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Monday 28 August 2017

The Sky Is Crying (Near the River Bottom)

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Messenger's Cafe | by ADMurr

Messenger's Cafe. [Clarksdale, MS.] The Messenger family has owned businesses in Clarksdale since about 1903, and this club is reputed to be the oldest continuously operated black-owned business in the area. In 1941, Fisk University sociologists meticulously noted the names of every song on the jukebox at Messenger's and four other clubs, and last year an import label published a multi-disk set of them all.: photo by Andrew Murr, 25 August 2017

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Not surprised to see scene like this, and expect many more. #Harvey and nationalism, entangled and highly-charged. @AFPphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 August 2017 

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A house in the Meyerland section of Houston: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017


 
A house in the Meyerland section of Houston: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017

Wilford Martinez, Richard Wagner

Wilford Martinez, Richard Wagner
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Interstate Highway 45 is submerged as Harvey inundates Houston: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017



Hurricane Harvey slams Texas
: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 August 2017


This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced. Follow orders from officials to ensure safety. #Harvey
: image via NWS @NWS, 27 October 2017



The flood threat from #Harvey is spreading farther east in Louisiana. Stay vigilant. @NWSNewOrleans @NWSLakeCharles @NWSWPC
: image via NHC North Atlantic Ops @NHCAtlantic, 27 August 2017

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Last look at #khou11 lobby as my GM @KHOUSusan and I walked out the back. #lasttoleave #hurricaneharvey: image via Sally Ramirez @KHOU1, 27 August 2017



Thx @HoustonPubMedia @wfaachannel8 for helping #khou11 get back on air to serve our community #StandsforHouston #HurricaneHarvey: image via Sally Ramirez @KHOU1, 27 August 2017

 

Thx @HoustonPubMedia @wfaachannel8 for helping #khou11 get back on air to serve our community #StandsforHouston #HurricaneHarvey: image via Sally Ramirez @KHOU1, 27 August 2017



Thx @HoustonPubMedia @wfaachannel8 for helping #khou11 get back on air to serve our community #StandsforHouston #HurricaneHarvey: image via Sally Ramirez @KHOU1, 27 August 2017

 

Thx @HoustonPubMedia @wfaachannel8 for helping #khou11 get back on air to serve our community #StandsforHouston #HurricaneHarvey: image via Sally Ramirez @KHOU1, 27 August 2017


#USA Harvey unleashes catastrophic flooding in Houston Photo @bsmialowski #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 27 August 2017



#USA Harvey unleashes catastrophic flooding in Houston Photo @bsmialowski #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 27 August 2017


Flooding in Houston is 'catastrophic' after #HurricaneHarvey Photo: @olsongetty #HoustonFloods #hurricaneharvey2017: image via GettyImagesNews @GettyImagesNews, 26 August 2017


Flooding in Houston is 'catastrophic' after #HurricaneHarvey Photo: @olsongetty #HoustonFloods #hurricaneharvey2017: image via GettyImagesNews @GettyImagesNews, 26 August 2017


Flooding in Houston is 'catastrophic' after #HurricaneHarvey Photo: @olsongetty #HoustonFloods #hurricaneharvey2017: image via GettyImagesNews @GettyImagesNews, 26 August 2017


Flooding in Houston is 'catastrophic' after #HurricaneHarvey Photo: @olsongetty #HoustonFloods #hurricaneharvey2017: image via GettyImagesNews @GettyImagesNews, 26 August 2017


People are rescued from flood waters on an air boat in Dickinson, as Hurricane Harvey slams Texas: photo @RickWilking: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017


Flooded downtown Houston is seen after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf coast Photo Christian Tycksen: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017


A Texas National Guard soldier carries a woman on his back during rescue operations in flooded areas around Houston: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017


An abandoned Hummer is covered in floodwaters on Interstate 610 in Houston, as Hurricane Harvey slams Texas: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017


Lisa Rehr awaits evacuation as she holds her four-year old son Maximus, after losing their home to Hurricane Harvey: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017


