FNC reporterette said an estimated 100 billion gallons of rain fell over the weekend.
I think her numbers are off. That would be an inch of rain an hour for the weekend for an area about 335 miles square.
You know what’s ironic. La Grange and several other nearby counties are still several months without any rain and very dry. Hardly a drop during the entire Hurricane Ike.
While FR was down last night I listened to khou streaming for awhile- they showed (and now have online under videos) aerial views of Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula and a long line of tankers waiting in the Gulf to unload.
The view from above is a shock- comparing the same areas on Google Earth pre-Ike is unbelievable.
A reporter spoke with one of the public officials- not sure if she was PD or FD or what- but she’s from Gilchrist- her house is gone and the reat of Gilchrist is ..wiped out..roughly 20 % of the house in Crystal Beach are still there. It goes on and on- town after town completely devastated.
Interview with an aide worker who’d been on the ground for Katrina- said this is much worse..
Here’s my question- and it’s NOT rhetorical. Geraldo hasn’t been on live for two days- and yesterday while there was coverage of Ike on the cables- it didn’t begin to approach the coverage of Katrina. Why? (It’s easy to say- because there aren’t enough black people etc.)
I don’t get it.