Back in the day I followed Kunstler, but for the last few years he's been an old man yelling at clouds more often than not. Today's rant actually had a bit of the old sparkle.
He leads off with the money quote...
Cruise Ship comes up the channel to Port of Galveston, two weeks before the Port closed for Hurricane Harvey and stranded 15-20,000 people out to sea. Still not reopened as of this afternoon.
jb and I still don't know how our many friends and relatives, from San Antonio to Austin to the coast all along will fare. Will they survive? The VERY elderly parent and elderly uncle. The baby boomer cousins and friends their adult kids.
Recovery talk will be important.
But even more important will be honest talk about the long term imo.
Will Hurricane Harvey surge once again inundate Galveston? Fisherman's Wharf area on Ship Channel, with offshore drilling platforms and art. August, 2017. UPDATE: Pointing all toward Naomi Klein tweet in comments. Hope you will share far and wide. divineorder
To put this in perspective, Sandy was a category 1 hurricane.
Katrina, remember, destroyed the Bush presidency and this one might do the same to Trump. I hope FEMA and state authorities know what they are doing this time.
