Sure thing. I enjoy sharing information. Hey, besides, the Alabama IS a battleship. It was designed to absorb more punishment that it got today. It still would have been neat to have been aboard it during Katrina. I would have felt safer there than in a building.
Godspeed to those in harms way.
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GULFPORT, Miss. — As Katrina pounded this coastal community with winds exceeding 100 mph this morning, police Lt. Mike Shaw answered one last rescue call.
"Old oaks are down on the beachfront, water is up to the second story of some of the motels,'' he recalled. "Signs are down. Power lines are down. Roofs are off.''
A tornado also struck an apartment with 10 people inside, he said, but no one was injured. There also was a report of a family stranded when their roof collapsed on them.
The armor and hull is made of some of the thickest, most homogenous steel ever produced by man. A hurricane isn't going to do anything to it if the hatches are closed. In fact, even a tsunami probably wouldn't do much to the hull.
On top of that and unlike a building, it *floats*. "What storm surge?"
Hubby came home from Germany on a huge battleship and the waves overtook the ship several times. They survived but all 'wished' they were dead during the storm and toilets backed up and people were puking all over the place. He never forgot it. So, ships are made for this kind of thing.