Hurricane Rita forming...return to New Orleans postponed
We've got a nasty hurricane brewing with Houston presently in its long range sights. Uncertainty has led to the cancellation of the early returns to New Orleans.
If this one moves across bashing Houston like Katrina did Louisiana and Mississippi, this could be some sort of new worst case scenario in several regards--including energy.
The water is hotter than normal according to most reports, and according to NOAA, that could make for another unusually strong storm.
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I can't believe Nagin was actually calling for the return of people to a city with almost no utilities and services, that's still almost half flooded with sewage, has breached and weakened levies and during the middle of hurricane season.
It's ironic that the man who was shouting the loudest for the federal government to come save the city was all to recently griping that they should butt out and let him repopulate the city....
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I didn't want to start another thread, so I'll post this in the current semi-Katrina related thread:
The FDA: it doesn't just waste US tax dollars anymore! They insist on burning millions of dollars worth of British food donations. Ah, useless federal agencies;
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html
Sorry Britain.
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Nagin is the stupidest man I've seen in the news for ages.
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Maybe we should impose sanctions on him.
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Well, Nagin was told that nobody was going to help him with forced evacaution (state and federal) so WTF was he supposed to do? Wait for nothing? If people were going to be there anyway, why not allow more in and start clean up, work etc? Not that it was going to be pretty being there. It isn't like the Feds have done a hell of a lot to help. Frankly, it shows a lot more intelligence, effort, and initiative than most others in the effort have shown. What of course he couldn't count on was another hurricane...or that the Corps was going to reverse course and say a 6" rain might be enough to do in their patchwork. His job is not to kiss up to Dubya or the governor, but to get New Orleans functioning ASAP. What do his constituents want? They want to get back in.
As it is, Galveston is already requesting voluntary evacuation and is planning busing starting on Wed. The fear of God is in officials now. Nobody expects any help anymore.
But that wasn't the real point of the thread. We face the chance of having two major hurricanes deliver a 1-2 punch. Take out New Orleans area, then take out Houston area. If you look at oil and gas production/distribution, and refining etc., not to mention rig locations this combo is about as bad as it gets energy wise. Then the idea of having another major displacement and general damage before the country could even catch its breath from the last one.
Anyway, I've been checking out my materials for boarding up this evening. I'm out of the Cat 5 flood/surge zone, so wind is my major worry.
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have you seen this guy?Originally Posted by Proletariat
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Yeah, yeah. I knew that was coming.have you seen this guy?
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Heilege...
I am wordless. Seriously.
Two Category 5 storms within weeks. This is no coincidence. This is either some sick manaicle plot by the leftist governments to bring down America, or God's wrath upon the Leftists of America. Unfortunalty, if it's the latter of the two, he's been hitting the wrong parts.
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Well, if it's anyone's plan to strike the "leftists" its mis-fired.
The biggest loser in political terms is Bush. Any number of political handicappers are saying that his ability to push any sort of an agenda is kaput. That may be a little strong, but he has taken a hit politically.
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Chill! I lived in Texas for 5 years. Texan, Texian, Texican, Tejano, any way you label 'em, they're good folks.
...even Travis County trash like Aenlic
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sorry I shoulda added a smile
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GOOD LUCK RH its beatifual today calm before the strom eh I went to my dads grocery store and there was nearly nothing left so good luck and godspeed to all
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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I just hope that everyone over there will exacuate in time, and saves as many people as possible. Good luck Red Harvest, and to everyone in the way of the hurricane.
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Red, you and your wife are in my prayers. Please let us know once you know you're past the danger point.
Now,
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Would subways be a good thing to hide in?
When I was a child
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Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
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This hurricane will probably pass just outside the coast, and it will be clear to all that if it had only gone a few kilometers closer to the land, it would have led to the death of some thousand people, but since nobody got hurt nobody will care. And so, people will go on with business as usual and create fifteen hurricanes of the same magnitude that will come in ten years, and they'll all wonder how it all happened...
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Good luck to any Texan.
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'tis the doom of men that they forget.
Still seems like they are making more of an effort this time.
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More of an effort creating more storms or more of an effort preventing casualties?
Well, I hope as few as possible die, it's clearly the best thing seen from the short term perspective. But in the long term, sometimes it almost seems like the more that die in the short term the better, otherwise nobody will learn, and then more will die in the future...
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My sister lives in Austin, she says people are flocking in from the coast. A friend of hers in Houston has been on the "road" for 5 hours, and yet is still in the city. After watching some footage of the exodus, I'm thinking they need to open up some of the incoming lanes on the highway for outgoing traffic. Even in Austin, supplies are getting low, bottled water, batteries, milk, TP, the usual.
This is the weekend of the Austin City Limits Festival, a rain or shine music jam/party. Don't know how this is going to work out, but there may be amplifiers blowing down 6th Street on Saturday.
Good luck to all Lone Star residents.
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Good luck Red and Any other Texan caught up in this our hearts are with you....
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
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