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...
Agreed but we are in a time in history where we are hell bent on solving other people's problems while turning our backs on our own.
They certainly haven't gone down in 2 years either, thats for sure.
Good idea. But, how about starting an airlift out now?
I agree with you.
Massive snowstorm happened in Denver a couple of years ago...people trapped in cars all over the area but the worst were the ones stuck on the infamous 20+ miles of desolated Pena road leading to the airpost. Natl. Guard had equipment & went car to car checking on people & bringing water & food. It only lasted a day.
I don't know how they can even get to the people stuck in traffic now or trapped in the Superdome.
One other thing....why don't they open all sides of the highways to outgoing? Plans for evacuations in Texas used to have that posted right on the highways going out of Corpus Christi....something like, "In the event of a hurrican evacuation, all lanes will be northbound"
Hey newbie!
You're rather a compassionate conservative, aren't you?
According to TWC, it's now a Cat 5.
Godspeed to all in its path.
WE HAVE A CAT 5!!!!!!!!!just in
pressure down to 905MB!!!!!!!
OMG, I just heard that!!!!!! My prayers for all involved!
I have no problem being charitable, I just have a problem with pinheads like you who are full of themselves.
I'm plenty compassionate. I just prefer to be compassionate with my own money than with others'. And I would appreciate the same consideration from other compassionate conservatives.
Being trapped in a car for a day or two is bad, but in a hurricane a car is not adequate protection from the storm winds, flooding, and debris.
Fair enough.
Declaring a National Emergency won't prevent insurance claims or keep the gov't from bailing out those without insurance. Property damage is still going to happen.
There are people in Charlotte County, Florida still living in FEMA trailers a year after Hurricane Charley.
Don't know how Declaring a National Emergency is going to do anything at this late date.
The National Guard can't forcibly remove people...we live in the "land of the free," but as far as staying in NO during a Cat 4 or 5, that doesn't make NO "the home of the brave," it makes it "the home of the stupid."
I've been watching two different radars. She's been sucking all of the moisture out of Texas and Oklahoma. We've had thunderstorms hear in SW Ok that weren't forecast yesterday and into last night.
This is far from a worst case anything. This is like big hurricanes that we in the Coastal regions from TX to Mass have loved through for 200 years. This is bad but far from the worst we have seen.
No need to panic. Some will die; usually the idiots who stay in unsafe houses to "ride it out" because they think they can do something. Also lots of casualties after "Hurricane parties."
FEMA will come in after the hurricane and spread millions of dollars around, often to homes/homeowners with no real storm damage, just looking for a handout.
The houses and buildings were built (in dangerous areas.) They will be rebuild. Life will go on.
The eye of Charlie passover my house last year. The eyes of Francis and Jean passed within 20 miles. Each morning, the neighbors were up by 6:00, got our streets cleared ourselves, checked for everyone, started our generators and cooked breakfast on the barbie. Kept a 12 guage and a 23 Glock ready for looters, but no sweat.
Much easier than RVN, No one shooting at us.
Be safe. Its no big thing. You can handle it.
"If the federal government declares a national emergency in storm-affected areas, I want my taxes reduced by the amount sent to those regions that are attributable to my income."
Ummm... I don't know if I'd be worried so much about my taxes, as whether I'll have an income at all in the aftermath.
Has anybody modelled the economic consequenses of a major American commercial and industrial center being, for all intents and purposes, erased from the face of the Earth?
Might the "worst case" here (God forbid it should come to that!) provide some empirical data to flesh out some of the "nuclear terrorism" scenarios?
This is looking a little Biblical imho.
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