Floridian's Blaming Jeb Bush For Charley (not joking,barf alert)

Myself | 8-14-04 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

It is with a heavy heart that I write this. I have no idea what is wrong with people today in this society and this country. My example I am going to use is a really really sad one.

I was in Plant City as of Thursday night which for those who do not know is just north east of Tampa/St.Pete. I went down there to help a friend of mine who owns a house who happens to be a single mother of a 2 yr old girl. She needed help boarding up her house and sandbags etc.

All finished by 2 am there and I decided I was going to go over to a portion of Tampa called locally "New Tampa", where another friend of mine was readying her home up with her brothers. It was only 30 mins away from Plant City and definitely in the "expected"path of Charley.

I wound up falling asleep there around 4 am and woke up around 6:30 am to see that everything was still a go and a green light for Tampa. We had a few more things to move outside and the sandbags because it is a low lying area that floods from regular storms.

We went out to grab something to eat at a local Wendy's where the wait in the drive thru was about 45 mins long considering everything local had closed already by 11 am. When we got back to the house we were watching storm coverage and then about 20 mins later noticed the shift in the storm. We saw that the storm itself was more than likely going to move into the Cape Coral area.

I decided it was time for me to make my decision and it was quick. 10 seconds. I got into my car and drove over to my friends home in Lakeland. Unfortunately by the time I got over there he had hauled it over to a friends house in Arcadia.

I knew I was racing against time on I-4 and that Charley was breathing down my neck. But was more than confident I would make it back to Melbourne in time before Charlie hit Central Florida...and I did.

With about 60 mph winds everything was ok here and we even managed to keep power the entire time. So we were spared and were lucky...our friends 30 miles to the west of us couldn't say the same.

So all of my phone calls were put into friends in Naples where I used to live up til March of this year,Fort Myers,Cape Coral,and Bonita Springs. All had no power and were trying to save cell batteries but were alive. But here is where the BARF ALERT comes in.

3 of them managed to in the span of 60 seconds say "this is Jeb Bush's storm...he really screwed this one up","your boy Jeb is going to have a lot of explaining to do with this one","I am sure Jeb and George will come play the healer for their own injuries they caused."

I was sicken to my stomach. Just not that these people were my friends and usually very educated and well spoken...BUT THEY MEANT IT!

I said listen...this storm was all over the news for a week. The hurricane warning had been issued within 36 hrs...evacuation orders were given...this is mother nature...science..you can't predict this kind of thing and we all saw it with our own eyes..the storm turned right...not Jeb Bush forcing it to the coast.

Every single person bought into the entire "the Bush's never know what to do when something is going on ala the morning of 9-11",obviously a Michael Moore style of brainwashing that people have sickingly adopted from his film.

If it was not bad enough to hear it was when I turned on local talk radio and listened to my fellow Floridians bash the national hurricane center,the national weather service,jeb bush,and the media for causing such huge errors in the state and ignoring other possible tracks. That Jeb Bush spoke with arrogance and cockiness that the storm was definitely going to hit Tampa.

Last I checked the NHC saved millions of lives by posting updates every 3 hrs...the national weather service saved millions of lives by posting tornado warnings and flood watches and warnings,and Jeb Bush was up for 3 straight days and still is down south trying to do whatever a HUMAN BEING can do.

The nerve of a reporter to ask him "you are down here and the cameras are here...but do you really mean it when you say you are going to make sure people get help? Do you mean it?"

Or CNN saying "well the president's trip with his brother will be more about not wanting to lose Florida and the 27 electoral votes than showing compassion", I have absolutely had it with this kind of crap. I really pray for humanity to come along one day and to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and for things out of all of our control...like category 4 hurricanes.

[clintonh8r]

See my #59. I don't expect a coherent response anytime soon....

[myprecious]

My nephew called in from Punta Gorda this morning. He survived the storm about 5 blocks from the Burnt Store Marina when he cares for about 20+ boats. He started storm preparations 3 days before the storm, tying off, reinforcing ropes. Every single craft under his care was unharmed, but almost every other boat is totaled - beached, sunk, mast bent. There was PLENTY of warning.

