Florida Declares State Of Emergency As Tropical Storm Erika Approaches

Fox Business ^ | August 28, 2015 | Claudia Assis

[Jed Eckert]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared state of emergency Friday ahead of Tropical Storm Erika, currently drenching the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and headed for the Dominican Republic. Erika, moving to the west-northwest at 17 miles per hour, is expected to gradually turn north as it approaches Florida Sunday evening,.....

[A Navy Vet]

"I remember some guy named Nagin who regretted not issuing a SOE until it was too late."

Actually, that was Governor Blanco's decision, which she didn't make even after Bush requesting she does. Mayor Nagin high-tailed it out of New Orleans as Katrina was reaching land fall.

Some things about Katrina I remember as I watched it:
1. Bush asked Gov. Blanco to declare a State of Emergency 2 days in advance so as to expedite fedgov FEMA. She didn't;
2. Mayor Nagin espoused unintelligible rhetoric;
3. The idiots of the Nawlins suburbs didn't leave when told the worse hurricane in decades was bearing down, when so many did;
4. The photos of the numerous school buses sitting idle that could have evacuated many of those idiots;
5. Of course, the looting, including some Nawlin's cops;
6. The gun confiscation;
7. The flight of the ghettoe dwellers to Texas and the increased crime they experienced.
8. The reported many rapes and murders in the Super Dome that proved later not to have happened.

And last, but not least, the MSM bemoaning the poor citizens of Nawlins, especially cry-baby Whorealdo holding some black child in his arms asking where is the help from Washington with his little hurt puppy dog look. Oh, whoa is us, said the drama queen. He should have been asking why Blanco and Nagin weren't doing ANYTHING!

Later, he should have been asking why Blanco didn't request fedgov assistance as is law, and why Nagin left when the SHTF. I still don't get why Fox News occasionally has that racist pr*ck on their channel.

[txhurl]

You forgot GEORGE BUSH HATES BLACK PEOPLE.

That was our final proof the MenSeekingMen was set on destroying the country.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes we do! What is going on?

Is there any TAMPA area FReeper who knows her and give us any idea what has—if anything—happened?

[Mears]

“Mayor Nagin high-tailed it out of New Orleans as Katrina was reaching land fall. “

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I thought he stayed in the city in a fancy hotel during the storm. Upper floor,of course.

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[SaraJohnson]

Floods are no picnic but floods and high winds is a horror movie. The high winds of a hurricane can blow up whole communities like a bomb hit. So thank God for small favors for Florida’s sake.

[A Navy Vet]

"No, no, that's not how the Øbama "pre-existing" game works. You wait until after the storm hits, then buy the insurance, then file a claim."

With all their love and feelings and equal outcome Utopia, I'm thinking Pelosi, Reid, Obambi, et al, never understood the word insurance, or they just ignored it for the so-called love of mankind. What f*cking communist dunces they are, and I've seen communes up close in the 60's and fail. Ask me why they failed.

I just wish that Obambi signs a new executive order making home owners coverage retroactive. I'll cancel my home owner policy and if my home burns down, I'll just buy a new policy. Ha!

[txhurl]

He highjacked a Marine humvee to take him to his house to collect some ‘laptops’ which got stuck in the mud, and called for another, not sure if he ever retrieved his ‘laptops’ (cash from freezer probably) or not.

[Conan the Librarian]

WAY too many of those lines go over Savannah, Ga for my liking.

I live on a sailboat in a marina. We don’t like strong winds unless we are out a 100 miles with the sails reefed.

[alancarp]

If that path holds, then Erika will not only be a non-event, she’ll lose her name as well. No storm - especially one blowing just 1009 mb - can handle traveling over Hispanola and half the length of Cuba without disintegrating.

Unless that forecast track changes significantly - or Erika slows to a crawl over the Florida Straits - this will be little more than a big rain bag event... and that’s not a bad thing.

[alancarp]

...and of course just as I say all that, I check the NHC site and they have pulled the official track forecast back to the east a bit... so that Erika would parallel Cuba’s north coast before running up the center of Florida.

They still don’t believe she’ll regain hurricane force, so I’m sticking with the ‘rain bag’ line for now.

[A Navy Vet]

"I thought he stayed in the city in a fancy hotel during the storm. Upper floor,of course."

Thanks for reminding me. Right, he went to an upscale hotel and rode out the storm. Still, I believe I read something about him moving away immediately after. Always glad to be corrected.

Still, what did the Mayor or Governor do for the citizens of New Orleans? All Governor Blanco had to do is has her staff draw up a letter of request to the fedgov for various assistance. She didn't to such even after Bush asked her to as the storm was still 2 days out. Nagin, well, Nagin was a pathetic man/child that no one expected anything from. He proved himself true to form. What a punk.

Not surprisingly, both have disappeared from the political scene. Good riddance. And if I see ANY revisionist hollywood crap on the Katrina 10th Anniversary show, I will email and probably call everyone involved. I rarely do that.

[GOYAKLA]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane

[GOPJ]

I’m not a Jeb fan... but Jeb was great when Florida was hit by hurricanes.

Maybe Trump should put him in charge of Homeland Security... Jeb would be wonderful in that position...he’s a natural protector.

[txhurl]

This has been the most infuriating and exhausting storm to observe since... satellite.

[RayChuang88]

The fact that Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin did not heed the dire warnings about New Orleans being extremely vulnerable in a hurricane was why so many people died there. Contrast that with hurricane Rita less than a month later--they evacuated everyone out of the low-lying areas of Houston and Galveston in very short order and the death toll was a tiny fraction of what happened with Katrina.

[NautiNurse]

Thanks, you two! Not looking forward to re-activating Hurricane Central following a lengthy respite.

[txhurl]

There you are! you have been MISSED!

[SE Mom]

So happy to see you! Sigh...yeah...but this doesn’t look too, too bad. Enough for Reese’s and Whoppers though.

Lots of us have wondered about you- you’re missed.

[Roos_Girl]

That’s not exactly true if you look at the SFWMD website. There are some areas of drought in the southeast, but they are not extreme drought conditions. We have had, generally in Florida, a wetter than average dry season just prior to this current wet season. You can use the SFWMD website to get historic average rainfall and compare it to actual year to date rainfall. 2006 was a drier year than this year.

[American Quilter]

The facts show that Bush formally (in writing) asked Governor Blanco to formally request fedgov FEMA assistance 2 days in advance, which is law. She didn't; Nagin sat on his ass; and the suburbs were devastated beyond repair.

Imagine how many fewer people would have died had Bobby Jindal been governor then. He'd have gotten those buses moving, and seen that the elderly in nursing homes were rescued. He might even have managed to stop the government theft of federal funds provided years earlier to reinforce/replace the levies.