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Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VIII
www.freerepublic.com | September 24, 2005

Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin

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To: silentknight

Coastal Louisiana in Rita is now the MSM's post-Katrina Mississippi - "oh yeah, something real bad happened over there, but here in Houston, let's go live traffic to our traffic cams . . ."


1,381 posted on 09/25/2005 4:28:10 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: Torie

Thanks. One of these days I must sign up somewhere for some of that online archiving space for these purposes...


1,382 posted on 09/25/2005 4:38:47 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: LikeLight
Ignoring the life and death drama unfolding along the LA coast!!!

Watching Cantore on TWC, and he's talking about how he tried to get down to Cameron but couldn't, too much debris blocking all access. So at least TWC is trying to see what's going on down there.

As with Mississippi after Katrina, it'll take at least a couple of days to reach all the affected areas and get a real tally of all the damage. MSM is more interested in the continued flooding of NOLA, and in showing the limited damage in Galveston as if that could maximize it and remedy their disappointment it wasn't worse.

1,383 posted on 09/25/2005 4:38:49 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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To: LikeLight

"d, of course, Fox now back to covering useless traffic situation in Texas!"

Fox has become only marginally better than CNN and MSNBC -- For the past month (or 2 hurricanes, depending on how ya count), I've often thought that I'd sell my soul for a news source that was just FACTS.

Of course, that's what FR is for......


1,384 posted on 09/25/2005 4:39:39 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Place not your faith in governments or the artifices of man)
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To: LikeLight

get us updated..for any freepers that live in MS and TN today major tornado outbreak likley...even more so then usual for a tropical system..will post more info later


1,385 posted on 09/25/2005 4:39:50 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Cedar

I haven't looked at the weather models yet this morning, but I suspect that by the time I get a cup of coffee, they'll all have the low pressure system that was Rita in agreement that she's bookin' northeast...


1,386 posted on 09/25/2005 4:41:03 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: silentknight
• Cameron Parish: The phone lines are down.

• Evangeline Parish: There are heavy winds, and no damage assessment has been completed yet.

• Jefferson Davis Parish: There is flooding, extensive damage and looting in Jennings. Residents are trapped. Many downtown businesses are damaged. The police department is without power.

• Lafayette Parish: Roads are blocked by fallen trees. There are power outages in the city of Lafayette and the parish. The Vermilion River through Lafayette is running north, instead of south, due to heavy storm surge.

• Terrebonne Parish: Crews are unable to get to trapped residents. Seven to eight feet of water throughout the parish.

• Vermilion Parish: There is flooding south of Louisiana State Route 14 and downed trees and power outages. Search and rescue is underway. Eight feet of water has been reported south of Erath.

If I hear the words "not as bad as expected" or "dodged a bullet" again today I am going to lose it. Hello MSM, hello FEMA - there's a freakin' mess in Louisiana and it is way too early to be celebrating!

Keep in mind, Cameron Parish is right where the eye came ashore.

1,387 posted on 09/25/2005 4:41:51 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: janetjanet998

Leaving for church shortly - no updates for a while from me . . .


1,388 posted on 09/25/2005 4:43:32 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: tarheelswamprat

If I were going to be so blatent about it as to mention "Mother, Jugs and Speed", I would have also brought up Raquel's historical preformance in "One Million Years B.C." - or was it five million, too... - showing us for all time how cavemen and cave women looked.- - - wowza!


1,389 posted on 09/25/2005 4:45:00 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: LikeLight
Coastal Louisiana in Rita is now the MSM's post-Katrina Mississippi

There's a lot going on down there in southern LA, from the coast to about 20 miles inland, but we're not seeing very much of it at all. It's all left to the imagination.

MSM's focus after Rita will be the Texas traffic jam and the "failure" of the evacuation. I am so sick of these loons standing on the sidelines and nitpicking absolutely everything to death. Every major city has traffic jams during rush hour, twice a day and ten times a week. What makes them think evacuating over two and half million people from the path of a hurricane would go without a single hitch?

They have lost all perspective about everything, because they aren't grounded in reality at all. That's what happens when your way of life is to lie and distort. Your own point of view gets distorted as well, and logic and reason become totally alien concepts.

1,390 posted on 09/25/2005 4:49:04 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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To: silentknight

Look at post 1387 and ponder what would have happened if Rita had taken a last minute jog to the left just as Katrina did to the right.


1,391 posted on 09/25/2005 4:52:52 AM PDT by ekwd (Murphy's Law Has Not Been Repealed)
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To: MAWG
This latest programme of his will get worse as the next 3 or 4 days play out and more people die on the road trying to get home.

From what I've read and heard, a mandatory evacuation order in Texas is a CYA for officials. They are under no obligation to save you when it gets bad. The governor was surprised by how many people that actually followed the order to evacuate.

1,392 posted on 09/25/2005 4:57:08 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: BurbankKarl

The Parish is gone. Why keep more than the first responders currently being used and a few others?


1,393 posted on 09/25/2005 4:58:38 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: laz
500,000 total population NO. Over 2,000,000.00 on the roads out of the Houston/Galveston coastal areas.

Do they teach math in public schools?

Never mind...
1,394 posted on 09/25/2005 5:01:10 AM PDT by poobear (Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
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To: LikeLight
There is a big difference between hitting Houston and hitting these small, low-lying areas in southern LA. The flooding was a given in these areas simply because of where they are and their proximity to sea-level.

I don't think people think it's insignificant, just not the doomsday we thought we might have on our hands earlier in the week. I, for one, could not imagine a second major US city (4th largest even!), laid to waste.

1,395 posted on 09/25/2005 5:04:49 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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To: poobear

Yeah I am really concerned about Cameron. It will be bad there.

Sounds bad in Louisiana...lot of flooding. :(


1,396 posted on 09/25/2005 5:04:52 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: ekwd
Look at post 1387 and ponder

That is just flyover territory for Blanco and the MSM. I was absolutely astonished at her lack of concern during yesterday afternoon news conference. Just add it to the FEMA money list, was essentially her response..

1,397 posted on 09/25/2005 5:06:00 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: MAWG

Damned if they do, damned if they don't, evacuate their citizens.


1,398 posted on 09/25/2005 5:06:29 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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To: silentknight

Just saw Rick Levanthal in Lake Charles talking to a state trooper. Cameron is UNDER water.


1,399 posted on 09/25/2005 5:10:09 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: laz
One more and she's out. Can Nagin hit a homer? Will he bunt? Stay tuned...

I have to wonder why he's standing in the batter's box without a bat.

1,400 posted on 09/25/2005 5:10:19 AM PDT by meyer (The DNC prefers advancing the party at the expense of human lives.)
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