Hurricane Thread

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:31 pm 0

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01092005/140/n ... worse.html

"Police said one man in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, fatally shot his sister in the head over a bag of ice."

What the fuck is this world coming to?

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:20 pm 0

The evacuation of stranded hurricane victims from New Orleans' Superdome stadium has been suspended after shots were fired at a rescue helicopter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4205074.stm

stark · Post by **stark** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:48 pm 0

Rambozo wrote:
WHITAKER wrote:Rambozo and Matrix, you really don't deserve to be part of this online group.
That's really not for you to decide. If you like, you could PM Yak and beg him to ban us for having opinions that offend you.

mods?poll?

Post by **gribbles** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:05 pm 0

stark wrote:
Rambozo wrote:
WHITAKER wrote:Rambozo and Matrix, you really don't deserve to be part of this online group.
That's really not for you to decide. If you like, you could PM Yak and beg him to ban us for having opinions that offend you.
mods?poll?

Heh. We've done that before... http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=2614

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:25 pm 0

gribbles wrote:
stark wrote:mods?poll?
Heh. We've done that before... http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=2614

Yup, and let me cite a wise man from that thread:

dtj wrote:How's this for a first draft of the Llamasoft Code of Forum Conduct:

"#1. Don't be an asshole."

Not too complex, pretty obvious, hard to be misinterpreted.

I, for one, support the poll.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:36 pm 0

I also support the poll.

My line maybe hard, my sympathy shallow, and my text full of controversy - but controversial threads will draw that by nature. Bare in mind in this poll that if you put up (for example) a thread about how fun guns are and how great the 2nd ammendment is - youre bound to get people who dissagree. Banning people because they disagree with you is a whole new matter for debate, and the onus is on the thread starter for kicking the whole show off knowing the possible implications.

Theres a difference between "You asshole go fuck off you dont deserve to be on this forum"..... and "heres my case how I see it though I respect your option to disagree".

I knew it, im surrounded
by assholes !!!

swith · Post by **swith** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:49 pm 0

The difference between Matrix and Rambozo is that Matrix is probably quite sound really, he's just got a loose tongue. Rambozo just thinks that hate is the answer to his problems, and is trying to wage a little personal war against people he thinks is 'stupid' so that he may blow their candles out to make his own shine brighter.

Don't be banning, I reckon. It's nice to have pets

Especially predictable ones

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:55 pm 0

swith wrote:Don't be banning, I reckon. It's nice to have pets Especially predictable ones

Our very own forum monkey to play with. Quick! Someone take a photo. He's masturbating in his own filth

stark · Post by **stark** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:04 pm 0

jeeps i was only kidding, hence the

heh redevil was even before my time... he must of been quite a cock. what did he do?

merman · Post by **merman** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:07 pm 0

As time has gone on, the scale of this disaster has become more and more apparent.

My first couple of posts in this thread were light-hearted because I was naive enough to expect "the usual" - few fatalities and "quick" (if you can call it quick) recovery.

It must be a terrible situation to be stuck there in New Orleans with no food and no water, and gangs of armed looters roaming the streets...

I couldn't believe it this morning when people on the news were saying they may NEVER go back to New Orleans.

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:01 pm 0

I just hope FEMA is really investigated and has to answer for the total lack of planning and the irresponsible manner in which they have been handling the situation since the warning of the hurricane was given.

They were pretty bad here too during the 1989 earthquake but that was a lot smaller and they basically got away with it. One would think that in 15+ they would have improved.

Wibble · Post by **Wibble** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:03 pm 0

What bugs me about this is that the flooding really shouldn't have been a surprise (or an issue). Can't do much about the storm, but this type of flooding's something that's relatively easily prevented.

-W

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:09 pm 0

It's Bush's fault. Seems like an appropriate and justified answer to me.

I just read on one of the blogs that FEMA have apparently given up rescue operations for now, because they're getting shot at too much.

And here's another photo. The latest biblical-style developments are "Fire" and "Alligators".

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... 005_dg.jpg

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:21 pm 0

There are various places offering links to the police scanners in the area. Probably makes for interesting listening . . .

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:27 pm 0

merman wrote:As time has gone on, the scale of this disaster has become more and more apparent.

My first couple of posts in this thread were light-hearted because I was naive enough to expect "the usual" - few fatalities and "quick" (if you can call it quick) recovery.

It must be a terrible situation to be stuck there in New Orleans with no food and no water, and gangs of armed looters roaming the streets...

I couldn't believe it this morning when people on the news were saying they may NEVER go back to New Orleans.

Yes the enormity of this is much more apparent today, the rescue efforts are only scratching the surface of the amount of people who are totally fucked. There's still many people still trapped on their houses four days after the event, all that time in the hot sun without any water or shade. The images on Sky are just mind boggling, it's difficult to comprehend a catastrophe on this scale where so many people are affected.

There's speculation that New orleans will be permanently abandoned, Sky quickly followed that up with a clip of Bush saying "I can never envisage a time when the levees break".