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Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VIII
www.freerepublic.com | September 24, 2005

Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin

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To: conservative in nyc

they didn't get a "HUGE" amount of rain there(lake liv.) 2-4 inches...most of it fall along the la/tx border 8-12 inches..interesting


481 posted on 09/24/2005 12:58:27 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: TomGuy

Blanko"s corp will be social workers, getting benefits for people in and out of La {I suspect bus tickets}

Now why does she want Rita and Katrina to be "one event",,there has to be a reason. More money? Mooching off Texas?

I am so suspicous of her.


482 posted on 09/24/2005 12:59:12 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: handy; All

Good grief!! I just heard the Fox weather guy say that Rita is going to hang around north Mississippi and dump maybe 2 feet of rain before it heads southeast. He said there's even a slight possibility that it could go back out into the gulf and re-intensify into a tropical storm. I sure hope that doesn't happen.


483 posted on 09/24/2005 12:59:20 PM PDT by pollyg107
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To: BlessedByLiberty
An eye opener. Some of my family went to Lake Charles when Katrina hit, some to Shreveport others to other states. Frightening to think Rita went that far inland.

Last year, I moved from Los Angeles to Miami, and I drove cross-country on I-10. I started out August 30, but didn't get to Miami until September 8 because I had to hold back for four days in Louisiana and wait for Hurricane Frances to get out of Florida. As it turned out, I got to Miami between Frances and Ivan.

So I drove through all the Gulf Coast cities along I-10, and through all the areas affected by Ivan, Katrina, and now Rita. Stayed in Baton Rouge those four days and toured NOLA over Labor Day weekend. I remember when I drove through Lake Charles after leaving Beaumont. Little did I know at the time what awaited all these areas exactly one year later.

484 posted on 09/24/2005 12:59:46 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: BlessedByLiberty

Blanco wants the feds to pay for all of louisiana's teachers, cops, firefighters.

She is pathetic.


485 posted on 09/24/2005 1:00:10 PM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: jeffers

What I don't understand is why doesn't that "surge" go down, usually they do.

And why is the water rising in Lake Charles?


486 posted on 09/24/2005 1:00:34 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: CedarDave

I have two cats. They are smarter than Blanco's advisers.


487 posted on 09/24/2005 1:01:54 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: BurbankKarl
Jindal writes about his frustrations with the bureaucracy and about examples of private acts of compassion in an op-ed published recently in Wall Street Journal
488 posted on 09/24/2005 1:01:58 PM PDT by JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT
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To: Sunnyflorida
Time to write off the ninth ward.

Let the Gulf have it.

489 posted on 09/24/2005 1:02:22 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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Wind 25-37 mph here in Arlington. Dust and small debri getting blown around.

It wouldnt surprise me if a tree limb or 2 caused spotty power outages or flips a few trucks over on the mix masters.

Ive never felt a NE wind so warm here.


490 posted on 09/24/2005 1:02:24 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: jeffers

A huge concern I have now is all the runoff that's eventually going to be dumped into the Mississippi River from the rain over the next few days.


491 posted on 09/24/2005 1:02:27 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: cajungirl

I can't believe that the fedgov would do that. Is it legal?


492 posted on 09/24/2005 1:03:20 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: tarheelswamprat

Walker Percy in Lanterns of the Levee wrote about these bubbles. The book is now sort of discounted as racist but it is an excellent book. He lived I do believe on one of those Delta plantations upriver and his descriptions of the levee and how they watched it was fascinating.


493 posted on 09/24/2005 1:03:28 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Miss Marple

Agree, Housley has some sense of geography.
I cannot wait to see Brenda-the-Orange, "gasoline COULD go to $5 per gallon." Again. She is a business reporter with absolutely NO sense of business.


494 posted on 09/24/2005 1:04:18 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida
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To: pollyg107

It sounds like the rains from Rita will do more damage than the winds.


495 posted on 09/24/2005 1:04:30 PM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: conservative in nyc

I see why they opened the gates, one arm of Lake Livingston is just east of Lufkin where 10-12" fell.
Galveston bay is about to be flushed.


496 posted on 09/24/2005 1:04:53 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: RDTF

I call Nagin, Blanco, and Landrieu: Wynkin', Blynkin' & Nod!!


497 posted on 09/24/2005 1:05:03 PM PDT by nuclady
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To: No Blue States

You know it!


498 posted on 09/24/2005 1:05:06 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: cajungirl
Now why does she want Rita and Katrina to be "one event",,there has to be a reason. More money? Mooching off Texas?

Mooching off Texas, plus making sure that all of the money flows to her corrupt pals in New Orleans. Why should she give a rat's a$$ what happens in places like Lake Charles and Sulfur and Houma? All those places vote republican.

499 posted on 09/24/2005 1:05:12 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: jeffers

Yes I did see your outstanding work. Best of the Web for 2005, and beyond.


500 posted on 09/24/2005 1:06:08 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida
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