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Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
It has thus been used as an emergency shelter but is not designed for the task; in 1998 during Hurricane Georges problems included looting and supplying 14,000 people with necessities."
We'll see how right this article was..
He has been a little feisty on his show! I really love watching him.
You can pray for them but the decisions they have already made have doomed hundreds if not thousands....
They should hang for their incompetence.....
The school district in NO moves more than 100K kids a day....Load them up and move the people out towards Houston or Jacksonville....
This problem didn't just sneak up on them....this planning should have been awaiting implementation of a evacuation order........
Continue to pray for them...I'll get the rope....
NeverGore :^)
You're a good person, cgk. Everything will be OK. :>)
it depends on how far east.
If the storm is something less than about 40 miles to the east, they get the eyewall and consistent winds from the lakeside that will push it over the leevee.
West and you get water from the GOM and the Mississippi.
damned if you do, damned if you don't.
All I have heard is that it is supposed to shift north, not west, so hopefully you'll be okay! I am praying it lessens before it hits land... even hits somewhere less populated, less vulnerable.
Yep, you're stuck with me :0)
The only thing ghoulishly exaggerated on this thread is your hyperbole in characterizing this thread.
You can have the last word.
where would you go? I mean, what choice do some of these people have?
Just as forecast, the gap with the front is closing and it looks like its going northward.
That's bad news for Biloxi and Mobile. For New Orleans, better now if it goes just east rather than just west.
Laurie Dhue is back at FNC anchor chair.
If the idiots can't be bothered to TRY to censor live broadcasts, I hope the FCC crucifies them.
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The wind blowing OVER your roof is putting pressure DOWN on it much in the same way wind flowing
over race cars help push them down on the track.
No. Please don't add ignorance to this thread. Professor Bernoulli reminds us that air in motion has less
pressure than stationary air. Any framing carpenter can tell you about the straps they use to hold the roof
DOWN when the wind blows hard. "
It is more complicated than this. Even greatly simplified, there is a downward component due to the slanted roof, there is a lateral component due to the slanted roof, and there is a lifting component due to the pressure differential.
That said, I framed for more than 20 years, and yes, we use straps to hold the rafters down. Toenails usually don't hold much against any lifting force.
Oh, man. Yeah, if I had someone I knew who was staying out of pure stubbornness and/or ignorance, I'd be livid. It's one thing to not have transportation or be an invalid or be responsible for someone who is, but these people staying for no good reason are nothing but possible future Darwin Award recipients.
those grasshoppers are makin you too mushy :)
Shep won't be able to get out of the city - he can go to the superdome with the other Fox reporter.
I'll second that about the chiggers. I still have scars from those buggers gettin' me at Ft. Polk back in '86.
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