Oh and I was looking for a news article that also said that Katrina veered east at the last second, and bam. Experts feared floods would devastate New Orleans, with most of the city lying below sea level. But, at the last moment, Katrina veered east and the historic city centre was damaged, but not destroyed, by flooding. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.asp...aking_news/breaking_news__international_news/ Kinda contradicts the picture of Katrina's official path, doesn't it? The hurricane sure did kick Mobile's ass though.
To the dismay of many, I survived. Our power is still out. Quite a ride for sure. Man I feel for those people in Mississippi. Really bad. More later. I am at my brother's house on his slow dial up. Barry
Would you settle for a spleen? Seriously - this is bad. I live in a neighborhood on higher ground, so we did pretty good. The inner city is different. I drove through Mobile today, and it was a wreck. here is no electricity anywhere in the city. The bad part is that Mobile is a good 80 miles from the center of the storm. I can only imagine what those poor people in New Orleans, Biloxi, and Gulf Port must be enduring. The area affected by the storm has a high percentage of people living below the poverty level. There will be many who survived the storm who will die afterwards. The tragedy is that relief will be available, but they just are so backward they will not know how to get help. I am not kidding when I ask everybody to pray for the people in this horrible situation. Barry
Be nice, Jared. What is it that you're insinuating? Are you trying to say that the government can control the weather and that they manipulated the path of the hurricane so that it would affect oil prices? Is that what you're trying to say? Do you have any idea how insane that sounds? One thing I notice about crazy people, especially the paranoid kind is that they have a LOT of information running through their heads. When it all spews forth onto a web-page, like those ones you linked to, it's very difficult for the common (sane) individual to cut through it all. Break it down for us so we can understand, please.
What do you think now? Are you and Nursey still rooting for the hurricane? What do you think about the thousands of people who are suffering now? Is that funny to you?
The last person i would have expected to take that sort of shit seriously on this site is you. Pimp was just being an annoying dick, and spotting an opportunity to use the mesmerising new smiley i'd found, as well as a nobbish way for me to drop by and say 'hi' (i've not been feeling too inspired lately as you might have noticed), i followed suit. Even Barry wasn't fooled.
I'd found an article on a local TV station affiliated with msnbc on tuesday that said the sandbagging that was supposed to take place on monday failed to materialize. The sandbags were ready and all the blackhawk helicopters had to do was show up, but they didn't. Apparently they'd been redirected to some church to rescue some people, instead of saving the entire damn city. They were looking into who gave the order. Now I can't find it, and I'm hearing instead that the initial sandbagging effort failed. Oh sure they're doing it for reals now, but too little too late since the levee broke up even worse. Sounds like the mind control machines are at it again. I don't doubt if they detonated charges to split the bitch open. They had to make a natural disaster so bad that everyone will pay attention, and see how FEMA and martial law will take care of it all. And yes, look into how all the oil production of the gulf is messed up. Sky rocketing, Jet fuel is so much more expensive for those poor almost bankrupt airline industries. I'll try and find the article again about the blackhawks not showing up, but good luck to me as they probably took it down and changed it up.
and with regards to the hurricane veering east at the last second, knowing people will say some dumb stuff like "Well the winds changed!" Well I was under the impression that hurricanes made their own damn wind, went where they wanted, and didn't make sharp turns. It turned to the right, then turned back straight again. Two sharp turns, that's an awesome event if you ask me! Very suspicious. And before you throw my shit back at me like "well hurricanes do go where they want, ass" I'm sure with a billion dollar budget you can get some scientists to make one dance for you. And with it upgrading to a hurricane far larger than any seen in a long time in a day when it entered the gulf, the helicopters not showing up to patch the levee, and martial law being declared in the disaster area, it sounds like a live drill to me. Seeing if they can handle a large unruly mob and get them to go to these FEMA camps, where it's safe and there's plenty of fresh water and medical help available. I think they'll be living there a while, as they're city is submerged.
