Does anyone remember the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Cameron County?
Don't blame you if you don't. In fact, there was no damage reported at all in Brownsville or even in South Padre Island on the coast.
About the only precautions taken locally was the passing out of sand bangs by Cameron County and the City of Brownsville.
Now, Hurricane Harvey struck August 25, between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor and its torrential rains caused heavy damage in surrounding cities, including metropolitan Houston.
At the time, cleanup and construction workers from South Texas rushed to the areas to work on reconstructing buildings, replacing roofing (tejamanil), and other labor-intensive labor. That was almost nine months ago. FEMA also hired relief workers to take victims' damage reports. Some of those – the Spanish speakers – were sent to Puerto Rico to assist victims there.
Whatever work was to be done was probably already done months ago.
Oliveria scheduled a hearing in South Padre Island yesterday and another today in the City of Brownsville where the likes of Ramiro Gonzalez, the so-called City of Brownsville Government Affairs Liaison, will testify on the ample opportunities for local contractors.
To us it is a bit late and a mite opportunistic. In fact, it smacks of s diversion to take attention off Oliveira's legal problems as his runoff election against Pct. 2 commissioner Alex Dominguez approaches. Early voting starts 11 days from now on May 14.
Hurricane Harvey didn't even hit Brownsville or Cameron County, so are these hearings Oliveira's patadas de ahgado?