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Katrina = Cat.5 = Goodbye New Orleans

hyperborea13 said:
Katrina hit Florida already on Thursday and killed seven people, then headed to water again and is recharging before hitting New Orleans. Apparently its not going to be quite as bad as was originally predicted, although its still gonna be really really bad.

I just find it incredible how they are evacuating such a huge area. Has anyone seen the pictures of I-10 heading out of the state? They made it one way heading out to the state, and the road is pretty much at a standstill. It looks like a scene out of the movie Independance Day.

Good luck to anyone in the way of the storm.
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Well that b/c directly north is the Ponchatrain lake....and south is the Mississippi and swamp....only place u can really go is either east ir west....but in comparison to most major cities....N.O is rather small in population and size....

However, they quote N.O only evacutating 500k. people....the metro area has about a million....maybe just over that if u count all of the rural ares out there as well...
 
Oil, Natural Gas Soar to Records as Hurricane Shuts U.S. Output

Crude oil for October delivery rose as much as $4.67, or 7 percent, to $70.80 a barrel in electronic after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was at $69.70 a barrel at 7:25 a.m. Singapore time.

Natural gas for September delivery gained as much as 23 percent to $12.07 per million British thermal units. It was last at $11.81.

Gasoline for September delivery rose as much as 2.031 cents, or 10.5 percent, to a record $2.13 a gallon, and was last at $2.1235.

Heating oil for September delivery rose as much as 1.694 cents, or 9.2 percent, to $2.0060 a gallon.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it shut 420,000 barrels of daily oil production in the Gulf. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which handles about 11 percent of U.S. imports, closed Aug. 27.

source: Bloomberg
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Hypnotik1 said:
Yea.....b/c the all the hard ass cool people like CMB who dont evacuate should get a trophy in the shape of his pathetic penis....Only pussies actually think that a human life is worth taking extra precautions

I just wanted to quote that.....Hope it misses so u can feel good about yourself.....but if it doesnt....you will see how bad this shit will really be.....N.O is the last fucking place on earth a hurricane needs to hit....

If it is a direct hit....this will prob go down as one of the worst natural disasters in US history....N.O sits about 6 ft below sea-level...

Im from New Orelans.....Lived there for 20 yrs until i came into the mlitary....Im deployed right now overseas....so at least im safe (ironic huh?)....But almost everyone i know still lives there...I just got an email today from my Mom (who has NEVER evacuated) saying she's getting the fuck out....even she, at 46, has never seen a hurricane this bad........

Ive rode thru soooo many hurricanes....But this is by far the worst hurricane (175mph + winds) ive ever seen ANYWHERE.....If there is one time people should evacuate it should be NOW! Unfortunantly, last year, 'X' hurricane , just barely missed us but a shitload of people evacuated for nothing (well thast what they said. A reg 6 hr drive to Houston took 18hrs last year when everyone evacuated) I think there will be alot of people who wont evacuate b/c of last year....unfortunantly

I just want people to understand the magnitude of a Hurricane hitting N.O.....Its not necessarily the winds....its the water! And N.O will be the modern day Atlantis if it takes a direct hit....
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :(
 
m885 said:
Four dollars is a big jump, but not huge- swings of $2-3 aren't that uncommon.
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Lots of speculators and hair trigger reactions in the oil markets as of late. I would not be suprised to see a huge jump on Monday followed by a significant drop on Tuesday (unless, of course, all of the Gulf oil infrastructure is uprooted by Katrina and relocated in bits and pieces to Lake Pontchartrain).
 
Hey, remember how the main problem with the Y2K bug was resolved a couple years before Y2K? Good thing we have that much time now to reinforce our buildings and create barriers and such.

I understand your hatred for overreaction, but you're burying your head in the sand if you can't see this as a big deal.
 
*CrystalMeth Bunny* said:
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :(
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Im just saying dude....

You make it sound like these people have something to prove by staying....

Ive actually thought the same in the past.....I hate when people overereact.....but they've been talking about this shit for years...Shit, when i was a kid we used to board up the house and have hurricane parties....for measley indirect cat I and II's....

But a direct hit aint no joke....like i said its not the wind its the water....and the least that would happen, if a direct hit, would make LA's piss poor economy goto absolute shit:\
 
Um, the worst that'll happen is peoples' air conditioning going out because of the storm, leaving them uncomfortable and sticky.

The buildings in New Orleans are old and solid, not like the wooden shacks that got washed away in the SE Asia tsunami.

All I'm saying is they're making a bigger deal out of this that they should be because it's good television.
 
It's hot down there, right? You can't run an air conditioner if the power goes out, right?

Oh no, if their freezers stopped working they might have to eat all the ice cream!
 
uhhhh.... yeah buddy, you're right, a 30 foot storm surge is probably nothing to worry about..... buncha pussies!!!
 
CMB can safely talk shit about the Southern East Coast residents and this Hurricane from the comforts of Vegas, where all he has to worry about are heat waves and suicidal gambling addicts.

:|
 
huntmich said:
I understand your hatred for overreaction, but you're burying your head in the sand if you can't see this as a big deal.
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huntmich (and everyone else for that matter), you are arguing with CMB, who is capable of neither hatred nor overreaction. He posts catchy one liners and tries to bait arguements. Seems to be working.
 
Banquo said:
Lots of speculators and hair trigger reactions in the oil markets as of late. I would not be suprised to see a huge jump on Monday followed by a significant drop on Tuesday (unless, of course, all of the Gulf oil infrastructure is uprooted by Katrina and relocated in bits and pieces to Lake Pontchartrain).
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One of the reasons I'm so bearish on oil is because of the speculators that push it around in the absence of legitimate problems like this one. I wouldn't be surprised if this hurricane knocks some people out of oil, because unless there is extreme damage to infrastructure any spike over the next few days is going to slam down violently.
 
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