Harvey is lurking and churning out in the Gulf.
From out of nowhere with amazing stealth.
He came uninvited like a thief in the night.
He came to the unaware of their plight.
There are always those who are unprepared.
The naysayers or without information shared.
Harvey was predicted not to have much blow.
But he strengthened and will eventually showed.
His original intention when he hit the coast.
His party arrived with a 20 foot waves,
and 10 foot surging boast.
His party hurt where it hurts the most.
Partyers drunken and caught in their boast.
Swept away for their arrogance to his power.
Misunderstanding his tide and storm wall hour.
Predicted to linger on the land for six days.
Harvey is dumping his full bladder several ways.
He’s pissing on people living so low.
As if by living there, they didn't know.
Rivers and bayous swelling to their banks.
They will overflow and flood neighborhoods,
regardless of their owners' ranks.
For rich and poor will feel Harvey's floods.
There will be no reprieve for arrogant bluebloods.
People who drive fancy cars into deep water.
People who think that they are so much smarter.
Or people who run when there is torrential rain,
thinking that they will escape only headlong into pain.
Caught on the freeways without water or gas.
They curse themselves for being such an ass.
Harvey does not care while thousands are rescued.
He wrings out his clouds on the hapless queued.
Awaiting the government bailout for getting screwed.
So, Harvey, Harvey please go away!
Don't stick around anymore,
No even one more day.
Copyright 2017 © Ronald W. Hull
8/24/17 Revised 8/26/17
Read this poen on my website here.
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Regis
May all in its path be safe...
Thanks again,
Russ Husnik
While I fear a power outage for several reasons, including the loss of water and everything we have in the freezers, I have a plan to go to a shelter or hotel if that happens.
Fortunately, although there is a bayou (concrete ditch) about a mile away, we are quite high and dry here in the middle of the block and can avoid flooding… Except if the phenomenal 35 inch projection for the area is true, meaning that all bayous will overflow like giant rivers miles wide undulating most of Houston like New Orleans in Katrina. There will be no evacuating something like that except by the National Guard. Fortunately too, this amount of rain will fall over a six-day period giving the bayous time to empty into the Galveston Bay and Gulf.
Still, I see massive flooding coming like Allison in 2001.
Ron
I hate to be so classlessly common, but that NOAA predicted rainfall graph you used looks like a great, giant inflammed scrotum...! Regardless, the resulting Force 4 winds are about to blow all the nuts (Pecans) off the trees down there, so perhaps they were telling us something inferentially, eh? :))
well done!
roseline
And thanks for your review of my relocating article - three of the pets I moved were Katrina rescues who are still with me - two dogs and a cat. I also hope people don't leave their pets behind in Harvey like they did in Katrina.
Love ya!
Jane
where hurricanes don't go.
But we still have our storms,
and an occasional tornado.
Miller