A Rockport condominium complex reduced to rubble by Hurricane Harvey: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 August 2017 


Avoid travel to Texas coast' reads sign on Dallas freeway, as Hurricane Harvey slams the state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 August 2017
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From #Rockport one of saddest #Harvey photos. More harrowing because not yet a metaphor. Crisis, search and rescue ongoing. Photo @ExpressNews: image via Reading the Pictures @ReadingThe Pix, 27 August 2017 
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Beyond the deluge, #Houston photo from Saturday night relates apocalyptic essence of this catastrophe. Photo @HoustonChron #Harvey: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThe Pix, 27 August 2017

 

Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Friday night: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017



The Corpus Christi shoreline hours before Hurricane Harvey’s expected landfall: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017


Birds along the Corpus Christi shoreline before Hurricane Harvey made landfall: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017

 

Birds along the Corpus Christi shoreline before Hurricane Harvey made landfall: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017
  
 

An Exxon Mobil pipeline along the Houston Ship Channel: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 26 August 2017
  
 

Refineries along the Houston Ship Channel as the hurricane approaches: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 26 August 2017  
 

A roadside sign in Houston warns drivers of Hurricane Harvey’s approach: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 26 August 2017 



A roadside sign in Houston warns drivers of Hurricane Harvey’s approach: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 26 August 2017
 

Dusk in Houston’s Meyerland area on Sunday night. : photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017
 

Dusk in Houston’s Meyerland area on Sunday night.: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017


Helicopters evacuate people from Houston’s Meyerland area as the water continues to rise: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017



Helicopters evacuate people from Houston’s Meyerland area as the water continues to rise: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017


The remnants of a kitchen stand among heavily storm-damaged homes and apartment complexes in Rockport: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017

 

The remnants of a kitchen stand among heavily storm-damaged homes and apartment complexes in Rockport: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017



Pedestrians in Houston trying to leave the city along Interstate 610: photo by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times, 27 August 2017
 

 A destroyed motor home on State Highway 188: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017



 A destroyed motor home on State Highway 188: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017


A person’s positive prospects in #America have always been defined by that open road. #Harvey #Highway188 Photo @TamirKalifa #NYT: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 August 2017

 

Colin McBurney, 16, leading Stew, a horse belonging to a friend, into a stable on her Rockport property. It escaped through a storm-damaged fence.: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017



 Selah Trotter, 8, leaps over a downed utility line in her Rockport neighborhood as she walks home with her mother, Felicia Murphy, and siblings Harmony, 9, and Craig, 7, after surveying nearby damage.: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017


A small herd of longhorn cattle wades through a flooded field miles outside of Rockport: photo by Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times, 26 August 2017


A woman and her poodle float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued in Houston: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 August 2017

Reading The Pictures Retweeted Timothy J. McIntosh
Reading The Pictures added,

 Heartbreaking photo. And heartbreaking accusations of fake news. #Harvey as incomparable a moral as humanitarian crisis in Trump age.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 August 2017



 'It was like riding on a boat': How one Texas town weathered Hurricane Harvey (Photo: @rgaut999): image via Brian Park @TheBrianPark, 27 August 2017



 'It was like riding on a boat': How one Texas town weathered Hurricane Harvey (Photo: @rgaut999): image via Brian Park @TheBrianPark, 27 August 2017



 'It was like riding on a boat': How one Texas town weathered Hurricane Harvey (Photo: @rgaut999): image via Brian Park @TheBrianPark, 27 August 2017



 'It was like riding on a boat': How one Texas town weathered Hurricane Harvey (Photo: @rgaut999): image via Brian Park @TheBrianPark, 27 August 2017


Several spots in Houston metro are on pace to break the all-time U.S. 24-hour rainfall record. (42" in 1979 in Alvin, TX) Shown: >14"/8hr: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 27 August 2017
 
 
Unreal live pics @DarrenSweeney #nbcct: image via Ryan Hanrahan @ryanhanrahan, 27 August 2017
 

Scenes from Victoria, Texas as the eye of Hurricane Harvey passes nearby.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 27 August 2017