Hurricane Harvey

In 2019, which hurricane, tied for the strongest landfall storm in the Atlantic Ocean, painted a portrait of destruction in the Bahamas with sustained winds over 185 miles an hour?

Oh, I don't know the ones that landed in the Bahamas, but wasn't Harvey a big one back then? I'm just going to go with Hurricane Harvey.

I don't know.

No, if you have not seen it, I forget the guy's name.

My brother and I went down.

Was it Hurricane Harvey that hit Houston several years ago? We went down there just to help out, and we were in boats in the middle of streets where the only thing you could see were the tops of trees.

pickup trucks.

You couldn't even see cars.

Now, honestly, there is a challenge on the other side, which I think we all still struggle with it, which is if you look back to Beryl and the derecho.

There was real concern that if we have, you know, a big storm or two more or something, are we going to see donor fatigue? Because, you know, even the most well-intentioned donor only has so much resource short of, you know, something like a Hurricane Harvey where everyone's going to have to step up at something that's more.

So we talk about that a fair amount in terms of trying to deepen the base of potential donors, individual and family, the business community and what have you, so that if we do end up with a season like that, you know, that there will be enough resource to feed in.

But the fundamental answer to your question is that we all need to be really intentional and think back not two years, but four years

There, Flores operates a family pig farm.

Besides their backgrounds, one of the biggest differences between Buckingham and Flores has to do with 2017's Hurricane Harvey, specifically how long-term federal relief funds were spent.

Critics say the GLO discriminated against communities of color when distributing federal disaster mitigation funding.

The Biden administration agreed, but the Trump administration cleared Texas of any civil rights violations earlier this year.

And that is Gina Hino.

So my opponent's position on the oil and gas sector that you were just talking about when Hurricane Harvey hit in Texas in 2017, my opponent was a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

She said the only way forward from a hurricane like that is with a Texas green new deal.

She then proposed taxes, taxes and regulations on the oil and gas sector.

So this is really, really cool.

I got to be in Houston, see the Astros win it during Hurricane Harvey and everything that went on there.

And now having a chance to see my childhood team win it is pretty awesome.

Pretty awesome.

You know, but.

I don't know, because right before I moved to Texas, as I moved to Texas, that was Hurricane Harvey that messed up Houston.

So I don't know.

I guess it kind of all depends on where you get your lore from.