HURRICANE RITA-- archive of links

various FR links & stories | 09-21-05 | the heavy equipment guy

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Prayer threads:

"Please join me in prayer for of United States of America ”On a shining hill”

Prayers for those in the path of the storm

An Email from a Member in Houston. Prayers Urged!

Tropical Storm Rita Discussion (NOAA Discussion -- please pray)

Tropical Storm Rita -- Please Pray!

Feast of St. Pio this FRIDAY! (Padre Pio - Pray for Texas!)

PRAYERS FOR ALL IN THE PATH OF HURICANE RITA

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I do appreciate your adding those valuable links- thank you.

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 Few Seem to Mind Fleeing Hurricane Rita

 

 The Wind And The Fury (Global Warming?)

 

 Speaking Truth to Power - (Using the left's favorite phrase)

 

   Official: Oil refineries look OK

 

 Storm Damage Not as Bad as Feared (Galveston County Residents Urged to Delay Return)

 

Perhaps General Honore's admonition to the MSM stiffened the spines of other federal officials.

I wish every press conference had had one person with the courage to say "Joe Blow, from the NYT, you are stuck on stupid! Sue Smith from ABC just asked that question." "Sue, what was my answer? Could you share that with your friend Joe over here so we can quit wasting time. Now Joe do you have a question I haven't already answered?"

If they're gonna act like 2 year olds then they need to be addressed like 2 year olds.

454 posted on 09/24/2005 3:44:35 PM EDT by not_apathetic_anymore

 

 Jindal writes about his frustrations with the bureaucracy and about examples of private acts of compassion in an op-ed published recently in Wall Street Journal

Perhaps General Honore's admonition to the MSM stiffened the spines of other federal officials.

I wish every press conference had had one person with the courage to say "Joe Blow, from the NYT, you are stuck on stupid! Sue Smith from ABC just asked that question." "Sue, what was my answer? Could you share that with your friend Joe over here so we can quit wasting time. Now Joe do you have a question I haven't already answered?"

If they're gonna act like 2 year olds then they need to be addressed like 2 year olds.

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 Disaster Animal Rescue Trip to Louisiana and Mississippi (wonderful photo journal)

 

 "The Road Home
- What you need to know for a safe return"
Houston Chronicle Blog
http://blogs.chron.com/roadhome

 

 Blanco wants 'Family Recovery Corps' to get families back to Louisiana -- Sounds like Blanco and her fellow banditos have found just the vehicle to direct all that loot their way. Add Landreau's $200 billion to that and off they go.

 Blanco, we have a problem...

 

No problem. Just give Blank-o, say, a few gazillion dollars and she'll fix it. Probably leave the ship right there and turn it into a casino.

 

 

 

 Difference in leadership

 

 The Hurricanes were a man made act -- My typical graduate class goes something like this:
Show up....
1. Talk about how Bush is ruining this country
2. Talk about what is on the news, (hurricane, Iraq, Gas Prices, etc.) and how it proves Bush is ruining the country.
3. Talk about the dozen books we have read(actually skimmed) for class this week.
4. discuss our (unreadable but in by the deadline)papers.
5. Close class, talk about how the Christian crazies (or Big Business, depending on the given day) are ruining the country.

 

 A few restaurants stay open to serve the diehards

 

 Rita Hampers New Orleans' Plan to Dry Out

 

 The Next Disaster

 

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

 

Hurricane Rita: Open Thread 5

Here’s another open thread for Hurricane Rita discussions, as the storm turns out to be less devastating than feared: 3M Rita Evacuees Urged to Delay Return.  link: 108 comments

Hurricane Rita: Open Thread 4

As Hurricane Rita approaches landfall, here’s another open thread.

Check Bareknucklepolitics.com for lots of video links.

UPDATE at 9/23/05 9:32:32 pm:

And here’s a fascinating/terrifying page full of Rita Hurricane Images.

09:25 PM PDT | link: 534 comments

 

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 Rita TORNADO THREAD -- There is already a live thread where this is being discussed: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490587/posts

Likewise, there is already a thread to check up on those in the affected areas: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490520/posts

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 Rita Damage to SW Louisiana worse than being reported -- Just Damn!

