Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
Starting with Andrew, they had held telethons to raise money and specifically told people to make their checks out to "disaster services" instead of "Hurricane Andrew". That way they could redirect the money to other disasters if needed. I was so mad at that time, telling them it was wrong to do that. People were believing that their money would go to the "Andrew" fund, but in reality, the Red Cross could use it for any disaster. I understand that they got more money than needed and they wanted to use it for something else, but I was mad that wasn't being told to the public. They should have told them by making the checks out to disaster services, the money could be going to a future disaster.
So, If you choose to donate to the Red Cross and want the money to only go to "Hurricane Charley", state that on your check. If you don't mind it going to another future disaster, state it as "disaster services".
My prayers go out to those in Florida. We got lucky here in North Carolina. We have a few damaged trees and lots of water(no flooding), but all is well.
*has never been through one of these* Ok it just got DEAD calm within the past oh ten minutes or so. There was a brief but hard downpour, just as it went calm the power flickered off for a few seconds but came right back up.
According to NBC.....
Captiva island is now SPLIT INTO TWO ISLANDS...
Wow.
you wonder why there hasn't been some news choppers up with video footage of this.
I've never believed that 26 number figure. 3 or 4 people died in my development alone due to very shoddy .. criminally negligent .. construction, and with the hundreds and hundreds of undocumented aliens working in the farm fields there, living in shoddy farmland trailer communities .. I have always believed the number was in the hundreds. There were stories at that time of refrigerator trucks full of bodies. We'll never know.
Thanks - I hope the same thing.
The worst damage we got from Isabel last year was after we had all gone to bed. We heard parts of the metal roof on the barn flapping in the wind........but there wasn't a bloody thing to do about it then!!!!
Sounds like the eye is crossing you - be prepared for the backside.
we still have barely a breeze here, as it has been all day - but it has now been raining pretty heavy for about 30 minutes.
during Isabel last year we never lost power, although it flickered a few times.......but we lost the phone, and the cable.
I was prepared for electric and cable - but not the phone. No cable meant no news and no phone meant no FR - I was a lunatic!!!
There doesn't seem to be a "backside" to this storm now.
NBC 2 has lots of video of Sanibel and Captiva up on their site.
The quality sucks really really really bad.
But, you can tell there was a definite storm surge over the islands.....lots and lots of damage.
You're right!!!
I'm watching the Salisbury, MD news right now - which is actually more local for me than the Norfolk stations.
They're saying 4-6 inches of rain and about 30mph winds with gusts on the coast of about 50.
It really torqued me off earlier today when the talking head (can't think of his name) started talking about DelMarVA - but named cities on the other side of the Bay. Call me nitpicky, but having been a reporter, I've got a problem with these talking heads not doing their homework to know what they are talking about, particularly when it comes to locations in the paths of major storms.
The rain has again picked up, but there is barely a breeze.........we'll see in about 30 minutes or so.......
We discussed this LAST storm, didn't we? I think all this talk about "Why weren't these people warned" is because the reporters we have now -- or they have us at their mercy -- are stupid; they don't know geography, they don't know science, and they sure as hell don't know how government's work in situations like this.
Definitely a small world! And I hear you about the libs - from what I remember, that whole area of PA is pretty left-leaning. Hard to understand why.
Did you see the "do not use for planning purposes"? Were they posting this before?
I think so, that is a normal disclaimer there.
You've got that all correct.
We did discuss this last storm and I had the exact same problem with the national media then. I've got no problem with the region I live in not being mentioned (I actually prefer it) but if they are - at least they should get it right.
If I learned my geography from the national media I would think Wilmington, either DE or NC, was a suburb of Philadelphia and nothing existed between NYC, Philly, DC, Atlanta, and Miami.
Dumb question from a left coaster..
Since these different models are color coded-is one more likely then the others??
In other words is the blue one the most probable?(please God NO)
Or in 24 hours, the number of people killed on 9/11. Makes the "war on terrorism" seem insignificant, doesn't it?
no. it just reflects different computer algorithms - different tracks based on future predictions of other weather steering currents etc, that affect the path.
not sure if they have any stats on how often certain models are correct.
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