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• Houston is going to have a massive mosquito problem.
• After Hurricane Katrina, many evacuees were relocated to Houston and ended up as residents, where they just had to endure Hurricane Harvey. They must feel snake bit having to go through two of the most damaging hurricanes in U.S. history. It would be really crazy if someone was old enough to survive the 1900 Galveston hurricane, Katrina, and Harvey.
• During Katrina, he welcomed flood victims into his city. Now the former mayor of Houston has become one
  • I totally forgot they welcomed over 200,000 evacuees. I knew the number was high, but not that high.
• Some of those Galveston hurricane stories are haunting, but one in particular that stays with me is the one in which they decided to dump the dead out to sea only for them to wind up on shore.
  • The dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. The dead were initially weighted down on barges and dumped at sea, but when the gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead. More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in all the tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since.
• I’m not trying to cast any judgment, but I’m curious how different things would be if President Trump owned a downtown Houston building or golf course.
• Two-time Emmy winner Alf Clausen has been fired from “The Simpsons” after 27 years
• In Japan, Undertakers Compete to See Who Is the Best Corpse-Dresser
• And some people mocked this plotline in the second (or was it third) season of ‘Homeland’
  • Almost half a million pacemakers need a firmware update to avoid getting hacked
• Of course, they would choose the most boring male first name ever
  • These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Co-founder To Dodge Startup Sexism – Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer faced a lot of sexism and condescension when they launched their e-commerce marketplace for weird art–that is until they introduced an imaginary cofounder named Keith.
• Thank you, U2, for releasing your new song during my lunch break on my birthday. Here are the lyrics for those of you interested.
• Yesterday, DaughterGeeding, with a little help from her brother, made me a birthday video for a present.

This is from Monday night’s broadcast. You can see me (bearded guy in a red shirt) driving LeafGeeding as WifeGeeding and I pick up the kids on their first day of school.

• BoyGeeding had a pretty good first day of kindergarten. DaughterGeeding said that she did, but right before bedtime broke down and told us how much she misses her old school.
• Speaking of breaking down, WifeGeeding didn’t have any tears until she sat in the car after leaving BoyGeeding’s classroom.
  
• She also had a moment of frustration yesterday and claimed she must have early-onset-Tourettes.
• Remember back in April 2011 when then Gov. Rick Perry issued a proclamation calling on Texans to pray for rain for three days?
• Joel Osteen is getting a lot of criticism for closing his megachurch in Houston and not helping any flood victims. At least it appears he didn’t do anything before getting criticism, and the building of his church wasn’t damaged.
  
• Compare that to Rev. Adam Hamilton’s email to the congregants of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS. It goes above “thoughts and prayers.
  • Over the weekend, we prayed for the communities along the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Harvey. Today we begin looking at ways we can do more than pray.
• So much rain fell in Houston, the Weather Service had to make new map colors
• Weathered Whataburger sign becomes rallying cry for Texans on social media
• A good friend of mine in Canada let me know that Art Briles was hired by a Canadian Football League team and then later informed me that RGIII was expected to follow the coach. And then late last night he told me there was major fan backlash which resulted in Briles not going up north after all.
  • Ticats back down on hiring of disgraced coach Art Briles after fan backlash

    • Less than 12 hours after announcing that Art Briles had been hired as assistant head coach— and facing a widespread fan and social media backlash — the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have had a change of heart. The team and league announced he would not be taking on a role with the team.

  • Amazing he can’t get hired but Dave Bliss can.
• I’m amazed at how far Liberty University has turned their back on Christ and embraced politics – Anthony Scaramucci to speak at Liberty University convocation
• I wonder how many Trump supporters think he’s being soft on North Korea.
• The Tater Tot Is American Ingenuity at Its Finest – The genius move that turned potato scraps into a frozen-food empire
• This kid is not having a good day.