One of the problems is that Punta Gorda has not had a storm for about 85 years and thought they were immune to them. Guess not.

Yes, the forecasters said the storm was going to hit Tampa. Sounds like Charley wasn't listening.

[Darksheare]

He who?

[hobson]

No, she was talking about her friends and she was much nicer than I would have been.

I have lost all patience for stupid people, friend or foe, and am likely not to hold anything back. As Marsha Warfield said, "Stupid people p!ss me off."

[streetpreacher]

No, the closest thing that liberals have to a God is Lenin and a sacrificed Messiah is JFK.

[My Favorite Headache]

Bush Sr. took a lot of hell for Andrew in S.Florida. I remeber laying on Ft.Lauderdale Beach 2 days later and just seeing about 14 or 15 U.S. Army choppers carrying supplies back and forth. People in the face of chaos do say some pretty stupid crap...but to blast Jeb on this is insane. He doesn't even work for the national hurricane center. Also, they use tracking maps with cones of error in them constantly...do people just think those are there for extra color?

[stboz]

I'll bet you dollars to donuts the people blaming Jeb are imports from the north. They don't know or care to understand the vagaries of hurricanes.

So, to all you from up north complainers, "Please pack up and carry your Yankee rear-ends back there."

[RoseofTexas]

OOOOO GAWD! What an inopportune time to have had a hurricane of this magnitude....BUMMER! 100 years since the last catastrophic hurricane and this one just HAD to come during W's watch...double bummer! Do you think God is trying to tell us something?

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Tropical Storm Charley....Wait a minute,....Isn't that what we called the Viet Kong?

It is Kerry's fault! Kerry is the one that raised the Vietnam question recently, just in time for this awful hurricane.

And its name is CHARLEY! KERRY CAUSED ALL THIS DISTRUCTION!

[Xenalyte]

Ooooh, I made the bang mistake a few years ago and am STILL paying for it, with front hair that's not QUITE long enough to get into the ponytail.

I'm playing a Scotswoman this year, so I'm thinking deep red. (With twigs and leaves in it, too, but that's my responsibility, not my salon's.)

[Xenalyte]

Ooooh, I made the bang mistake a few years ago and am STILL paying for it, with front hair that's not QUITE long enough to get into the ponytail.

I'm playing a Scotswoman this year, so I'm thinking deep red. (With twigs and leaves in it, too, but that's my responsibility, not my salon's.)

[ApesForEvolution]

Yeah, I mean, what's up with dat?

Talk about hit and run turd throwing posts, but really...

[Darksheare]

Dade, dade.. now why does that place sound familiar?
*chuckle*

Interesting.

[Partisan Hack]

On the "other site," the accusation is that "only Bush leaning counties were evacuated." In other words, Jeb Bush was responsible for the destruction of Kerry Voters.

I'm sitting here slack jawed. I think I'm going to go for a bike ride......

[ApesForEvolution]

I'm there too...

[WHBates]

Well I vote for dummies.

[Miss Marple]

No, I do not think God is trying to tell us something, and it has not been 100 years since the last catastrophic hurricane (Camille, Andrew, Hugo, etc.).

What I do think is that evil will find an outlet, and right now it is focussed on the results of the storm and turning it to political advantage.

[Phsstpok]

God forbid if Tropical Storm Earl hits Florida..it will be a conspiracy...what are the odd's of 3 storms hitting Florida in 10 days time?! I can just see the lunacy now.

Watch for a revival of stories about the evil HAARP project up in the north woods and the deadly weather weapon designed by Tesla.

The Bush's must be causing the strange weather in order to drive up oil prices so Dick Cheney and Halliburton can get rich. Yeah, that's it...

[sinkspur]

To paraphrase Judge Roy Bean:

"Piss on 'em!"

[COEXERJ145]

Shepard Smith is talking on Fox News about how the response has been so much better than it was after Andrew after 1992. Roads are being cleared at a rapid pace, linemen from all over the state and region are already working on restoring the power, and food & water are being delivered.