Hurricane Katrina

[Bob S.]

It looks like the Gulf Coast, Loisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi in particular, are going to have to brace for one of the strongest hurricanes to form in the Atlantic Basin.

She is currently a category 5 storm, the worst, with winds at 175 mph and gusts over 200. To compare, Hurricane Andrew that devastated South Florida 13 years ago, registered a low of 922 mbars of pressure. Katrina is registering 906. The lower the pressure, the worse the storm.

Let's hope and pray that everyone can make it out safe.

Bob S.

[Bob S.]

It looks like the Gulf Coast, Loisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi in particular, are going to have to brace for one of the strongest hurricanes to form in the Atlantic Basin.

She is currently a category 5 storm, the worst, with winds at 175 mph and gusts over 200. To compare, Hurricane Andrew that devastated South Florida 13 years ago, registered a low of 922 mbars of pressure. Katrina is registering 906. The lower the pressure, the worse the storm.

Let's hope and pray that everyone can make it out safe.

Bob S.

[NakedGary]

If you stay it will probably blow off what clothes you have on.....This is a Major deadly storm headed for the gulf states. Head for higher ground!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9063708/

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167270,00.html

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[nudenwv]

yes! our prayers and thoughts are with those in the path. hope everyone makes it through alright.

[Nu]

Hope New Orleans survives.

Reports have power outages and holes ripped in the roof of the Super Dome.

[S.M.A.]

That's right. Hopefully, the damage doesn't reach the worst-case scenarios that have been all over the news these past few days.

My sympathies go out to the families.

Stuart http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[Sol-Searcher]

I managed to survive Ivan last Sept with $8000 damage, and then here comes Dennis. Heck I still had work to do on my house from before. But Dennis was nice to me and I had no damage, but being on the outer bands of Katrina I have now about $2000 more damage. I think Pensacola has a hurricane magnet in the downtown area. Katrina is still going on here and I may even have more damage before tonight.

Your friend,
Randy

[PascoDoug]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sol-Searcher:
I think Pensacola has a hurricane magnet in the downtown area. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

My mom agrees with you.. she lives just outside Pensacola (Milton) and has been hit three times in the past year. During Ivan she was flooded in chest deep water and lost her car. The friends she was staying with also lost their cars and their house was a total loss as well.

She's *seriously* considering selling her house and moving to another state.

[Nudeinbama]

Hang in there Floridians, in a month or two, all will calm back down and the hurricane season will be over until next July or so. Good Luck.
Nudeinbama

[Captain Zen]

I was in Sint Maarten when category 4 hurricane LUIS hit on september 5 1995. What an amazing power and awefull spectacle! Unfortunately the brunt passed after dark, daylight showed the devastation. As if a bomb had blasted many places clean out. 95% of all the yachts in [the always been a safe hurricane hole] lagoon where sunk or blown ashore.
Ancient Chinese thought that natural disasters where the finger of god to punish bad government. And indeed, in Sint Maarten all shanty towns, getthos without sewage and hygien, grown bigger and untenable over the last decades where blown away in one night. Lax governement had allowed them to expand unchecked with illegal immigrants from poorer islands. The 400+ dead where never announced, officially there were only 8 dead.
Likewise Katrine may be a old testament's divine punishment to the US government that is creating too much suffering in the place it gets its oil from, Iraq.

[Bob S.]

Zen, how can you politicize a natural disaster? That is low.

It seens as if The Big Easy was spared the worst they could have received. Instead, the extreme Eastern shore of Louisiana got the worst, followed by Mississippi and Alabama.

I believe I last heard 65 officially dead. But that is most certainly going to rise.

Bob S.

[Captain Zen]

I can not politicize a natural disaster, the ancient Chinese did, but I can try to see a link.

[NudeAl]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Captain Zen:
I can not politicize a natural disaster, the ancient Chinese did, but I can try to see a link. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You just did. Interesting how everything you post has this sort of a view.

[shomymojo]

Hurricane Katrina has devastated the gulf coast area...if anyone would like to help with the relief efforts...I recommend a CASH donation to the American Red Cross at 1-800-HELP NOW or go to their website at http://www.redcross.org ...Thanks

[Captain Zen]

What goes around, comes around.......

