Here is an overnight Gonu track map:
Looks like Bandar Abbas in Iran may take this one hard. The storm will be much weakened, but I'll bet that the terminals are not built to Gulf of Mexico standards.
Posted on 06/05/2007 8:05:42 AM PDT by Sax
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Yet other massive storms and floods have occurred in this region and been recorded.
I have no idea where anyone got the idea that people in the lands surrounding the Persian/Arabian Gulf didn't know about monster storms.
The folks in Oman live above sealevel and still they are not putting their trust in the Corps of Engineers to have properly supervised (the money spent on) levee construction.
Local New Orleans contractors did the work.
Not finding any. Got stuff on people whose cars died, and where cows got stranded, but nothing about folks dieing.
Need a reference on that.
Or, they could have taken those 5,000 buses available to NO and parked along the road giving all those folks temporary quarters ~ much better conditions than the Dome eh!
BTW, NO is not the only place in the country with a water problem. I grew up in Indiana. That's the place the environmentalist whackos are always referring to when they say "America has lost over half it's wetlands since 1790". And, the area now known as Indiana was, at that time, a pretty basic wetland, swamp, etc., regularly flooded ~ still is. But you know what, a big ol' Earthquake came along (circa 1812) and lifted the Northern part of the state a dozen feet, and next thing you know the rivers were flowing, the swamps were mostly drained, and the quaking, quivering area called the Limberlost even began to dry out enough so that settlement could proceed by the time WWI rolled around (a century later).
Subsequently limited areas have been served by levees, and some river channels have been straightened, but for the most part the deal is folks learned to live ABOVE the high water mark. It would simply have been impossible to take a place that begins looking like the 6th Great Lake every 30 or 40 years and levee it up so it never floods.
I remember hurricane Hazel. It came to Indiana in early June and left in July. The floods destroyed over 100,000 culverts and bridges in Indianapolis alone.
Still, property built on foundations ABOVE the high water mark, or on uplands, survived the flood.
There was no FEMA in those days of course so we didn't have anyone to blame but ourselves for living in a swamp.
LOL!!
That’s pretty astonishing as over 100 people died. Now it was said at the time that considering there were over a million people on the freeways, that wasn’t unusual. That may be true. Certainly the 26 elderly people on the bus from Brighton Gardens that exploded died as a direct result of the evacuation. Regardless of how many actually died it was a brutal, awful situation and I’m glad I didn’t try it. Everybody can’t get out in a situation like that and the young and strong need to let the sick and helpless get out first.
Besides, I wasn’t in the evac zone... but a heck of a lot of people not from the evac zone tried to get out too.
You’re not exactly wrong, but it’s not as simple as you make it out to be.
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Ineffective government oversight of bus companies contributed to the explosion that killed 23 frail nursing home residents escaping from Hurricane Rita, federal safety officials said Wednesday.
In all fairness, these folks were from Houston, not New Orleans, and evacuated because of Hurricane Rita.
Until I looked it up, I took it on good faith that these folks died in the Katrina evacuation. The Rita evacuation, emptying Houston, was probably twice the size of the Katrina evacuation, at around 3 million folks.
So, some folks died rushing from Katrina, but not many. More folks died fleeing Rita, just 3 weeks later. A few auto accidents, a few heart attacks, and the bus fire near Dallas.
Can't believe that I missed that, especially since a friend pulled people from the bus.
Reason number 1,279 why I'm not in charge of anything:
If I was in charge of the Corps of Engineers, I would tear down the god damned levees and PULL OUT! Build your own god damned levees you ungrateful wretches!
I’m glad to hear that Nagin knew the city was in trouble. You’d have thought that he’d have moved the hundreds of school busses to high ground, to prepare for the evacuation he was urging. You would have thought that BooHoo Blank-o would have worked on an emergency plan rather than biting her fingernails that the Feds might come in and usurp her “authority”!
And yes, you would have thought that FEMA would have a central depot inland in the south ready to mobilize along all of the gulf coast annually during hurricane season.
But to have the local and state democrats push this disaster off to Bush’s fault is just wrong
Your language is completely unacceptable.
Here is an overnight Gonu track map:
Looks like Bandar Abbas in Iran may take this one hard. The storm will be much weakened, but I'll bet that the terminals are not built to Gulf of Mexico standards.
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