So we decide which of our citizens are helped due to political affiliation, not due to actual damage.
It's a different board now. </headshaking>
Posted on 08/31/2005 2:36:51 PM PDT by Smogger
No problem. It just didn't ring true...
They are infact spray painting the dead ones for later identification.
Does this apply to Miami?
The Great Miami Hurricane (sometimes called the "Big Blow") was a destructive and intense hurricane that battered Miami, Florida in 1926. Born off Cape Verde on September 6, the hurricane roamed the Atlantic Ocean and passed near St. Kitts on the 14th. By the 17th it was battering the Bahamas. Then in the early moring hours of the 18th it made landfall just south of Miami in between Coral Gables and South Miami as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. The storm then made landfall near Mobile, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
At first landfall, winds on the ground were reported around 125 mph and the pressure measured at 935 mb (though all such data is suspect). Most of the coastal inhabitants had not evacutated, partly because of short warning (a hurricane warning was issued just a few hours before landfall) and partly because the "young" city's population knew little about the danger a major hurricane posed. A 15 foot storm surge inundated the area, causing massive property damage and some fatalities. As the eye of the hurricane crossed over Miami Beach and downtown Miami, many people believed the storm had passed. Some tried to leave the barrier islands, only to be swept off of the bridges by the rear eyewall. I
nland, Lake Okeechobee experienced a high storm surge, flooding the town of Moore Haven and killing many. This was just a prelude of the 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane which would cause a massive number of fatalities around the lake.
After crossing Florida, the hurricane moved into the Gulf of Mexico. It made landfall a second time near the border of Florida and Alabama. Coastal regions between Mobile and Pensacola, Florida suffered heavy damage from wind, rain, and storm surge, but this paled beside the news of the destruction in Miami.
According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities. Other estimates vary, since there were a large number of people listing as "missing". Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless, mostly in the Miami area.
The damage from the storm was immense; few buildings in Miami or Miami Beach were left intact. The toll for the storm was $100 million in 1926 dollars, just over $1 billion in 2005 dollars. It is estimated that if it had hit in the year 2003, with modern development and prices, the storm would have caused over $98 billion in damage. After the hurricane the Great Depression started in South Florida, slowing recovery.
I was referring to your ignorance of the Sun Herald and their response to the Hurricaine. You can start by following the link to their website. Snippets from it are all over the Hurricaine XX threads, btw.
That's what I am saying. And I'll tell you another thing. It's a lot of poor blacks and poor whites that are suffering the most, but if it was a bunch of poor illegal immigrants suffering, the limosine liberals would be screaming bloody murder.
So we decide which of our citizens are helped due to political affiliation, not due to actual damage.
It's a different board now. </headshaking>
Sunlance signed up today. A troll, now gone...
Sorry to intrupt, but has anyone read the news release from the Red Cross? It strikes me as odd, to say the least. Can I post it here without breaking any rules?
My brother, his wife, and two kids are missing in Pascagoula, and I can't find a place to do a "missing persons" listing.
Sorry, but I really diden't know where else to post this.
Why do I get the feeling that the staff at the So. Ms. Sun Herald don't remember Camille?
I've seen similar posts as their own separate articles. You should try that with some more info. Prayers for good news...
What makes you say that? Because the governor and mayor of Biloxi do and they say this is MUCH MUCH worse.
Amen, brother.
Understood. I think that it has been a kneejerk reaction to the LA politicians seemingly blaming W when it is they that, if anyone, dropped the ball. Also, the looting in NO that has gotten so much coverage has p*ssed off a lot of people, i.e., "I'm not giving money to benefit those animals"--even though the main of those suffering have lost all and are innocents....
Prayers for your brother and family, Snoitan5.
Just the way that the words were written.
Well I agree with that. I guess the scenes of a bunch of opportunistic predators (who should frankly be shot on site) are a lot more "sexy" than scenes of women with children and old people sitting in the hot sun baking waiting to transported God knows where.
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