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Drowning New Orleans
Scientific American ^
| October 2001
| Mark Fischetti
Posted on 08/28/2005 5:00:35 PM PDT by gitmo
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This one's been expected for a while. Be praying.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:00:43 PM PDT
by
gitmo
To: gitmo
What's that Led Zepplin tune? "When the Levee Breaks"
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:03:21 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Muhammad was a successful Hitler. Hitler killed too many people too fast - L. Auster)
To: gitmo
Prayers going up for all of those in harms way. This is just terrible.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:04:33 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(Leftist=Anti American!)
To: dennisw
I was thinking more of The Tragically Hip's "New Orleans is Sinking(and I Don't Wanna Swim").
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:05:41 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is not conservative!)
To: gitmo
Want to know the worst part about New Orleans being devastated? Who here knows what the LOOP is?--that would be the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM and almost that much in natural gas. The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and the pipes send it on its way.
The LOOP can sustain 200 mph winds, so the engineers say.
We lose the LOOP, we will be looking back fondly at gas only being 3 bucks a gallon.
To: SoftballMominVA
The offshore rigs are in danger as well.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:11:18 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: SoftballMominVA
Who here knows what the LOOP is On the Gulf Coast, I'd say about 80% of us do. More than that in Mississippi, Louisiana and SE Texas.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:12:36 PM PDT
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
To: RightWingAtheist
That's a good one. Also Randy Newman Louisiana 1927.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:12:46 PM PDT
by
bleach
To: RightWingAtheist
That's a good one. Also Randy Newman Louisiana 1927.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:12:53 PM PDT
by
bleach
To: gitmo
God Bless New Orleans..they are gonna need it..
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:14:22 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may live in peace..Thomas Paine)
To: gitmo
Yes, they've known for a long time this could happen. Sad that the governor and mayor did so little to prepare.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:17:13 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
To: gitmo
The implications of this storm could be devastating for our economy, but I hope that everyone has gotten the hell out of dodge.
This could be the worst US disaster ever.
Of course, I'm sure that it is, somehow, all George Bush's fault. (I'm just waiting for that explanation to be given...if it already hasn't)
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:18:30 PM PDT
by
mattdono
("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
To: gitmo
Praying is very powerful. In 1980 when Hurricane Allen, with the lowest pressure ever recorded at 888mbs, was heading straight for Brownsville with approximately the same size and intensity of Katrina, the National Weather Service guy signed off with, "We are being evacuated now. May God have mercy on Brownsville." A miracle happened and the huge storm fell apart off the coast. Incidentally, this is the storm that Pat Robertson took credit for stopping, since he had asked all the audience of the PTL Club to pray and practically at that instant, the storm collapsed. Considering his bad publicity last week, I hope Pat is praying today to stop Katrina! (Personally, I think it will come in west of NO, closer to the Texas border, unless it abruptly turns north.)
To: gitmo
IS what they are saying true? If so, New Orleans is gonna need all the help they can get.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:21:12 PM PDT
by
pctech
To: MizSterious
"Sad that the governor and mayor did so little to prepare."Like what did you have in mind?
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:23:02 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: mattdono
The rant of the left is that the LA National Guard is deployed to a unjustified war in Iraq and is unavailable to save the 'Narlins folk. Yep. Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:25:16 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: mattdono
"This could be the worst US disaster ever."Oh, I dunno.
Stuff happens.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:25:28 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: mattdono
This could be the worst US disaster ever.
Don't forget the Clinton administration.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:26:30 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: billorites
Organizing public transportation to get the tourists out, for one thing. Some of the tourists interviewed didn't even know there was a hurricane coming: they were on vacation, and didn't watch the news. Someone should have told them. The President had to twist the mayor's arm to get them to call for an evacuation, fer cryin' out loud. Shame on them.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:27:16 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
To: gitmo
That's nonsense. The NG is there in New Orleans, which they'd know if they watched the news instead of flapping their useless jaws.
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posted on
08/28/2005 5:28:03 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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