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Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VIII
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| September 24, 2005
Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: SeaBiscuit
I have high speed and it has slowed me to a crawl! lol
To: silentknight
Ditto.. for now I just hit the stop button to keep the graphic from loading.. maybe a Moderator can do something.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:20:03 AM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: ARealMothersSonForever; Howlin
I'm not having a problem ... are you? Shall I ask the Mods to remove it?
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:20:14 AM PDT
by
STARWISE
(Able Danger: DISABLED??)
To: No Blue States
Officials encouraging people from Houston not to come back yet. "no reason to return for fear of the security of your property" Peoples property is being watched after. Zero tolerance for looters. I10 already backing up and I45 south looks to be filling up. The man is worried about getting 1st responders to where they need to be if traffic jams develop.The request, by itself, does not seem realistic, given human nature. However if a couple lanes in the major routes were dedicated to relief crews and utilitity trucks for a pre-announced duration, making returning civilian traffic more constricted, maybe that might encourage people to wait to avoid the kind of jams they road out in.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:20:18 AM PDT
by
kcar
(The UN sucks, but a runaway federal government's not much better)
To: glock rocks
tee hee hee
Gabz'll have a heckuva time catching us.:)
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:20:40 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: jeffers
Looks like continuing rain possible on the bowl of NOLA as well.
What's the name of the river flood relief system that is north of Pontchartrain? The lake and river are connected by the Industrial Canal too, but AFAIK, those locks are holding fine.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:20:55 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: STARWISE
Please have the Mods kill it.
To: STARWISE
Yes, it should be pulled. It loads fast for your because the image is in your cache.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:21:28 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Bring back dirndl !!!)
To: Admin Moderator
Houston, we apparently have a problem .. please remove Post #11.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:22:07 AM PDT
by
STARWISE
(Able Danger: DISABLED??)
To: Howlin
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:22:40 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: Zacs Mom
Are you running windows? xp?
I'll try to help if I can.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:23:00 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
To: STARWISE
the head shot of
Nagin loads fine here, the other drags on and on..
maybe just repost with nagins headshot only.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:23:29 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: kcar
"The request, by itself, does not seem realistic, given human nature."
I agree, and it were my home that sustained little damage
I would want to go back now.
Hopefully massive jams wont appear today.
To: Cboldt
You might be thinking of the Bonne Carre Spillway.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:24:55 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: LikeLight
Did the gates look to be fully closed or partially open?
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:25:13 AM PDT
by
jeffers
To: SeaBiscuit
We want NautiNurse.. We want NautiNurse.. We want NautiNurse.. I hope she checked with NN before proceeding. You know there is an order to the universe and some things are better left in place :)
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:25:16 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Mary Landrieu, just another "New Orleans Lady")
To: STARWISE
Another way to do it if the Mod is slow is to just delete it from your photo hoster. ;) Thats what I do.
To: hispanarepublicana
Why are electrical power lines still above ground, where they are vulnerable to storms and terrorists? Because it costs a small fortune to underground them, for one. I'm in a city of 150,000 where we are about 20 percent undergrounded. We just got an estimate on doing the rest of the city: a mere 200 million dollars.
Second, undergrounding isn't necessarily a solution. Underground transformer vaults get flooded and short out. When an underground transformer blows, it's more of an 'event' than just losing one on a pole.
To: silentknight
How many times are they going to say, "do not return home yet". Sheesh, they've said it 20 times. Time to end the news conference and do their jobs. Oh, Lord, now Shela Jackson Lee is now up and getting video time for reelection.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:25:34 AM PDT
by
Black Tooth
(The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
To: garyft
Quite simply it's because nobody wants to foot the bill to put them underground. The average citizen doesn't want their utility bill to go up, and it would if electric utility companies spent the extra money to replace all existing overhead lines with underground lines. It's not just replacement. Repair, e.g., finding opens, is easier with the physical plant in plain view. Underground power transmission does not eliminate the risk of accidental electrocution either. Balancing all of those things, some locales have buried power, and others have it on poles. It's the nature of centralized power generation.
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posted on
09/24/2005 10:25:42 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
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