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Katrina Live Thread XII
Various ^ | 31 August 2005 | Various

Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: SandyInSeattle
As a matter of fact they had some earthquakes out my way in the California Desert this afternoon...

From the usgs website it looks like a swarm of 4+ quakes, right on top of each other. Something brewing out west?

Nah, W is just testing his earthquake transmorgefier.

1,141 posted on 08/31/2005 8:14:28 PM PDT by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: BurbankKarl

Police detain people in a stolen truck filled with looted goods on the Westbank Expressway in Westwego, La., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.

1,142 posted on 08/31/2005 8:14:56 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Way to go Governor Perry -- Texans searching for guns and drugs. Guess those folks from NO are going to get a Texas welcome.


1,143 posted on 08/31/2005 8:15:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Brad's Gramma; mpackard

You are in my prayers...
I am so very sorry...
Please let us know if we can help you...because we will...

Have you seen this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473656/posts

Thanks for the ping BG...


1,144 posted on 08/31/2005 8:15:16 PM PDT by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: XEHRpa
In his never-quite-finished opus "On War", the Austrian teacher and officer, Karl Von Clausewitz, encourages plans and planning. Not, says Clausewitz, so that a particular plans will be carried out, much less perfectly carried out -- but because by making plans and developing the planning capability, an institution or organization trains itself to deal with situations as they happen. At the onset of war, says Clausewitz, iirc, "Plans go out the window." But the strengths of the planners, and the abilities to coordinate, to adapt, to communicate of the organization that are developed by active planning, are the real strength of a military.

We saw in NYC on 911 a great city organization, refined by such planning.

Did they have a plan for two heavy fuel-loaded airliners flying into the WTC towers? Of course not! But they had all the organizational capability and resources that a long program of active planning gave them. And once so trained in dealing with all the various contigencies people come up with in doing active planning, they had no problem applying all that strength, that strength of preparedness, coordination and intellect. They behaved like adults.

1,145 posted on 08/31/2005 8:15:17 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Types_with_Fist

No
This is recent vid, earlier this afternoon and they were loading up folks to go to Houston.
Also lots of military folks on top of SD unloading "who knows what" probly food H20 etc.


1,146 posted on 08/31/2005 8:15:18 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: neodad
Nah, W is just testing his earthquake transmorgefier.

Snort! :-)

1,147 posted on 08/31/2005 8:16:15 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Howlin
The thing is you cant eat welding rods and immediately $hit I beams.

You got it.......
1,148 posted on 08/31/2005 8:16:46 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

1. Lake Ponchartrain is getting an incredible amount of run off from the storm.

2. The Missississississippi is prevented from flowing into the lake by the Bonne Carre spillway. (i.e. a dam)


1,149 posted on 08/31/2005 8:16:53 PM PDT by owl37
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To: PhiKapMom
The news people didn't do well in science and math is totally beyond them.

Nearly all of NO is lower than the Mississippi, but not below sea level.
1,150 posted on 08/31/2005 8:16:58 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: John Jamieson

Re bombing a drainage channel:

That would drain LP to sea level a bit quicker, but they've still got to keep LP out of New Orleans, and pump what's spilled into New Orleans back into LP.


1,151 posted on 08/31/2005 8:17:28 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SandyInSeattle

It HAS been very quiet here the past week or so. The monsoon has gone away suddenly, too. The Pacific is in a quiet phase. Wouldn't suprise me for us to have an October suprise out this direction.


1,152 posted on 08/31/2005 8:18:02 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: XEHRpa
To repeat from an earlier post, I heard the Army Corp of Engineers guy on the news this evening. He said, once the levees are repaired (he estimated 4 days for that job), he said it would take 3 to 6 months to drain the city!

Thanks- in a thread of this size, once you've read something, it becomes a major undertaking to find it again.

1,153 posted on 08/31/2005 8:18:18 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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To: Howlin

If Pete Maravich had played in his prime with the talent that surrounded Jordan, Bird and Magic Johnson, he would be mentioned in the same breath.

That guy had the most amazing feel for the game.


1,154 posted on 08/31/2005 8:18:34 PM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: BurbankKarl

THAT's A good example of what's happening in NO!

I'm betting those clowns get off because they were "Profiled"!


1,155 posted on 08/31/2005 8:18:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: oceanview

Beats me. Were they out of fuel?


1,156 posted on 08/31/2005 8:18:49 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: james_f_hall
The city did crap pre-storm.

On the Larry King Show tonight a Jefferson Parrish official said that between 200,000 and 300,000 of the 500,000 parish population was still there when the storm hit.

50% does not sound like a very good rate for for an evacuation.

1,157 posted on 08/31/2005 8:19:17 PM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Palladin
Thank you for sharing that letter from Bill Martin. It is breathtaking...it gives some idea of the scope of the disaster. People coming in on buses and literally dying before his eyes!

From gunshot, not from the disaster. Yes, it is breathtaking. Yes, it is really happening.

1,158 posted on 08/31/2005 8:19:36 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Tuxedo

http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM


1,159 posted on 08/31/2005 8:19:43 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: BurbankKarl

PS... You notice the bottle of BOOZE he's holding?


1,160 posted on 08/31/2005 8:20:09 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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