jefe.. i'm rooting for the next hurricane (LEROY?) to send down a twister in its aftermath to suck out your asshole... inconsiderate fucking weather patterns
I am amazed at the biased coverage CNN is providing for this mess. They are so focused on the tragedy in New Orleans that they have totally missed the real impact point which was Mississippi. We have had an influx of Mississippi "refugees" that you would not believe. I talked to one man from Pass Christian MS who said that they lost thier entire home, and that dead bodies were floating around where his home used to be. I realize that New Orleans is bad, but it has always been bad. The place was a filth factory before the hurricane ever hit. The hurricane went right up the middle of Mississippi. The whole State took a hit. When the dust settles it will be evident that Mississippi got hammered the worst. The news just said that 75% of Mississippi is without power. What a mess. Mobile is still in the dark too. We got power back today in Daphne, but still no gas. It was 95 degrees here today with 90% humidity. I can only imagine the horror of the heat that some are enduring. Barry
Officially this hurricane went straight through New Orleans, and turned slightly right in mississippi. We all know it veered east right after it hit land, and was reduced to a category 4 they say, pointing out how it shrank. What the fuck ever, looking at disaster, I'd say the hurricane tucked its arms in like a figure skater and started spinning even faster. Now what I don't get, if this shit is all natural like you think it is, and the government doesn't want all these poor black people dead, why couldn't they predict this shit ahead of time? NASA has billion dollar satellites, and we got all these weather satellites. You're telling me with all these devices that can measure all these different spectrums of energy, and pictures of the hurricane to measure they're effect, that they still don't know how a hurricane really works except for the warm water theory they've fed to everyone? What the fuck ever. You all seriously don't give these people the credit they deserve. We've had scientists for the people in the past that tried to invent some next level shit for everyone, but were held back. Tesla had his place tossed by the FBI the day after he died and all his notes and inventions were confiscated. This guy had some next level shit going on, but I haven't heard anything about his work being followed up on nowadays. So please, with all the hundreds of billions of dollars, and all the best scientists working for them, and awesome technology they have these days they don't share with us, I think they could of figured out how a hurricane works. But right now the official excuse is "Well you can't predict Mother Nature, she's a bitch sometimes." They compare our climate to some bitchy unpredictable woman, and therefor make it seem plausible that it really is impossible to predict the weather, much less control it. Remember, billion dollar satellites and an army of Bill Nye's are on their side, they can and do. So once you know how one works, all you gotta do is add your own steroids to the hurricane equation and beef that ho up. Add a little more spin to the middle, soak up all that vapor in the gulf, you got a category 1 to 5 in a single day. And make it dance too, like cut a quick right before New Orleans and head towards the oil platforms with its 200+ mph winds, before sending it back north again. Here comes the Great Depression, if not set off by this then some other soon to happen event. And too bad for all the poor people who were only expecting a puny thing, but in those last few days saw a beast. They stormed the gas stations trying to get that shit, and sucked all the pumps dry that day. The government didn't exactly rush in some more gas, and don't let the news tell you all those people wanted to stay until the last moment. And tuesday I was scanning the headline news on NBC's site, and the mayor was so pissed on tuesday because the blackhawk helicopters didn't even show up to sandbag the levee. That's all they had to do to stop the flooding, but they got diverted at the last minute to go save some people. Whatever. Next day the news is saying the initial effort failed. Trained military engineers that see this shit overseas and know what to do couldn't patch a hole, a strategically important hole too? Our government gave up on all the people, declining Canada and Venezuala and Russia and all these other countries help. Anyways, main points, they know how hurricanes work, if you think they don't, well then they're still not exactly trying to help these people. FEMA was underfunded, foreign aid was turned down, and the blackhawk helicopters never showed up or emergency gas right before to help people evacuate. The media makes the government aid seem all peachy with pictures of trucks showing up to devastated and thankful people. But the operation as a whole is barely worthy of being called bungled.
You can tell people; warn them all you want. Doesn't mean some of these dumb asses will listen or move.
What Smurf? A solid weeks warning and a mandatory evacuation was not a sufficient "prediction?" If the plan was to kill Black people, why give them any warning? Ridiculous Smurf. Wake up to reality. Barry
Wow, yeah, I'm sure all those hundreds of thousands of people wanted to stay around for that hurricane. The most perfect of all storms seen by any man. These people didn't want to stay, my friend has regular contact with someone over there, and another of her friends drowned in his own house with his family. The friend who survived was telling her that there was little time to prepare, no one could get gas, and everyone wanted the fuck out. Most of these people were stuck. People had to wait in line for hours to get into the dome and were subjected to searches for weapons or drugs. No wonder these people are rioting and looting, they've been abandoned. Bush sent in all these ships to help, that have no where to dock, and 400 trucks of cots right off the bat, which all sounds nice in the news papers, but isn't shit compared to what these people need and haven't had in days. Now there's a shoot to kill order to restore calm and basically get all these starving and parched people back indoors. Please, this operation is hardly worthy of being called bungled, and I'm sorry for all of you who think this won't happen to you and think that if it does, your government will help you. We can see in Louisiana that just isn't the case.
