Posted on 09/02/2005 3:35:55 AM PDT by backhoe
This is a 1998 modelling of a CAT 4 or CAT 5 moving through New Orleans-- Here is what they predicted for flooding....
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/content/katrina_projected_flooding082805.pdf
Apocalypse Live (Description of a category 4 or 5 hurricane from three weeks ago)
Gone with the Water -- Published last fall - eerie...
Drowning New Orleans -- Scientific American ^ | October 2001 |
From Jeff Master's weather blog on http://www.wunderground.com
"I'd hate to be an Emergency Management official in New Orleans right now. Katrina is pretty much following the NHC forecast, and appears likely to pass VERY close to New Orleans. I'm surprised they haven't ordered an evacuation of the city yet. While the odds of a catastropic hit that would completely flood the city of New Orleans are probably 10%, that is way too high in my opinion to justify leaving the people in the city. -- posted on 08/27/2005 8:04:52 PM EDT
Masques of Death (A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.)
Hurricanes, Hatred and Hypocrisy
The Zionist Christians say it's Bush's fault.
The Islamist Jihadists say it's Bush's fault.
The Democrats say it's Bush's fault.
Millions of idiots can't be wrong.
Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans -- I've never seen such poor planning and leadership in my life. the Mayor and Governor should be tarred & feathered. This is just inexcusable, unbelievable incompetence.
Heart of America: Common People Doing Heroic Things
Turn Bases into Refineries part 2 -- This is a excellent idea, which will help the LONG term problem (just like building 10 new nuke power plants).
For SHORT term help, suspend taxes on gas for 90 days, suspend requirements for 40 different blends of gas for the nation, pass legislation to end lawsuits against MTBE's (which the enviro-weenies are responsible for in the first place), proclaim closed military bases as "refinery empowerment zones", where they will have a 100 year lease on the land, be shielded against environmental lawsuits, and not taxed for 10 years.
Analysts see Katrina as `perfect storm' for already high energy prices -- We own all of the oil sitting underneath Iraq. Why aren't we pumping it for ourselves? Gas should be 50¢ a gallon. We also own tons of oil up in the arctic. To hell with the environmental wackos - start drilling!
Travel Pack --- BOB (Bug Out Bag)
(These items should be packed in portable "duffle bags" ready to go)
1-qt water per person
Identification (copies of records/cd
2-"energy bars" per person
Dehydrated food pack for one week dried fruit, vegetables, meat flour, oil, salt, pepper, spices vitamins, honey,peanut butter crackers, protein powder, powder milk
Collapsible 5 ga. Water containers
"Water washer" filter
Lightweight cook kit large pot, dishes, spoons, forks knives, cups, non-stick skillet spatula, can opener, large spoon
Towels
2-water proof nylon tarps
Change of clothes for each person
Coats,
1-thermal blanket
1-sleeping bag / person
Matches, fire starter
Compass, maps of areas of intended use
2-rechargeable/shakable flashlights
12v trouble light w/@cig. lighter plug
First aid kit
Toilet paper,
Soap
1-pocket knife
1-fishing kit
1-large bowie knife (western cutlery) (perfectly weighted to serve as both fire knife and hatchet etc)
1-small portable mt. Climber's stove
1-back pack with frame
Paper, pencil
Signaling mirror
1-manual flashlight
Whistle , portable cable saw
Small bottle of bleach, insect repellent.
Magnifying glass
100 ft. 1/2 dia. Goldline rope,
2 pulleys
50 ft. Nylon "shroudline" cord
.22 caliber pistol w/ 500 rds. Ammo.
There are many, many variations of this Bug Out Bag. Some place more reliance on defense, property, records.
Seems one should prepare according to their own specific needs, location. Here's some info, left over from the Y2K 'scare' and survivalists
FYI
Google Search for Bug Out Bag = BOB
Kuwait donates $500 mln oil products for Katrina
Qatar Offers $100 Million in Hurricane Aid
Mexico ready to send aid for Katrina relief
U.S. Asks EU, NATO for Hurricane Aid
Hastert: Rebuilding below sea level senseless
Blanco -- well, her keepers at least -- turned it down.
This is all well-documented, right down to the time-stamp:
Press Release |
Date: 8/26/2005 |
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Dan Langdon, of Bravo Company 2-4 Aviation, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, comforts a stray dog after landing his Chinook helicopter, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2005 in New Orleans. The Chinook crew is flying missions in support of relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina and was waiting to begin their next mission.
