Posted on 08/26/2012 8:12:04 AM PDT by wolfman23601
NHC has been slow to adjust their forecast, but models in the last 24week hours have been indicating a possible Cat 3 hitting New Orleans. While dems have been rooting for the Tampa landfall to ruin our convention, a NO landfall catastrophe with Jindal running circles around 0, while 0 is playing politics during the aftermath... maybe it is their convention that gets ruined. I am certainly not rooting for a disaster, but it would certainly be ironic.
Yeah, after making the post I realized that Mitch Landrieu is now the mayor. Glad to hear that Nagin may be indicted; years overdue.
OH NO, the sky is fallin', the sky is fallin', what should we do!?!
Oh wait...that's OBozo's line! What are you doin' stealin' from the Incompetent-in-Chief, or are you... NO, you wouldn't be OBozo, would you?!?
We have Dish and have been pretty satisfied with it. I’m not sure of the cable company in our area but they had a lot of complaints and apparently lost the war vs. Dish and Direct TV.
The cable was laying in a ditch for several years. Shortly after they put it up on utility poles, another bunch came through and took it down...
Not sure the point you are trying to make?
I wouldn’t panic per se, but If I lived in the area, I would have spent my day today boarding up and would be heading out of town first thing in the morning if the models are still saying the same thing. I take it you have never been stuck without power for 3+ weeks and no stores or gas stations open? It isn’t armegeddon, but it sucks. As far as New Orleans is concerned, I wouldn’t trust that the levees can hold back a large hurricane.
The Woods at the new location will wipe out the Laurie G2M. It has problems being stocked with fresh merchandise. Many items there are near their expiration date.
I love the middle of the week lack of boat traffic. I took off part of the week before last and went for a hundred mile run to Ivy Bend and back. Even fooling around and some stops to explore I never had to slow for big wakes and did the hundred mile plus excersion in four hours including stops.
We haven't been up that far north so far this year. I remember scraping bottom in our old Cobalt at 6 or 7 miles past Big Dick's and thinking I shouldn't go up there in low water.
I was never enthused with G2M and since Save-a-Lot and Gerbes are closer, we haven't been inside the place for many moons.
The C’ton Farmers’ market on Saturday keeps us covered on veggies we can't grow (melons, etc) so I hit them early. A Market friend swapped some of her paprika seeds for some of mine. She said her paprika are fiery. Mine are sweet with a “zing” at the end. Look different too.
Getting some rain tonight. I can hear the ground soaking it up...
Cheers.
E.
VetVetDoug and Black Agnes are both right. Even way up here in River City (another name for my historic town on the bluff and banks of the Mississippi River) power was knocked out for over a week. Nine days I think, from Katrina and our town suffered a lot of damage from Katrina!
Republican Governor Haley Barbour took control, whereas the democrats in NOLA just crabbed, complained, cried, whined and blamed Bush, despite several days warning to get the he// OUT. I haven’t forgotten the scenes of the partying in downtown N.O. right before the levees broke. Recall the money for the levees went into the pockets of their corrupt politicians?
I went through the northern eye wall of Andrew, where concrete block buildings were destroyed, so yeah, storms are bad. But the problem with NO wasnt so much the storm as it was a (government) failure of the levee system.
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