Comments on: And It Isn’t Improving

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:19:20 +0000

Of course FEMA is going to screw this up, as you point out, Andante, they were giving this stuff away while the floods were starting, and they didn’t use any of it during the SoCal fires. You wonder if they know what the stuff was for.

The media doesn’t want people to figure out how bad things really are, and how little has been done to correct the deficiencies found after Katrina, Fallenmonk. Food prices are going to soar, because the Corps of Engineers has had to shut the Mississippi for a 200 mile stretch to save the equipment that powers the locks from the flood waters. “water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink” is going to be the case when the water treatment plants get flooded.

That isn’t much of a winter lows in the high 50sF [Australia is having winter – the seasons are reversed].

SoCal and parts of the Southeast are going through the same thing because a lot of these storms would have been down here if the jet stream hadn’t shifted. The weather is truly screwed up and the agriculture is going to be screwed up as a result.

The Grumpy Forester was mentioning just the other day that they are still getting snow above 4000 feet in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and that is definitely not normal in June.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:53:21 +0000

Yeah, the weather systems are a mess. We had the coldest April ever recorded, and now we’ve had the warmest, driest June (3 Low daily temp’s of 14C in a row this week.) We just had our first rainfall tonight for the Month. Our reservoir water capacity is at 31% and stage 3 water restrictions have just been implemented. And petrol (gas to you) just hit AU$1.67/ltr with diesel even higher!

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:52:42 +0000

We could very easily be witnessing Katrina2. I am not encouraged that these folks are going to get the support and relief that they should from the incompetents in FEMA. It will be interesting to see how well the media hide the failure of Shrub’s administration this time.

By: andante

andante — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:38:03 +0000

This is dreadful.

And all those people being evacuated might have found some use for that $85 million-worth of household goods FEMA just gave away.