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Posted on 09/23/2005 8:01:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
As of 10 pm a county by county track
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/temp/track03z.GIF
I don't think they know, yet. The brunt of the hurricane went east of Galveston and Houston. It will have to wait until daylight and flyovers before we know for sure how much damage there is.
They took down all their tents and moved them into already damaged buildings...I hope they held through the night...I haven't heard any news re NO other than the levees...
Speaking of Geraldo, "The Fake". Woke up this morning and turn to FNC. First words I heard, "A report from Geraldo, coming up". Instant channel change to TWC.
Lake Charles Radar Image
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/radar/lch.htm
Any news on the next tropical depressions?
They can shoot back, but they aren't locked and loaded....sigh...
FoxNews.
Rick Leventhall reporting of some looting. Banner says Lake Charles, LA.
Wind is still too strong for police to be out patrolling yet. Still around 85 mph.
I went to bed at 2 AM. How many more hats did Shep lose????
Thanks....Think I'll take more cough syrup and head back to bed ;^)
God Bless Texas!
Don't be so hard-hearted. They needed that plasma TV to watch CNN for news of their welfare check's wereabouts.
Absolutely. If anyone is annoyed because they evacuated for nothing, they just don't seem to get it. When a storm of this magnitude is headed your way, you've got to evacuate before it's certain whether or not it's going to hit you. If you wait until it's certain, it's too late to evacuate. So you leave, even if it ends up not hitting you. And instead of thinking you evacuated for nothing, you're thankful that your city didn't get hit after all.
Better safe than sorry... and always better to err on the side of caution. I don't see the Houston/Galveston evac as either unnecessary or a failure. It was necessary, it worked, and it served as a test-run and as practice for future events.
I believe the correct way to say that is that suppliers in your country are free to sell us that natural gas, electricity and lumber at the market price. In the 1980's the price of gas was actually as high or higher than it is today in real terms. Ronald Reagan let the "greedy" oil companies sell oil for what they wanted and by the mid 1980's there was a virtual depression in parts of Texas because the bottom fell out of oil prices. Like to see that happen to you? A lot of people in this country want cheap oil, but don't want those unsightly nuke power plants, oil refineries and pipe lines ruining their view. When we wake up and find that we want new refineries, nuke power plants and gas pipelines here, then we will be flooded with "cheap" power again. That happens when supply goes up. If a lot of people decide that they don't actually need that Humvee to drive little Missy to school and of their own free will switch to a Honda Accord (that actually began to happen months ago), then the price of gas will fall. That happens when demand goes down. Lumber? Watch what happens in Canada when the bottom falls out of the new housing market here.
Shooting at checkpoints...sounds like Baghdad doesn't it?
Blanco's lucky I'm not President.
Real lucky.
I don't like looters, and I think she qualifies.
I see your sick too....something nasty going around.....I can't go back to bed til I hear about NO...
What a stark difference between Perry and Blanco. That mayor of Houston sounds like a damn good man too regarless of him having a D at the end of his name.
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