Posted on 08/14/2004 2:02:37 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
"They asked about the harm done because some Florida National Guard troops are on duty in Iraq instead of down in Florida to help save their friends and neighbors."
OK, that is just ridiculous. How could troops "save their friends and neighbors"? Are they going to throw themselves in between the hurricane and the people who are in its path?
Puh-leeze!!
LMFAO
It was the vampire thingy...lol
We are waiting for Kerry to come down here and say he is here for the people of Florida as will his wife and John Edwards with a bus load of lawyers.
NBC with Brian Williams right now...get ready for this
Oh well. She lost her home.
Somehow I don't feel sorry for the lady.
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Well, I'll be sorry when I pay, via the Federal Goobermint, for the replacement...and everything else it takes to make these folks whole (since I'm sure no one carries proper insurance with Uncle Sam there to take care of it).
I don't know why they are blaming Jeb Bush. They should be blaming Pat Robertson. He's the one who called for it to happen.
Tell me when the answer is Will Rogers...
"No matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up."
Anybody know who said this?.....
I would guess - Groucho Marx? or W.C.Fields?
You know, I never looked at it in those terms, but you are exactly correct. If we had an honest press, things would be entirely different.
bingo.
In fact, their assesment of character of President Bush has pretty much become the central issue, the primary yardstick, in my assesment of anyone.
LOL!
Well, that..
I tend to burn in the sun anyway, so I end up a pale looking WITH the dark hair.
Creeps people out.
Heh....
That den of sin and homosexuality, South Beach Miami, has been left completely undamaged by three hurricanes that either were heading towards it and turned away, or that passed relatively near...Andrew, Floyd, and Charley.
Andrew wiped out a largely conservative area of family homes. Floyd destroyed Eastern North Carolina, one of the greatest centers for fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity in the country, and Charley hit an area that votes Republican and is largely comprised of retirees.
Both San Francisco and Los Angeles had a high rate of damaging earthquakes in the late 1800s, and LA had several prior to World War II. The rate of damaging quakes in both areas DROPPED right when SF became America's center for gay culture, and LA became the center of the American porn industry.
I listened to a caller on John Carlson's radio show in Seattle yesterday afternoon raging at the president for being here in Washington campaigning when he should be on TV telling the nation about the storm. He compared it to 9/11 and Bush sitting in the classroom for seven minutes, doing nothing. John tried to get him to explain exactly what he thought the president could do about it and that it was the governor's job to deal with state emergencies but this guy's voice just kept getting higher and more shrill. His hatred for Pres. Bush had caused him to completely lose control. I wouldn't be surprised if he soiled himself.
That's really sad! How long yall been friends?
I'll bet she was one of those who claimed to have accidentally voted for Buchanan when she meant to vote for gore.
Lily Tomlin said Nobody how cynical I get I can't keep up.
I'm trying to find out if she also said, "If you go around with a smile on your face all the time, you aren't paying attention."
A hurricane is a fire. The fuel is the warm tropical surface water. Storms get driven by conditions in the upper atmosphere that provide a heat dump for the fuel thus driving conversion of heat into mechanical energy, the atmospheric circulation, and the winds. Above a certain intensity level an atmospheric storm seem able to mobilize an excess of warm moist air, and to have the force to distribute the air that rises in the center of the storm radialy outwards. To hope to control the giant energy flows in a major hurricane seems unreasonable.
But the transition between an ordinary large storm and a hurricane might be delayed by a large input of refrigeration into the air at sea level. One hundred meters below the gulf surface the sea water termperature is about 12 deg C. A host of barges with pipes reaching down to this cool water and pumping at least a few cubic meters/sec and spraying it into the passing winds might do just enough to prevent the severe storm to hurricane transition. How many barges? At least several hundred. Maybe a thousand. Steering a hurricane might also be possible.
The cost is large, and the effectiveness uncertain. The cost of hurricanes is very large, and their continued occurance is pretty certain.
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