Old Glory vs. Hurricane Harvey: Down but still waving
Having lived almost half my life in hurricane country, both in South Texas and the Florida Gulf Coast, and experienced firsthand the devastation and loss caused by these great storms, I have been following Hurricane Harvey with keen interest. One of the first large batches of professional images just released contained this photo, which made me pause and just stare at it for a while:
Like photos that have come out of wars to become the iconic images of that event, I thought this photo could well become such an iconic image for this great unfolding disaster that is Hurricane Harvey, symbolizing perhaps that while the citizens of South Texas may have been knocked to their knees by Mother Nature, they are a long way from being down, what with the rest of a great nation standing by to help them back to their feet.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
Be fitting if a leftist went up after it.
Only if the leftist got zapped while doing so, 26Limabeans.
Nice photo, Poe.
Looks to be three phase Delta connected.
No neutral or ground but the line to line
will sure as hell light him up. Poof!
The flag is probably Nylon or Polyester otherwise it would have gone up in flames by now.
I will give a pass to any “Leftist” who climbs a ruined phone pole in the aftermath of a hurricane to treat our flag with a little respect.
And thank them for it, sincerely.
We can go back to arguing later. This is a “all pull together” time.
yeh, a leftist being sprayed with a fire hose to keep him cool lol
I heard Trump was going to pardon Hurricane Harvey because it was only doing its job.
Don’t know if that was meant to be satire, but……nice satire.
It was. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt that I was not serious.
stick you pathetic comments up your ass…you can find your ass can’t you? its right behind your nose!
You don’t see me looking for your posts to be an asshole to you.
Try keeping your comments to yourself next time.
Reminds me of a few fires I’ve been on where a Flag was still waving from its pole after everything around it was gone.
It should have been a confederate flag! Why old glory?
Texans are pretty tough people… even their dogs have some of that spirit. Here’s the story of Otis, who lives in Sinton, TX (north of Corpus Christi):
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/27/viral-photo-shows-hero-dog-personifying-the-texas-spirit-amid-hurricane-harvey/
I want to know what it is that inspires people to get into a car and drive some place in the middle of a damaging rainfall, such as the recent flooding in northeastern Illinois, and now with Harvey down in Texas.
I am mystified by this, because it doesn’t make any sense to go out in it if you were warned to evacuate ahead of it.
“It will never happen to me.”
or
“Authorities believe alcohol was a factor.”
“Flash” flood. Some folks have never seen, nor have any comprehension of “feet per minute” rise of water.
Folks may have expected time to evacuate after the winds died down, or remembered the last “major” flood, and figured nothing could be worse.
Oops.
Or, they are simply so citified that they cannot fathom whatever they want not being available to them right here, right now.
I’ve done it. When I was at Bragg in the 80’s a fellow soldier and I drove to Florida to see Elena. It sucked
Harvey’s dropped 5.5″ on my little hillside so far, with more to come. And yet I have the windows open, getting a lovely and cool breeze through the house. Gathered family and all their critters here, so it’s a mite tight, but we’re getting along just fine, now that we can at least spend time on both porches.
Very concerned for friends in the Houston area, who thought they’d be okay staying at home.
Nephew deployed with his TX ARNG Blackhawk unit to Alice yesterday. They worked missions for eight straight hours, and this morning were to move into Houston for aerial rescues. But they can’t fly in Houston right now. Don’t know where they are, but it’s not in the air.
Texans will get stuff done. It’s what we do for each other.
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
When it gets to the rockets red glare and the bombs my PTSD and TBI kicks in and I get very emotional.
Every single time.
It is amazing how timeless it is.
Just the first six notes bring tears to my eyes. Has nothing to do with my military service and everything to do with the service of others.
Very selfless of you. I want to be like you when I grow up.
In the meantime, if you have been in a COP in the middle of nowhere and seen RPG7s shot at you, while mortar rounds and Chinese made 107mm rockets fly over your head, you would have quite a different appreciation for those verses.
Was that your flag Ol’ Poe?
A team of local EMT’s and Paramedics are in Houston helping rescue efforts. Sadly, they reported that their team was suspended working an area because BLM looters are now shooting at the rescue boats.
From the weather radar map, it appears that Houston is simply being pounded as hard as Mom Nature can make it happen.
let’s say it has been interesting. We lost track on the rain gauge when we got to about 37″, I think that is accurate though. Daughter got flooded out but kind neighbors took them in- wanted to help but roads were impassible without a snorkel. Our turn was yesterday, we are on no flood map but did take some; get to recarpet a few rooms. Still waiting for power, but we’re here and not going anywhere till we want to
Most important is you’re through the worst, correct?