the ground with one hand... before his heart attack. He had to get an atty. and was then two years later was approved. Even so, for ten years he had to submit to yearly confirmation of his condition. Idiots like our MAGAT friends have absolutely no clue how hard it is -- even as a tax paying American citizen -- to receive any kind of social welfare benefits.
 
FastLane said:
You said 14.99 to 16.99. That is more than 10%. There are no tariffs on Colombian coffee at this point. Other factors seem more likely.
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And I also said and have been saying I wouldn't put it past the retailers adding a couple percent on top of the tariffs to pad their bottom line.
And it is about 13 % .
and this search says Trump did put a 10% tariff on Columbia .
https://www.bing.com/search?q=did+T...=ANNTH1&refig=89DF0FB77EDA4AC68DEBEA76A5A8816
There may be other factors but isn't it funny that coffee prices went up just over 10% about a month or so after Trump put a 10% tariff on Columbia.?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Yep. My daughter who was DYING from cancer had to have a pet medicaid doctor confirm it; her own physicians could not. The same is true of those disabled folks on social secutiry/Medicare disability. They must also jump through hoops just to be approved, and then submit to an annual visit with a pet Medicare doc to confirm their disability. My late husband had an ejection fraction of 15% (measure of heart's volumetric ability to pump blood, normal is 60% (55-70). We can verify with "Doctor" Fat Lame. lol He could barely walk to his truck in the driveway w/o getting short of breath and having angina. Yet one Medicare dr. said he could work. He was a machinist who worked on his feet all day and had been able to lift the heavy bars of metal into the machines for tooling. He could lift me up off the ground with one hand... before his heart attack. He had to get an atty. and was then two years later was approved. Even so, for ten years he had to submit to yearly confirmation of his condition. Idiots like our MAGAT friends have absolutely no clue how hard it is -- even as a tax paying American citizen -- to receive any kind of social welfare benefits.
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An ejection fraction of 30% or less is considered END STAGE. My former partner had a heart transplant because he got a viral myocarditis that damaged his heart, his EF before the surgery was 24%. I do not believe any doctor would think a patient with a 15% EF could work. Do you have any paper work?
 
Tbird19482 said:
And I also said and have been saying I wouldn't put it past the retailers adding a couple percent on top of the tariffs to pad their bottom line.
And it is about 13 % .
and this search says Trump did put a 10% tariff on Columbia .
https://www.bing.com/search?q=did+Trump+put+a+10%+tariff+on+Columba&form=ANNTH1&refig=89DF0FB77EDA4AC68DEBEA76A5A8816
There may be other factors but isn't it funny that coffee prices went up just over 10% about a month or so after Trump put a 10% tariff on Columbia.?
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The tariffs have not kicked in yet. Increased demand, drought and decreased production has kicked in though..
 
Hawkeye10 said:
At this point almost all are surely dead.
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Yes unless they have shown up at home and have not been removed from the list. They are Dead. It took 3 years to find a woman that got swept into a swollen creek in Duncanville when I lived there. She was 10 -15 miles from where her car went into the creek. A girl was found ALIVE after traveling 20 miles in 4 hours in the Guadalupe but she was found that morning.. I can't imagine how far a body might have traveled by now.
 
FastLane said:
Yes unless they have shown up at home and have not been removed from the list. They are Dead. It took 3 years to find a woman that got swept into a swollen creek in Duncanville when I lived there. She was 10 -15 miles from where her car went into the creek. A girl was found ALIVE after traveling 20 miles in 4 hours in the Guadalupe but she was found that morning.. I can't imagine how far a body might have traveled by now.
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This was horrific.....I need to know how the forecast was so wrong, and if it is even possible for a storm to behave this way without human intervention.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
This was horrific.....I need to know how the forecast was so wrong, and if it is even possible for a storm to behave this way without human intervention.
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We have had other massive flooding in that area in the 1980s. Texas has violent thunderstorms. This one was particularly bad because it was slow moving and sat over the Gudalupe drainage area and dumped a bunch of rain in one spot. I have heard as much as 4 TRILLION gallons were dumped in a few hours. That area has shallow sandy soil and does not absorb water well. They call that area Flash flood alley. I have tubed and rafted the Gadalupe around Gurene Texas several times. There are high cliffs and bluffs some are around 200 feet high. On one of them there is a crushed red canoe around 3/4 the way up. Once when we rafted it our guide told us two morons decided to canoe the Guadalupe when it was flooding. It was a fatal mistake.

You might want to read this. Flooding in the Hill Country
 
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FastLane said:
We have had other massive flooding in that area in the 1980s. Texas has violent thunderstorms. This one was particularly bad because it was slow moving and sat over the Gudalupe drainage area and dumped a bunch of rain in one spot. I have heard as much as 4 TRILLION gallons were dumped in a few hours. That area has shallow sandy soil and does not absorb water well. They call that area Flash flood alley. I have tubed and rafted the Gadalupe around Gurene Texas several times. There are high cliffs and bluffs some are around 200 feet high. On one of them there is a crushed red canoe around 3/4 the way up. Once when we rafted it our guide told us two morons decided to canoe the Guadalupe when it was flooding. It was a fatal mistake.
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The storm just stopped, and then dumped 5-6 times what was expected.....and I thought is moved strangely.

Bad luck maybe.....human intervention maybe.
 
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