[PascoDoug]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Captain Zen:
What goes around, comes around....... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Keep that in mind http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[KirkOntario]

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372179,00.html
http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Only a mattter of time before Bush got blamed for a hurricane. So predictable. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Captain Zen]

Ya ya, now the rest of the world comes around.....

[KirkOntario]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Captain Zen:
Ya ya, now the rest of the world comes around..... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You mean they will come around with kind of generous foreign aid and disaster assistance the US provides to other nations every time we have these sorts of disasters the world over? (just look at Indonesia after the Tsunami...guess what country's military was there? )

[Captain Zen]

The USA does not need any help from other countries, it is the most powerful and the richest nation on the planet. It always helps others, now it will help itself...
And btw, US army was only in oil rich Aceh, to secure its interest, not for humanitarian help..

DTE 56, February 2003: Sulawesi oil and gas
For Acehnese living near the ExxonMobil operations in North Aceh, ... Indonesia's
oil reserves are estimated to be approximately 9.6 billion barrels. ...
dte.gn.apc.org/56ol1.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages .

[KirkOntario]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Captain Zen:
The USA does not need any help from other countries, it is the most powerful and the richest nation on the planet. It always helps others, now it will help itself...
And btw, US aarmy was only in oil rich Aceh, to secure its interest, not to humanitarian help... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

So....

Americans are always self-interested and never generous. They care only about oil and money.

Americans don't deserve assistance in an emergency.

Americans deserved to die from a hurricane.

Is that your position?

[Captain Zen]

No Sir, not at all, it is just so that the USA IS the richest nation that claims it always helps.
I submit my welmeant condolences for the victims of this hurricane with all my heart.
I was myself in category 4 LUIS, (sept 5, '95)right here on this little island and the devastation was the same, the very same same. Have you gone through a thing like that and known the exhalirated adrenaline when afterwards you realise you are still alive! No matter the ruins, the months without electricity and pipewater, the washing the sweat [after a day of cleaning and repairing] with half a bottle of water. The fact that you are alive and able to help is a most amazing feeling. I don't think you should comment to much about things you have no knowledge of...
And.....
With your mentioning Aceh, you shoot yourself in the foot, see this:
News and Press Archive
Earthquake/Tsunami victims
State Department Opinion Regarding ExxonMobil Litigation, 07/29/02 (PDF)
Download the Complaint (PDF)
Download ILRF's Opposition
to Dismiss, 12/21/02 (PDF)
Amicus Brief Submitted by the US State Department, July 2003 (PDF)
August 2004 brief filed in ExxonMobil case
Go to http://www.stopexxonmobil.org

ExxonMobil:
How the Company is Linked with Indonesian Military Killings, Torture and other Severe Abuse in Aceh, Indonesia
In the past decade alone, ExxonMobil has extracted some $40 billion from its operations in Aceh, Indonesia, leaving in its wake a legacy of death, destruction and environmental damage.

That money could help the victims from Katrina.

Kirk, when will you come of your pedestal and see what happens for real, right here down to earth? It IS all about oil and money, yes it is.

[Captain Zen]

Why for Heavens sake Kirk, did you mention Aceh and the tsunami? Now I have to open that can of Loch Ness Monsters:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/160250
http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indone...0to%20Do%20with%20I t (http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/#Seismologist%20Says%20Exxon%20Had%20Nothing%20to% 20Do%20with%20It)
http://www.blackherbals.com/indonesian_tsunami_probably_trip.htm
http://www.jatam.org/english/case/emo/ uploaded/ExxonMobil%20Case%20Study-Web.pdf -

[NudeAl]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Captain Zen:
The USA does not need any help from other countries, it is the most powerful and the richest nation on the planet. It always helps others, now it will help itself...
And btw, US army was only in oil rich Aceh, to secure its interest, not for humanitarian help..

DTE 56, February 2003: Sulawesi oil and gas
For Acehnese living near the ExxonMobil operations in North Aceh, ... Indonesia's
oil reserves are estimated to be approximately 9.6 billion barrels. ...
dte.gn.apc.org/56ol1.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages . </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey Cpl the U.S. Army was not present in Indonesia check your facts.