Well, I don't want to seem like our idiot narcissist of a President, and make light of the suffering of those inhabiting the Gulf Coast of Texas--

But damn it all, even without the affliction of hurricanes (and am I alone in recalling several thousand people killed by a hurricane on Galveston Island in the early twentieth century?), it has to be said that they, the fat people of Houston, have picked the shit-hole of the universe to be living in. Hurricanes (and tornados) aside, the climate of Houston is judged by those who know it to be the most peculiarly hellish in the world--unrelentingly hot and humid.  Which maybe explains the apparent cheerfulness of those whose homes and neighborhoods are being destroyed in torrential floods: At least, under the monsoon-like rains, they can breathe.