This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
Locked on 09/02/2005 3:04:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason: |
Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I was just looking for that figure (but hadn't asked): the area affected. I was motivated by the quote NN has from the Netherlands official starting this thread. I wish to note, now, that the area affected is FIVE the total land area of the whole country of Netherlands. I would love him to state just how he would handle it when his whole country is gone, as well as a distance his whole country wide on all sides of the Netherlands.
maroons...
Interesting piece of news:
EarthWatch Update:
Meteorologist: Glenn Schwartz
Updated: 12:30 p.m. Thursday
We have four potential tropical systems out there.
Slideshow: Glenn Looks At The 4 Tropical Systems Forming
One became a storm that is tropical depression Lee, but it is way out in the Atlantic.
Tropical depression number 14 may be the most potentially dangerous system, possibly affecting the Caribbean in a week.
And there is another one, northeast of the Bahamas we also will be following. This is not too far off Florida and that one will have to be watched as well.
A fourth storm is to the far east and it may also have potential to be a big system.
http://www.nbc10.com/weather/1787404/detail.html
If that's the assumption they made, bad assumption.
Did they give any idea on a time frame? If the Mississippi is un-navigable for any period of time the middle of the country will be hard hit.
already happening in Miss. Guy pulled a knife in Jackson, MS yesterday in a gas line.
Nope. I blame the FEMA Incident Commander or whatever his job title is. Jerk.
I don't know about the black vote thing.
A black man on a local radio station (in our area) was apologizing to the nation for the behavior of black thugs in NO.
He said it was a disgrace and embarrassment to the black community.
sw
Correction: the Netherlands quote was from the start of a different thread ...
"Netherlands (based on the fact it has half its country below sea level) official: "I don't want to sound overly critical, but it's hard to imagine that (the damage caused by Katrina) could happen in a Western country. It seemed like plans for protection and evacuation weren't really in place, and once it happened, the coordination was on loose hinges."
Absolutely bad assumption. Especially on a disaster this huge.
Here in Memphis, we have a mayor that is of the same cut, and the man has a PHD. Street talk and legit babies are his tradmark.
what a great, descriptive phrase: the coordination was on loose hinges.
Admin Mods.
I know you all are up to your eyeballs in work, but I went through my replies/posts since the storm.
Whenever you have the time, would you please remove my links to Clarion Ledger? Don't want to get us slammed later.
Thank you, bwteim
They are listed below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2990#2990
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2963#2963
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2949#2949
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474387/posts?page=2915#2915
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts?page=4649#4649
This one is OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts?page=4517#4517
probably OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473373/posts?page=468#468
probably OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472974/posts?page=1419#1419
The governor is the person who had the greatest authority to deal with this - even greater than the President.
The president was only able to act AFTER request by the governor, or if the governor or state was clearly incapable. Sadly, that wasn't (quite) the case.
Well, we have all these new Iraqi police that we've trained. Do you think anyone would want to leave the relative safety of places like Fallujah to come help in NO? :-)
Well said.
"There is no Incident Commander with backed up authority, by the looks of things. "
Whether they shoud have...
All I know is that last I knew disaster preparedness was still mainly a local and state responsibility. The feds can't be blamed for voters who elect morons, and morons who elect to stay instead of evacuate.
This is scary news. I can't even imagine. Prayers they don't become much of anything. But 3 systems to be concerned about. Yikes!
I didn't accuse.....I asked.
You were critical of one defending the President who is being attacked (stupidly) by the left for this disaster, so I was asking if you were taking the opportunity to bash him as well.
All you needed to do is say "No."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.