Posted on 08/28/2005 3:24:16 AM PDT by janetjanet998
I have never seen any thing like this in my 20 years of storm following....nor do i recall such a potential in history..
we have the worst case scenario times 10.even the "big one" everyone talked about was even assuming a much smaller cane area wise..
the storm is huge...like 2-3 times the size of andrew and maybe almost just as strong...it is hitting at the worst possibe angle for NOLA and size the eye is so large ,30 miles across, the MS coast will get it too...it will affect many more people that Andrew did..hurricane force winds are 150 miles wide and exspanding... Andrew was very small and jogged south and hit then less populated areas of miami then into the bare swamps...storm surge with will be huge may go miles inland in places
its large so it will take awhile to spin down producing many tornnadoes and flooding inland
Declare a national emergency...get the military ready for rescue then clean up
I never thought i would see a bigger news story in my life then 9-11....this could be it...its picking up speed and many people will still be stuck on the roads when it nears..plus it is so big wind/rain many hours ahead of it will not help with the traffic...
It seems now that the plans did not take into account their elderly, sick, infirm or poor.
Many people will still be stuck on the roads because they haven't reversed enough lane-miles on the interstates.
Pathetic. The people in charge of evacuation have their heads screwed on backwards.
And how are you going to get the people to the airports? Or are the C-17's and C-5's going to land on Bourbon Street?
I was shown the error of my theory earlier this morning ;-)
It's an instinctive thing, I think. We're so used to driving on one side or the other that we just don't think about doing otherwise, even during times like these.
"No plan can take into account every person and every contingency."
Of course not, but I just pray that since the city has known there is a possibility of this happening, that they will be able to provide water, chemical toilets, & mres to the souls going into the dome.
Listen R., I hope that everything is being done that can be done....it's hard to read some of the cruel things being said....not by you, but some who gripe about taxes when our fellow human beings are in danger, just seems to me to be wrong timed.
Some people just like to gripe.
While all the media attention seems to be on New Orleans, I was just thinking of the rest of the area. While traveling East near I-10 in 1982 I meet a lot of good people living in and near the bayous. Small “towns” – actually clusters of buildings – with an elevation of about 1 to 3 feet above water level. Some people had not yet bothered to get electricity, they saw no need for it. I thought about all the chemical plants in the area that are now (hopefully) shut down.
The damage will include a lot more than New Orleans and Biloxi.
"Some people just like to gripe"
:) sometimes I'm in that group
It looks like the people in the dome have water & mres! They were planning & I'm sorry for cany aspersions cast!
It's easy to get carried away with emotion. I've done it at times.
Hopefully the people in the small towns will come through the way small towners usually do....sticking together, checking on ones who are alone or needing help, and sharing their resources. Small towns have an automatic crisis reaction plan built in.....
Everyone checks on everyone else in the small town where I live.....some would think it's being "nosy", but if you live alone or have health problems....you can expect calls and knocks on the door if you break your routine (like your paper isn't taken in; curtains stay closed; trash isn't put out. We understand that it's better this way than to find a neighbor had a stroke or heart attack and no one knew.
The people I met would definitely stick together, plus they all seem to have at least one boat. I’m wondering how well rooted the Cypress trees are – I’ve seen a lot that had fallen over just from standing too long. A massive fall can hurt a lot of people. Loss of electricity won’t be as much of a hardship but drinking water will be a problem. Snakes and gators are everywhere from just small storms – most can handle them.
The only time our media covers these areas in a disaster is when a tornado tears up a trailer park – and I didn’t see many trailers.
Fences ripped from their moorings.
Property damaged beyond repair.
Economic devastation.
Massive federal and state resources needed.
The storm from the south continues to wreak havoc.
GWB needs to declare a National Emergency NOW!
Otherwise Illegal Immigration will devastate the country.
sad reminder bump...they needed to preposition more assets closer to the gulf region BEFORE the storm hit....If I and many here knew this could happen by doing research on the net then FEMA should of too..in fact they did know it could happen..it was one of their worst case scenerios...first thing they should of done is to have "more boots on the ground" for sercurity...
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