Harvey may have wrecked up to 1M cars / 30,000 to 40,000 homes destroyed in Houston area
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/08/31/hurricane-harvey-cars/619785001/Harvey may have wrecked up to 1M cars and trucks
Hurricane Harvey and its catastrophic aftermath likely destroyed more vehicles than any other natural disaster in U.S. history, according to several early estimates.
The storm may have ruined up to one million vehicles along the Texas Gulf Coast, according to automotive data firm Black Book. In the Houston area, about one in seven cars may have been destroyed, according to analysts from Evercore ISI, an investment banking advisory and research firm.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/harvey-now-tropical-storm-makes-landfall-louisiana/story?id=49507156
Harvey: Thousands await rescue as estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes destroyed in Houston area
Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.
Harvey made its third landfall, just west of Cameron, Louisiana, Wednesday at 4 a.m. CDT, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, according to the National Weather Service. As of 11 p.m. EDT, the slow-moving storm had picked up some speed, moving northeast at 9 mph, with its center was about 30 miles northeast of Alexandria, Louisiana.
The storm was starting to fall apart overnight, with rain scattered in nature and falling over Mississippi and Arkansas. Residents in western Tennessee, around Memphis, should expect heavy rains on Thursday morning and possible flash flooding as up to 8 inches of rain are possible locally.
Before that, it battered the Beaumont-Port Arthur area in southeastern Texas, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some parts. By Wednesday evening, the storm had weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression.
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But what does Trump say?
"We are going to get you back and operating immediately," Trump told an impromptu crowd
that gathered outside a Corpus Christi fire station about 30 miles from where the storm made
landfall Friday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-08-29/trump-traveling-to-texas-for-briefings-on-harvey-recovery
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I wonder how the probably more than 100,000 people formerly living in those 30,000 - 40,000 homes feel about healing what with those homes being destroyed and such.
And I'm sure that those whose homes weren't destroyed are in pristine condition. Thank goodness. 
And those million vehicle owners? Cars, trucks, buses, etc. I'm sure they're healing bigly.
And I'm pleased to see that Texas has so far turned down aid from Quebec and Mexico, the former because prayers are more necessary than blankets and beds and the latter because the offer comes from brown people. From Mexico.
I wonder at what point we'll see direct requests for aid from individuals and communities to foreign countries, as we often see when natural disasters hit third world countries.
