Bravo
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- Aug 27, 2004
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Well I am finally weighing in here...(in the middle of the reply - the lights flickered...)
Sheeesh we are tired of these things!! And I live over 200 miles from the coast...It Does go to show you how very large and powerful hurricanes can be - when they have a profound effect on you 200 miles inland...this storm will go well up into the center of the U.S. as a big rainmaker over the next two days.
It's about 7:30 CDT how and I have spent a bit of today getting ready...I dragged out the generator at mid-morning and got gas at 3:00. This dude is passing west of me and we are lucky. If I lose power - it will be brief.
I have been to New Orleans a ton and the place was (largely) spared. A tiny shift to the east toward the Mississippi coast was a Godsend to the city.
As many may know, much of The Big Easy is under sea level...the question is asked - why build a community under sea level?
The French (Bienville and D'Iberville) originally settled it (and Mobile, Alabama) hundreds of years ago...and Louisiana filled with individuals who had fled France and settled temporarily in Nova Scotia before moving to South Louisiana... I guess they did not realize it was beneath sea level when the settled there. The predominance of French names is everywhere. My cousins from there are named Lanoux. Louisiana law is based on the Napoleonic Code.
Yes, most everyone thinks of it as only a tourist area but in reality, it is one of the world's largest ports - serving as the main ocean port for about one third of the U.S. And the petrol connection is huge...
New Orleans is as crazy as everyone says and I have tons of funny stories from there. I am so glad the levees worked and saved it from destruction. Not joking here - there have been predictions that a Direct Hit could cause as many as 40,000 deaths in the city - because once the water breached the levees that were supposed to hold it out - the water would stay in. Today, as of this writing, they held.
What a pattern of repeating tropical storms and hurricanes - which some have speculated is a result of Global Warming.
Let's turn this into a debate...
IS Global Warming for Real or is it just a figment of the imagination of overzealous environmentalists?
Sheeesh we are tired of these things!! And I live over 200 miles from the coast...It Does go to show you how very large and powerful hurricanes can be - when they have a profound effect on you 200 miles inland...this storm will go well up into the center of the U.S. as a big rainmaker over the next two days.
It's about 7:30 CDT how and I have spent a bit of today getting ready...I dragged out the generator at mid-morning and got gas at 3:00. This dude is passing west of me and we are lucky. If I lose power - it will be brief.
I have been to New Orleans a ton and the place was (largely) spared. A tiny shift to the east toward the Mississippi coast was a Godsend to the city.
As many may know, much of The Big Easy is under sea level...the question is asked - why build a community under sea level?
The French (Bienville and D'Iberville) originally settled it (and Mobile, Alabama) hundreds of years ago...and Louisiana filled with individuals who had fled France and settled temporarily in Nova Scotia before moving to South Louisiana... I guess they did not realize it was beneath sea level when the settled there. The predominance of French names is everywhere. My cousins from there are named Lanoux. Louisiana law is based on the Napoleonic Code.
Yes, most everyone thinks of it as only a tourist area but in reality, it is one of the world's largest ports - serving as the main ocean port for about one third of the U.S. And the petrol connection is huge...
New Orleans is as crazy as everyone says and I have tons of funny stories from there. I am so glad the levees worked and saved it from destruction. Not joking here - there have been predictions that a Direct Hit could cause as many as 40,000 deaths in the city - because once the water breached the levees that were supposed to hold it out - the water would stay in. Today, as of this writing, they held.
What a pattern of repeating tropical storms and hurricanes - which some have speculated is a result of Global Warming.
Let's turn this into a debate...
IS Global Warming for Real or is it just a figment of the imagination of overzealous environmentalists?