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Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VII
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| 23 September 2005
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Posted on 09/23/2005 8:01:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: Nita Nupress
Has Geraldo fallen yet?...
LOL, that's the only thing to look forward to in a storm. :) As long as he is not seriously injured of course.
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:07:12 AM PDT
by
EmilyGeiger
(The democratic party and the MSM's SOS= Stuck on Stupid)
To: NautiNurse
KPRC 2
Latest/current: Cat 2 at 100 mph moving nw @ 12 mph
To: Types_with_Fist
2,243
posted on
09/24/2005 5:07:20 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: johnb838
That's my little nickname for her... "I've always relied on the kindness of strangers...""Blanco Dubois". ROFL!
Isn't that from the play "Streetcar named I'll-Think-About-it?
Memorable Dubois quotes.
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:07:43 AM PDT
by
Alia
To: TheMom
Um, maybe your brother should have taken the initiative to leave sooner himself since he was coastal and all...
To: cajungirl
they got 5-9 inches on rain last night all along the river from just west of NEW Orelans all the way to Baton Rouge..a band set up there
116 MPH wind gust in Port Author..
lots of damage reported in NE texas
will take a while for the damage reports to come in
To: LibertyRocks
Prayers, too, for your folks in De Ridder...
They are near Fort Polk, so they are very close to where the Calvary will be coming from...
Godspeed...
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:08:28 AM PDT
by
topher
(Please let Old-Fashioned moral values return to the United States!)
To: All
Over on A&E just now, they were touring NOLA and admiring the clever pumping system into the Lake that was installed in 1909.
This was obviously a pre-Katrina show.
Ironic
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:09:19 AM PDT
by
battlegearboat
(Fill 'er up, Check the oil. Whiskbroom floor. Clean the windows, Free map.)
To: Nita Nupress
LOL! You're an inspiration:) TV reports are still sketchy..just like after Katrina the reporters busily fill the airwaves with one small slice from where they're broadcasting. Too soon to tell.
I've no clue where Geraldo is.
You're in our prayers..thanks for letting us hear from you.
To: laz
" Rebuilding NOLA in its current form is madness. "
Thank goodness Nagin called off that insane plan to re-insert people in the city... /s
2,250
posted on
09/24/2005 5:09:47 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: Ichneumon
News from Houston: 28 confirmed burglaries ("looting"), 16 arrests. Houston has a dedicated task force assigned to finding and catching looters for the duration of the hurricane, and apparently they're doing a good job. There's video on Channel 13 now of a car that had crashed into a tree (pretty hard, from the looks of it) when the police caught some folks looting a Wal-Mart and they tried to get away.Poor tree..
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:10:08 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
("This is the story of the Hurricane......")
To: ekwd; Timeout
You are right. Here in B'ham all the evacuees we've had come through our center have been from NO, a few from Mississippi. Not even our local news affiliates have said much about damage in Alabama. I would love to help Alabamians too.
2,252
posted on
09/24/2005 5:10:15 AM PDT
by
EmilyGeiger
(The democratic party and the MSM's SOS= Stuck on Stupid)
To: abb
Wow. Thanks! I can't tell you how many times, growing up, I heard about the Bonnet Carre Spillway on NO television. I never really paid it much attention but it sure seemed important every April...:-)
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:10:19 AM PDT
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: NautiNurse
Then they went on to split hairs over the terminology. If I hear the dentist analogy again...
2,254
posted on
09/24/2005 5:10:21 AM PDT
by
laz
(They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
To: Alia
Blanche DuBois: I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
2,255
posted on
09/24/2005 5:10:57 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(Houston, Greenway)
To: TomGuy
Saw the Galveston building. Old brick. Masonry isn't worth a squat under a side load. Mortar only holds against a downward force.
Not good news for the owners, but most new buildings are made of sterner stuff.
To: pamlet
...I did not see Geraldo fall - but Shep took a spill last night... and his hat flew off....
--MSNBC has had stronger coverage. Rita stood her ground like a pillar.
2,257
posted on
09/24/2005 5:11:13 AM PDT
by
Shqipo
(And so the great battle starts...)
To: laz
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. The way I describe it to people is: Here I've got a box of twenty rounds of ammo. Nineteen out of twenty are dummy, one is real. I'm going to take one round at random, insert it into my gun, point it at the chair you're sitting in, and pull the trigger. Are you going to get your butt out of that chair or not?
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:11:40 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
To: KC Burke; mware; Eaker; Howlin; A Citizen Reporter; Dog Gone; OwenKellogg; Bahbah; ...
Thank you. Wind has died down somewhat and getting light outside. Devastation just unbelievable. This house used to have solid woods in back behind lot... now looks like it's been clearcut by timber company. Huge trees everywhere either down by their roots or split in half and hanging onto themselves like broken toothpicks. Someone here works for electric company and heard them mumble, "We'll be weeks before we get power back." Ugh.
Signing off to save battery. Wind kicking up again. Please continue praying. We feel it and thank you very much.
To: TomGuy
Yes. After overnight hurricanes, we must dread what the sun will reveal.
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posted on
09/24/2005 5:12:47 AM PDT
by
laz
(They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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