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| 09-21-05
| the heavy equipment guy
Posted on 09/21/2005 11:48:48 AM PDT by backhoe
Case in point: my attempt to educate an acquaintance about the fact that more hurricanes struck the US by decade in the late Nineteenth Century than in recent times. This person acts as if hurricanes were a new phenomenon and happening at a greater rate than ever before. I can understand how someone who doesn't know the facts might fall for the global warming bunk, but you'd think that once you show him the historical records, he'd say, "Hey, you're right. I didn't know that." Forget about it. This person wants to believe what he wants to believe, and any facts that contradict that are ignored. It's pathological.
Check out this infrared image:
mash this
Notice the line of clouds extending out before the storm? Katrina had the same thing - and it pointed in the direction she ended up going.
Oil rigs in the path of Hurricane Rita (map: RigZone.com)
I hope the democrat websites and the MSM don't get a hold of this photo.
Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names By Ker Than ... Liberals will start naming them, "Bush's Fault"..."Still Bush's Fault"...."Also Bush's Fault"...."You Know What Bush's Fault"...
Here's Their Chance! -- Let all of the complainers, ie Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Jesse Jackson, and any other of the folks who have blamed the federal government, specifically President Bush and FEMA for the so-called failures in the Katrina effort, do their duty! Each and every one of the dirty bastages should fly into the Texas gulf coast prior to Rita...
Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread -- The difference in the two news conferences I just heard- Jeb speaking with Floridians and Nagin talking down to...everyone. Jeb giving information and instilling confidence. Nagin acting arrogant and wishy-washy (an amazing combination) and giving NO information.
Interactive map showing evac routes from Houston.
Here's what you need:Water
a fill bath tub
b fill all large pots
c several dozen cleaned plastic milk carton / change quarterly
Battery operated radio
Battery operated flashlights (1 per person + 1)
Week worth of batteries for above
Fill propane for gas grill
Fill all cars
Sterno cans and fondue pot for cooking
Matches, lighter, lighter fluid
Several rolls of 6 mil plastic sheets 10’ x 100’
5 boxes of 20 each, large garbage sacks
4 pair heavy work gloves
Axe, hatchet, shovel nails, heavy duty staples, staple gun, hammers, saws, chain saw
6 bread baking pans (to make block ice)
4 large ice chests
Hand operated can opener and bottle opener
Bug spray
1 month of all medicine, gauze, band aids, tape, alcohol, OTC headache, antiseptic
Heavy duty knives, 100 each plastic forks, spoons, knives, paper towels, paper plates Toilet Paper!
Soup, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, crackers, chili, bread, several small jelly, mustard, spam, apples, dried fruit, hard candy,
Stove top coffee pot, 10 lbs coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, tea bags
2 12 ga shot guns – 2 boxes of 00; 1 of slugs; bird shot
Might as well line them up now:
http://www.wxnation.com/houston/
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tlh/tropical/
Texas Weather Cams:
http://www.weatherimages.org/weathercams/usa.html#TX
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanerita; rita; weather
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A really great IR loop...shows the re-intensifying going on right now, and enough images to show the direction:
Here
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Hurricane Central
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Hurricane Rita weakens still more
9/23/2005 2:00 p.m. ET Persistent weakening has brought Hurricane Rita down to a Category 3 storm. The eye is heading for a Saturday morning rendezvous with the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast. |
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posted on
09/23/2005 12:26:58 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
Blanco on TV now, trying to impersonate a governor.
Blanco is giving a news conference. She said, "I've asked Rita"
I'm sure we could do our own remake of "The gods must be crazy" ...w/Katrina & Rita serving as the local gods who must be appeased. Blanco could play the high priestess who consults w/the angry god (Rita). I'm sure she'll tell us, within a message from Rita, that the taxpayer must be sacrificed.
Blanco is giving a news conference. She said, "I've asked Rita" Instead of "I've asked FEMA"!
Now she is consulting the hurricane!
Get this: she is asking for all sorts of money, including complete pay for police and fire from the Feds, instead of just overtime. Also she wants more money so that people of Louisiana can come home (translation...get those Rat voters back now). She also is confusung Rita and Katrina, and Rita and FEMA.
-- she is picking up where her two US Senators left off yesterday...
They called a presser to say that they are going to ask the federal govt. (you and me) to give them 250 BILLION dollars to rebuild NO...and even pay for mosquito spraying, building new homes for everyone...etc...
So, I guess NOW it is the Governor's turn...
I agree with Rush on this---not only is it despicable that they want taxpayers to pay for the repairs of a levee that HAD been financed but squandered by the locals....
BUT, it is in VERY BAD TASTE to demand this money on the eve of Texas perhaps being pounded by a hurricane...
He said they didn't wait though, because the wanted to be first in line with their hands out....
I SAY---they just screwed the pooch...I am going to tell my Congresscritters to NOT give any of my money for NO...unless it is built ABOVE sea-level and the state of LA has to pay for their share.
42
posted on
09/23/2005 1:11:03 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
I haven't gone thru all 900+ posts, but everyone should be aware of the potential
massive flooding that will probably happen all over East Texas and La because the 5 Day Tracking models show Rita
STALLING over North Eastern Texas for
DAYS!See:
5 Day Track Models.
The long term flooding could be as bad as Alicia was over the eastern US several years ago.
43
posted on
09/23/2005 1:16:02 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
Great thread, backhoe. I have one of those crank type radios with the light included. It works great. I keep it with the other emergency supplies. Katrina and Rita are warnings that we MUST be better prepared as INDIVIDUALS. We can't expect the government to protect us. Unfortunately, very few will take the steps to prepare even after witnessing what has happened these past few weeks. I'm at a loss for words when I see smart people fail to do what they need to do to survive.
