Reid: Sandy Was Much Worse Than Katrina, You Know

Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2013 | Guy Benson

[Political Junkie Too]

Of course, Reid's backtrack is not in the Congressional Record, while his original comment still is?

-PJ

[Kaslin]

Yeah, but it was the third landfall and it was near the Louisiana- Mississippi border

[Kaslin]

“I simply misspoke,” Reid (D-Nevada) said in a written statement.

Typical lame excuse by a liberal

[RJS1950]

Well, it was about cat 4 when it hit Texas and Mississippi but it was tropical when it hit N.O. Since democrats mean N.O. when they say Katrina, he is right, Sandy was worse. He doesn’t care about black, whiney chocolate city dwellers anymore or any more than he cares about those affected in TX or MS. He’s pushing Sandy, which his boy promised to help and failed because they’ve wrung all of the propaganda value out of Katrina so it’s on to Sandy. It has nothing to do with North or South, it’s about not wasting a good crisis.

By the way, you’re right about whiney, north or south. The “entitled” Sandy “victims” instead of acting like the whiney “entitled N.O. “victims” should take a lesson from TX and MS and get to work rebuilding through their states instead of waiting for the kenyan and ocmpany to help them out.

[deport]

Well, it was about cat 4 when it hit Texas

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Katrina the Hurricane had little to no impact on Texas via the winds, etc. However it did have an impact via the some 200,000 refugees that Texas took in.

[Pikachu_Dad]

By Golly, you are worse with your facts than Harry Reid.

When did it hit Texas?

And...

“Katrina made its second landfall at 1110 UTC (6:10 a.m. CDT) on Monday, August 29 as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. At landfall, hurricane-force winds extended outward 120 miles (190 km) from the center and the storm’s central pressure was 920 mbar (27 inHg). After moving over southeastern Louisiana and Breton Sound, it made its third landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border with 120 mph (195 km/h) sustained winds, still at Category 3 intensity. Katrina maintained strength well into Mississippi, finally losing hurricane strength more than 150 miles (240 km) inland near Meridian, Mississippi. It was downgraded to a tropical depression near Clarksville, Tennessee, but its remnants were last distinguishable in the eastern Great Lakes region on August 31, when it was absorbed by a frontal boundary. The resulting extratropical storm moved rapidly to the northeast and affected eastern Canada.[3]”

[ScottfromNJ]

“Harry’s right. A weak Cat 1 hurricane hitting whiny Yankees is far worse than a Cat 4 hurricane hitting seasoned Southerners.”

Not that I agree with Harry pushing that pork infested bill, but the Storm actually strengthened as it transitioned to a hybrid nor’easter, and as a result it’s wind-field was much larger than Katrina’s with hurricane force winds extending 175 miles from the center, and tropical storm force winds extending nearly 500 miles from the center. Add to that a large storm surge aided by a full moon. So Katrina’s devastation while extreme was concentrated in a much smaller area then Sandy’s. A large number of people along the Jersey coast are still struggling without homes and the region is a long way from recovering. Of course you would never know with how the media gushed all over Barry when he swooped in with Christie for his phony photo op as the hero who saved the day, when in actuality he did very little except promote himself during his campaign.

[tsowellfan]

I don’t normally read this website and it’s probably the first time I ever posted a link to it but here goes (great chart at link) Sandy vs Katrina

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/hurricane-sandy-vs-katrina-infographic_n_2072432.html?ncid=dynaldusbv00000001

[Domangart]

So are they going to do anything about those rail lines in NJ that were in the swamp? What about the sewer lines in NY that the laid track on and called it a subway? Has there been any talk about relocating those transformers in the basement pool of all those buildings in NYC.

[Texas Patriot61]

Harry (the Racist) Reid hates Black People.

[uncommonsense]

Don’t forget Mississippi got hammered just as bad, or worse, than New Orleans. NO wasn’t prepared (mayor Ray Nagen cowered under his desk) and it flooded. But, MS was HAMMERED by the highest winds and a 30+ foot storm surge. They caught the eastern part of the storm that caused widespread destruction.

[Lancey Howard]

Reid: Sandy Was Much Worse Than Katrina, You Know

Wow, Harry Reid is such a... racist!.

[uncommonsense]

"Well, it was about cat 4 when it hit Texas and Mississippi but it was tropical when it hit N.O."

Katrina? No, it was a Cat 5 in the Gulf and 3 when it made landfall on LA. The center of the storm hit a little more on the MS side, but the western part of the eye wall pushed counter clockwise water out of the overflowing Lake Ponchertrain to cause the levee breaches. I was in Baton Rouge having to keep a large data center running while protecting the home front.

Katrina didn't really hit TX. Maybe you are conflating Katrina with Rita that hit 3 weeks later on the TX/LA border - another Cat 5 in the Gulf that hammered us again?

That was a seriously rough month for us! It was the largest helicopter rescue operation in history, among other things. There were large, makeshift morgues around the Baton Rouge area, communications down, and people frantic about the fate of their family in NO and MS.

[Smokin' Joe]

I’m surprised he can fog a mirror without help.

I'm surprised he gets a reflection...

[Hotmetal]

This is what they thought of Mississippi during Isaac.
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