Show me where and what made it “bad...”
At the height of the hype last evening the media broke in with a report of a high-speed commuter train in Chatsworth, Ca having collided with a freight train and almost immediate reports of four fatalities and many more victims of operator error caught in the mangled mess; they still haven’t extricated the bodies and now, after almost 22 hours the word is that hope is nearly lost for those still trapped.
Where are the reports of similar carnage from “the most destructive storm ever to strike Texas” that we were bambarded with all night contrasted with this quite real and visible catastrophe that was so preventable?
I wish no one harm, and moving to high ground is always the wisest move, but to turn every tropical storm into theatre serves the people poorly.
IMHO, the hurricane, even in a Cat1 status, is still worthy the press coverage.
Building codes over the last 30 years have tremendously improved the chances of survival, but with such forces, it doesn’t take much unforeseen to still cause tremendous damage and death.
A century ago, some townships were wiped off the face of the earth, removing even concrete foundations from similar storms hitting at the right place, wrong time.
The newsworthyness of the Ca train wreck is probably also associated with the entire emergency response network in that metropolitan, entertainment media rich locale, being consumed by the event.
I suspect a similar number of casualties exist along the wake of Ike, but emergency response has not been able to fully assess the damage as those who may have dies, might not yet be known by anybody.
you saying it wasn’t bad?
By the way, if it wasn’t for the evacuations, many would have died.
“bombarded, sorry.”
“bombarded, sorry.”
From KHOU forums....this is in Bolivar....it could have been worse, but this is not easy either......flooding still a major problem, people in attics etc.....sound familiar?:
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:39 am We have family that got stranded and took shelter at the old bunkers at Fort Travis in Port Bolivar. We heard there was 3 dead. We talked to them as the eye was passing over and can not make contact now. If you hear something please let us know. I know we lost houses but its ok if we still have or family.
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:19 pm We did get word from our family at fort travis. everone there is fine. the water is still to high for them to get out and look at damage. and the other relative is still in his attic he is fine but he had 4ft of water in his house. the water is all the way to the east chambers high school in winie so none of us here can get close enough to help
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:58 pm All people being rescued are being taken to Texas City High School. The coast Guard could not release individual names as of now. There have been numerous rescues in the past 2 hours.
I agree with you. The liberal media over hyped this hurricane Ike as they did hurricane Gustav.
I knew these hurricanes were not going to be bad because the Earth and Oceans are cooling not warming as in the global warming the liberal media keeps lying about. Katrina was the last of the catastrophic hurricanes. Most will be weak like Ike and Gustav. And Josephine just dissapated.