Posted on 09/21/2005 9:00:29 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
Just sit back and watch the difference between a competent response (Perry and White) and an incompetent response (Blanco and Nagin). It should be very instructive.
They were accompanied by military petrol tankers and lorries carrying rations and water. Many of the military vehicles had “Hurricane Chaser” chalked on them.
One had a “To do” list written on the side, with Katrina’s name crossed out underneath, and the word Rita written in.
Members of the Texas National Guard had drawn red, white and blue flags on their vehicles along with the mottos: “Don’t mess with Texas” and “God bless Texas”.
There were also hundreds of power trucks equipped with trailers carrying thousands of feet of electrical wiring and repair equipment.
Kenneth Kerr, of the North Houston Pole Line electricity company, said it was his “28th straight day on the road . . . it’s been a heck of a year.”
This thing hits Houston and New Orleans is going to look like a vacation spot. I am becoming much less concerned about what terrorists think of this country, and much more concerned about how God feels about us.
What "make you laugh", my dumb question, or the writings on the trucks? ;)
Oh no! Not your question. There is no dumb question. I was laughing at the writing on the trucks.
I have a gut feeling that would-be rapists and looters are in for an unpleasant surprise. Texans will not tolerate anarchy.
Why are you saying if it hits Houston it will be worse than N.O.?
Houston does have a lot of gays, doesn't it?
Regardless of comptent vs incompetent response, a direct hit on a densely populated area is going to be very bad. Depending on where Rita goes in, this could make the Katrina damage look minor. If Nagin and Blanco had handled things as well as they possibly could have been handled, Katrina would still have been an unprecedented disaster. And if White and Perry handle this as well as it can possibly be handled, it's still going to be catastrophic if Rita comes up Galveston Bay into Houston.
New Orleans is pretty much out of the picture from everything I've been reading. They may get several inches of rain, which under the circumstances is not trivial, but not catastrophic either. Southwest Louisiana is very much in play though.
I won't say how much, but looking at the pictures, I don't see how they can avoid rain..
They're all up and down the Texas coast in that area. You can barely throw a rock without hitting one, let alone a several-hundred-mile-wide Cat5 hurricane. It's not a matter of *if* Rita will hit a large number of critical refineries, it's just a matter of how badly they'll be damaged when it's all over.
LOL she keeps getting bigger and windier by the day.
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