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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Shep is reporting that Rita has taken a dramatic turn to the east????? huh???
Mason approves!
"Who gets the lawsuit when the falling gas can hits Grandma in the head? "
Oh come ON. What did you think I meant to drop a Gas can from 50 feet and let it splat!!!
No...You put it on a hook with a rope and slowly let it to the ground. Person on ground grabs container and releases hook. Vala!!! Some times a little common sense goes a long ways.
Yes- recessed in the back plate is an adjustment screw- call your local FAA office ( airport control tower nearest you ) and ask politely for their altimeter reading. It's the local barometric pressure. Set your instrument to match that, and you have it done.
It is kind of like MaxHeadroom...you can adjust the volume on each feed separately.
I am watching KTRK.
He has to be talking about the track. But it could also be the news we've already heard. Sounds like theatrics for the opening of the show... old news as new news.
Uh-oh.....
Here comes the Oil shock... Rita and now this...
ABUJA, Nigeria, Sept. 22 -- Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, a separatist leader in Nigeria's oil-producing south, was brought before a federal court on treason charges Thursday -- a crime that carries the death penalty -- and his followers reportedly retaliated by seizing at least one facility that controls oil pipeline flows.
The confrontation between Nigerian authorities and radical activists from the impoverished Niger Delta region could put new pressure on global oil prices at a time when destruction from Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the expectation of new carnage from Hurricane Rita already is pushing prices toward historic highs. Nigeria is the fifth largest exporter of oil to the United States.
In southern Nigeria, militants seized a Chevron oil flow station and threatened more disruption, including the kidnapping of foreign workers, news services reported.
"We will blow every oil installation up," Alali Horsefall, the top aide to Dokubo-Asari in the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, told Agence France-Presse before setting off into the delta marshes with a group of men on a protest operation he called "240 hours of rage."
Dokubo-Asari, speaking to reporters after appearing in court in this capital city, accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of becoming a dictator. Obasanjo, who has held office since 1999, is Nigeria's first elected leader after decades of military rule.
"If this is what Obasanjo claims is democracy, it is the highest dictatorship," Dokubo-Asari told reporters outside the courtroom here, according to Reuters news service.
A judge ordered him to remain in police custody at least until the next court hearing, likely to be in about two weeks; formal charges will be brought then. His arrest came Tuesday, days after an article appeared in Nigeria's Daily Independent newspaper in which he was quoted as saying, "Nigeria is an evil entity. It has nothing to stand on, and I will continue to fight and try to see that Nigeria dissolves and disintegrates."
Dokubo-Asari, a heavy-set, flamboyant descendant of slave owners, often has boasted to reporters that he could shut down the entire region's oil flow with a few calls to well-placed supporters working in the industry. He drives an elegant black SUV through the Niger Delta and frequently carries a heavy walking stick, a traditional symbol of authority in Nigeria. Some of his youthful followers live in camps hidden among the delta's web of waterways.
Are those the ones that go sideways along the beach rather than directly towards the beach?
I'll JUST give Shep a slight benefit of the doubt here and say he was talking to those people that couldn't follow the news all day and didn't get the guidance changes.
Mom is in a nursing home on 24th, brother lives near the VA. I seem to remember the area around Maple and 24th being flood-prone, but assume that the home has made plans. She was just moved to a different room and doesn't have a phone yet, brother works odd hours and doesn't communicate much..I imagine that he will email if it looks serious. I'm not going to panic for a day or two in any case.
snicker..
We're in Florida, and have a good supply of hurricane items on hand.
But after Katrina, my hubby went to the store and REALLY stocked up on non-perishables because we knew that at the first sign of a hurricane, the stores would be totally emptied.
After seeing those images on TV of NO, people will tend to panic if a storm is headed their way.
WEll, that IS cool!
check out scenario #2
Yep; that's Shep, and yep, he's left of the storm.
OMG!
Now your talkin'. I'll watch from here.
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