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Gustav
Time to bring in your pot plants...
If you own any agricultural land in New Orleans area, write it off now. If you thought your tax money was safe from aiding evacuees in a bowl below sea-level along the Gulf Coast for awhile, guess again. If you thought NWS is straight-up, unbiased science, guess again. Yesterday, Gustav was estimated Cat3 throughtout its journey to the Gulf Coast. Despite its obvious path through warm waters that aid hurricane intensity. In one day, tropical storm to Cat4 hurricane. In prior times, the Cuba's west almost mountains had tremendous detremental effect on hurricanes, not this time per the forecast. I live more than 300 miles from the TX shoreline, and am over 800 feet above sea level. I'm scared of hurricanes, their tornadoes, and the amount of rain they can bring. You couldn't pay me enought to live in the New Orleans drowning bowl. Yet, I still do that via taxes for other people. Gas up your car, whether it needs it or not. Some of those oil rigs out in the Gulf will be down for awhile. Consider this a safe form of oil price speculation on my part. SSDD -- Dave Mankind, homo sapiens, 3rd chimpanzee or whatever you choose, is not separate from nature. Stop living and thinking that way. |
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"Jangchub" wrote in message
... On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:37:30 -0500, "Dioclese" NONE wrote: Time to bring in your pot plants... If you own any agricultural land in New Orleans area, write it off now. If you thought your tax money was safe from aiding evacuees in a bowl below sea-level along the Gulf Coast for awhile, guess again. If you thought NWS is straight-up, unbiased science, guess again. Yesterday, Gustav was estimated Cat3 throughtout its journey to the Gulf Coast. Despite its obvious path through warm waters that aid hurricane intensity. In one day, tropical storm to Cat4 hurricane. In prior times, the Cuba's west almost mountains had tremendous detremental effect on hurricanes, not this time per the forecast. I live more than 300 miles from the TX shoreline, and am over 800 feet above sea level. I'm scared of hurricanes, their tornadoes, and the amount of rain they can bring. You couldn't pay me enought to live in the New Orleans drowning bowl. Yet, I still do that via taxes for other people. Gas up your car, whether it needs it or not. Some of those oil rigs out in the Gulf will be down for awhile. Consider this a safe form of oil price speculation on my part. SSDD The portion of western Cuba which Gustav made land is a very flat area so it didn't slow it down at all. The waters inside the Gulf are much warmer than they are further east of the island chains. There is no way to really predict what a Cat 1 can do once it hits land. There are so many entities which must happen at the same time for a hurricane to become a Cat 5, which is what it is being predicted as hitting the coast with. I live in Austin, a hundred miles in and not only wouldn't I live in New Orleans, I will never go there again. We used to drive there at least once a year as it is one of our favorite cities. I don't think we have really started seeing the health problems many will start to have in the next decade. The place was sewage in 100 degree heat for weeks. I don't judge those people, but I would never live there. My taxes pay for the better of the all. It's part of being lucky enough to live in a country which is among the wealthiest on the planet. Rejoice that we have tax money to pay taxes with instead of being hard on those it helps. http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Security is not what I have, it's what I can do without,,, They were semi-right. It stayed CAT3 most of the way. However, after hitting the "flat" western side of Cuba, it dropped from CAT4 to CAT2 for awhile. I wouldn't feel supportive of anyone living or owning a business immediately below an active volcano. Feel empathy for their plight if overrun with lava or debris, yes. Feel obligated in any fashion to provide monies for their obvious bad decision to live there, no. Its not a case of "sh..t happens", its a case of sh..t that will happen. This country has been singing the song of wealthy too long. Meanwhile, we're 53 trillion dollars in debt. -- Dave Mankind, homo sapiens, 3rd chimpanzee or whatever you choose, is not separate from nature. Stop living and thinking that way. |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote: "Jangchub" wrote in message ... On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:37:30 -0500, "Dioclese" NONE wrote: Time to bring in your pot plants... If you own any agricultural land in New Orleans area, write it off now. If you thought your tax money was safe from aiding evacuees in a bowl below sea-level along the Gulf Coast for awhile, guess again. If you thought NWS is straight-up, unbiased science, guess again. Yesterday, Gustav was estimated Cat3 throughtout its journey to the Gulf Coast. Despite its obvious path through warm waters that aid hurricane intensity. In one day, tropical storm to Cat4 hurricane. In prior times, the Cuba's west almost mountains had tremendous detremental effect on hurricanes, not this time per the forecast. I live more than 300 miles from the TX shoreline, and am over 800 feet above sea level. I'm scared of hurricanes, their tornadoes, and the amount of rain they can bring. You couldn't pay me enought to live in the New Orleans drowning bowl. Yet, I still do that via taxes for other people. Gas up your car, whether it needs it or not. Some of those oil rigs out in the Gulf will be down for awhile. Consider this a safe form of oil price speculation on my part. SSDD The portion of western Cuba which Gustav made land is a very flat area so it didn't slow it down at all. The waters inside the Gulf are much warmer than they are further east of the island chains. There is no way to really predict what a Cat 1 can do once it hits land. There are so many entities which must happen at the same time for a hurricane to become a Cat 5, which is what it is being predicted as hitting the coast with. I live in Austin, a hundred miles in and not only wouldn't I live in New Orleans, I will never go there again. We used to drive there at least once a year as it is one of our favorite cities. I don't think we have really started seeing the health problems many will start to have in the next decade. The place was sewage in 100 degree heat for weeks. I don't judge those people, but I would never live there. My taxes pay for the better of the all. It's part of being lucky enough to live in a country which is among the wealthiest on the planet. Rejoice that we have tax money to pay taxes with instead of being hard on those it helps. http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Security is not what I have, it's what I can do without,,, They were semi-right. It stayed CAT3 most of the way. However, after hitting the "flat" western side of Cuba, it dropped from CAT4 to CAT2 for awhile. I wouldn't feel supportive of anyone living or owning a business immediately below an active volcano. Feel empathy for their plight if overrun with lava or debris, yes. Feel obligated in any fashion to provide monies for their obvious bad decision to live there, no. Its not a case of "sh..t happens", its a case of sh..t that will happen. This country has been singing the song of wealthy too long. Meanwhile, we're 53 trillion dollars in debt. There is an article over in Salon worth a read. Since it is a premium site here is a edited taste. Bill ............................ Question ³Isn't there something strange about people in California scratching their heads about New Orleans: "Wow, how could they get in this situation?" Who are we to say that?³ Response ³Totally. We are the state that is waiting to fall down at a moment's notice from a major earthquake. We're definitely in the same kind of boat. We've concentrated our populations in the worst possible place, when it comes to natural disasters. Who are we to talk? Our capital city is the most flood-threatened major metropolitan area in the country. Period. Sacramento has the highest flood risk of a major metropolitan area in the United States. So, hello! We've just gotten lucky. And we will lose the battle of the inevitable. ³ http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat...ogy/index.html -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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