To: toomanygrasshoppers
I have one of those crank type radios with the light included. It works great. I keep it with the other emergency supplies. Katrina and Rita are warnings that we MUST be better prepared as INDIVIDUALS. We can't expect the government to protect us. Unfortunately, very few will take the steps to prepare even after witnessing what has happened these past few weeks. I'm at a loss for words when I see smart people fail to do what they need to do to survive.Well, hi! toomanygrasshoppers ( always liked your screen name )-- you're so right... people have it a$$-backwards when they expect the President, the Governor, and the Mayor to "do something" and "protect" them-- it's up to the individual first, then the family. It's not a top-down situation- it starts with us folks down on the ground.
It's weird how panic starts to spill over, too-- we are on the Georgia coast, but I'm seeing ( short ) lines at the gas stations, items are disappearing from stores- you can't find a generator now- and people are driving like homicidal maniacs. I shudder to think what it would be like if a storm were actually headed for us.
45
posted on
09/23/2005 1:47:35 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
Unfeasability of rebuilding New OrleansSkip the obvious bias from energy producers who want the money spent on their industry instead...this has some interesting background and history of the city.
46
posted on
09/23/2005 1:50:14 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
I try to convince my family members that just panic will create shortages, let alone a true disaster or terror attack. They think that b/c they live in a small town, away from a large city that they will never have to worry. Believe me, if we have a major attack ANYWHERE in the US, we will all feel it. There will be true fuel shortages which means that trucks will not be able to bring supplies to the stores. In the first hour, stores will be looted (as we have already seen) even during daylight hours when the stores are open. Once a disaster happens, it will be too late. People have to look at their own situations and say "what would I do or need if X event happened" You can't plan for everything, but you have to have SOME plan. (End of rant) :>)
To: toomanygrasshoppers
I regret to say, I think you are right- ever read any of the long-dead Mel Tappan's books on survival?
He made the point that since the gas crisis in 1973 made cars go farther on a tank of gas, "the ghetto was coming to you"-- even if you lived away from the cities.
48
posted on
09/23/2005 2:13:56 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
Part 3 of a Series: If Leadership were Rated Like Hurricanes "Keeping Your Head During a Crisis": Non-Examples
- Cat 1 - Teddy "the Swimmer"
- Cat 2 - Clinton
- Cat 3 - Carter
- Cat 4 - Fubar-Nagin
- Cat 5 - Snafu-Blanco
Here's the latest predicted storm track. Click on the image to pop up a full-sized view.
49
posted on
09/23/2005 2:20:55 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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50
posted on
09/23/2005 2:36:32 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
I'll have to check out his books. Thanks!
To: toomanygrasshoppers
I'll have to check out his books. Thanks!As I recall, the seminal works were "Tappan on Survival" and "Survival Guns." You might try googling his name to be certain, as it's been years. He was thought-provoking.
52
posted on
09/23/2005 2:48:22 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
TranStar webcam I-45 at Tiki Island:
53
posted on
09/23/2005 4:28:27 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
landfall near Johnsons Bayou, LA:
If you want to follow developments here in Alexandria, KALB Newschannel 5 now has streaming video that you might want to watch as Rita moves north of Lake Charles:
http://www.kalb.com/
The only flood gages giving a reading in the Lake Charles/Beaumont/Port Arthur area since 1:30AM CDT are in Jefferson County, TX.
Water at the
Hillebrandt Bayou nr Lovell Lake, TX flood gage has risen about 0.35 feet since 12 Midnight CDT (as of 3AM); the flood gage at
Pine Island Bayou abv BI Pump Plant, Beaumont, TX shows water levels declining (as of 2:30AM).
Lovell Lake is at the star on this map (not on the Sabine Pass):
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one more thing. Check this out-Not GOOD:
2,036 posted on
09/24/2005 4:32:46 AM EDT by
Revel
What that says to me, is that it's past time to start drilling off the coast of FL. -- and CA and AK, WY, UT, and develop tar sands in Utah, abandon the Clinton land grab of the Utah Kaipirowitz plateau (the largest deposit of clean burn coal in the US) - also known as Grand Staircase - locked up for Indonesian campaign favors.
Did someone say energy policy? National security?
Take a look at the first chart:
http://hurricane.methaz.org/hurapak/AAL182005_gomex_oil.html
54
posted on
09/24/2005 2:40:05 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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55
posted on
09/24/2005 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
Mayor or Woodville Texas said the roof of their police department came off due to the hurricane winds. The town is evacuated.
56
posted on
09/24/2005 6:33:50 AM PDT
by
SunnySide
(Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
To: SunnySide
Thanks for the info- while first reports aren't as bad as some feared they would be, I suspect quite a bit of damage will be revealed as the day wears on.
57
posted on
09/24/2005 6:37:42 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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58
posted on
09/24/2005 11:12:02 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
Trinity River is flooding, below the Lake Livingston Dam. Immediately evacuate!
341 posted on
09/24/2005 3:00:21 PM EDT by
Knitting A Conundrum. ..FR will be hours ahead of the old media as far as damage reports right now all the big three cable news networks are showing the shots from the air of galveston...they didn;t even have 70 MPH as far as I know, big deal might as well cover a thunderstorm in the midwest..WHAT is going on in southern LA and NO is the key
59
posted on
09/24/2005 12:02:52 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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Ok...trying to get folks here to see the scope of this...basically everything on a line from Lake Charles to Houma is underwater. Not slow flooding like we saw in New Orleans, but surge, like we saw from Slidell to Mobile ...not good in Lake Charles...looking like tsunami pics. 402
She didn't think of this idea with her pea brain; I bet it came from her buddy James Lee Witt. It sounds like a Clintonian idea, doesn't it?
60
posted on
09/24/2005 12:38:58 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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