Posted on 08/22/2012 6:05:50 AM PDT by FL2012
So when a hurricane hits a heavily populated area, it is no laughing matter. But some liberals are enjoying the news anyway.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Cue a million Pat Robertson/God/hurrican jokes from Democrats across the land.
I wouldn’t shed any tears if a sink hole gobbled up their entire convention so i’m not shocked they wish the same on ours.
If they're laughing they won't be two weeks from now.
This is the biggest complaint about Leftwingtards ~ they are UNABLE to think more than a couple of steps ahead. These are the guys who imagine that if they can slip past the gate they can beat the speeding train.
See how happy they are in January 2013. Marine 1 lifts off and zer0 fades into the history as a failed pResident of the White House.
Hurricanes down hit Tampa much. This hurricane has already turned west
Examiner is a blog, not news.
And you seem to be pimping it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:fl2012/index?tab=articles
Both conventions are well inland within their respective states, thus minimizing their impacts had either been on the coast.
That said, let me be the first to wish, given this liberal rejoicement of mother nature on Tampa: May the wrath of a thousand tornados wreck the DNC 'rat convention. [While storm surges and wind wreck coastlines, often hurricane-induced tornadoes reign inland as the 'caine spins down]
Hurricane remnants have been known to bring flooding to the Carolina Piedmont.
Paybacks can be a be-yotch.
Just sayin’.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
This article, its premise, and the never-ending yammering of liberals and their attitudes made me think of this passage. Every time I begin to think that liberals cannot disgust me any more thoroughly, they find a way to prove me wrong. We Christians need to do a much better job of highlighting the differences in "light" and "darkness" for non-believers. There really is a stark contrast between good and evil. I pray that we as a nation return to choosing good.
FWIW, sometimes blogs break news that “real” news organizations refuse to....
Maybe this is the “real rain” Travis Bickle was talking about.
It’s who they are. Glad it’s not me
It’s who they are. Glad it’s not me
This currently looks like it will be a minor hurricane, which would not affect people inside the convention building, but will make it impossible for the Occupy crowd to be on the streets demonstrating against anything (and will blow away any tent compounds they may try to erect).
You may have a point there...isn't Drudge's report a blog? What the heck IS a blog, anyway? I never thought to ask that before.
They shouldn’t rejoice too much. If the convention has to be postponed until after theirs, they are in a disadventageos situation.
This is going to sound odd, but I am actually glad too. With Biden being in Tampa on Monday, it isn’t hard to draw a line that the Dems will be up to no good, so this hurricane will mess that up. Our base is already on a high and doesn’t need a convention to energize us.
Whatever the Dems are up to would draw attention away from anything positive that could happen at the convention anyway...
I was in Florida in 2004 for 3 of the 4 that hit that year, and, not coincidentally in NOLA the day before Katrina hit. Go figure. Anyway, I’ve looked at many hurricane tracks and watched them intently since then, and especially because we own property south of Tampa in Longboat Key. In my view, the risk for Tampa with this one is nil. It will do one of two things - continue west across the Yucatan, or turn north before it comes to Florida, perhaps strafing the east around Jacksonville and south Georgia with its northwest quadrant. Far better that than the northeast quadrant, which is what did in Biloxi and the small towns on the Mississippi coast with Katrina. In fact, the only thing that saved NOLA from total destruction was that last minute right turn - had she passed west, and the northeast quadrant passed over the city, she would have been gone.
This is one of those "Breaking Now - Sun Rises in East!" stories...
The best case scenario that I can imagine is rain with a bunch of drenched reporters and protesters with their tents blowing away, lead by Joe Biden looking like a wet cat.
Charlotte didn’t fare so well with Hugo, but that took a perfect scenerio that this storm isn’t likely to take: a full inland push from Charleston with a Cat 5 storm. If this one affects NC, it will likely be either a coastal runner or an Outer Banks brush and Charlotte probably won’t get the first drop of rain from it.
The MSM dismisses a site as a "blog" if the author is not an employee of a "recognized" news organization. There are blogs that mostly just reflect the opinions of their authors, and have readership of single-digits to a few hundred. Then there are blogs which produce original content, or which aggregate news from multiple sources, and which in my opinion have better claim to being "news" sites than most MSM sites.
