25,000 miles is more than the circumference of the entire Earth…
The Navajo Nation IS 27,413 square miles, but hey, you can derail something worth talking about with your dumbass semantic gripe if you really wanna look like a douchebag. Anyway, here’s those donation links again if you want to apologize.
Houston is grappling with a disaster of epic proportions from Hurricane Harvey, as the tropical storm continues to dump rain on the region. On Sunday, the death toll rose to eight, including a family of six who drowned in a van while trying to escape the rising waters.
The historic Houston flood of 2017 is deepening, and with it there are more water rescues — at least 2,000 by Monday afternoon. People who believed they would wait it out, or that the water would go down, are realizing they have to get out.
On a downtown street in Houston an elderly man pushes his wife in a wheelchair. Both wear trash bags for ponchos, as they walk from an arena that was turned into a shelter.
“We had knee-deep water in our house, so we’re here,” says Mel Mikan, who was rescued with his wife, Barbara, Sunday night by a Bellaire Fire Department boat.
sometimes i think about if i were small enough to take shelter from the rain under a leaf or if i could make dresses from the petals of brightly colored flowers and drink dew drops and dance on a sunflower with a bee
