"Fending for ourselves": Making do in Mississippi

seattletimes.nwsource.com ^

[ekwd]

Can I have one too?

[investigateworld]

Sorry all out ... had two, one was used for grandson's B-day gift and now the other is going to Mississippi (wanting to use spell check)

[KateatRFM]

Well if they are keeping track and paying, it is not stealing. Only if they are just taking things 'because I need them' and don't intend to pay.

[Jaded]

mark

[AnAmericanMother]

In at least one case, they got the owner's permission after the fact.

I think the customary procedure is to leave a note or letter signed by the official and promising to pay.

[billnaz]

Mississippians can one day look back on this time with justifiable pride. While the resources go to the welfare whiners and snivelers sitting on their duffs in New Orleans, Mississippians will once again show their can-do spirit and self-reliance in the face of adversity as they have always done.

And I must add, of course, Go Dawgs!

[ekwd]

Okay. Just remember me come Christmas. I always liked T.J. Jackson.

[investigateworld]

Not familiar with the lad, was he in Airplane?

[TomasUSMC]

How long will we continue this cycle of: Hurricane hits - get wiped out - rebuild then wait for the the next hurricane to wipe you out again. Lets establish some building guidelines that will allow communities to withstand storms. Heck, build everything 35 feet higher than the sea.
But spending billions every single year is at least just as crazy as trying to not have to.

There should be a national plan to establish goals for communities that are repeatedly found in this cycle.

Simply spreading an oil slick on the ocean surface ahead of a hurricane's path is supposed to significantly dampen the wind speeds. While this had been an old sailor's tale, there was a recent journal publication about this. Has to do with minimizing spray, and the impact minimizing spray has on the friction between the air currents and the water's surface

Using Planes like those of the hurricane hunters, drop large payloads of liquid nitrogen into the heat columns....

you would need to dump millions of tons of Ln2 to have any effect. a 747 can only carry about 124 tons of cargo. But detonating a seaborne craft carrying much larger payloads might work.

Here are a few other ideas: 1) ocean plowing, 2) wind energy ocean cooling, 3) transported icebergs,and 4) Sonic Booms
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/pshapiro.html


Or dropping Micheal Moore in the eye of a hurricane. The resultant splash should be big enough to bring up enough cold water from the deep to cool the hurricane down or at least make it run back to where it came from.

[ekwd]

I agree with you. The Post went looking for whiners and found remarkably few in Mississippi. However, I think that, when all is said and done (a long time off), most of the people in LA, including most of the people in NO, will turn out to have behaved better than the media has portrayed. I actually think that a lot of the media's chosen villains will look better as time goes on. I will even go so far as to say that FEMA will turn out to have done more good than harm (PLEASE don't kick me off FR for saying that). It's just not possible to have done what we all would have liked to do.

Ken Daves, Msgt., USAF (Retired)

WAR EAGLE!

[ekwd]

What do we do about earthquakes in California? And what about Yellowstone blowing half the country away? And what about NY getting hit by the tsunami when the cliff in the Canaries collapses?
...meterors...asteroids...tornadoes...ice storms...blizzards?

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT

[zot]

Thanks for the ping.

I admire their initiative and self-reliance, but apparently the authorities in Mississippi, like those in Louisiana, expect FEMA to work miracles instantly without telling FEMA what they need and where.

This is a good reply:

According to FEMA, the agency is doing a good job in Mississippi under trying circumstances. Spokeswoman Mary Hudak, who is working in Jackson, said FEMA had supplied 99 million bags of ice, 37.5 million liters of water and 7.8 million meals to the state as of Saturday. The Red Cross and Salvation Army have served an additional 3.8 million meals. FEMA has provided 12 search-and-rescue teams and 15 medical-strike teams, and 21 Disaster Medical Assistance teams have treated 16,331 patients. There are five FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers, and 318,000 households have registered, while approved aid payments total $250 million.

Or maybe, considering the absence of gratitude and all the crap thrown at them, we should just dissolve FEMA and let the locals fend for themselves.