The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

“Nobody likes lawyers … until you need one.” My brother, attorney at law

Texas is drowning. Well, maybe not all of the Lone Star state, but the Houston area just got the most rainfall in U.S. history, some 50 inches in less than a week when Hurricane Harvey stalled over them and dumped the equivalent of one and a half inches over the entire continent. That, for you literalists, is a helluva lot of bathtubs overflowing.

The President even flew down there, no insignificant deal when you consider he has no Trump resorts or hotels to overnight at with his contingency. And you thought Houstonians were suffering! Nevertheless, tens of thousands are homeless, roads are impassable, 40,000 houses are ruined and the rest will soon be filled with black mold and soggy drywall. FEMA will bring in the formaldehyde trailers and contractors from all over the country will haul crews and equipment into Houston for a years-long cleanup estimated to be 50-100 billion dollars.

This is a catastrophe of the first order. All that chatter of Texas seceding from the United States, that’s going to be forgotten soon as Ted Cruz tries to round up the federal relief funds he voted against after Hurricane Sandy. The Damn Government?? You can forget that kind of cowboy talk now, not when folks need a hand.

All that blather about self reliance, independent Westerner, keeper of the Alamo’s legend — let’s cut to the chase. We have government to do the things we can’t do individually. The Texans will learn soon enough that this is not Evil, it is not necessarily Big Brother — it’s the way we build and sustain civilizations. So if secession is what they want, fine, turn down the money, Ted, the rest of us can use it to build roads, schools and courthouses.

Remember the Alamo, Ted. But keep in mind, they all died.

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