Katrina
It wasn’t the storm, it was the levees.
It wasn’t Nature, it was man.
The Weather Underground’s Hurricane Katrina tracking map.
An animation of the National Hurricane Center’s tracking maps. If you stop the animation and step to frame 13 you will see that they had Katrina coming to my house for a while.
The track on Google map from the Central Florida Hurricane Center so you can see exactly where the storm struck, and it wasn’t New Orleans.
Katrina did have top sustained winds of 175 mph with a pressure of 902 millibars, a Category 5 storm, but that was in the central Gulf of Mexico. It came ashore as a Category 3 hurricane to the East of New Orleans. There was minimal wind damage in the city from the hurricane.
Wikipedia has a nice article on Katrina, without going totally technical on the science behind hurricanes.
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Now I remember why I effectively stopped blogging at the end of August 2005: My outrage quotient reached its maximum with the catastrophe after Katrina and I couldn’t write another word.
I’m sitting here in tears at the memory.
A bad situation was made worse when the Feds effectively laid siege to the city and stopped aid from going in. The looting didn’t really start until what little there was stored in the city ran out.
This has been reported in news & current affairs type programs here the past few days. People here are basically confused, and outraged about everything that has happened, and more importantly, NOT happened, since Katrina. And I have to say, people I have spoken too are more angry at Obama than the Bushmoron! We (here) expected that from Bushmoron, def not from Obama. His popularity here is falling lower than Bushmoron! I kid you not. We don’t get it.It’s alien to us.
OT: Speaking of… have you seen this? (and I am entitled to say “I told you so” – not *you* personally…) 😉
Taliban Operative: We Are Using Protests Against Park 51 To Get ‘More Recruits, Donations, and Popular Support’
Well… BIG DUH!!
Stupidity is it’s own reward usually… But I am pretty certain that the morons causing this, will not be the ones who pay! They never do. Which is why I am amazed that the rest of the supposedly intelligent US citizens, allow them a platform for this garbage. In most other countries, these morons would be at least considered a danger to the public good, and even traitors. *shrug* You have some very weird *principles* over there. 😉 😛
If there is another attack on the USA, I get to say “I told you so” again! I’m loosing count…
*SHRUG*!
Yes, Mr. Duff, the Bush administration were responsible, beginning with their decision to national the National Guard units of all of the Gulf states and send all of their equipment to Iraq. When a governor has no means of establishing communications in a disaster because all of the state’s emergency communication equipment has been shipped half a world away, along with a significant portion of their emergency response force, the governor can’t be effective. When the only way local officials can communicate is via the media, their powers are extremely limited.
FEMA ordered the area sealed and refused to let private groups enter; the Department of Defense refused to send in military assistance. It was days before the public outcry caused by media reports of what conditions were like in the areas affected by the disaster cause the Federal government to finally, reluctantly, respond. The bad feelings that local people have towards their local governments is that they didn’t start executing Federal officials who were blocking the aid from reaching people who were hurting.
We know what happened and we know who was to blame – you don’t, Mr. Duff.
Kryten, conservatives, whether they call themselves Republicans or Democrats, are all the same selfish sods, who couldn’t care less about the public. It’s OK to blow a trillion dollars on Wall Street gamblers, but you can’t waste money on the masses. Obama has no more regard for “small people” than Bush did.
I didn’t vote for Obama because I looked at the way he voted in the Illinois and US Senate and saw a Republican. If the Republicans take control of the House in this year’s election, he will be lucky to finish his first term.
OT: You have to know something about Islam to understand that Sufis are mystics and the Islamic version of Quakers, i.e. pacifists. When regular Muslims see the bigots in NYC protesting Sufis, they react badly. If you can’t get along with Sufis, you really are looking for a fight.
Of course there’s going to be blow-back. There’s always blow-back. I would like the name of clown who thinks it’s a good idea to continue to attack people in Pakistan with drones during the flood and Ramadan. That’s how stupid the people in charge are.
Yeah, I agree with you on all the above (as you know of course!) 🙂 It just annoys me (and I know it does you), because it *really* doesn’t have to be like this! It’s purposely ignorant fanboys like duffy above who are the problem. (and, I’ve said it before… Just ignore the fool!! You are stubborn!) 😉 😆
Oh well. *shrug*
PS. On another forum I frequent, you’ll be happy to know that the general consensus is that we hope Murdock will have a stoke, ASAP, please!! 😈 😉
I want Murdock to live long enough to watch his kids blow through his money and destroy his empire, but that’s why I can’t qualify as a Christian. A stroke would be too merciful.
Ahhh! Now, see… This is why you own the blog, and I just comment!! 😀
You are dead right, of course! I shoulda thunk o’ dat! 😐 😉
You can be meaner than me at times m8! 😈 Well done! 😆
I pride myself on not indicating anywhere on this site that I am a “nice guy”.
I don’t hide the fact that I hate corporations. They have screwed me out of too much money over the years in a marketplace that is obviously tilted in their favor.
If you want to see a totally FUBAR computer motherboard design, there is no finer example than the original IBM AT, their 80286-based micro. If the fact that they soldered two 64K RAM chips together to get a 128K chip doesn’t tip you off, look at the spiderweb of jumper wires on the back of the board.
It was garbage from the start, but people paid a mint for them because they had the IBM corporate label on them.
The only thing corporate clowns love is the prestige that comes with big bucks. If you want to really cause them pain, go after their money because the only thing they really fear is poverty.
LOL That’s true about the AT! 😀 And the original XT was no better. It was, after all, originally designed as the controller board for a defunct cash register project. 😆
Sadly… we are still paying the price for that legacy! And it proves that Intel/M$ have no idea how to innovate, or any real reason to even try. *shrug*
The XT was a work of precision craftsmanship compared to the AT.
IBM made solid cases and keyboards, but the rest was rubbish.
Occasionally Intel does something interesting, but they never get any support for it in M$ software.