Posted on 09/21/2005 11:48:48 AM PDT by backhoe
Notice the line of clouds extending out before the storm? Katrina had the same thing - and it pointed in the direction she ended up going.
Oil rigs in the path of Hurricane Rita (map: RigZone.com)
I hope the democrat websites and the MSM don't get a hold of this photo.
Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names By Ker Than ... Liberals will start naming them, "Bush's Fault"..."Still Bush's Fault"...."Also Bush's Fault"...."You Know What Bush's Fault"...
Here's Their Chance! -- Let all of the complainers, ie Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Jesse Jackson, and any other of the folks who have blamed the federal government, specifically President Bush and FEMA for the so-called failures in the Katrina effort, do their duty! Each and every one of the dirty bastages should fly into the Texas gulf coast prior to Rita...
Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread -- The difference in the two news conferences I just heard- Jeb speaking with Floridians and Nagin talking down to...everyone. Jeb giving information and instilling confidence. Nagin acting arrogant and wishy-washy (an amazing combination) and giving NO information.
Water
a fill bath tub
b fill all large pots
c several dozen cleaned plastic milk carton / change quarterly
Battery operated radio
Battery operated flashlights (1 per person + 1)
Week worth of batteries for above
Fill propane for gas grill
Fill all cars
Sterno cans and fondue pot for cooking
Matches, lighter, lighter fluid
Several rolls of 6 mil plastic sheets 10 x 100
5 boxes of 20 each, large garbage sacks
4 pair heavy work gloves
Axe, hatchet, shovel nails, heavy duty staples, staple gun, hammers, saws, chain saw
6 bread baking pans (to make block ice)
4 large ice chests
Hand operated can opener and bottle opener
Bug spray
1 month of all medicine, gauze, band aids, tape, alcohol, OTC headache, antiseptic
Heavy duty knives, 100 each plastic forks, spoons, knives, paper towels, paper plates Toilet Paper!
Soup, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, crackers, chili, bread, several small jelly, mustard, spam, apples, dried fruit, hard candy,
Stove top coffee pot, 10 lbs coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, tea bags
2 12 ga shot guns 2 boxes of 00; 1 of slugs; bird shot
Might as well line them up now:
http://www.wxnation.com/houston/
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tlh/tropical/
Texas Weather Cams:
http://www.weatherimages.org/weathercams/usa.html#TX
"Please join me in prayer for of United States of America On a shining hill
Prayers for those in the path of the storm
An Email from a Member in Houston. Prayers Urged!
Tropical Storm Rita Discussion (NOAA Discussion -- please pray)
Tropical Storm Rita -- Please Pray!
I do appreciate your adding those valuable links- thank you.
I wish every press conference had had one person with the courage to say "Joe Blow, from the NYT, you are stuck on stupid! Sue Smith from ABC just asked that question." "Sue, what was my answer? Could you share that with your friend Joe over here so we can quit wasting time. Now Joe do you have a question I haven't already answered?"
If they're gonna act like 2 year olds then they need to be addressed like 2 year olds.
No problem. Just give Blank-o, say, a few gazillion dollars and she'll fix it. Probably leave the ship right there and turn it into a casino.
Hurricane Rita: Open Thread 5
Heres another open thread for Hurricane Rita discussions, as the storm turns out to be less devastating than feared: 3M Rita Evacuees Urged to Delay Return. link: 108 comments
Hurricane Rita: Open Thread 4
As Hurricane Rita approaches landfall, heres another open thread.
Check Bareknucklepolitics.com for lots of video links.
UPDATE at 9/23/05 9:32:32 pm:
And heres a fascinating/terrifying page full of Rita Hurricane Images.
The aftermath of Hurricane Rita is seen over Campron, La., in this aerial photo made in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter
I saw those pictures earlier, and this is what I feared, that all those little coastal towns had been erased. Even though the MSM isn't showing it, it's the only conclusion I could draw based on how far the surge went in, as far north as I-10.
The MSM simply doesn't care. The MSM is lying in wait in Houston, waiting to pounce on anyone returning to the city and ask them to relate their nightmarish experiences in the worst evacuation in history. That's precisely the spin the MSM will try to put on it. Hopefully some Texans will respond accordingly to the questions they'll be asked by these fools, and show those fools what makes then Texans.
The MSM's post-Rita mission is perfectly clear. The reaction of Texas to Rita reveals to anyone with the eyes to see how inept, how irresponsible, and how criminal Louisiana's reaction to Katrina was. The MSM cannot let this utterly obvious contrast be seen by the world. After all, they believe it is their duty to TELL us what we see instead of letting us see on our own. And so they descend upon Houston to drum into our heads, 24/7, that the evacuation was a failure and that it had a myriad of problems. They've all been given their orders, and like robots following their programming, this is what they will do every single day now for the foreseeable future.
Right after Rita, I wrote and posted a FreeRepublic educational vanity about Storm Surge because I was not seeing anything in the media regarding the topic.
What Is "Storm Surge" and Why It Matters. (Katrina Education Vanity)
What happened in Campron, La. is exactly what I was talking about in my Storm Surge thread.
What is that? Whatever it is it doesn't look good
It looks like a continuous (sic) stream of thunderstorms running from Nebraska to Wisconsin. It looks like it will merge with the remnants of RITA over Chicago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1490933/posts?q=1&&page=1
and maybe you'll understand why I posted what I did.
The devastation along the coast -- not at Lake Charles, but down at the coast -- has been known to FR all day today, from aerial photos of the area. This has been discussed at length at the above link. The MSM has been crowing that we dodged a bullet with Rita and have focused all of their attention on the new flooding in NOLA, neglecting to report, or even investigate, the extent of what Rita really did. Nothing impeded them from flying a chopper over these areas and taking a look -- as whoever took the aerial photos obviously did -- except their desire to keep the focus on NOLA. FNC finally broke this news black-out.
http://www.kemah.net
Glad your safe.
Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News
Tia Owens-Powers/The Town Talk
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