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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
"Jack McCaeffery..you're beyond hope..you're just stuck on stupid with your foot nailed to the floor and running in a 'stupid' circle"..
Back in the 50's when I was little..we spent a few summers in the Rockaways..The Rockaway peninsula ..south of NYC..forms the southern barrier of Jamaica bay..It was 4 or 5 blocks wide at that point..One summer, a hurricane off in the Atlantic..don't rememebr the year, or the storm..exactly..pushes a storm surge towards the coast...obviously thee was no forecasting or satellites like we have now..the storm never hit..not rain or wind..but we woke up in the middle of the night when the water rose three feet...We spent the next two days on the roof..Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean were continuous..one body of water..it's hard to comprehend the power that can do something like that..let alone visualize a 30+ store surge..
Nothing wrong with that. I would rather be able to buy some later than have none available because everyone hoarded it at the cheap price.
Big deal. They're out of everything except frozen food and school supplies as it is.
How many rolls of toilet paper do you need for a hurricane, anyway?
CSPAN 1 is still showing the FEMA briefing.
I've got both the Bubba SUV and the Bubba Hunting Truck gassed
up and by gum I'll gas 'em up again if I feel like it.
We refine it right down the road from here on HWY 225.
Deleware.
Shep will be hunkering down with Anderson, not Stephanie.
Speaking of "stuck on stupid", Wendell Gollner can't get out of the rut.
I like your tagline. I have also heard: "Ignorance is finite. Stupidity is not."
That depends on how big it is and how scared you get.
If not vented, I believe it may be..... I know for sure BBQ's are dangerous no matter what.
Jack Cafferty? Talk about stuck on stupid....
Dang missed it.
I guess the older hospitals had't gotten upgraded at the time and it was a friggin nightmare, no lights because the batteries hadn't been checked in the backup lights, sam problem with battery powered IV pumps. No oxygen, hand bagging. Carrying patients down 20-30 flights of stairs. Millions od dead animals rotting -- some that were part of irreproducible experimental research. All subsurface areas flooded and stinking. Radioactive waste lost. Many deaths. Hundreds of millions in diagnostic equipment lost. Horrible, horrible thing.
Major construction at Methodist, St. Lukes, Hermann hospitals, UT and Baylor Med schools to remediate, some of it is not finished yet, over 4 years later. The MEdical center got it really, really badly.
I looked for the Romper Room Weather thing, but couldn't find it, but you're probably not old enough to remember that.
I completely understand; we have 5 grandchildren under 5 and we have turned into simpletons around here. We have regressed to their educational level concerning most matters.
I can, however, act out the entire Nemo movie if you'll hum the soundtrack. :-)
What would happen if we used about a thousand planes filled with ice to bombard a hurricane? Would it have any effect?
I was "little" in the 50's too...grew up on Cape Cod (back when it really was a lovely place for real people to live)
...I know about storms that break through former beach barriers- it's frightening beyond words.
After this hurricane season and the paucity of gasoline supplies, any liberal envionmentalists who whine about drilling in ANWAR should be required by law to WALK wherever they have to go.
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