Hurricane Harvey may be "the worst disaster in Texas history". Recovery may last for years due to the trillions of gallons of water that need to drain or be pumped out of Houston, the 4th largest city in America.

Good thing Trump's FEMA Director is one of the few highly qualified appointments he has made, William Long, has nearly 20 years of disaster management. Homes and businesses are damaged or destroyed, lives lost, hospitals flooded, nursing homes needing evacuation, transportation impossible.

Houston is also petrochemical capital of the nation:

CBS

The Houston international shipping channel is the lifeblood of the nation's petrochemical industry. And with Hurricane Harvey on course to hit a cluster of refineries that outputs five million barrels of oil a day, gas prices have already surged...

Trump hates Harvey, because Harvey is bigger than Trump.

Bigger than his tweets.

Harvey will take Trump and his daily petty grievances about the press, the Republicans or the Democrats off the front page. It may even take perceived slights on him off his mind for a while. He will no longer be whining about being the self proclaimed "world's greatest victim in history". Because real victims will be in the news.

Harvey means people, who may or may not be friends, family, Republicans or Democrats are suffering, and Americans take care of our own, at least in national disasters.

Trump only takes care of his own.

The ones that show up at his rallies.

Although General Kelly is trying to change that, force Trump to realize what his job is, by making Trump go to the Presidential command center at Camp David this weekend instead of Mar-a-Lago.

Harvey unites the nation.  Trump divides it.

The disaster in Texas, and the effects it will have will be national.

This is not the time for petty partisan politics.

Harvey shows that it isn't political blowhards passing bathroom laws, that do the hard and dangerous work of keeping this country going. It's the first responders, most of whom work for the government, local, state and federal, or the miliary and National Guard, along with private electrical and other infrastructure techs.....from all over the nation are in Texas or on the way.

There will be no more talk by Trump of shutting the government down to build his Wall. When the 4th largest American city is under many feet of water, shutting down to fund building a wall in the desert is clearly insane.

I would predict the government will be funded, and the debt limit raised, because without a government, how would the people of Houston, and the nation, persevere on what will be a long road to recovery?

So, yes, Trump hates Harvey. It makes him do his job, the job all Presidents are elected to do. Focus on us.

And foremost stay out of the way when there is serious on the scene work to be done to save a city, its people, and its economic importance to the nation.