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Juju Vibes
@JujuvibesbytheS
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@david_wilcock
I took this. I played w contrast a little to get it to come through. This is in Galveston crossing the ferry 11 days after Hurricane Harvey. Going to Bolivar Peninsula to check on our homestead. I have 3 like this in this area and different locations.
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CopsDirect.org
@CopsDirect
DJ, an 11-year-old was sworn in as an honorary police officer for 53 different police departments. He has anaplastic ependymoma, a terminal cancer of the brain and spine, wanted to be a Cop after three police officers helped the his family post-Hurricane Harvey.
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Wesley Austin Miller
@Wesley_A_Miller
Just finished “Let The Rich Be Flooded” by
@BillingsEcon
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@EmilyAGallaghe1
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@lowellricketts
. They ask whether mild ATEs of flood damage on financial outcomes mask meaningful impacts within certain subpopulations that were exposed to flooding during #HurricaneHarvey 1/n
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Texas Real Estate Research Center
@recentertx
In the latest installment of "When Disaster Strikes," TRERC's Wes Miller looks at a study examining how flood damage affected Houstonians’ financial health across various subpopulations after Hurricane Harvey. Read it here: txrec.io/3HyIQGc
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Al Mayadeen English
@MayadeenEnglish
According to officials, Homeless people's mass displacement and death rate in Los Angeles have already surpassed those caused by disasters like the Northridge earthquake and hurricane Harvey.
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Alissa Walker
@awalkerinLA
"WHEREAS, there are more people currently experiencing homelessness in the City of Los Angeles than were displaced by Hurricane Harvey in Houston (30,000) or the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (20,000)" From the official emergency declaration: clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/202
WHEREAS, Section 231(i) of the Los Angeles City Charter and Ch. 3, Section 8.27 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code provide that the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles has the authority to declare the existence of a local emergency as a result of normal services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the regularly constituted branches and departments of City government; and WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles has at any given time approximately 41,980 people experiencing homelessness Citywide; and WHEREAS, the number of unhoused people in the City of Los Angeles has increased dramatically in recent years, nearly doubling in the past decade, with the number of unhoused families increasing by 238 percent since 2007; and WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles represents 9.6 percent of the State of California’s population but 25 percent of the State’s unsheltered population, and the City represents only 1.2 percent of the total United States population but 7.2 percent of the U.S. population
WHEREAS, as a percentage of its population, the number of unsheltered people in the City of Los Angeles is approximately 18 times higher than the number in New York City and 14 times higher than the number in Chicago; and WHEREAS, there are more people currently experiencing homelessness in the City of Los Angeles than were displaced by Hurricane Harvey in Houston (30,000) or the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (20,000); and WHEREAS, homelessness has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous and Immigrant Angelenos. Black people comprise only 8 percent of the population of the City of Los Angeles but, in the most recent homelessness count, accounted for 33 percent or more of people experiencing homelessness; and WHEREAS, homelessness has increased dramatically and disproportionately among Hispanic and Latino Angelenos during the COVID-19 pandemic. The share of the population of people experiencing homelessness who are Hispanic or Latino increased by 30 percent between 2020 and 2022 and
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Mayor Karen Bass
@MayorOfLA
I just declared a state of emergency on homelessness to unlock every tool and authority at our disposal to bring unhoused Angelenos inside. This is a matter of life and death and that’s exactly how my administration will treat it. It is a new day in Los Angeles.
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Vassilena Pavlova
@Vassilena1985
Chihuahua, 5. “Fred was rescued from Hurricane Harvey back in 2017. My friend’s grandmother found him and his siblings under a semi-truck and decided to nurse them back to health. A few weeks after, my friend’s mom came to our house and gave us the lovely Fred.” — Houston, TX
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Beauté See
@beautesee
#LightTheWorld December 17 - These beautiful Christmas ornaments were made by our daughter. Every year she makes something wonderful for us. She has helped us fill our home with so many special new memories after all of our Christmas decorations were lost during Hurricane Harvey.
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Khosro Raúl Soleimani (he/him)
@el_raul
MAGA charlatan, why did you close the doors of your mega church to people in dire need of shelter when Hurricane Harvey happened?
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Joel Osteen
@JoelOsteen
Thank you for your generosity and being a part of our ministry! We love you and we are excited about what God is going to do in your life in the new year!
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