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Posted on 09/23/2005 8:01:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Well, since h-n-o keeps posting her picture, I've been sitting on MSNBC to try to catch one of her reports. But all I got was my most unfavorite David Shuster standing among trees that were barely blowing.
Scott Stevens is the guy on coast to coast. He was was saying that the Japanese and Russian mafia can alter the strength and direction of hurricanes. This guy is past liberal. He is a loon.
Check this guy out:
http://www.weatherwars.info/katrina.htm
See post #1201. He has been doing that all night!
Notice who did his hour and got out of town for the weekend?? The king of the network.
Report from someone on a boat in the pass? reporting gusts over 130mph.
Wow. This storm seems to have only slowly dropped in max wind speed from 145 to 130. Perhaps these large storms have another metric we should be worried about, momentum.
Can it granny and get the cider out!!
Weradrinkin'!
LikeLight is right... I was wrong - that boat was in "the channel".
Major equipment there...big time..our best.
This storm is monitored there.
Our President wants to learn. He wants to understand. He wants to be present as plans are made to cope with the aftermath this time. To be onsight, inline, aware, fully informed and to watch as it is all coordinated between all levels of government and the various agencies.
He was there but not hands on last time, and he was not happy with the results.
This is a man who knows how to learn from experience. The best sort imo. Because he intends to do something about it..and to be right there to make certain it happens.
He's a sissy
Let's Rita do the hard reporting
"Believe me, I am not dissing Freepers by posting this, but no one is thinking about the long term consequences of this total disaster yet..."
I am. I remember when Katrina came in weaker than expected and there was this idea for a little while that nothing much had happened. Shep summed it up. I think some bad things are happening tonight. We won't find out for a little while.
And there is just common sense that this is going to put us in a world of trouble energy wise. We will not forget Katrina, and we will not forget Rita.
Tornado Warning to hit Alexandria, LA approximately 1:30 am Central Time -- eeps, that's me! Please cross your fingers for me and the little one, I'm gonna stay online as long as I can!!!
I know. It's a sad thing to watch, isn't it?
Dude - You need to change the channel to HBO or summin'.
I am nodding at everything you say tonight!
I hope all FReepers stay safe tonight. I am dreading the aftermath. This looks awful.
Rita's Strongest Winds Batter Gulf Coast
By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer
BEAUMONT, Texas - Hurricane Rita's strongest winds came ashore along the Texas-Louisiana early Saturday, battered the coast with stinging rain and pounding waves that threatened flooding across the low-lying region.
The eyewall — the ring of high wind surrounding the calm eye — lashed the coastal area between Sabine Pass, Texas, and Cameron, La., according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm had already caused new flooding in New Orleans, and as many as 24 people were killed when a bus carrying nursing-home evacuees caught fire in a traffic jam.
Rita weakened during the day into a Category 3 hurricane after raging as a Category 5, 175-mph monster earlier in the week. But it was still a highly dangerous storm.
The hurricane's eye was expected to come ashore on a course that could spare Houston and Galveston but slam the oil refining towns of Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake Charles, La., with a 20-foot storm surge, towering waves and up to 25 inches of rain.
"That's where people are going to die," said Max Mayfield, director of the hurricane center. "All these areas are just going to get absolutely clobbered by the storm surge."
Anecdotal from someone on a boat. I heard it to. That strong would seem to have caused a ceasing of communication.
My guess is that the highest winds will be over the next couple hours with the inner eyewall coming ashore.
Never say never. I think there is places in the US and Europe where people are more likely to encounter them, but one can be encountered anywhere and time... when least expected.
Where's Sean Penn"?
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