The aftermath of Hurricane Rita is seen over Campron, La., in this aerial photo made in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter

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 Slide Show

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 Oil industry escapes serious damage from Rita: Texas refineries could restart soon, governor says

 

 Crude Futures Fall in Rare Sunday Trading  

I saw those pictures earlier, and this is what I feared, that all those little coastal towns had been erased. Even though the MSM isn't showing it, it's the only conclusion I could draw based on how far the surge went in, as far north as I-10.

The MSM simply doesn't care. The MSM is lying in wait in Houston, waiting to pounce on anyone returning to the city and ask them to relate their nightmarish experiences in the worst evacuation in history. That's precisely the spin the MSM will try to put on it. Hopefully some Texans will respond accordingly to the questions they'll be asked by these fools, and show those fools what makes then Texans.

The MSM's post-Rita mission is perfectly clear. The reaction of Texas to Rita reveals to anyone with the eyes to see how inept, how irresponsible, and how criminal Louisiana's reaction to Katrina was. The MSM cannot let this utterly obvious contrast be seen by the world. After all, they believe it is their duty to TELL us what we see instead of letting us see on our own. And so they descend upon Houston to drum into our heads, 24/7, that the evacuation was a failure and that it had a myriad of problems. They've all been given their orders, and like robots following their programming, this is what they will do every single day now for the foreseeable future.

1,504 posted on 09/25/2005 11:35:12 AM EDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)

I saw those pictures earlier, and this is what I feared, that all those little coastal towns had been erased. Even though the MSM isn't showing it, it's the only conclusion I could draw based on how far the surge went in, as far north as I-10.

The MSM simply doesn't care. The MSM is lying in wait in Houston, waiting to pounce on anyone returning to the city and ask them to relate their nightmarish experiences in the worst evacuation in history. That's precisely the spin the MSM will try to put on it. Hopefully some Texans will respond accordingly to the questions they'll be asked by these fools, and show those fools what makes then Texans.

The MSM's post-Rita mission is perfectly clear. The reaction of Texas to Rita reveals to anyone with the eyes to see how inept, how irresponsible, and how criminal Louisiana's reaction to Katrina was. The MSM cannot let this utterly obvious contrast be seen by the world. After all, they believe it is their duty to TELL us what we see instead of letting us see on our own. And so they descend upon Houston to drum into our heads, 24/7, that the evacuation was a failure and that it had a myriad of problems. They've all been given their orders, and like robots following their programming, this is what they will do every single day now for the foreseeable future.

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 After Terrifying Drill, it's Time to Answer Questions -- I'm weary of all the complaining.  

Right after Rita, I wrote and posted a FreeRepublic educational vanity about Storm Surge because I was not seeing anything in the media regarding the topic.

What Is "Storm Surge" and Why It Matters. (Katrina Education Vanity)

What happened in Campron, La. is exactly what I was talking about in my Storm Surge thread.

117 posted on 09/25/2005 1:03:43 PM EDT by Polybius

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What is that? Whatever it is it doesn't look good

It looks like a continuous (sic) stream of thunderstorms running from Nebraska to Wisconsin. It looks like it will merge with the remnants of RITA over Chicago.

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New Photos from:

 Rita Damage to SW Louisiana worse than being reported

 http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023

 Slide Show

 

 
Floodwaters surround damaged homes and businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 in Cameron, La. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
 

 

 
Residents carry a refrigerator past flooded homes near Hackberry, La., Sunday, Sept. 25. 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Rita. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)

 

 A home is surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 in Johnson Bayou, La.
 

 

 
This aerial photo taken from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter shows damaged and destroyed homes in Oak Grove, La.
 

 

 
Floodwaters surround a house along Route 27 on the way to Hackberry, La


this looks like the house on the east side of 27 about a mile before you get to fredemans shipyard road.it used to be comeaux's feed store.  

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 MSM is *so* way behind the curve, it's frightening. Even Drudge is behind.  They've finally realized that cities such as Cameron and Holly Beach were literally erased.  

Read this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1490933/posts?q=1&&page=1

and maybe you'll understand why I posted what I did.

The devastation along the coast -- not at Lake Charles, but down at the coast -- has been known to FR all day today, from aerial photos of the area. This has been discussed at length at the above link. The MSM has been crowing that we dodged a bullet with Rita and have focused all of their attention on the new flooding in NOLA, neglecting to report, or even investigate, the extent of what Rita really did. Nothing impeded them from flying a chopper over these areas and taking a look -- as whoever took the aerial photos obviously did -- except their desire to keep the focus on NOLA. FNC finally broke this news black-out.

