Posted on 08/24/2011 9:30:45 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is keeping a line open to President Obama and the First Family as they vacation on Martha’s Vineyard and Hurricane Irene — growing both in size and strength — appears destined to pelt the Bay State sometime Sunday.
An early POTUS pull out has not been ordered, but FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told the Herald this morning, “We briefed the president yesterday and are keeping him and his team updated.”
As authorities forecast yesterday, Irene exploded into a Category 3 storm overnight, now with maximum sustained wind speeds of 115 mph. She is churning west northwest at 12 mph, Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center, said this morning.
“She got very well organized overnight and is currently in the southeast Bahamas. As she enters warm waters, conditions are favorable for further intensification. It could actually get stronger,” said Read, who anticipates the hurricane taking a more northerly track tomorrow.
Read said Irene is “growing in size” and could be “a big threat to New England” by Sunday.
He said the eye of the storm is forecast to sweep near or over the outer banks of North Carolina Saturday night and cling to the coastline as Irene travels up the Interstate 95 corridor, where FEMA has begun deploying emergency teams in the Carolinas the Mid-Atlantic.
But Fugate warned skeptical residents not to focus on where the eye is because Irene will impact “such a large area of the East Coast,” with the potential for life-threatening coastal storm surges.
“Even tropical force winds could result in trees coming down and power outages,” Fugate said.
The pending doom has already persuaded Kenny Chesney to move up his soldout performance with Zac Brown Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro to Friday night “for safety reasons,” the country music superstar said in an e-mail today.
“I want the last weekend of the ‘Goin’ Coastal’ Tour to be a great experience for everybody. But I also want it to be the safest experience for everyone,” Chesney said. “I’ve always said Foxboro is a highlight of our tour, because the fans are ready for a great night of music and fun no matter what night it is!”
Sunday’s tickets will be honored Friday; however, anyone who can’t make the rescheduled show will receive a full refund at their point of purchase. Chesney’s show Saturday at Foxboro is still on.
Yesterday’s historic East Coast earthquake — a rattling 5.8 on the Richter scale — “reminded people that the unexpected can happen,” he said. “We’ve got to be prepared for a variety of things and the best place to start is a family emergency plan. Unlike an earthquake, this hurricane is a forecast event that we are watching.”
This is the story of the Hurricane
George W Bush, he will get the blame
For everything that will go wrong...
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And of course the earthquake was a result of...Bush's Fault!
He’s been on vacation long enough anyway. Get your arse back to work (or what he thinks is working).
Obama may have to cut the vacay short? bwa ha ha!
Another by-product of the Cheney-Halliburton-Hurricane/
Earthquake Machine!
Hm. Okay. Since it is not a vacay, he needs another one to fully relax.
Oh and by the way, you taxpayers are still going to pay for this not-a-vacay-vacay. Every penny of it (plus the next one).
They should come back NOW!!! But you know they're afraid of the aftershocks.
I'm guessing they're going to take the family to a hideaway....until they can figure things out....Maybe a quick trip to Chicago...
Must...not...comment...
Excellent.
If I were married to Moochelle, I would...
Maybe all his recent boo-hooing about “headwinds” are chickens coming home to roost...
Flashback:
>>After Spanish and French names for hurricanes — such as Juan and Claudette — were added in 2003, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, said hurricane names should be more representative of the cultures they impact, including blacks:
—— Some black lawmakers don’t seem to mind, but Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) does. “All racial groups should be represented,” said Lee.
The World Meteorological Organization began naming tropical storms after women in 1953. That made sense to scientists at the time who thought women and storms were both unpredictable. After feminist groups protested, men’s names were added in 1979.
The National Weather Service says hurricane names are derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur. Yet that doesn’t explain why Gaston, Ernesto and Cindy were chosen and Antwon, Destiny and Latonya were passed over.
Lee said she hoped in the future the weather establishment “would try to be inclusive of African American names.”
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2006/04/has-sheila-jackson-lee-gotten-her-way/
See, this guy doesn’t have an original idea.
Palin bus trip. B O bus trip
Clinton phony stones in sand. B O ‘plays in sand’.
Putin on motorcycle. B O on bicycle with HELMET.
Next will be him and the MOOCH dancing in the dunes...
Very laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.
He is NOT campaigning, he is talking to his SUBJECTS???
If the hurricane gets close to Martha’s Vineyard, maybe Barack and Michelle can fly (in separate planes, of course) to Maui for the remainder of their vacation.
Well, it’s a good thing then that Michelle got an early start on the vacation by taking her jet ahead of hussein. If she has to evacuate Martha’s Vineyard, will will she take her jet to finish the remainder of her vacation?
Well, it’s a good thing then that Michelle got an early start on the vacation by taking her jet ahead of hussein. If she has to evacuate Martha’s Vineyard, where will she take her jet to finish the remainder of her vacation?
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