Not so much thinking of this storm, but according the national hurrican center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov there is another disturbance in the eastern Atlantic that could be arriving just in time for the DNC!
A hurricane of angry black yahoos is going to hit the Democrat convention.
All of the black blok and OWS thugs will finally get the shower they need, if they venture outdoors
“In fact, the only thing that saved NOLA from total destruction was that last minute right turn - had she passed west, and the northeast quadrant passed over the city, she would have been gone.”
Over the last few years, I’ve said exactly the same thing to people. As bad as Katrina was to New Orleans, it could have been A LOT worse.
A mishmash of the two words "Web" and "Log".
A log kept on the web.
Huh?
The Republican venues vary from 1 foot to 300 feet from the water; all of the venues and the hotels are in Category 1-Category 2 evacuation zones.
1) Tampa's just been lucky recently. That luck will run out eventually.
2) Huh? 5 day forecast tracks aren't very accurate, but right now Tampa is smack in the middle of all of the model forecast tracks.
Just enough to clean the garbage from the streets!
The Charlotte metro area hasn’t gotten hit hard by hurricane remnants since Hugo in 1989. Since I live here now (about 20 miles northeast), I don’t want a tropical storm coming over my head. Now, four days of good soaking rain between September 4 and 7, that I could easily live with since I work from home anyway. :)
}:-)4
This storm doesn’t look too serious. But enough to call off the RNC for evacuation efforts. The mayor was on the local news saying that safety trumps politics. I will be watching this in the days to come. Today? Im a minor league prepper heading to the store.
re: Huh?
Just thinking that this particular storm is coming from the east, and lose a good amount of steam getting to the Tampa’s west side. Clearly, a Gulf ‘caine would swamp Tampa.
However, I’ll admit I’m a pilot and weather lover; not going to Tampa, but if I had my druthers, I’d make a mad dash to it to combine the ‘caine experience with a political experience.
My sentiment still stands: I wish clear skies and tailwinds on Tampa; Tempests, F-5 Tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis on the DNC.
Maybe you should post your travel plans so the rest of us can be elsewhere during hurricane season :-)
Maybe not right in the middle, but just to the East of the models. If this stays on track this will be a major hurricane so being just off the mark will only be marginally helpful. It will be over the very warm gulf waters longer.
My guess is that the poster is Robert Elliot, eh?
The Republican venues vary from 1 foot to 300 feet from the water; all of the venues and the hotels are in Category 1-Category 2 evacuation zones.
Agreed. Many are staying on the gulf beaches of Clearwater and St
Pete. If this is even a cat one, there will be mandatory evacuations. Further, the will have no place to stay and no flights out.
It fits their MO...anything to get reelected!!!
Isn’t it odd that Liberals only find religion when someone is potentially getting injured?
From what I understand, if it’s a legitimate hurricane then the GOP has a natural defense for that.
/rim shot
Because of their stance on the sanctidy of marriage God will turn the hurricane and position it atop the dem convention where it will wash them (figuratively) of their sins!!!(sarc/)
Good one!!!
I know, right? My experiences were just a twist of fate.....but I will say that being in a hurricane has its exhilirating moments.....
I've said before that they should be held in THE SAME WEEK.
Do you really want the world to get indigestion and a case of the trots from swallowing up dems?
Good idea to head to the store.
The comments here amaze me. Is the only impact of a hurricane political?
Yes, it may go over land and weaken before it hits Tampa. The current path has the northeast (bad) quadrant going over Miami (where I live).
There is no such thing as a “minor” hurricane. Having lived through Andrew in South Dade, Irene, Katrina, Rita, Wilma ... I would not really relish a “minor” one like Wilma messing up my house and car (again).
Like you. I am off to the store (replenish batteries, etc), freezing jugs of water, making sure my chain saw works ...
A lot of people here are recent arrivals. They have no idea of a storm like Andrew. (It was not until a day or so before arrival that it was taken seriously).
I know that most of my friends and colleagues who work at the Hurricane Center are taking the necessary precautions (”just in case”). They know better than most how “iffy” those forecasts are.
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