I walked outside this morning and there was a light blue line on my roof.
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Comments (14)
Better you than me for the ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | September 13, 2004 10:10 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Better you than me for the third time....
Us Floridians have become a little calloused when it comes to hurricanes now. I guarantee you, if Kerry or Bush campaigned to fund research on stopping hurricanes, they'd get 99.4% of the vote here.
1. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | September 13, 2004 10:10 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 10:10
2. Posted by IdFaciam | September 13, 2004 10:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There's a red one passing right over mine!
2. Posted by IdFaciam | September 13, 2004 10:26 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 10:26
3. Posted by Michael Demmons | September 13, 2004 11:14 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm green - and not with envy.
3. Posted by Michael Demmons | September 13, 2004 11:14 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 11:14
4. Posted by Laurence Simon | September 13, 2004 11:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Still no Texas.
Heh.
4. Posted by Laurence Simon | September 13, 2004 11:18 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 11:18
5. Posted by Sergeant America | September 13, 2004 11:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Best $5 I've ever spent! (WU)...
One reason living in Wisconsin may make sense...besides the Dairy Aire!
Living in Clearwater in my youth; BTDT.
Stay Alert!
5. Posted by Sergeant America | September 13, 2004 11:32 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 11:32
6. Posted by Amelia | September 13, 2004 11:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have RED line so not much sympathy here. I do hope it goes NOT pass over New Orleans, however, as they are so far below sea level. Guess the rest of us could deal with it better. And I am inland enough to stop the brunt. It least I hope I am.
6. Posted by Amelia | September 13, 2004 11:33 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 11:33
7. Posted by Paul | September 13, 2004 11:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I dunno about you guys but I'm a foot below sea level and less than 50 miles from the coast.
do the math.
7. Posted by Paul | September 13, 2004 11:33 AM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 11:33
8. Posted by Yogi | September 13, 2004 12:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hope that thing stays out of north dakota.
8. Posted by Yogi | September 13, 2004 12:29 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 12:29
9. Posted by McGehee | September 13, 2004 1:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hate to say it but I've been thinking for days whenever I saw a projected track, that it was more likely to bear west than they were expecting. So far it has been bearing west more than the tracks have projected.
Get to high ground, Paul.
9. Posted by McGehee | September 13, 2004 1:51 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 13:51
10. Posted by Val Prieto | September 13, 2004 3:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Good luck Paul. Guess all of us South Floridians wishing it would vere left ...um...well, good luck.
10. Posted by Val Prieto | September 13, 2004 3:03 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 15:03
11. Posted by Capt Smythe | September 13, 2004 3:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hey Hoss, I'm right under the little blue line also...only I AM in New Orleans. Some interesting trivia about NOLA and it's unbelievable potential for a hurricane wrought cataclysm:
1. New Orleans averages 7.3 feet below sealevel...that's right, except for the levee system, this place would be called Bayou New Orleans, and it is sinking an average one inch per year.
2. The highest natural point of elevation in the entire city is...you guessed it: THE MISSISSIPPI.
3. Inside the closed door meetings of the FEMA types, from local all the way up to Federal, it is widely acknowledged, though definitely NOT publicly, that if even a CAT I hurricane were to hit the right way, I.E. straight up the river, New Orleans would be under 15 feet of water.
4....over 250,000 would perish.
5. Right now, there is a federally owned building in Slidell that has over 300,000 body bags sitting in preservation waiting for the Big One to hit.
6. The plan is to rebuild New Orleans somewhere between here and Baton Rouge along I-10.
Just came back from a meeting and it looks like we may be bugging out sometime in the relatively near future. For a city of over at least one million (don't know the exact #), there are only 3 routes out of town, all interstates. No local roads due to all the water around us.
As a Captain in the Corps, you can take my word for it that this is all very credible gouge, sorry, info. Ivan is a no-shit bonafide CAT V, with very little land mass between him and the mainland...and a lot of warm water to sit on and gain strength. If it takes the blue track, mark my words, you heard it here first, you will be able to say to your children that you remember going to Pat O's and Flynt's Hustler Club in the Quarter before there was a lake here. The devestation here will be Biblical in proportion...
Semper Fi,
Capt Smythe
11. Posted by Capt Smythe | September 13, 2004 3:55 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 15:55
12. Posted by Aaron's Rantblog | September 13, 2004 4:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, in MY neighbor's back yard, someone was filling a dirt hole and going inside to take a cold shower! Go figure.
12. Posted by Aaron's Rantblog | September 13, 2004 4:15 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 16:15
13. Posted by spacemonkey | September 13, 2004 5:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've got green, orange and red. :(
13. Posted by spacemonkey | September 13, 2004 5:35 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 17:35
14. Posted by -S- | September 13, 2004 6:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Paul: go somewhere else, anywhere that is higher ground and inland or West. Just close up your place, take the valuables you can pack in your car and go. Think about it later.
I'm in California...Santa Ana winds are blowing, it's hot here, raining everywhere else nearby. Avocado trees growin', flowers everywhere...nice.
14. Posted by -S- | September 13, 2004 6:13 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 18:13