Well, guess what. There's another giant hurricane
headed towards New Orleans, and the mayor of that
city has ordered its evacuation.
I'm beginning to think that maybe New Orleans should
just cut its losses and move the city to Northern
California or something.
It would at least be cooler there in the Summer, and
far less rain.
There might be earthquakes in California. But at least
you don't have to evacuate an entire city due to an
earthquake. You're just pretty much stuck with it.
They could also rebuild the French Quarter and actually
make it French this time, not Spanish.
If they can relocate Abu Simbel, I'm sure they could
move New Orleans.
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I am not a religious person but in times like this I feel like praying !
I have heard about it on the news. Lets hope it will weaken before it reaches New Orleans :up:
We're preparing for the inundation of evacuees here. We got 'em from Katrina (a lot of them stayed), and we're expecting them from Gustav. Our crime rates skyrocketed. Still not back to normal.Gonna be a bumpy ride.:rolleyes:
Prayers and hopes, yes.Star, I think of that old Betty Davis movie…"it's going to be a bumpy night!"For sure. From all accounts this one won't be as bad as Katrina. Little consolation, really.
I don't think you sounded mean-spirited. In fact I think if anything I did, with the post. I've been accused of not caring before with stuff like this. But it's not that. I guess it's just me trying to find a way out of the locked box that stuff like this tends to put us in — even if we are not involved in it we all empathize, I think — and I try to look at things ascew to fight the way out of the locked box.I've been encourage by some of the rebuilding efforts, such as Brad Pitt's Make It Right campaign, and have even donated to it. Things haven't gone nearly as well as they should have down there. It's still a mess that hasn't been cleaned up. But I hope that at least for the rebuilding that has been in progress that this hurricane fuels itself out very quickly — from wereever it is getting that tragic fuel.
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I hope it's not as bad. They went through hell down there, and they're still trying to rebuild.I didn't intend to sound mean-spirited, but I guess I kind of did. It was really weird around here for a long time, though. And it'll never be the same. In some ways, there is a daylight/dark difference in the way things were before Katrina and the way they are now. Even this far inland from the epicenter of the storm.It pretty much marked the end of a way of life.Sad.
Gustav is now approximately 298 miles South of Louisiana, according to CNN, building up from a Category 3 to a Category 4. The mother of all storms, they say.It's a bit windy in Denmark too tonight, but nothing compared to this tornado-spewing sucker… A sucker of a hurrycane… Now that's a tricky metaphor, isn't it…
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I just heard that some of the winds had topped 200 mph. That might be enought to make cows fly — like that scene in Twister.
The forecast is for 5 to 15 inches of rain here, in southwest Arkansas, from Gustav. We've already been placed under a flash flood watch.Hospital patients from southeast Louisiana were flown in on C-130's today, to Little Rock Airport, and sent to hospitals throughout central Arkansas. Shelters all around here have been opening up all day, as needed.The evacuation has been so much more organized this time. They moved 1.2 million people outta there in about 48-72 hours. Lessons learned.
I think they knew that if they screwed the pooch this time, that they'd probably get lynched.
Yeah.:rolleyes:
Do they still lynch people in Louisiana? In Europe we learn that it's a thing of the past.
Well, technically speaking, no.But we still fantasize about it. 😆
Are you kidding?!?I LIVE for this blog!:lol:
More on the Village People in a coming post. Take that as a warning — ya might want to avoid the blog for a couple of days. 🙂
My mom had the television for the afternoon, so I wasn't able to follow the hurricane. Did see a good movie about the Village People, though. 😀
:lol:So that's where that came from…:lol:
Well…okay. :up::heart:
:lol:We've had our first wave of rain here. Lasted about five minutes or so, just enough to get the streets nice and slick. :DTraffic is unbelievable. I have NEVER seen this much traffic in the little town that I live in, or the surrounding areas, not even during the horse racing season when every hotel and restaurant is booked up and traffic is bumper-to-bumper on the rural highways. Gas prices were bumped thirteen cents per gallon for the Labor Day weekend/Gustav evacuation. Texas and Louisiana license plates everywhere.It's incredible.:yikes: