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Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
yes, I remember it well, I was living on Cape Cod at the time.
Thanks for your reassuring engineering common sense about the dome. The amateurs are stirring up too much doom around here.
What was that movie with Paul Neuman?
LMAO!!!
Doogle
I think I would have left before that. I was in Hurricane Gloria in 1985. Had no power for a week. That was a category one. I respect the power of a hurricane.
Gotta love that.... what a carnival.
LOL! I almost spit!
What bothered me in reading the description of the construction was each part was dependent on the others to remain stable. THAT bothers the living daylights out of me.
I mean these poor, poor, bastards leaving their homes which are below sea level to go to the only structure that they are praying will weather the hurricane.
This is his first broadcast
Thanks, but I could have gone without the picture of Shelly in my head tonight! LOL
What in the world is Brian Williams doing in the Superdome? Does he have a death wish or something...
I just called FOX NEWS and got some guy with a Spanish accent. When I told him that they need to get Shep out of NO, he said "What do you want me to do?" LOL
I think I got the night cleaning crew!! He had NO IDEA WHO SHEP WAS!!!
I thought the NW always had higher than normal prices, but I just paid $2.53 in Salem, OR
Tell your husband "Thanks!" for looking at the info.
I have to be gone a few hours. Someone please try to remember to ping me if some engineers make some comments!
Wouldn't you know Chris Matthews would call James Lee Witt, Clinton's FEMA director? But Witt gets cut off real short when he says FEMA had models in effect for New Orleans Cat 4 hurricane way back when he was in office. I guess Matthews wanted Witt to badmouth the current FEMA.
According to this link it is 'pain"
http://www.creedence-online.net/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=4&topic=196
"I thought the woest case was for the eye to pass West of the city center, driving the sea surge into the big lake and pushing lake water Northwest, which would then drain Southeast into the city center, and pushing water due South, overcoming the lakeside levees."
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Nope. Since the lake is on the back (northern) side of NO, an eye to the east would push water into the lake with northerly (returning to the gulf) winds and over the lake levee. Usually you want the eye to the east, but NO is between a rock and a hard place. Either side is trouble.
I'll choose Amtrak - the odds of it being where I am at the same time are nil. :)
I agree, but am thinking it is too late for him to change his mind at this point.
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