Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
More at the link...
TANKS,,,Hopefully this one will head west,,,or,,,
SOUTH!,,,OOGO the Fat needs a Bath!...;0)
Those have gotta be metal shingles,,,
That wreckage must have come from Gilchrist,,,(wiped clean)
IIRC The road is only about 3’ ASL in that area,,,
Sure is strange...
No, Amelia. Pebcak and I have been talking. The GOM is closed for the season. We aren’t accepting any more storms this year :’)
I was watching a guy on tv last night that built a dome house under ground. He had a mold that he used. I came in late so I don’t know where but it looked like central TX. I was thinking ...ok that takes care of the wind but how could we build rooms not to flood!
It's really there, way down on the West End. Been there for, well, forever.
I wonder how it did...
I remind you of a toilet bowl house? C’mere.
LOL! No, dome, bowl, you know..
Yeah I know lol. It looks like a pot though. Must belong to a woman.
That's above my paygrade! ;-)
My guess, those vehicles and the helo, before and after the storm, were related to the “oil” slick. My knowlege of natural gas operations is limited, so I don’t really know what leaked, just that it was petrochem, from the oily sheen visible in the images, and that the results of the spill are roughly oincident with the only known pertochem related facility in that area.
I’m ambivalent on he subject of Ike’s body count, for precisely the same reasons you are. SAR has to come first, then recovery where health issues may be a problem, then recovery in other areas. It’s going to take time and I have no stake in rushing it.
At the same time, there is a liberal mayor over the most affected county, another liberal mayor running the biggest city in the area, and liberal shortcomings are well known and well documented.
They can take all the time they need for recovery, but if it’s within my ability to impede a potential coverup, so be it.
“Trust, but verify.”
In Galveston 1900, the debris from surge-destroyed structures on the beach formed a ridge tens or scores of blocks long. As long as the surge was coming ashore with enough energy to move the ridge itself and obstacles in front of the ridge, it scooped up additional structures just like a city sized bulldozer.
But once the wind changed and lessened the energy available to the surge, the ridge stopped moving, at which point it protected undamaged structures on the other side from wave action, and ended up probably saving all the rest of downtown Galveston.
The dead will be in the debris piles. We already know where those are.
Nothing in store for us in the immediate future but the east coast might get hit with another TS.
Sad but true...
Didn’t a couple of rigs break lose. Could oil have leaked from that and come ashore?
I’m guessing the front line grunts haven’t gotten around to recovery operations yet. At the same time, I’m reasonably sure the ...leaders...are aware of the MIAs, and working busily to “package” the news when it finally does break.
If I was a scumbag liberal, I’d impede aid to the survivors (just like we see happening now), then go public to RIP the Feds for another “Katrina-like FEMA aid delay/failure”, then once the national outrage gets going good, feed in all the corpses, win the election, then get busy scooping up all the tax dollars so my friends could build casinoes, bike paths, and fountains, with me as a “consultant” for a huge and hefty seven figure fee, until the voters get tired of the graft and bring back a conservative national government.
The oil could have come from a rig, but if you look at the post storm imagery you see that the main flow has stopped and the remnant slick is a product of oil that collected on the upstream surface of obstacles, and is now getting washed off slowly.
That puts the main source inshore from Bolivar Peninsula, and I’ve yet to see or hear of a damaged rig in that area. The only petro-chem facilities I’ve noticed so far is the one mentioned earlier, near where Nauti spotted the cars and helicopter.
Could the source be something like a marina with diesel tanks that might have been destroyed?
I have an opportunity to get on the island in the morning. I suspect the route will be restricted and the most obvious is 45 to 61st to Seawall Blvd then west.
If anyone has any requests, please let me know. Something specific on that route to look for? Smack the mayor?
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