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Re: Rita
It's down to a Cat 4=150 mph, 914 Mb.It's also taken a slightly more northerly jog, more toward the La. Tex. border area. With hurricane force winds extending outward 180 miles from the eye, Big Easy will get hit by the stronger winds in the north and east quadrants of the storm, and will get majorly dumped on with rain. Expect heavy flooding again. Geez, do I sound like Jim Seidel? I missed my calling!
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Re: Rita
http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/conten ... n_HK1.html
No Way Out: Many Poor Stuck in Houston
By DEBORAH HASTINGS
AP National Writer
HOUSTON — Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only they would pick up their phones.
"I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain't none. No one answers," she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity. "Everyone just says, 'Get out, get out.' I've got no way of getting out. And now I've got no money."
With Hurricane Rita breathing down Houston's neck, those with cars were stuck in gridlock trying to get out. Those like Skinner — poor, and with a broken-down car — were simply stuck, and fuming at being abandoned, they say.
"All the banks are closed and I just got off work," said Thomas Visor, holding his sweaty paycheck as he, too, tried to get inside the store, where more than 100 people, all of them black or Hispanic, fretted in line. "This is crazy. How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don't have money? Answer me that?"
Some of those who did have money, and did try to get out, didn't get very far.
Judie Anderson of La Porte, Texas, covered just 45 miles in 12 hours. She had been on the road since 10 p.m. Wednesday, headed toward Oklahoma, which by Thursday was still very far away.
"This is the worst planning I've ever seen," she said. "They say, 'We've learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina.' Well, you couldn't prove it by me."
No Way Out: Many Poor Stuck in Houston
By DEBORAH HASTINGS
AP National Writer
HOUSTON — Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only they would pick up their phones.
"I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain't none. No one answers," she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity. "Everyone just says, 'Get out, get out.' I've got no way of getting out. And now I've got no money."
With Hurricane Rita breathing down Houston's neck, those with cars were stuck in gridlock trying to get out. Those like Skinner — poor, and with a broken-down car — were simply stuck, and fuming at being abandoned, they say.
"All the banks are closed and I just got off work," said Thomas Visor, holding his sweaty paycheck as he, too, tried to get inside the store, where more than 100 people, all of them black or Hispanic, fretted in line. "This is crazy. How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don't have money? Answer me that?"
Some of those who did have money, and did try to get out, didn't get very far.
Judie Anderson of La Porte, Texas, covered just 45 miles in 12 hours. She had been on the road since 10 p.m. Wednesday, headed toward Oklahoma, which by Thursday was still very far away.
"This is the worst planning I've ever seen," she said. "They say, 'We've learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina.' Well, you couldn't prove it by me."
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Re: Rita
At least this dude has his priorities right....
For the poor and the disenfranchised, the mighty evacuation orders that preceded Rita were something they could only ignore.
Eddie McKinney, 64, who had no home, no teeth and a torn shirt, stood outside the EZ Pawn shop, drinking a beer under a sign that said, "No Loitering."
"We got no other choice but to stay here. We're homeless and we're broke," he said. "I thought about going to Dallas, but now it's too late. I got no way to get there."
Where will he stay?
"A nice white man gave me a motel room for three days. Just walked up and said, 'Here.' So my buddy and me will stick it out," he said, pointing to another homeless man. "We got a half-gallon of whiskey and a room."
Can you buy whiskey by the gallon?
Thank goodness it seems the hurricane is going to not directly hit Houston.
Hope you are well Southpaw.
For the poor and the disenfranchised, the mighty evacuation orders that preceded Rita were something they could only ignore.
Eddie McKinney, 64, who had no home, no teeth and a torn shirt, stood outside the EZ Pawn shop, drinking a beer under a sign that said, "No Loitering."
"We got no other choice but to stay here. We're homeless and we're broke," he said. "I thought about going to Dallas, but now it's too late. I got no way to get there."
Where will he stay?
"A nice white man gave me a motel room for three days. Just walked up and said, 'Here.' So my buddy and me will stick it out," he said, pointing to another homeless man. "We got a half-gallon of whiskey and a room."
Can you buy whiskey by the gallon?
Thank goodness it seems the hurricane is going to not directly hit Houston.
Hope you are well Southpaw.
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Re: Rita
Moldo: Nobody picked up on my goofup. I was thinking of Jim Cantore and it came out (Mike) Seidel. BTW- If I looked like Stephanie Abrams, to you, you really need to see Doc McKay and get new eyeglasses. I just love it when she's out on the beach somewhere reporting on the incoming storm, and wears those plain t-shirts. What a fashion statement.
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"What we've got here is...failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it anymore than you men." -Strother Martin, COOL HAND LUKE
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Yeah, I think it would be best if the Hurricane hit New Orleans again too, as awful as that might sound. The city's already destroyed, most of the people who stayed in that area are gone, and what more damage could another hurricane do on top of the one that preceded it?
Besides that, the French didn't pick their spots too well when building along the coastline. Nobody's going to want to live there again after the city essentially turned into a lake, and everybody knows that it could happen again, especially with the Big Easy (or what's left of it) being below sea level. So my thoughts are let's recover what we can from New Orleans, clean up the water a bit, and let the ocean have it. Maybe somehow a similiar town will pop up in a considerably higher place.
Besides that, the French didn't pick their spots too well when building along the coastline. Nobody's going to want to live there again after the city essentially turned into a lake, and everybody knows that it could happen again, especially with the Big Easy (or what's left of it) being below sea level. So my thoughts are let's recover what we can from New Orleans, clean up the water a bit, and let the ocean have it. Maybe somehow a similiar town will pop up in a considerably higher place.
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