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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Katrina made landfall today at 6:10AM CDT, and she continues to drive northward into Mississippi and Alabama. Several local radar sites are down. Tornado and flash flood watches and warnings are widespread.
President Bush has declared major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Images:
Montgomery AL Long Range Radar
Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop
Other Resources:
Birmingham AL Weather
Meridian MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Jackson MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Sunnyside - please take this off the thread immediately. In a couple of days, I would like to have a discussion with you about justifiable theft. Until then, stop encouraging looting and drop the subject, please.
I used cloth diapers with all three of my sons. Disposable diapers were barely in their infancy when I had my third sonj in 1968 and I NEVER used them.
I'd rather my baby had a rash than grow up thinking her mother was a looter.
..... flame baiter (yawn)
Sunnyside--get off this thread if you can't behave. Thank you.
Neccesity is in the eye of the beholder.
I can't imagine anyone is in such dire need of diapers that they must steal them the day of the storm. They ran out and exhausted all other legitimate opportunties to acquire them in less than 24 hours?
So you would let your kid die rather than steal some water after a major disaster when you have no other choice?
Not questioning your good intentions, but a lone poster asking for funds is suspect.
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I was being semi-smarty. Of course I'm not going to take up donations through free republic. Gimme a break.
The heaviest area hit by the storm is part of the Mississippi cost, where the material damage is very severe.
However it seems that the losses in life caused by Katrina are very minimal in all the Gulf States, thanks the Lord.
Still nothing fron St Bernard's,
no it wasn't....cat 3.
Cat 4 when it first struck the coast though
It still did a lot of damage and killed people.
Ummm.... not sure about Mississippi coast....
Lady, you are the one condoning stealing.
You are the one taking the very liberal attitude of saying that it is OK for someone to steal provided they are stealing diapers or formula.
You are the one who is getting her panties in a wad when she is called on it by myself and others here.
You are the one with the sanctimonious holier-than-thou attitude when others have challenged your liberal hand-wringing.
You are the one who all of a sudden wants to solicit donations out of the blue.
And now, you are the one who is insisting that others are whining, when you, yourself are doing the whining.
I don't have to justify myself to you. No one else here does either. However, the conservative posters here, nearly to a one, will not condone stealing. Stealing is illegal. Period.
Go find someone else to foist your liberal guilt upon, because right now, you are truly barking up the wrong tree.
That is really bad.
If merchants don't raise prices, the resulting shortages of goods are apt to encourage hoarding. Rationing may mitigate the problem slightly, but some people may have a legitimate need for more than their ration while others who have no immediate need will still be inclined to take their ration for fear that future need may arise.
That having been said, it is unseemly for merchants to be seen as profiting from disasters such as this. What would happen if a merchant were to require customers purchasing scarce items to simultaneously make substantial donations to the Salvation Army (which the merchant would forward every hour or so on a regularly-scheduled basis)? This would ease the problems associated with price controls without making the merchant look like a bad guy.
Way too soon to estimate the death toll from this storm. Vast areas are inaccessible at this point.
I'm sorry I have no idea...I read a blog from Metarie hours ago and he was fine but that's the last I know. jennifer
Thanks -- I'll listen to it on my drive home.
I remember it, but to be fair, the clerks in the store probably weren't aware of the extent of the disaster at that moment, plus they weren't high up on the store's "food chain" -- they probably were worried that if they just gave it away, management would make them pay for it all personally, or fire them, or both.
Amen brother.
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