1,744 posted on 09/25/2005 6:16:53 PM EDT by laz

 

 

http://www.kemah.net
Glad your safe.

1,768 posted on 09/25/2005 7:25:07 PM EDT by BellStar

 

 Hurricane Rita Louisiana Damage: Broussard Meets Russert (OUCH: Russert confronts Aaron Broussard)

 

 Economist Sees 'Modest' Impact From Storms

 

 Hurricane Center: Global Warming Equals Fewer Storms

 

 Thousands Looking for Gasoline Relief

Read this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1490933/posts?q=1&&page=1

and maybe you'll understand why I posted what I did.

The devastation along the coast -- not at Lake Charles, but down at the coast -- has been known to FR all day today, from aerial photos of the area. This has been discussed at length at the above link. The MSM has been crowing that we dodged a bullet with Rita and have focused all of their attention on the new flooding in NOLA, neglecting to report, or even investigate, the extent of what Rita really did. Nothing impeded them from flying a chopper over these areas and taking a look -- as whoever took the aerial photos obviously did -- except their desire to keep the focus on NOLA. FNC finally broke this news black-out.

http://www.kemah.net
Glad your safe.

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 Survivor, Nurse Describe Bus Fire That Killed 23 Hurricane Evacuees

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 Nasty hurricane season is merely part of a cycle

 

 When the levees break

 

 This Disaster Has Blown Our Country's Leaders Way Off Course -- Think we've lost him. A conservative that spends us into the ground. And wont protect our borders..I dont know?? Seems they think we won't sit out 2006.

 

Here we go again...

 

 

http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050925/NEWS05/509260315

 

Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News

Floodwaters from Hurricane Rita surround an Abbeville house on Sunday morning.

Tia Owens-Powers/The Town Talk

Damage to Cameron Parish High School reveals auditorium seating inside the school in an aerial photograph taken on Sunday.

 

 

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 Rescuers Find More Survivors, More Damage

 

 It's a 'new era' of hurricanes

 

 What God wants us to learn from Katrina

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A Big Lie Put to Rest (Goebbels would've been happy with much of post-Katrina mainstream media)

-- Rush Limbaugh once warned the Media some years ago to the effect that if they keep up the shenanigans, soon the population would start to see them as 'the Enemy'.

 It's my take on what I think really went down in NO. Maybe I should have named it "My Tin Foil Hat" but instead I call it, "Katrinas Attempted Coup D'Tat"

 

 How to halt a hurricane: first spill oil, then seed clouds

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http://70.85.139.169/forums/6/ShowForum.aspx

 

 Check out www.tarvermedia.com  for approx 40 minute video of south Lake Charles...  To view pictures from the area, click here.

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 Rita's Damage to Refineries Is Limited

 

 Hurricane havoc: The costs to come

 

 EchoStar Rushes to Sign Up Customers in Battered Gulf

 

 Hurricane Pets - Pets are finding happy endings, Shuma isn't so lucky (excellent read)

 

 Katrina's Ancillary Damage: Environmentalists Strike Out

 

 Possible tropical development in the Caribbean

 

 

 Go Back To Gulf Coast On Your Own Dime (Risks of Living on the Gulf Coast)

 Go Back To Gulf Coast On Your Own Dime (Risks of Living on the Gulf Coast)

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 Soldiers rush supplies, repair canals after Hurricane Rita

 

 'Caveman' Conditions in Texas Follow Rita

 

 Heat Lengthens Rolling Blackouts

 

 Vitter & Landrieu Introduce Katrina Reconstruction Act

 

 Many Still Can't Get Home After Rita

 

 Monster Mold Threatens Health in the South

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 Hurricane evacuation lessons

 

 Highways to Hell

 

 Rita Causes Record Damage To Oil Rigs (New Estimates...Damage Not Bad Huh?)  -- The media again played down and rushed the story that the oil rigs were not badly damaged...yadda...yadda...move along etc...this article tells another story.

"We dodged a bullet" might become the most overused incorrect phrase of the year.

 upside down platform pics here:

 http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=13201

 

 Truth Detector: WHITE LIBERAL RACISTS BELIEVED RUMORS

 

 

Man bites hurricane

 

 Volunteers Rescue Truckloads Of Katrina Pets

 

Vigorous tropical wave