Hurricane Harvey - Texas Coast

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by houston

He was attacked on social media because the church was not open as a shelter.
Seating almost 17K people does not equate to housing the same. These are not fold up chairs that can be moved out of the way.

Lakewood opened yesterday, I think. They needed time to gather staff and supplies. It was reported that the mayor was informed that Lakewood would open after other shelters were filled.

Anyway, people love to hate Osteen.

Problem was the church originally claimed it was flooded. Some people walked to the church, took video, and posted it on YouTube, showing that it was neither flooded nor in danger of being flooded.

That's when it started, and he fumbled the ball twice in response. It would have made far more sense to just immediately open the building as a shelter prior to the storm hitting. Any damage to the facility by storm refugees would have been easily made up for in both insurance payouts and increased donations. He could have been a hero, now he's just another money grubbing TV preacher, rich white elitist snob, in the eyes of millions of people.

In other news, Mattress Mack opened Gallery Furniture as a shelter almost immediately, on his own initiative. I'd buy a couch from him just for that.

"Save... you...MONEY!!!"

[houston]

Originally Posted by Esaias

It would have made far more sense to just immediately open the building as a shelter prior to the storm hitting. Any damage to the facility by storm refugees would have been easily made up for in both insurance payouts and increased donations. He could have been a hero, now he's just another money grubbing TV preacher, rich white elitist snob, in the eyes of millions

You're Fake News!



The water was a foot below the flood gates. Just because the front of the building was accessible doesn't not mean that there was no flooding. I saw pics and video posted by a contractor that was cleaning up the mess.

Osteen is all those things to the people that already hate him. The people that started this ruckus are people that already hated him. Probably atheists anyway. One of the guys that showed up at Lakewood is a Romans 1 reprobate, and we know how much they just looove the church.