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Posted on 09/23/2005 9:39:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Texas has done an excellent job.
And God said NO
: )
You're right shield.
RDTF you should have posted the whole thing with other links.
Moderate my butt. You should see all the other pic's that were taken!
Good call to have a profile shot taking a look back at the bay ;-)
Folks are getting stoopid here. hoarding bottled water, gasoline, etc. I saw a few stations out of gas. Oy vey.
Those must be some huge skeeters. Too bad they did not let a competetive bid process. I woulda bid. A few east Texas rednecks, beer, and several cases of Dove&Quail loads. No mo big skeeters.
All he tried to steal was the MinPin??? LOL
The attempted looters were taken into custody by police (they specifically did not say that the police arrested them). I'm guessing they were detained by the local citizenry.
Cubicle fever here in Lafayette, LA...(at least I've got a cubicle with a view). It's raining pretty good outside right now, and the sky's pretty dark. Wind and rain levels basically that of a good LA springtime thunderstorm (no lightning or thunder with this one, though).
If she stalls it's anybody's guess as to where she'll go. A stall would indicate that there's no other weather around to move her. So, she'll just have to sit there until the coriolis effect pulls her or until another system comes along to push/pull.
Convection has been re-organizing and wrapping around the system recently. This is something that usually happens before strengthening. Recon indicates that she has leveled off at least. Something to watch in the next few hours... definately not the time to give up on the storm. If it did decide to strengthen now, it might be a bad time... we could see it do so through landfall. I still think it will come in at 130mph+ at this point.
sorry - I thought it might be considered off-topic so I snuck it in :)
LOL, that's priceless!
1:05 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): President Bush pledged to assist state and local officials coping with Hurricane Rita as the giant storm took aim at the Texas and Louisiana coast.
Bush visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington before flying later today to his home state of Texas, where highways were jammed with people trying to escape Rita's expected landfall early tomorrow.
The president was to review preparations and thank first responders who were among the hundreds of emergency personnel dispatched to expected disaster areas.
Later today, Bush planned to monitor Rita's approach from the U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The trip gave Bush an opportunity to assess whether the U.S. military should play a bigger role in major disasters.
Bush received a video briefing on Rita from the National Hurricane Center during his visit to FEMA.
1:03 P.M. - The NRA says that the United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable and law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
"This is a significant victory for freedom and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The court's ruling is instant relief for the victims who now have an effective means of defending themselves from the robbers and rapists that seek to further exploit the remnants of their shattered lives," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
12:58 P.M. - KENNER (AP): The city official accused of diverting food and other supplies meant for hurricane victims says he was keeping them for a church, and only the minister's evacuation and the need to get his own sons to school in Natchitoches kept them at his house more than a day.
Cedric Floyd said today that he planned to go to the police station for booking on a felony malfeasance charge following a planned noon news conference with the Reverend Mark Mitchell.
Floyd says Mitchell has submitted an affidavit saying he asked the city to provide food and supplies to the New Hope Church drug ministry, and Floyd arranged to have him get them at his house, seven blocks from the church.
Mitchell had planned to pick up the supplies Monday, September 19, but Floyd had to bring his twin sons to the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts in Natchitoches, and didn't return to Kenner until late Monday.
By then, Floyd says, Mitchell was at a shelter in Baton Rouge, and couldn't get the supplies until Wednesday -- a day after police searched Floyd's house.
Fox has some cutie-patooties....
Are you planning on making the race thread this weekend?
When's she due? Are you rubbing her feet, playing soft music?
Trooper Sanchez saying people stranded on 59 will be picked up by busses.
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