Chris Christie Plays Role of Greek Column for the Obama Reelection Campaign

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 31, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Christie (R) needs D votes to win reelection. Plus Obama was kept off the campaign trail. It’s a win win.

[IrishPennant]

I absolutely loved this fat ba$tard, hook, line and sinker until today. Today was like finding out my perfect wife is sleeping with the neighborhood pedifile.

Chris Chirstie...you are dead to me now. I do not care if you are trying to win re-election in a blue state or not. Spin it how you must...you laid down with filth to forward yourself, so now you are just as filthy.

I hope ten years from now to be gambling on the Boardwalk and feel sorry enough to throw a quarter in your begger's bucket, you fat POS!

[lonestar]

You obviously haven't seen pictures of the TX coast after Ike came ashore. Where houses are damaged on the NJ beach, they were GONE after Ike.

I live 70 miles inland and Rita left a big pine tree on my house; seven uprooted huge trees in my yard; we had no electrcity for three weeks.

I have expericenced hurricanes all my life.

Christie is acting like a big, fat sissie!

BTW, all names are retired after being used to name a hurricane.

[lonestar]

http://www.google.com/search?q=hurricane+Ike&hl=en&rlz=1I7GYWE_en&prmd=imvnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5h2SUObPFsibyAHVwYDgCw&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1269&bih=547

[muawiyah]

Obviously you are unfamiliar with the phenomenon of flood damage ~ as compared to wind damage. Your insurance agent is. Speak to him about it.

In any case, this particular cyclonic weather phenomenon was about 1000 miles wide. That's just short of 800,000 square miles, which is 3 TIMES the total area of Texas!

Ike, in comparison, was about 1/4 the size of the total area of Texas.

That makes Ike 1/12 the size of Sandy!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

“f we don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we’ll lose.”

— Ann Coulter, CPAC 2010

[lonestar]

OK! You know more than I do about what I lived through! /s

You are grossly misinformed. Of course I know about flood damage! It's the storm surge that caused all the damage to Galveston and that coastal area with Ike. Rita had a lot more wind damage than Sandy. I have several friends who lost not only their beach houses but their beach front lots...now part of the GOM and the water is up to where the houses were. One friends' house was found across the highway with the pictures still on the walls. It wasn't blown away, it was washed away by the storm surge!

Ike covered most of TX.

Again, I guess you know more than I do because... I had to (mandatory) evacuate Rita and Ike. Between these two, we were spared evacuation from Gus...it turned.

Sandy was not that strong a storm...as hurricanes blow.

The worst part is just now coming...when shock turns to frustration and anger...when people can't get fuel or groceries.

BTW, several tank trucks of fuel from Houston have already arrived outside NYC...waiting to get in.

[muawiyah]

So, I cheated ~ I used mathematics to determine the relative sizes of Ike and Sandy ~ and Sandy won ~ huge, huge, huge storm!

Just now looking at TV shots of large swaths of New Jersey still underwater ~

BTW, I"ve been relocated myself, even lived through a tropical storm here with two weeks of rain. Then there was hurricane Hazel ~ it made it all the way to Indiana, but on a trail of destruction, and it rained for about a month. This storm was so big it was still blowing and flooding Eastern states and it too was in Indiana ~ and Illinois and Wisconsin ~ created 25 ft high waves on Lake MIchigan. Only reason you don't hear much about damage around the Great Lakes is there are only a few parts where people actually have structures down on the shoreline ~

Tornadoes are far worse. Been through several of those. Our neighborhood was hit with one 12 blocks wide that bounced from one street to another ~ and left us alone. All our neighbors to the East and West found their homes turned to trash ~ all their stuff scattered everywhere. The lucky ones simply had their roofs turned end to end. We may have lost a couple of tiles, but our good fortune in the midst of destruction was rare.

Tornadic winds are far faster and more powerful than hurricane winds, but a single tornado, unlike even a weak hurricane, is not likely to shut down a state.

[lonestar]

Tornados are worse not only in intensity but with short notice. With hurricanes, you have days to prepare or evacuate. Of course, hurricanes spawn tornados. There were over 90 tornados with Rita...not big but distructive.

The most amazing thing to us is that the Jersy beach houses aren't on stilts...they sit on the ground.

[muawiyah]

Depends on where you are when it comes to stilts. I stayed overnight once in a friend's house that was on the beach on stilts ~ about 20 ft high. Down the way there were houses on the beach itself.

Most of these properties are owned by the 1% ~ or their friends. For most everyone really close to the Atlantic their beach houses are throw-aways.

Up the coast in Rhode Island there are mansions on/near the shoreline which their owners call "Huts".

For a variety of reasons many of the older properties on the Jersey shore are really old ~ just totally nasty too ~ and still they refuse to burn or fall in. I suspect they are constructed from oak soaked in pine tar for decades.

[lonestar]

I'm talking about the houses on the Jersey shore...big old houses.

There are "regular" houses on Gaveston Island (Galveston has a seawall that doesn't work in a hurricane) but the beach communities are mostly houses on stilts and the new regulations are even higher stilts.

[muawiyah]

There are parts of the Jersey shore that are infrequently hit ~this time was a bit abnormal. Remember, most of our hurricanes in this area come up from the South, so they go inland at Cape Hattaras, or they simply move off East and hit New England or Canada.

This one started due South at Jamaica and went straight North which took it just East of Cape Hattaras but close enough to the shoreline to be steered by a divot in the jet stream right into Jersey and New York.

Last storm I recall running into Delaware Bay managed to cut a channel in the barrier island where Ocean City MD is located. The next big storm up to hit MD filled in that channel on the way in and opened up the old one that'd been filled in. Stuff happens.

We end up not having many fast moving high CAT storms because the Continental shelf around here is fairly broad ~ so the storms are running over shallow water. That's why they slow down and lose energy approaching New Orleans too. Appalachacola, though, gets 'em full force.

[muawiyah]

http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/# lots of fun to play with. To show you how rare hurricane hits on NJ are they’ve had about 10 since records started and Indiana has had about 16. Jersey just about never gets hit by a storm that starts in the Gulf!