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Posted on 09/23/2005 8:01:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Amen, cajungirl. I lived in Lousiana from 58 to 93, and I will vouch that we are NOT all like Mary Landrieu or the other people playing political games with people's lives for power and wealth.
Agreed. Still looking for any reports of rising water in downtown NO. You see 'em, post 'em up, even if they're sourced to the DU or Art Bell.
this was good news, though:
BAYTOWN, Texas (CNN) -- The largest oil refinery in the United States reports no major damage from Hurricane Rita, an official who monitors the region said.
The Exxon-Mobil refinery, the largest in the United States, is located in Baytown and was undamaged, Ed Hawthorne, of the Channel Industries Mutual Aid group told CNN.
About 200 other refineries and chemical plants along the channel connecting the port of Houston and the Gulf of Mexico also appear not to be damaged in any significant way, Hawthorne said.
Fuel prices rose recently because of concern about that the storm would hit the refineries.
The plants and refineries shut down in advance of the storm. It will take about a week for them to reopen, Hawthorne said.
Regardless of which model comes true, Rita will be dumping rain the whole time.
Those loops doom NO to another flood, whether Rita reforms as a hurricane or not.
Thanking The Lord, and sorry and praying for the folks in her path. As much as I wanted to pray to move Rita away from us...I never could 'cause I didn't won't anyone to have to go through this storm. However, it does appear this wasn't a Katrina, places wiped out completely as was eastern LA, Miss, Ala.
I'm taking the water I stored and watering everything outside. Since, we've kinda been dry...that stored water over the next few weeks could be used to give your plants plenty of drinks. Take care.
The Left is the biggest fraud in this creation after Satan himself. Everything they profess to be, they are the opposite. Everything they accuse the Right of being, they are themselves. They are wolves in sheep's clothing and demons disguised as angels. They have convinced Blacks that they are their friends and that conservatives are their enemies, and the truth is precisely the reverse.
An argument could be made that the damage the Left has wrought on Blacks is unintentional, that the Left is well-intentioned but misguided, that they are stupid and unaware of the fallacy of their methods. But this argument would be untrue. The Left is very well aware of the results of their actions and methods, and that's why they do what they do. They have deliberately created and molded several generations of obedient and deceived pawns for the sole purpose of getting their votes and obtaining the power to transform the planet into their socialist, godless, utopia. The crassness with which they have done so is inhuman; but then, what drives them comes not from the realm of the flesh, but from the realm of powers and principalities. For the utopia they wish to create is simply the anti-kingdom the Evil One wishes to establish in place of the Kingdom.
It has reached the point for me that when I see the Left escort Blacks to the voting booth, I see Nazis escorting Jews to the gas chambers and telling them they are showers. And the Left, in true form, calls us the Nazis.
water still flowing into the 9th ward..no attempts at repairs yet other levees "fine"...live report MSNBC..again NO missed the heaviest rain it went just NW up to a foot of rain now in the baton rouge area..and still pouring there
Regarding Fox weekend crew:
Woke up as if it was Saturday morning (no alarm clock). Heard Steve, ED and Brian hosting Fox and Friends. Sat straight up in bed and took a second or two to gather my thoughts -- last night was Friday night and I just know I didn't sleep 48 hours. So they replaced the usual inept weekend crew for today at least.
Well, sort of... The river flows to the Gulf not the other way around. The surge would have come up the Calcasieu ship channel. My wife, father and I are trying to find out more info about the Lake Area. We're especially disturbed by the lack of news out of Cameron Parish.
You mean the email that's being passed around all over the country?
Sorry, couldn't make it. Had to rest up because today is going to be a long, long day at work. JSC is the fourth NASA center to be directly affected by a hurricane this year.
From what little I can see, it looks like the Corps is waiting for water levels to equalize between the breached canal and the 9th Ward - so they can make the repair, as they did before, without a strong flowing current . . . but I wonder what happens to the other weak levees once the "lowest stave" in the barrell is equalized . . . won't the water find the next lowest spot to breach, and so on?
The wind dies, the sun comes out, the reporters say "we dodged a bullet", and then the water comes.
You can set your clock by it.
Not sure if it's a FEMA thing, but KHOU ran a report yesterday about slow action from the the Feds until Senators Hutchison and Cirnyn got involved - then flights were provided to medivac 100+ patients that had been collected at an airport in TX. The Senators know how to full Fed strings, where state officials don't have any power to discipline slow responders.
Long story short, orders have to come through the right chain of command in order to be carried out; and disaster relief creates a mighty complex chain of command where state officials lack the direct order/discipline levers.
Electricity and Law Enforcement made a big difference. It is not that the nature of the person changed. It is that they knew they couldn't get away with it.
There are reports that they gangs were paying off the cops to let them run amuck. I can't remember who said that. It might have been from Col. Hunt's investigation but I just don't remember.
But do you think the man-on-the-street Democrat is very well aware of the results of their actions and methods?
Meanwhile ABC13 is covering this incessant presser from Galveston, totally dropping the amazing live shots and info they had from the developing situation in Lake Charles . . .
Yes - MSM is perpetually stupid - and always mistakes no news for good news - every freakin' time . . .
You said "... spewing all over us down here, and I would like to slap every blasted one of them silly." That is almost exactly the essence of what Mary Landrieu said.
My antennae go up when I see people circling the wagons around a "group" and daring people to criticize the "group". So I was attacking that notion which I abhor. I still have family in New Orleans. Where do you live?
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