She'd be happier if she moved to Massachusetts anyway.
The one's next door to me are fine. They survived Ivan and Dennis with no problem. The redhead one is kinda cute though.......
How do you know she may not survive the next hurricane?
Let's just start the blame game now, shall we?
It's Bush's fault. Both of them.
Oh boy....
Sorry, I thought this was about Rosie O'Donut's Flori-duh winter home.
Nevermind.
Alternate headline:
Bush to push for quick dike relief.........
Donna Shalala will be just fine. She'll be in that pickup truck with Janet Reno...
1/6= 16.67% chance.
Sounds like the good citizens of Florida need to anty up and pay to fix the dike. At least Jeb is not demanding that the feds come in and pay for it.
Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he was worried about the report, which noted that the dike has a one in six chance of being breached in the event of a hurricane.
One in six = high chance?
If you are standing on second base with two outs and the guy at the plate is batting .167, you have a LOW chance of scoring, not a high chance.
If you have one roll of one die and a SIX will win you $1,000,000 but any other result means you lose, you have a HIGH chance of walking away no richer than when you played and only a LOW chance of becoming a millionaire.
I've seen this dike before and have stood on it. It's an absolute marvel of engineering.
But I'm wondering. If there was a problem with the Hoover dike before, I wonder why it hasn't been brought up sooner?
Fot those of you out there who want more info on the 1928 hurricane, click on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_Hurricane
The infrastructure of America is collapsing & GW is sending aids money to Africa, etc.
In that hurricane, flooding and storm surge from the lake killed more than 2,000 people.
Let me be the first: Bush's fault!
Why is this a federal responsibility? Because Jeb is the President's brother?
I hope she'll be okay. Maybe Jeb should ask Janet Reno to go in and reinforce her.
Donna Shalala became President of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001
So where will Janet Reno move?
At first I thought this was a encouraging (for me) prognosis for Janet Reno.
I've lived in Florida since 1992. I moved to Florida as the factory that I worked for in Ohio moved to Mexico. I entered the field of Insurance Adjusting two months prior to Hurricane Andrew.
Last October Hurricane Wilma gave people in the towns surrounding Lake Okeechobee quite a scare. It was only a category two, when it was over the lake. There were several people with the Army Core of Engineers staying at the same hotel where I was deployed, in West Palm Beach. There was no significant damage to the dike. However, there was a 16 foot storm surge. General consensus amongst the Army Core on Engineers is that the dike could not sustain a Cat 4 hit.
Personally I adjusted several large (arox. 25) claims surrounding the lake in Clewiston and Okeechobee. Needless to say the home owners were very intimidated, fearing a breach during the storm.
There is a simple preparedness drill in Florida: Run from the water and hide from the wind. Personally I would evacuate if I lived near the lake.