Viral Tweet Saves Senior Citizens From Hurricane Harvey

THERE IS AN IMAGE FLOATING AROUND THE HAS KIND OF COME TO
DEFINE PEOPLE LEARNING ABOUT THE HOUSTON HURRICANE,
HURRICANE HARVEY.
THIS IS A PHOTO YOU MAY HAVE SEEN.
IT IS PEOPLE AT AN ASSISTED LIVING CENTER.
IN CASE YOU CAN'T SEE IT THERE, THERE IS WATER COVERING
EVERYTHING.
THERE ARE SENIOR CITIZENS SITTING IN WATER.
IF YOU'RE WONDERING HOW I CAME TO BE, WHAT IT IS.
IT
IS A SENIOR CENTER RUN BY TIMOTHY MCINTOSH'S MOTHER.
HE RECEIVED THAT PHOTO FROM HER AND THEN DIDN'T HEAR
ANYTHING FROM HER AFTER THAT ACCORDING TO TIME MAGAZINE.
FOLLOWING THAT, HE TWEETED IT AND THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE WHO RETWEETED IT AND WITHIN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT
OF TIME THANKFULLY, FOLKS CAME TO THE AID ACCORDING TO THE
REPORT IN TIME.
THE MACINTOSH'S REACHED OUT TO TELL PEOPLE THEY WERE GRATEFUL
FOR THE SHOW OF SUPPORT, SAYING:
VERY TOUCHING STORY.
I OFTENTIMES COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE TWITTER IS AND HOW
DETRIMENTAL SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE, BUT HERE IS ONE OF THE FEW CASES
WHERE IT LITERALLY SAVED LIVES.
LOOKING AT THAT PHOTO, IF YOU REALLY FOCUS ON EVERY SINGLE
PERSON FOR A MINUTE IN THAT PHOTO IT IS KIND OF AMAZING
BECAUSE IT ALMOST SEEMS AS THOUGH THEY ARE JUST LIVING
THEIR LIVES AND THEY ARE NOT SUBMERGED IN WATER, ALMOST
COMPLETELY SUBMERGED.
I AM SO HAPPY THAT PEOPLE STEPPED UP AND DID
SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
I'M GLAD THAT THE PHOTO WENT VIRAL AND NO ONE DIED AS A
RESULT OF THAT FLOOD IN THAT ASSISTED LIVING CENTER.
IT IS JUST TERRIFYING TO ME TO THINK OF FAMILY MEMBERS WHO
MIGHT BE IN THAT CONDITION AND MIGHT NOT GET THE HELP THAT
THEY NEED TO SURVIVE.
LOOK, WE DO COMMENTARY ON THE STORY SO I'M GOING TO.
I NEED YOU TO CALM DOWN.
IT IS GOING TO BE SOMEWHAT POLITICAL.
THE ISSUE IS GOVERNMENT.
BECAUSE OF THEIR TALKING POINTS FROM THE RIGHT THAT
GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS BAD.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS BAD BY DEFINITION.
MY COUNTER TO THAT IS, DOESN'T IT DEPEND?
WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING?
IF AMERICA IS INVADING
A COUNTRY THAT DIDN'T INVADE US, YOU'RE RIGHT IT'S TERRIBLE.
OR GETTING INSIDE OUR UTERUS, TERRIBLE.
SHOULDN'T GET BETWEEN US AND OUR DOCTOR.
SOMETIMES CONSERVATIVES DON'T AGREE WITH THAT.
BUT IF IT IS GOING TO THE RESCUE OF THESE POOR WOMEN AND
OTHER PEOPLE IN THAT ASSISTED LIVING CENTER, IT IS WONDERFUL.
IT IS NOT TO SAY THAT THAT PROVES THAT GOVERNMENT IS
GREAT ON EVERYTHING.
NO, WE ARE NOT AS BLACK-AND-WHITE AS THE
RIGHT WING.
WE ARE NOT AS SIMPLISTIC AS THE RIGHT WING.
IT DEPENDS.
SOMETIMES GOVERNMENT DOES WONDERFUL THINGS.
SOMETIMES IT DOES HORRIFIC THINGS.
LET'S USE OUR MIND AND JUDGMENT TO FIGURE OUT WHICH IS
WHICH IF WE HAD HAD MORE GOVERNMENT ACTION, MAYBE WE
WOULDN'T HAVE AS MUCH CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE STORMS WOULD
NOT OF BEEN A SEVERE AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN THIS
MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
IF WE FOLLOW THROUGH ON SOME OF THE REGULATIONS THAT OBAMA
PUT INTO PLACE TO PREVENT FURTHER FLOODING IN CITIES
LIKE HOUSTON, MAYBE THE FLOODING WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AS BAD.
AND CERTAINLY I HOPE WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT RESCUING PEOPLE IN
NEED IS A CORE GOVERNMENT JOB.