Super Typhoon Tip had a diameter of 1350 miles while Cyclone Tracy had a diameter of 30 miles. Which one would cause more damage if it hit land? I bring this point up because Hurricane Katrina was more powerful than the general definition of a Category 4 storm. In fact it was the 3rd most powerful storm to hit the US since the listings were started and the fourth storm to be recorded as a Category 5 storm (about one every 30 years on average).
(Equivalent sizes if placed over the US)
It is important to consider this when we realize that New Orleans was designed to handle a general Category 3 storm. There was no possible way it could have handled a direct hit from a general Category 4 storm. But Katrina was not a general Category 4 storm. It is also important to realize that New Orleans expected a general Category 4 storm or higher to hit on average once every 300 years. For a storm the size of Katrina, it might only hit once every 1000 years
Seems to me that thousands of people owe their lives to the competence and compassion of President Bush.
Why Was New Orleans Evacuated? Power Line, MN - ... Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low ... |
Looters Take To Streets; Martial Law Declared New Orleans Channel.com, LA - ... Gov. Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding. ... |
New Orleans Mayor Issues Evacuation Order Guardian Unlimited, UK - ... Blanco said President Bush called and personally appealed for the mandatory evacuation for the city, which sits below sea level. |
Nightmare named Katrina bears down on New Orleans KTBS, LA - ... all flights. Gov. Kathleen Blanco said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying. |
Category 5 Katrina barrels toward New OrleansKansasCity.Com (Knight Ridder)National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield in Miami called Nagin at home Saturday night and told him: "Get people out of New Orleans. I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation," Mayfield said. "New Orleans is never going to be the same." |
If this isn't in your compendium somewhere, it should be. The NY Times was against flood control, now they are for it.
"NY Times Ed Board: Fairweather Flood-Control Fans"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477494/posts
I appreciate that link- thanks.
I think this is the post I remembered seeing.
I saw this while I was looking: White House Backpedals on Flood Control
Here's a great website to explain the Feds' versus the State's resonsibilities, and also to lay out exemptions to certain things like "posse comitatus."
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/Primer_ChallengestoPreventionandPreparedness.htm
Neighbors Team Up To Provide Security (Second Amendment in Action)
Katrina and the Second Amendment -- This is an 'in your face' validation of the Second Amendment. All of America and the entire world saw what the criminals were doing. There are many stories coming out where home and business owners saved their lives and property because they were armed.
New Orleans Police Resting in Atlanta(while the military and others try to save lives and property) -- Mary Landrieu's reaction to the vacationing New Orleans cops:
"If President Bush calls these men back even one day early from their time off, I swear I'll drop kick him right through the goalposts of Louisiana State University. Literally."
U.S. Appears to Have Avoided Massive Oil Supply Problems -- What is wrong with this picture: vast areas of the US are off limits to drilling known reserves, yet the Times frets we "depend" on foreign oil. This is illustrative of the type of thinking that spends millions on school buses to achieve racial balance in schools, yet cannot seem to use them to evacuate the parents of those students when necessary to save lives. It is thinking that has been dangerously corroded by liberal ideology.
Thibodaux church sheltering pets
Animals Face Urgent Threat After Katrina Strike, IFAW Responds
They wouldnt leave without their pets
David Meeks, sports editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, poses for a photo with his dog, Carson, outside The Couriers office
Hurricane Katrina victim George Talley, 28, of Bay St. Louis, shows a triage ticket emergency personnel have been using to classify the seriousness of victim's injuries
Are you reading Ellesu's posts about the millions of dollars FEMA sent LA, that can't quite be accounted for. This is why the Clintons and their operatives are out there. They're trying to cover up what amounts to grand theft and criminal neglect, if not outright manslaughter.
Remember this post from this week?
I did a little research. New Orleans has spent 673 million over the last 10 years on: New basketball arena, New Vintage Trolley Care system and just recently appropriated 315 million for the convention center expansion. Seems they had the money, but chose to spend it on pork projects rather than the poor and helpless citizens of New Orleans. Google search New Orleans basketball arena and trolley rail system.
I've been finding the same thing. It has taken awhile, but people just ain't buying the MSM agenda anymore. Imagine what this country will be capable of when most of our population isn't brainwashed by the lying media.
