Fifteen people are dead and around thirty-thousand have been forced to seek emergency shelter in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

Speaking at Corpus Christi, President Trump praised Texas’ response to Hurricane Harvey:

“We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as, this is the way to do it. This was of epic proportion. No one has ever seen anything like this.”

President Trump went on to say:

“I just want to say in working with the Governor and his entire time has been an honour for us.”

President Trump then travelled to Austin where he spoke at an emergency operations centre:

“Probably there’s never been anything so expensive in our country’s history. There’s never been anything so historic in terms of damage and in terms of ferocity as we’ve witnessed with Harvey.”

President Trump continued:

“And the sad thing is the never seen anything this long, and nobody’s ever seen this much water in particular. The wind was pretty horrific, but the water has never been seen like this to the extent. It’s maybe someday going to disappear. We keep waiting.”

The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood watch for Houston on Tuesday evening. A spokesperson said:

“There is the potential for catastrophic flooding over the next several days as Tropical Storm  Harvey moves inland and slowly over southeastern Texas. Additional rainfall totals of 15-25  inches are likely with isolated amounts higher through mid next week.”

Meanwhile, Republican Congressman, Pete Sessions, has told MSNBC that east Texas and Lousiana are preparing for flooding. Sessions said:

“What lies ahead for everyone is to make sure that after the trauma of water that everybody has their tetanus shots, that they get their medicine, that we take care of children. Obviously when people get together we then — whether like it or not, we have diarrhoea problems, we have food problems, we have needs of people, we are prepared for the this. I believe the problem is  that people are having trouble getting out of Houston because of the bands of rain.”

Ken Storey, a Professor of sociology, has been fired from his job at the University of Tampa in Florida for tweeting:

“I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully will help them realise the GOP doesn’t care about them.”

Unsurprisingly, numerous mainstream news figures have associated Hurricane Harvey to global warming. Together with guests from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other news outlets, CNN and MSNBC anchors have sought to blame Hurricane Harvey on the Trump administration’s environmental federal policies.