Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? Well you sure got what you wished for.
Posted on 10/07/2016 1:30:24 PM PDT by drewh
Harris Faulkner just interviewed the mayor and had live tape of the water rising at the Casablanca Inn, all 20 folks stayed in defiance of the government order.
The flooding will crest next hour supposedly
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
A little common sense goes a long way.
Some multi-story buildings can resist hurricanes and are survivable provided emergency lighting and water is available, and that expected surges don't exceed two stories . Some obviously are not.
Normally, hurricanes do not last more than a few days.
I have been wondering if Mathew is the slowest traveling hurricane of the last 50 years.
Average 15 miles per hour? Perhaps less...
Thank you for the welcome respite from otherwise grim news.
Hilarious, but Oh so true!
“Look! Up in the sky!”
Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? Well you sure got what you wished for.
So, she was then directed to another university in St. Martin and just after settling in, they were hit with Hurricane Luis and she was stuck in a hotel with water rising thru each floor. She/they survived but she had to come home and couldn't start her med school till the following year............
We nicknamed her Hurricane M.........LOL
Looks like they will live.
Dammit.
5.56mm
Exactly. People tend to believe what they are told as well-except for the ones who refuse to evacuate. Stupid should hurt. I will never understand why hurricanes refuse to go inland, but those being affected by this BRUSH with a real hurricane will forever consider themselves HIT and surviving one when they haven’t. Brushing by ain’t a hit by a Cat 3-4. Miserable and destructive, yes, but the East coast is having some serious luck!!
Florida hotels built to code will withstand just about anything and being stuck in one at this time would be an exciting adventure.......Especially since they'd be providing free booze!
When the water drops, they can walk through knee high water, or paddle a small boat to higher ground. Once again, it is “ROW vs. WADE”
Yeah, the old “vertical evacuation” trick.
Some people, including a NO city councilwoman, tried that during Katrina at, IIRC, the high rise Hilton hotel.
Result was hysteria when all of the facade’s plate glass windows blew out. Huge shards of glass blew into hotel rooms. Furnishings were hurled about.
People were running to hide in the stairwells.
The ground floor was under water, electricity out, pitch dark.
Good fun for all.
100+ mph wind ain’t nuffin’ nice.
Most of the dead in Katrina did NOT drown; they were killed by blunt force trauma—hit by flying debris.
Bad link.
In 1969 it was 88 people. They decided to have a 'hurricane party' in a red brick hotel on the beach in Gulfport, Mississippi. Hurricane Camille left nothing but the slab. Hope they had a great party. It was the last for every one of them.
p.s. I have a strong feeling that it turned into a 'prayer party' before the end came.
Hollywood/2016
I’m 250 miles from home because of a MANDATORY evacuation. I would rather be home. Let them rot...this is how the stupidity in the gene pool is cleaned out. Go Darwin!
GW Bush warned people in New Orleans to get out of town and seek shelter before hurricane Karina hit.
Many thousands ignored the warning and stayed put. When the levees burst and flooded the entire town, the media blamed Bush for all the human suffering.
Will the media now blame Obama for this? Of course not because the media is part of the democrat party.
When I lived in NYC I was VERY prepared. I had a beach chair ready so I could go on the roof and relax as I watched the Empire State Building and waited for the flash.
how long can they tread water?
ML/NJ
"I came to Casablanca for the waters."
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