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...
A national emergency? What for?
Yes, I agree this hurricane may be devastating, But Bush would look pretty foolish declaring a national emergency for something that has not happened yet and does not directly effect the nation.
It affects the nation. Most people who live in areas prone to natural disasters don't take out insurance, leaving the rest of us taxpayers holding the bag.
This is sounding like a worst case scenario....we can debate the planning or lack there of Nut in the meantime I'm thinking we do "the impossible".....we went into a hostile & inacessable part of the world after the sunami....so how about this:
1) send all available large military transport planes to assist in evacuating the city.
2) Red Cross; Salvation Army & Natl. Guard set up safety areas near military bases to provide for the evacuees
2)Priority passengers could be hospitals; nursing homes; families
Your point is taken, but nonetheless I'm not sure Bush should declare a national disaster for financial concerns that have yet to appear.
Nut should have been "But"
maybe I'm too emotional to be posting here....just seems like everything that can be done to help fellow citizens, should be done.
My wife was scheduled to fly into Biloxi Mississipi on Wednesday. The trip was cancelled. This really is looking like a bad storm isn't it. Prayers for those who live there for their safety and livlihood.
Correct, it's not time yet.
Call a National Emergency before disaster happens and there are two possibilities.
1. It doesn't happen and you look foolish.
2. It does happen and you get blamed for it.
I agree. We need to use our national resources to minimize the loss of life.
Then perhaps they should buy insurance, and quit sucking off my tax dollars.
I didn't think that war with Iraq was a good idea, can I have my taxes reduced too?
I don't think you're too emotional.
The very real possibility of great loss of human life is worth getting emotional about.
Do you derive benefit from the increased safety resulting from the Iraq war? I would argue you derive just as much as I do, and as much as the natural disaster victim.
I, however, derive NO benefit from sending Federal dollars to Florida.
If this hits directly, we are going to no longer have a Port of New Orleans. Pipelines will be unable to pump natural gas and oil.
The disruption in moving cargo up the Mississippi is going to be enormous. Gasoline prices are going to skyrocket. There are going to be hundreds of thousands of displaced people. If New Orleans is totally flooded, it will be a bowl of toxic chemicals, dead bodies, alligators, snakes, and debris.
So, I think consideration should be given to the fact that this might be on the scale of a national emergency.
Imagine a your family stuck in a car in this massive traffic deadlock, it's hot & humid, it's dark---the gas guage is going down, you need the radio on to stay connected. The battery is over used to keep everything going. Just praying for all of them.
thanks
CNN: Louisiana interstates now made one way for evacuations.
I don't think he should either. As one poster said, numerous hurricanes have hit NO over the years, yet they continue to build out. Yeah? So what? What are we going to do? Demand they stop building out, and condemn them if they continue?
It's lunacy how humans react to acts of God.
Sounds like an OnStar radio commercial.
This storm is going to affect EVERYONE of us for longer than most realize. How? Oil rigs have been shutdown as drews have been evacuated. Evacuated oil rigs produce NO oil. Then there is the aftermath.
Hurricane Andrew destroyed the oil fields in the Gulf for many many months. The pipelines that connect the various wellheads, as well as pipelines to the mainland were literally pretzeled and tied in knots, and most ALL had to be redone.
I had a roommate who had just graduated from commercial dive school in Houston and was hired days before graduation by an oil company desperately looking for divers to get to work repairing the damaged pipelines.
I personally have seen the damage done by the power of hurricane even 90 feet down. We had a new shipwreck freshly sunk as an artificial reef prior to that storm. Afterwards, the 1/4" thick steel had been ripped like it was paper.
In short, oil prices are going to spike big time as a result of this storm.
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