Maybe the ABInBev haters can let up

[madscientist451]

Trying to steer the thread back to charitable causes....
Braxton Bresing in Cincinnati, OH is also canning water and having an event to raise money for Hurricane Harvey relief. The employees there are donating their time to run the canning line.

http://www.brewminds.com/news/braxton-brewing-co-to-can-water-for-hurricane-harvey-relief/

Update: Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas, (they make Shiner Beer)
is donating $500,000 for Hurricane relief.
Spoetzl Brewery is owned by The Gambrinus Company of San Antonio, Texas and they own a two other West Coast Breweries.
Note that Gambrinus is one of those companies that acquires existing brands and builds up the business. Gambrinus is the 4th largest craft beer producer in the US.

 

[madscientist451]

8th Wonder Brewing in Houston has an Army Surplus truck.
Employees at the brewery pressed it into service to help rescue people trapped by the flooding. There's a video clip in the linked story, sorry, couldn't figure out how to put the video on here. Anyway, I'd say that's giving back to the community, cheers for them!

https://www.brewersassociation.org/news/craft-brewers-help-steady-storm-harvey-relief-efforts/

 

[ksut1547]

Harvey made land fall in Rockport, TX. Most of those folks there got out in plenty of time. There will always be people that try to ride out the storm. Those people are told to write their name and SS number on their arms in a permanent marker so it will be easier to identify the body. That is Darwinism.

I have no idea what the national news is showing, but probably most everything everyone is seeing on the news is Houston's devastation from flooding, not wind driven destruction that is typical of a Hurricane.
Houston wasn't hit by a hurricane. Houston's winds were nothing compared to Rockport. Rockport is as far from Houston as the state of Illinois is wide for perspective.

The problem was that Harvey stalled out over Texas and just dumped rain for days. Most of it over Houston. Typically a hurricane just moves out until it dissipates. Houston and our outlying areas received a years worth of rain in 4-5 days. 51 inches in 4-5 days. That water has to go somewhere. Ever heard of 100 year flood plain? This one was 800-1000 year flood plain.

They Houston city officials didn't issue an evacuation order, because the hurricane wasn't projected to hit Houston and it didn't hit us direct. The whole state of Texas would be gridlocked and people would be stranded on the roads for days if a evacuation order was given for the 6 million plus people in Houston proper and outlying areas. NO gas, no food, no bathrooms, no medical facilities. So an evacuation order isn't something taken lightly or done willy nilly without a serious threat of a direct hit from a Cat 2-3 hurricane. 100 people died in 2005 during evacuation from Rita, that didn't even end up hitting Houston. It didn't even rain at my house during that storm.

What happened was that folks that had NEVER had their area flood, were flooded. It floods here so much that you pretty much know if you house is in danger of flooding. Not this time. The flood waters rose much higher and quicker than anyone imagined, thus all the people that had to be rescued. The amount of rain that fell was unimaginable, until this past week.

^THIS

I live in Houston, I evacuated for Rita. If this city had ordered evacuation thousands, if not tens of thousands would have been stuck on highways designed to turn into rivers when extreme rainfall hits. This was not a foreseeable outcome. For all the heart wrenching scenes on your televisions, the authorities made the right call.

 

[brandonlovesbeer]

So they are sending cans of bud light and Coors light? That's pretty nice of them.