LOOK, ON THE OTHER HAND FOR DEMOCRATS WHO SOMETIMES
MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AND GO GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS GREAT.
NO.
WHEN THE POLITICIANS ARE LEGALLY BRIBED BY THEIR DONORS, IT
IS NOT GREAT.
LET'S USE OUR MINDS ENTER JUDGMENT TO FIGURE OUT HOW
MUCH GOVERNMENT WE NEED AND IN THIS CASE, THANK GOD
SOMEBODY SHOWED UP.
THESE ARE THE WEIRDEST FEELINGS TO GO THROUGH
BECAUSE YOU SEE SUCH DEVASTATION ACROSS THE BOARD.
HOUSTON IS ñ
THAT IS WHAT MY GREATEST FEARS.
FLAT SPACE IN A FLOOD.
HOUSTON IS A FLOOD PRONE DISTRICT.
BAYOUS, DITCHES.
ONE OF OUR EDITORS IS FROM HOUSTON AND SHOWED ME A
PHOTO OF A GIANT FREEWAY THAT LOOKS LIKE A RIVER.
IT WAS LIKE A RIVER BECAUSE THERE WAS A LITTLE BRIDGE
ABOUT THIS HIGH OVER THE WATER TO LOOK LIKE YOU COULD TAKE
A NICE LITTLE WALK.
NO, THAT'S A FREEWAY IN THE BRIDGE IS SUPPOSED TO BE
TALL ENOUGH SEE YOU CAN DRIVE A SEMI TRUCK UNDERNEATH IT.
IT IS TERRIFYING.
AND THEN YOU SEE THESE GRANDPARENTS WHO ARE IN AN
ASSISTED LIVING CENTER THAT THEY THEMSELVES NEED ASSISTANCE.
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THAT THEY GOT OUT OF THERE BUT THAT
IS A NIGHTMARE TO ME.
I WANTED TO MAKE THIS POINT WHEN WE DID THE ORIGINAL
STORY ABOUT THE HURRICANE, BUT I DID NOT GET AN OPPORTUNITY
SO I WANTED TO MAKE THAT POINT NOW.
THERE IS ALSO AN ISSUE OF HOW INFRASTRUCTURE IS BUILT IN
THE HOUSTON AREA.
THERE IS THIS GREAT WRITER FOR THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE.
HIS NAME ESCAPES ME AT THE MOMENT BUT HE TALKED ABOUT HOW
RIGHT NOW THERE IS OVERDEVELOPMENT IN THE HOUSTON
AREA WHICH IS FLOOD PRONE.
THAT UNFORTUNATELY MAKES FLOODS WORSE
AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE THERE ARE GRASSY AREAS,
PRAIRIES, THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ARE BETTER AT ABSORBING THE
WATER AND NOW, THERE IS SO MUCH OVERDEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE ARE
BUILDING CONCRETE OVER AND OBVIOUSLY, CONCRETE DOESN'T
ABSORB THE WATER.
IT MAKES THE FLOODING WORSE AND SO INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING
THAT, THERE ARE LAWMAKERS IN THE STATE THAT CONTINUE TO
DEREGULATE CERTAIN ZONING LAWS THAT LEAD TO THIS KIND OF
SITUATION GETTING WORSE AND SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT
EVERYONE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS EXASPERATING THE ISSUE.
ABSOLUTELY.
THE UNWILLINGNESS TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COULD
WITHSTAND THIS TYPE OF FLOODING IS A PROBLEM AND THEN THIS
TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ACTUALLY MAKES THE FLOODING
WORSE IS A PROBLEM.
I REMEMBER WHEN INCONVENIENT TRUTH CAME OUT A DECADE AGO
AND THEY SHOULD THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME MAJOR AMERICAN
CITIES WOULD BE UNDERWATER AND CONSERVATIVES LAUGHED.
THAT IS RIDICULOUS, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE UNDERWATER.
AL GORE, YOU ARE NUTS.
ONE OF THEM WAS PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
IN AN INCONVENIENT SEQUAL THE SHOWED THE MEMORIAL
WAS UNDERWATER.
NOW HOUSTON IS UNDERWATER.
IT HAS HAPPENED TIME AND TIME
AGAIN, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA THERE WAS THE BIGGEST FLOOD
THEY HAD EVER SEEN LAST YEAR.
THIS IS NOW BEING CALLED A 500
YEAR FLOOD.
I'M BEGINNING TO THINK IT DOESN'T HAPPEN EVERY
500 YEARS, IT HAPPENS OFTEN AND REPEATEDLY BECAUSE THE
STORMS ARE GETTING WORSE BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
IT TURNS OUT THE SCIENTISTS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.
BIG SURPRISE.
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Viral Tweet Saves Senior Citizens From Hurricane Harvey

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