Hurricane Thread

TheGoodbyeGirl · Post by **TheGoodbyeGirl** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:04 pm 0

Eeeepp!!

I hope nothing really bad happens to New Orleans.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:09 pm 0

N.O is currently under 6ft of water, the storm is losing power as it moves inland.

the middle doesnt have a hole - shouldnt there be a hole to see the sky from below ? thats what they always say isnt it - eye of the storm ?

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:09 pm 0

They're saying here Katrina wasn't as bad as they expected as it passed west of New Orleans and was also downgraded to category 4 (Andrew was a 5). Still an enormous storm, though.

Bluey · Post by **Bluey** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:24 pm 0

PFVA wrote:They're saying here Katrina wasn't as bad as they expected as it passed west of New Orleans and was also downgraded to category 4 (Andrew was a 5). Still an enormous storm, though.

Still scary though... I was in Fort Lauderdale when Andrew hit, slept right through the damn thing... The devastation to houses etc was mind blowing the next day though... On the way to Fort Lauderdale there was a toll booth, on the way back (to Key West) there wasn't. There used to be an airforce base there too, Andrew had it for breakfast.

Rhythm · Post by **Rhythm** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:27 pm 0

I've just tweaked an online map so the cloud cover appears on Google Earth.

Try this

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:44 pm 0

Who cares what happens to Southerners?

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:50 am 0

I was watching the coverage of this at the gym and was appaled by the lack of tact used during it.

Show images of the flooding ... the dome stadium with the roof partly torn off ... letters sent in about how the oil reserves should be used ... tales of peoples problems dealing with the tragedy ... insurance companies saying they won't pay for damages .... AND NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE ... Oh it's doing great because of the disaster.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:52 am 0

Yeah, Bush & Cheney's financial interests did well too after 9/11

Amazing that eh ?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:00 am 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:I was watching the coverage of this at the gym and was appaled by the lack of tact used during it.

Show images of the flooding ... the dome stadium with the roof partly torn off ... letters sent in about how the oil reserves should be used ... tales of peoples problems dealing with the tragedy ... insurance companies saying they won't pay for damages .... AND NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE ... Oh it's doing great because of the disaster.

The televised "news" in the U.S. is in it more for the entertainment part than the actual news part (see Fox News, CNN, etc...).

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:43 pm 0

I was just looking at BBC news on this, and this

picture reminded me of something.

Why is it that some Americans have this habit of decorating their hurricane/tornado stricken ruins with their flag?

Does the hurricane really care about the nationality?

..or Is American devastation somehow more important than any other country?

..or Do they want to advertise their country as specifically prone to this kind of natural disaster?

I'm not sure I understand.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:58 pm 0

It's called a "Sympathy Vote"... they learned the lesson from the Jews who blag on and on about their holocaust, conveniently forgetting the one they imposed on the africans some 40 years earlier with the help of the germans so they could examine their skulls and determine they were an "inferior life form".

Sympathy votes work of the soft headed types of the world, always do.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:20 pm 0

I think it's more a case of beliving that the flag brings Americans hope. Intense patriotism can fuck a country up that way.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:48 pm 0

TheGoodbyeGirl wrote: Eeeepp!!

I hope nothing really bad happens to New Orleans.

Have a read of this Salon article, seems like the place should have been reclaimed by the sea years ago..

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005 ... index.html

Torrential rains fall on New Orleans -- enough to cause flash
floods inside the municipal walls. The water has nowhere to go.
Left on its own, it would form a lake, rising inexorably from
one level of the economy to the next. So it has to be pumped
out. Every drop of rain that falls on New Orleans evaporates
or is pumped out. Its removal lowers the water table and accel-
erates the city's subsidence. Where marshes have been drained
to create tracts for new housing, ground will shrink, too.
People buy landfill to keep up with the Joneses. In the words
of Bob Fairless, of the New Orleans District engineers, "It's
almost an annual spring ritual to get a load of dirt and fill
in the low spots on your lawn." A child jumping up and down on
such a lawn can cause the earth to move under another child, on
the far side of the lawn.

Many houses are built on slabs that firmly rest on pilings.
As the turf around a house gradually subsides, the slab seems
to rise. Where the driveway was once flush with the foor of
the carport, a bump appears. The front walk sags like a hammock.
The sidewalk sags. The bump up to the carport, growing, becomes
high enough to knock the front wheels out of alignment. Sakrete
appears, like putty beside a windowpane, to ease the bump. The
property sinks another foot. The house stays where it is, on
its slab and pilings. A ramp is built to get the car into the
carport. The ramp rises three feet. But the yard, before long,
has subsided four. The carport becomes a porch, with hanging
plants and steep wooden steps. A carport that is not firmly
anchored may dangle from the side of a house like a third of
a drop-leaf table. Under the house, daylight appears. You can
see under the slab and out the other side. More landfill or
more concrete is packed around the edges to hide the ugly scene.
A gas main, broken by the settling earth, leaks below the slab.
The sealed cavity fills with gas. The house blows sky high.
_ _

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway.
Jackson Square, in the French Quarter, is on high ground with
respect to the rest of New Orleans, but even from the benches
of Jackson Square one looks up across the levee at the hulls
of passing ships. Their keels are higher than the Astro Turf
in the Superdome, and if somehow the ships could turn and
move at river level into the city and into the stadium they
would hover above the playing field like blimps.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:27 pm 0

"It may be a pile of rubble ..... but it's our pile of rubble"

LMFAO !!

americans......

JB Lars · Post by **JB Lars** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:32 pm 0

Orava wrote:I was just looking at BBC news on this, and this

picture reminded me of something.

Why is it that some Americans have this habit of decorating their hurricane/tornado stricken ruins with their flag?

Does the hurricane really care about the nationality?

..or Is American devastation somehow more important than any other country?

..or Do they want to advertise their country as specifically prone to this kind of natural disaster?

I'm not sure I understand.

Nah, it's less about nationalism and more about hope. N'awlins is gone, yet America remains. This too, will pass.

That kinda thing. Listen, these poor sonsabitches lost EVERYTHING. If the stars 'n bars brings them some comfort, then god bless.

And that pile of rubble, Matrix, was somebody's HOUSE yesterday. It's gone now. But you're laughing at the silly Americans clinging to anything that might keep them sane. You're awesome. Fucking prick.