[Road Warrior ‘04]

Thank God for Jeb. However, we are pros here in Florida, unlike those amateurs in New Orleans. Like the Boy Scout Motto says: Be prepared!

Generator is checked out and running OK and we'll start bringing things in tomorrow. Don't think we'll need to board up here in Central Florida. The models are saying it will be a cat 1 (hopefully just a cat 1 or less) when it hits. I hope, if it does hit, it scoots along and gets out of here. Don't want another Frances.

[maine-iac7]

Does anyone remember the dimrats or media or ANYone getting upset in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida - and the governor REFUSED to declare a state of emergency for 5 days afterward?

Oh, me bad - that was Gov. Chiles - a democrat. no harm,no foul...(And yet, Pres. Bush declared Katrina an emergency 2 days BEFORE Katrina, a move unprecedented, but Blanco and Nagin...well, we all know the truth)

I like Jeb Bush. He was raised with the same core values as "W" - he's solid -

[Cinnamon]

somehow I think someone on the left is gonna say "it's too soon!"

[2harddrive]

Have they started confiscating guns yet?

[theDentist]

We're DOOOOOMED!

[hosepipe]

Is he suiting FEMA yet?....

[the invisib1e hand]

here's my take on this. it's stupid.

since when is the approach -- nay, the possibility of an approach -- of a hurricane an emergency?

Does everyone appreciate just what happens to your cherished (and very much taken for granted) civil rights when the executive declares a state of emergency?

Think of the very term: state of emergency. You cease to live in the state of Florida (or wherever) -- you now live in the "state of Emergency." Have you read it's constitution? Did you elect its government, or vote on its laws? Do you know what your rights are in that state?

Do you really want to live in the State of Emergency?

[Jim Verdolini]

For heavens sake, it's not a hurracane, its a rather wussie tropical storm with a lot of rain...

Geeze

[OKIEDOC]

The police and fire folks are fast wearing out their "The Sky Is Falling Card".

Living in Kalifornia is bad enough and we got big problems and most of the lemmings out here don't even know or understand what their government is doing to them.