...has Hank dead in her sights.
Good luck, my friend. :(
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...has Hank dead in her sights.
Good luck, my friend. :(
yeah im no where near the hurricane but i always feel bad for ppl who live over there because i mean like 2 or 3 times a year they get hit..
As it stands right now we’re going to get wind and rain but nothing really major, this is of course if the storm continues on its projected path. If for some reason it doesn’t turn we’re screwed.
Usually I never get scared for a hurricane but this one has done it to me. I’m sitting tight for now but I’m hauling ass if it doesn’t turn towards the east.
Please keep all of us in your thoughts that are in this things way.
Jamie
Good Luck Hank...
Hope it misses you mate ;)
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scary
It would seem only to be a question of how she tacks, now...
Good Lord, it's going to be bad, wherever she hits.
Camille, part II, if not worse.
Fourth lowest B.P. on record.
Wish you all the luck Jamie. Even though I'm inland part of Florida, I would probably leave if it were coming towards me. Our thoughts are with you New Orleans area :(
Rob & Dawn
shouldn't you leave town or go to the stadium as they said on the news?
I live on the coast of FL and never leave, but I would if it was a cat 5Quote:
Originally Posted by 100%
if I lived under sea level like the people near NO I wouldn't stay over a cat 3
your just asking for Darwin to send you an award
It’s very odd because today couldn’t be a more beautiful day here. Clear skies and a real nice breeze, you’d never think that there is monster like that on its way.
yeah, good luck katrina!Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
I've read that I'ts recommend you fill your gas tanks tonight before the market opens in the morning.
You could save yourself like 9 bucks if you have a 30 gallon tank just for not waiting til morning.
Consensus is 20 to 30 cent price jump on gas per gallon if New Orleans gets hammered at 9am like its projected. The refinery in New Orleans refines around 25% of our gas and its fixin to find itself under water.
The chemical disaster that's brewing down there is pretty scary if you consider all the stuff thats going to end up in the water if the city floods. They are talking about even having to blow up the levies to let the water back out of the city after the surge - which could take up to 2 weeks.
How true do you think this is?
Our thoughts are with you, Hank, and with all others in its path.
Well we’re hunkered down and ready, as we can be.Quote:
Originally Posted by hippychick
I filled up on Friday because I wasn’t sure if we were going to need to leave so I fueled up just in case.
I don’t really see them blowing up the levees to get the water out. New Orleans is equipped with pumps all over the place and pumping the water out is the more sensible approach. In fact it’s so low there they have to pump water out all the time.
I found this about the hurricane and gas prices, sound like alot of action in the Gulf.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9108072/
I wish you the best Hank that has to be scary, just get away safe.
Oh boy..hope you and yours stay safe. sounds like things are kind of crazy at the dome..there is no food, so people have to carry what they can. How far are you from New Orleans, or are you smack dab in it?
Keeping you in my thoughts.
this hurricane is just as much a coincidence as that tsunami, which jacked up the price of the p4's a wee bit
I knew Bill Gates was the one responsible for hurrican Katrina. :angry:Quote:
Originally Posted by MediaSlayer
Hank
Hope you and yours are safe, looks most unpleasant over there at the moment.
Dave, sometimes I wonder about you. :dry:Quote:
Originally Posted by GepperRankins
Jamie, I hope for the best.
Peace bd
Quote:
Originally Posted by iMartin
he did get knighted,
and i meant the processors, i tried to buy one after the tsunami and the fry's sales rep said "we're all sold out right now, the demand is so high because the tsunami disrupted the production"
Thank you all for you well wishes.
Thankfully we were spared from the worst of Katrina’s wrath and made it out safe and sound. It was really windy but we really didn’t see much rain.
It also looks like our friends in New Orleans, who mind you didn’t get off easy, were also spared from a direct impact. There is major flooding and damage there but nothing on the scale that was predicted for them.
There were some people south of New Orleans that decided to ride the storm out at home and were trapped when the rising water forced them onto their roofs to escape. They were stuck on the roof during 100 mph winds and no one could rescue them until the winds subsided some. If I were in their shoes I probably would have had a heart attack while stuck up there. Some people will never take these things seriously.
