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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Sometimes I wonder if these guys have a death wish.
Boom chugglagga! Boom chugglagga!
Are you aware that three people died in the evacuation yesterday? Yes, an orderly evacuation is always good procedure, but scaring people to death is overkill. Having a traffic jam on I-10 in the process is not efficient. The smart natives of the area headed south to Hwy. 90 along the beach and were zipping past some of the reporters on the beach all afternoon, while 1-10 was at a stand-still. There must be a better plan to evacuate NO, because their current plan assumes they will have 72 hours before a storm. That assumption needs to be adjusted dramatically.
We had a stiff little wind out of the west blowing here in east TX yesterday evening and to reassure my mom staying in Baton Rouge, told her we were sending help in the form of dry wind that would shear off the top of the hurricane.....making it up as I went along. :o)
...and nothing will be done to address the root problem, either.
I know, but people from new orleans will make different decisions next time. How many people fled to the east, and ran out of gas on I-10 in Mississippi, where the worst of the storm is going to hit?
I know.
I told her to pack all of her important papers and be prepared to not return.
Miseries...I hear the Mayor of Grand Isle on wwl whose down by Grand Isle...said at 3:30 am they had 5 ft of water at city haul. They had 6 feet at the height of Betsy, and that wasn't at the height...
Water is over the seawall in Golden Meadow, too...
No, cannot be...
Steve said earlier it was 105 miles south of NO and we all know a person on TV can never be wrong!
Ron White (comedian) on the stupidity of riding out a hurricane becasue you think you are in good enough physical shape to handle it:
it's not that the wind is a- blowin'
it's WHAT the wind is blowin'
if you get hit by a volvo , those 100 sit -ups ya did this mornin'
aint gonna help much .
"If you got a yield sign in your spleen, joggin don't come into play"
I heard on Fox yesterday that it was three elderly people. No cause of death was known, but said to be possibly due to panicky stress.
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Those deaths were people from and old folks home (at least the report I heard). The stress of the move may well have killed them, they may have simply died anyway. Who knows... They were already on the edge.
Boy, two hours of sleep didn't do anything for my spelling...
Do you have that link....All the ones I was looking at last night are not working.
sw
I ve been watching the weather buoy info and it is still showing 50 kmph winds and 40 ' waves - that happens every year!
I think we have been hyped.
Where is this 160 mph everyone is talking about?
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