Baghdad on the Bayou
Louisiana Politics Changed Forever
New Orleans - Murder and rape - fact or fiction?
Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina - distrust of white people dispelled - new life -- Our pastor pointed out the obvious. Federal, state, and local GOVERNMENTS have all experienced a massive loss of credibility. Now it's the Church's turn to step up to the plate...
FYI, FWIW: first hand account from a NOLA resident and volunteer [Hurricane Katrina]
Rapes in New Orleans Chaos Were Avoidable
Checkout this Katrina Timeline, it is VERY interesting: http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/09/04/katrina-response-timeline/
SHOW: CNN LARRY KING LIVE 9:00 PM EST
August 28, 2005 Sunday KING: How prepared is the city?
NAGIN: Pretty well prepared. http://tinyurl.com/dmc83
Small Town America Responds to Katrina
This diseased city was sunk by benign neglect
At least 84 held in Harrison County [Miss] on looting charges - face 5 years/$10,000.00 fine -- "One of our residents said, 'if you don't take care of these looting problems, we will,'" said Gautier City Manager Christy Wheeler."
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Zoos Weather Katrina Well |
Fraud with NO Transit Authority? Where were those buses? -- NO, NO DON'T LOOK THERE! LOOK OVER HERE! IT'S BUSHES FAULT...
Sean Penn on FOXNEWS: New Orleans had no bullhorns to get people out of their houses -- How come you, Penn, didn't put the drain plug in your rescue boat before launching it?? Stupid is as stupid does.
A shortage of bullhorns is responsible for the deaths in NO, in your opinion, huh? EUREKA!!!!! How come nobody has ever thought of that before?
You Hollywoodites just can't seem to comprehend that in the real world, there is no script, no retakes, no editing out. The first shooting is the only shooting and we live with the results.
You people earn excessive wages for pretending. You have portrayed a soldier a time or two for instance, and earned more for your efforts in just one movie, than a real soldier earns in his/her entire lifetime, assuming they live to collect their retirement bennies.
This country and the world would be better off if you pretenders stuck to your pretending, and relaxed in the lap of luxery that your earnings make possible and stay the hell out of the way of those struggling to keep this real world going.
Flood waters displace snakes, rodents, ants
A Week After Storm, Levee Break Is Fixed
New Orleans police break out of their 'Fort Apache' -- The more and more time goes by, I am absolutely convinced that FreeRepublic and or the forums, and the bloggers are way ahead of the news and events before every one else is...
Police Looting Walmart (video of police looting, then trying to deny it)
The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll [Steyn Alert] -- Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Am bookmarking. Thanks for doing the lifting, backhoe. And thanks to NN for maintaining the XV threads this past week.
"When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty more than 30 years ago, he announced that it was an investment that would repay its cost to society many times over. Since that time, the United States has invested some $7.9 trillion in programs that provide cash, food, housing, and medical and social services to poor and low-income Americans. But while the nation was pouring this flood of resources into the War on Poverty most social problems got worse, not better. A deluge of illegitimacy, crime, drug abuse, and welfare dependency besieged American communities. The war on poverty failed." - Broadening The Reform, The Heritage Foundation, 2000 - Robert Rector
As Rector so rightly observes what we call poverty in the United States today is not classical poverty, today's poor drive new cars, do not go hungry, have access to medical care, own numerous color televisions and often own their own homes which are not in disrepair.
What affects today's poor is entrapment in a culture that encourages "...behavioral poverty...that heavily reinforced illegitimacy, divorce and non-work."
Rush Limbaugh: Katrina's Lessons -- Rush is hitting it out of the park, as usual. The media will never criticize a liberal democrat mayor or governor, and especially a black one. Clinton had 8 years to fix levees but did nothing either, but will never be pointed out.
Lying Senator Landrieu Responsible For Latest Katrina Hoax - Barf Alert
Katrina Reveals Gas Price Folly
Rush Limbaugh Show Thread September 6,2005
MISSISSIPPI: In shattered town, man and dog survive ride of a lifetime
New Orleans floods could have been twice as bad: colonel [Army on levee just after Katrina through]
The Mayor Who Failed His City-Ray Nagin shouted obscenities while New Orleans washed away
I overlooked your reply earlier-- thanks for stopping by.
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