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Katrina = Cat.5 = Goodbye New Orleans

Nothing was important, but by the time they unloaded everyone from the oil rigs and such...it was too late to do anything but hunker down.
 
Gotta love Shepard Smith. He's the same assclown who let the "blowjob" Fruedian Slip out on national TV when he was talking about J-Lo.
 
I was born and lived much of my life within a few blocks of Lake Ponchartrain, and I went to high school and college in Broward County, where it originally made landfall. I'm internalizing this one big time. :(

I hope the levee holds.

And [edited]. :|
 
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Someone please file a complaint with the FCC that Faux News is airing obscenities and it's hurting my virgin puritan ears.
 
^^^ seriously. I don't know how to face my kids now in the wake of this national disaster aired LIVE for the world to hear and see... not the hurricane, the f-bomb. FCC to the rescue!

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!
 
DarthMom said:
position open for new mod in music =D

seriously, forgive the mommy in me, but you are an idiot for staying!!! that was a long time ago!!
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Keep in mind that not ALL houses are these over-priced but poorly-built plywood and 2x4 shacks put up by cheap-ass developers these days.

My own family's place, back in Florida, I'd bet on against katrina, or any other storm you could name. Indeed, it's been through more direct-hits than I can guess (Including two of last year's storms... one's eye passed right over.).

Trick is though, the house didn't come from some shadey "real-estate developer", or some hired fly-by-night contractor. My grandfather built the place mostly himself (He was a Seabee during WWII.) back in the '60s..... when it actually looked like cuba was going to get ahold of some nukes to fling over the Straits of Florida. The walls are 9" of reinforced concrete. The windows are recessed, with steel roll-down shutters immediately outside, and aluminum fold-downs outside those. I'm not sure how the roof and all is constructed, but knowing who built it, I'd put that house up against ANY "shelter" every time.

The before-and-after pictures of our neighborhood are quite interesting. The land was undeveloped middle-of-nowhere stuff when my granddad bought it. But, in the last five years especially, it had gotten some fairly big and fancy-pants high-priced (But, as it turned out, poorly-built.) neighbors. And our place looked fairly small and drab in comparison. But at the end of last summer, our place was still there. And the neighbors mostly weren't.


cya,
john
 
Apparently the pumps failed in the northwestern part of New Orleans, 20 square miles underwater. People are being evacuated from rooftoops and attics by boat.
 
mariposa420 said:
I'm internalizing this one big time. :(
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What does that mean, you're "internalizing" it? Is that some new Oprah buzz word like "closeure" or something? LOL, not to discard your sentiments or anything I just haven't heard that one before.....I hate buzz words, I think that they are what fools and middle aged people use to seem "hip" or "in the now"......now back to the topic at hand.....FUCK BUSH!!!!.....and his cronies!!!

:)
 
"internalizing" is niether new or a buzz word it means to take ones emotions and keep them in inside look it up it is a conjunction from the latin

returning to the topic at hand bush is an idiot i would like to express my sorrow to the world for our religious rights stupidity their i said it done" internalizing"
 
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m885 said:
Apparently the pumps failed in the northwestern part of New Orleans, 20 square miles underwater.
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CNN: - "Levee holding back Lake Pontchartrain sustains two blocks long breach"
WWLTV: - " 2 different levee breaches flood city "

CNN: "Katrina may cost the insurance industry $9 billion to $16 billion"
WWLTV: - " According to preliminary assessments by AIR Worldwide Corp., a risk modeling firm, the property and casualty insurance industry faces as much as $26 billion in claims from Katrina."

For a "better than expected" outcome, the stories and images coming out of New Orleans and parts of Mississippi are very disturbing to say the least. Gas prices will be the least of anyone's worries there... for a while.
 
^^^ actually it is. I remember them saying that with hurricane camille the damage was $20 billion in 1969 dollars.

So $29 billion in 2005 dollars isn't that bad, comparatively speaking.
 
John Candy said:
What does that mean, you're "internalizing" it? Is that some new Oprah buzz word like "closeure" or something? LOL, not to discard your sentiments or anything I just haven't heard that one before.....I hate buzz words, I think that they are what fools and middle aged people use to seem "hip" or "in the now"......now back to the topic at hand.....FUCK BUSH!!!!.....and his cronies!!!

:)
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to see where you were born and grew up, and then also where you spent the remainder of your life - 2 separate towns in 2 different states, both near-destroyed by the same storm - well, it's only a natural human response to feel a bit emotional about it.

there's a couple people in here that need to get this thing called a heart. put yourselves in other people's shoes for once.
 
jesus up to 80 dead that they know of :( :( :(


Mike Spencer of Gulfport made the mistake of trying to ride out the storm in his house. He told NBC that he used his grandson's little surfboard to make his way around the house as the water rose around him.

Finally, he said, "as the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing."
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jeez...that is a lot of water. 8o
 
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SvnLyrBrto said:
Keep in mind that not ALL houses are these over-priced but poorly-built plywood and 2x4 shacks put up by cheap-ass developers these days.

My own family's place, back in Florida, I'd bet on against katrina, or any other storm you could name. Indeed, it's been through more direct-hits than I can guess (Including two of last year's storms... one's eye passed right over.).

Trick is though, the house didn't come from some shadey "real-estate developer", or some hired fly-by-night contractor. My grandfather built the place mostly himself (He was a Seabee during WWII.) back in the '60s..... when it actually looked like cuba was going to get ahold of some nukes to fling over the Straits of Florida. The walls are 9" of reinforced concrete. The windows are recessed, with steel roll-down shutters immediately outside, and aluminum fold-downs outside those. I'm not sure how the roof and all is constructed, but knowing who built it, I'd put that house up against ANY "shelter" every time.

The before-and-after pictures of our neighborhood are quite interesting. The land was undeveloped middle-of-nowhere stuff when my granddad bought it. But, in the last five years especially, it had gotten some fairly big and fancy-pants high-priced (But, as it turned out, poorly-built.) neighbors. And our place looked fairly small and drab in comparison. But at the end of last summer, our place was still there. And the neighbors mostly weren't.


cya,
john
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Where is this?? West coast where charlie hit? I didn't think it was that bad over here, (east coast, hurricane janine, or whatever the last one of the trio was) lots of roofs gone and windows, but not totally demolished!!

The builders are providing super duper hurricane protection in a lot of the new homes being built no win this area, for not too much more money. Supposed to withstand more than 200 mph so that will be a big help. My house in on the market now, because I think the hurricanes did a lot of structural unseen damage. Ready to start over with a nice new place.
 
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