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Posted on 09/21/2005 1:36:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
GE SUPER RADIO III is a great to pick up AM channels at a distance.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B00000J061/all/ref=dp_pb_a/103-4850276-9333465?s=electronics
I have come to the conclusion that the only requirement necessary for such people to believe something is that it not be true. They are inimmical to truth. Tell them a million lies, each more preposterous than the last, and they'll readily believe them. But tell them one single, simple truth, and they'll reject it categorically.
Changing the subject, I looked outside just now, and the sun is finally coming out here in Cutler Ridge, halfway between Miami and Homestead. Rita is finally far enough away that I'm no longer under her outer bands, at least not completely. Prayers for all those who will be under them soon.
Source?
HOUSTON MAYOR on giving press conf now- discussing evacs
Excellent point! That's how that lady, Collita, was able to call Fox News during Katrina and get them to send over Geraldo
Anyone know what the political party Hoston Mayor Bill White is with?
I wouldn't have thought about them either....maybe Sears?
He's a Dem put fairly good.
My parents live in Rockport and are currently planning on staying put. I could scream. Their house is a mile inland and built to withstand a Cat 4 and they are on the left side of the forecast track, but even that side could give them some surge from the bay behind Rockport. They are in their early seventies, and my dad is in no shape to cope with such a situation the way he used to be.
Cripes!
For TX inlanders, this is from the NOAA site:
The strongest winds usually occur in the right side of the eyewall of the hurricane. Wind speed usually decreases significantly within 12 hours after landfall. Nonetheless, winds can stay above hurricane strength well inland. Hurricane Hugo (1989), for example, battered Charlotte, North Carolina (which is 175 miles inland) with gusts to nearly 100 mph.
White is a Democrat, but he's an adult.
Our electricity goes out all the time around here. I have oil lamps in each room. There are really pretty at night when lit. You just don't want to use them during a storm .
Asking private citizens to assist those who may need help getting out of the storm surge areas.
I seem to recall the govt. experimenting with cloud seeding back in the 60's without very much favorable results. In fact I seem to recall at least once the seeding caused some extreme flooding in either Arizona or Nevada somewhere. Something about that area of dessert getting only 4-6" of rain annually and in a down burst they received well over 10" in that one storm in a real short span of time that was blamed directly on the cloud seeding program. Maybe someone else has better memory or details. The program was stopped along about that time I seem to recall.
I would get them out of there.
I'm shocked that Sheila Jackson Lee isn't front and center on this.....she's the one that said we don't need weather satellites because we have the weather channel! LOL
You could probably pick up a cheap phone for around $10. But better buy two** and test them both before packing them away.
** One of two I bought at a big box store did not work.
Just get the Professor to make one of those radios powered by Gilligan's pedaling.
I like this Mayor. He is on top of the situation(s).
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