tropical storm conditions....39 to 73 MPH winds. I'm roughly 120 miles east of the eyewall's currently projected landfall, after which it's expected to weaken rapidly as it arches off to the east towards the Carolinas. what I'm closely watching is any subtle unexpected shifts to the east before it makes landfall...that's going to dictate whether I evacuate to more substantial shelter.
Hurricane Katrina should've been a learning experience for anyone living in hurricane prone areas. Local government and communities should have prepared a plan to evacuate poor folks with funding to help them. If communities haven't used resources to evacuate the poor and elderly by now then shame on them. This hurricane was seen coming for over a week now.
I highly doubtful that the MSM was doing that. File that with Trump seeing thousands of people celebrating in the streets after 9/11.
It's predicted to be a cat 2 when it hits southwest Georgia. Your RV will probably do a lot of rocking back and forth. I'm guessing you have a generator and water?
I was in La for Andrew. Katrina was only cat 1 when it hits mainland Florida but it seemed to be a hell of a strong storm. Maybe it had started strengthening as it was in the GOM when it passed closest to us in the Keys as it strengthened to a cat 5 within 12 hours or so. Or maybe we were feeling the affect from the tornadoes since we were fairly close.
Yep. Generator and plenty of water. Cat 1 Hermine went directly overhead two seasons ago...80 MPH winds rocked me around pretty good for about 10 minutes as the leading edge of the eyewall passed...it disintegrated immediately after, so there was no trailing edge to worry about. I swore I'd never ride out another one in this thing. and here I am.
I hear ya. At least this time you know what to expect. So you know I live in the NW side of Puerto Rico and went through Maria. Lost power to 2 months and water for a month. I was also prepared with generator and 650 gallons of water. I just wasn't prepared for the flooding.
Nope even at may age pretty good, never underestimate the claims the race baiters will make. Maybe you should see the doctor about yours WASHINGTON — It's become a strongly held belief by some in the storm zone — the idea that the destruction of New Orleans’ heavily poor, heavily black Ninth Ward was neither an accident nor an act of nature. Dyan French, also known as “Mama D,” is a New Orleans Citizen and Community Leader. She testified before the House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday. “I was on my front porch. I have witnesses that they bombed the walls of the levee, boom, boom!” Mama D said, holding her head. “Mister, I'll never forget it.” “Certainly appears to me to be an act of genocide and of ethnic cleansing,” Leah Hodges, another New Orleans citizen, told the committee. Similar statements, sometimes couched as rumors, have also been voiced by Louis Farrakhan, leader of the nation of Islam, and director Spike Lee. “I don't find it too far-fetched,” Lee said in a recent television interview, “that they try to displace all the black people out of New Orleans.” Harvard's Alvin Pouissant says such conspiracy theories are fueled by years of government neglect and discrimination against blacks: slavery, segregation and the Tuskegee experiments, during which poor blacks were used to test the effects of syphilis....... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10370145/.../were-levees-bombed-new-orleans/#.W74jIWhKiMo
Well you didn't make the distinction in your post so what is it? The people in New Orleans were told to evacuated and they choose not to.
Clearly you didn't read far enough as you missed this: MSM also reports the nonsense that Trump tweets. Doesn't mean that they are stating any of it as fact.
Scroll up for the NBC news report about them testifying before congress to that point. Do your own search, "Bush blew up levees in New Orleans".
It's like no one ever read about the Galveston hurricane. Florida is my territory for my job. This storm is a real, real problem.
Good luck, man. A couple of hours ago I was looking at Michael coming in off Panana City Beach and I've never seen the Gulf look that angry. It was an ominous sight to say the least...
Nonetheless you advocated letting them live or die by their own choices, that's definitely a conservative point of view.
Last look at the radar has it making landfall further west than anticipated....a little west of Panama City. which is good for me, and terrible for Panama City folks. Hope everyone stays safe and sound.
I would imagine losing power and water that long has people on the verge of anarchy. Island life is beautiful, but it has its drawbacks for sure.
Not sure what the "lefts tactics" have to do with this, I can promise you I am solid red. The thing I take offense to is this: It wasn't the "extreme rain" at all, it was the storm surge. Katrina brought with it one of the highest storm surges to ever hit the US since they have been recording such things. To call it a "fail" is a gross inaccuracy. I apologize if I was short with you. Those of us who were in its path remember it a bit differently. Of all the storms I have been through that one is by far the worst - it isn't even comparable.
