Hurricane Rita Live Thread

NHC - NOAA ^ | 20 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[laz]

it has actually become rather comical because, in typical style, they ignore facts.

I have come to the conclusion that it's simply a waste of time to spell out the facts to such people. When someone is misinformed, spelling out the facts will usually remedy that. But these people are not misinformed. They are impervious to the truth. The more you explain the facts to them, the more they resist. It's like speaking to someone in a language they simply don't understand. It doesn't matter how many times you tell them or how loudly you do it; it simply doesn't penetrate. It's like talking to a wall.

Case in point: my attempt to educate an acquaintance about the fact that more hurricanes struck the US by decade in the late Nineteenth Century than in recent times. This person acts as if hurricanes were a new phenomenon and happening at a greater rate than ever before. I can understand how someone who doesn't know the facts might fall for the global warming bunk, but you'd think that once you show him the historical records, he'd say, "Hey, you're right. I didn't know that." Forget about it. This person wants to believe what he wants to believe, and any facts that contradict that are ignored. It's pathological.

[Gabz]

...I am already missing him badly but I know other people are needing him right now.

God Bless you. I read those words and all I wanted to do was hug you.

This is the best I can do.........

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[oceanperch]

Me too.

Collective Prayers for a whimp of a storm.

Nite.

[Gabz]

They don't build them like that anymore.

You're right........and we bought it from the son of the man who built it, after his passing - we're only the second owners. This place is rock solid. 1945 was when the original part was initally finished - all the additions, including the attic are just as solidly done. We just added insulatin and drywall to make it into usable space.

The creek that is our north property line is named for him and the n/s road slightly over from us is named for the man he partnered with for crops on the land while he was in the service before and during WWII.

[Gabz]

Goodnight FRiend - not far behind you.

[stlnative]

Thanks Gabz's for the hugs!!!
I will be back on the thread tomorrow.
Time to say some prayers and then get some sleep.

Good Nite

[Gabz]

Good luck and know you're in all our prayers.

[DaisyCutter]

That doppler shot was taken at 9:48 UTC, that's 4:48 CDT. You're looking at bad data and from the wrong side of the storm, about 50 miles west of the west eyewall. If you go back and look at the Katrina advisories, you'll see that the injection of dry air into the core had a big impact on maximum winds on the west side of the eye, specifically the SW quadrant, which is where Houma was in relationship to the eye as it passed New Orleans. Hurricane force winds only extended out about 40-50 miles from center in the SW quadrant, meaning Houma didn't even come close to seeing the worst of it. The NE quadrant had hurricane force winds extending out at least twice that distance.

Granted, that was a good data set you posted from Houma, but what would be more telling is a similar data set from Slidell, Biloxi, etc. I'm betting there is no data set from those areas, as the instrumentation in that area was knocked offline or destroyed well in advance of the eastern eyewall's approach. NHC reported that SLidell radar was showing winds in excess of 125 kts before it was taken out. While most of the damage in that area was done by storm surge, you need cat 4/5 winds for an extended period of time to drive up the 25+ ft of storm surge that hit Mississippi.

[Coldwater Creek]

Put some vanilla beans in the vodka and let it set for a couple of months, and you will have a the most wonderful vanilla.

[NautiNurse]

morning...

[Gabz]

But these people are not misinformed. They are impervious to the truth.

Those two sentences sum it up quite nicely, I would say.

I have learned to not deal with them at night (especially this late) and only deal with them while having morning coffee :)

[NautiNurse]

How about gin soaked raisins. I've heard they are great for something...some ketchup heiress told me so...

[Gabz]

Time to say some prayers and then get some sleep.

I understand.

[Gabz]

Put some vanilla beans in the vodka and let it set for a couple of months, and you will have a the most wonderful vanilla.

Hmmmmmmmmm..........interesting.

Until I found this particular recipe for a cream sauce for fish I only bought vodka to make homemade kaluha.......thanks for the tip.

[shield]

Not sure...which reporter it was. I saw it when he was having that news conference...it was a CNN report, I think.

[Coldwater Creek]

What is left of my whole extented family lives in Conroe. Is that in the evacuation area??

[kenth]

Just so long as we don't have people calling for lobbing nukes into them.

1) Hurricanes' energy levels dwarf that of nuclear weapons

2) Radiation is nasty stuff

3) Radioactive hurricanes would be particularly nasty

[geopyg]

"But these people are not misinformed. They are impervious to the truth."

My old tagline was what I can recall of Reagan's quote, something like:

"It's not that liberals don't know much. It's just that what they know just ain't so."

[Coldwater Creek]

I am serious. I make homemade vanilla when I cannot get Mexican.

[Heatseeker]

What is left of my whole extented family lives in Conroe. Is that in the evacuation area??

It's my understanding it's well outside any of the 'A', 'B' or 'C' evacuation zones.