Glad to hear it. The stories I have seen on the news, and read are heart breaking. 55 confirmed dead at the time of this post, and I'm sure it will be more tomorrow. I too wish people would learn to leave when they are told. I know sometimes the storm changes course, as it also did in this case ( New Orleans could look worse tonight ), but in the end, isn't it better leave for no reason, than stay an give your live for nothing ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBank_Hank
The floodwaters in New Orleans are worse this morning than they were yesterday. They can’t figure out why the water is continuing to rise because they can’t inspect the levees yet.
you're alive :01:
hope your property didn't get too much broked
It says on the BBC that 80% of New Orleans is flooded :ohmy:
But the French Quarter is OK apparently..?
80% of the city is flooded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
The French Quarter was fine but now the waters have started to rise there as well. They are trying to evacuate some of the people who stayed because some of the shelters are starting to become flooded. They can’t figure out why the waters are still rising because they can’t get in to start assessing the damage.
As of this morning there are still hundreds of people still stuck on rooftops or stuck in attics still awaiting rescue. They’ve been up there for 24 plus hours and to make things worse the temperature with the heat index today is 101 degrees.
Guys I don’t know if you can get a perspective of what’s going on here but it’s about as bad as it can get.
Anyone still in the city of New Orleans has to evacuate because there is no fresh water, no ice, and no electricity. The water that’s in the street is contaminated and is dangerous to be wading around in because it has sewage in it. Basically its uninhabitable and it may be like that for up to a month until the water can be pumped out, and at least two months to get electricity back to the entire city. The whole electricity infrastructure is destroyed and has to be built from scratch.
The entire city of Grand Isle is gone its under 20 plus feet of water. The city is even further south of New Orleans and it’s where the storm first came onto shore.
It’s absolutely heartbreaking to look at all this.
the grand was on the street in biloxi
Fox News now says that there is NO drinkable water in the whole city due to a water main busting.
The rising water is now high enough that it has begun to enter the the Superdome, so now all of those people must now seek shelter elsewhere. Most presumably will go to various Red Cross shelters, but how they will get there is unknown.
Looting is happening on a MASSIVE scale. The police say that while they do not condone it, most of them are turning a blind eye to the looting of grocery stores.
The water is expected to rise no less than another 3 feet and possibly up to another 6 or 7 feet. It doesn't sound like much, but like the news stated, "...for the thousands of people living on rooftops and traped in attics, it could be a death sentence."
Glad you and your family are ok Hank, sounds like the mother of storms and there will be a lot of cleaning up to do....good luck to everyone involved in this.
Martial Law in New Orleans now..
Glad your OK Hank... hope Stephanie Swift is too :unsure:
why is it taking so long for the worlds greatest power to help it's own people?
All the money got spent on war :ph34r:
they shippin all of dem to my city
I don’t think that you even understand the magnitude of this situation. There are more square miles considered disaster area’s than there are square miles in the state of Kansas.Quote:
Originally Posted by 100%
Where's all the National Guard..
Thought thats what their main thing was, State Disaster and Emergency assistance... :unsure:
it is massive - it is beyond extremeQuote:
Originally Posted by BigBank_Hank
so why is Bush on CNN saying that they don't have enough ships, and that the oil lines are being secured, people should avoid buying gas and only part of congress have met today and will meet next tuesday to discuss whether to give 10B dollars? when the people in the south need help since the moment they knew it was coming, which is more than a week ago.
wtf?
Sorry Hank not trying to flame but from over here the news looks rediculous.Like nothing is happening.
Is the press helping at all?
Been hearing a lot of ironic things about this.
Over 45% of the army and guard who could be helping are off fighting some random oil war.
The pollution America makes through buring F fuels is the cause of the storms, and is why they are getting worse and more frequent.
In Jan 2001 a list was created of the 5 top things bad that would happen to America. Number 1 was a hurricane in New Orleans, Number 2 was a terrorist attack on Washington, and Number 3 was an earthquake in California.
After Sept 11 more than 50% of the funds that were being put into stopping Numbers 1 & 3 were taking and put into defending from terrorists attacks.
Americans have looted stores and the Wal-Mart gun section has had all the weapons and ammo nicked. Way to go America.
A police officer was shot in the head yesterday after he attempted to stop looters.
TBH it's your own fault. You elected a man who put all the money that should have been for defence into an attack on another country. You are the ones who are nicking guns and shooting each other just for bottles of coke and such. You are the ones who sent of your army to fight a way then need them back home.