Comments on: Thinning The Herd

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:21:08 +0000

They have a better chance outside, than inside the house, Moi, because this isn’t going to be slowly rising water, it is going to rise quickly. They definitely shouldn’t have been left behind, but they may not be controllable. Some dogs react really badly to storms, and there may have been no way to get them in a car. That’s why you leave early, before the stress sets in.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:14:01 +0000

I’m glad to hear that your brother scored a generator, because Texas is going to have a huge demand starting tomorrow. The whole coast from Galveston over to Cameron is going to catch the “tsunami” surge from this sucker.

I’m a little inland, but I’m on high ground and there are a lot of very substantial concrete buildings between me and the coast. There is no way in hell I would stay on our barrier island for even a tropical storm. The main road on the island, US-98 was already under water a couple of days ago from the waves and it was under water in Alabama and Mississippi.

Of all places to decide to ride out a storm, the site of the worse storm in US history for deaths, is not sane.

I read that NOLA is considering using some of the flood gates based on the projections, just as a precaution.

People move to these places and don’t bother to learn about them. It’s like trying to explain to people that San Diego is a semi-desert and you can’t grow anything unless you use native plants or put in irrigation. Floridian transplants are the worst: “why don’t they just drill an irrigation well?” We have water 6 feet deep in the coastal zone, so Floridians are accustomed to putting in shallow wells. They don’t understand that there are places where that doesn’t work.

It’s time to thin the herd, because people don’t learn. The really scary part is that these people must have amassed a whole lot of money to live there, so it is obvious that salary isn’t dependent on intelligence.

By: Moi

Moi — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:59:16 +0000

There was a photo on weather.com that had two dogs that were locked in someone’s back yard, the owners were not home. The yard was surrounded with an 8′ chain link fence. I want to beat those people senseless.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:29:48 +0000

The Bolivar Peninsula was stripped clean in the 1900 Galveston hurricane where 8,000 died. As in, 99% of the people died. Why anybody with any sense would stay there with another hurricane coming and the peninsula being no higher today than it was in 1900 (indeed it has settled a little)… baffling. Just baffling.

Meanwhile, my bro be chillin’ with his new generator. All he’s going to get is some tropical force winds and rain. He doesn’t have enough watts to cool the whole house, but he does have enough to cool the living room as well as run the refrigerator and freezer, and he can always roll out the sleeping bags for himself and the grandkids (his wife gets the couch), so he’s going to enjoy the time off from work and play the new movies I just sent him.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:26:46 +0000

If anything near that number require rescuing because they were unwilling to evacuate, I’m fairly certain that coastal states will start billing.

In some counties in Florida they have started billing the people who are at fault in auto accidents for the emergency response.

By: mary

mary — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:16:53 +0000

In the UK people are charged for the cost of their rescue when they need to be rescued because of their stupidity. I would love to find out if our Coast Guard and local EMS will be billing all the stupid people in the TX coast area who decided they could ride out the storm. 37,000 is just simply a stupid number of people that possibly will need rescue.