Anybody Ready to Talk About "Rita"

[PacWestGS]

Looks like here we go again, still :hungover from Katrina...

[Belquar]

I am just curious whose fault this hurricane is? Who do we blame? Did the government spawn this killer storm? Or...did God really mean business when he went after the gulf coast....someone pissed someone off somewhere.

Seriously though...you southies are in our prayers. Best wishes in weathering another beast.

[Belquar]

I am always really amazed by the really broad knowledge base on this forum. I am rather ignorant when it comes to physics and the like...Aside from nuclear weapons...is there something in the U.S. arsenal that could displace enough energy, if dropped in large enough quantities, to disrupt a storm of this magnitude and maybe weaken it?

Probably a Dumba$$ question, but I was just curious. I know mother nature is really not something we should screw with as she will probably beat us every time.

[BubbaZanetti]

my conspiracy freak friends are all over this stuff right now, Bush + Big Oil x Weather Weapon = Big pofits sorta thing, i think its crap, but then again, i've heard worse............


Weather Warfare Info (http://www.whale.to/b/weather.html)

[username]

mmmm, rita.

i just got back from galveston, where i delivered 33 pieces of plywood, helped board up a house, then "evacuated." i left wednesday night at 10pm and got back to austin at noon yesterday.

fun fun fun!

[Visian]

mmmm, rita.

i just got back from galveston, where i delivered 33 pieces of plywood, helped board up a house, then "evacuated." i left wednesday night at 10pm and got back to austin at noon yesterday.

fun fun fun!

did you lane split through that traffic jam?

if so, did you get shot at?

ian

[Callmethebreeze]

Bush is responsible for the traffic jam. He knew his buddies could make big bucks working the freeways with 5 gallon jugs.

Breeze

[Callmethebreeze]

my conspiracy freak friends are all over this stuff right now, Bush + Big Oil x Weather Weapon = Big pofits sorta thing, i think its crap, but then again, i've heard worse............


Weather Warfare Info (http://www.whale.to/b/weather.html)


Bubba,

I read some of these reports. The authors have way too much time on their hands. Do these guys really believe the "shadow government" is testing the technology on the Gulf Coast? Are there Blackbirds seeding clouds over the Cape Verde Islands? Is Halliburton in on this? Has Kbasa been implicated?
We all "know" Bush is responsible, and damn it, we're going to get to the bottom if it with Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry leading the charge.

"I have not yet begun to fight.....gurgle.....gurgle!!!!"

Breeze :hide

[DLilah]

Apparently, the Japanese mafia are using a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to launch terrific storms against the U.S. mainland. :confused:

"The devastation of New Orleans was in revenge for the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima" (quote from Scott Stevens, a meteorologist who for nine years has been forecasting the weather on KPVI-TV in Pocatello). :bottle

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170064,00.html (http://)

[username]

did you lane split through that traffic jam?

if so, did you get shot at?

ian

no lane splitting for me, i was in a huge pickup truck, (loaned to me by john, for you folks that met him at the round UP in april.) i took 33 sheets of plywood down to board up my (future) father in law's house. if i had my bike, i'd have split. as it was, i was glad to have the truck as the fuel range (~240 miles) is greater than that of the motorcycle (~190) and fuel was in short supply. i'll have pics up tonight, if they came out. i got home and just went straight to bed, i was tired.

i saw two guys on bikes. (not counting cops) they were squids on sport bikes (shorts, tshirts), and they were splitting. well, one was. the other was going up the shoulder. i cheered for them. no one was hassling them at all that i saw, but i was stopped in traffic. they may have been beheaded and eaten a few miles later, but i didnt see it. in that situation, i dont think anyone would begrudge a guy on a motorcycle for putting as much distance between himself and the storm as possible.

in general people were really well behaved and orderly. i was impressed.

that's a scary f-ing hurricane.

[DLilah]

Well, we should know about the true cause of the hurricanes soon. :uhoh The weatherman quit his job to pursue his theories.

http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/local/news05.txt (http://)

[username]

dizang!

[riderR1150GSAdv]

I am always really amazed by the really broad knowledge base on this forum. I am rather ignorant when it comes to physics and the like...Aside from nuclear weapons...is there something in the U.S. arsenal that could displace enough energy, if dropped in large enough quantities, to disrupt a storm of this magnitude and maybe weaken it?

Probably a Dumba$$ question, but I was just curious. I know mother nature is really not something we should screw with as she will probably beat us every time.

It would take a ten MEGATON nuke every 20 minutes, for the duration of the storm, to match a huricanes equivalent of BTU output.

I just finished washing seawead from my two story home in Key Largo. I am over this 'season' to say the least. :banghead The storm was not bad in the Keys considering we had about 6 feet of water go over some area's in the Island chain. Some people were hit hard but we had no casualties I know of attributable to the storm. I can only imagine what TX and LA must be going through at the moment. The storm is now a cat 3 which is much better than a cat 5. Still, flooding is flooding wether it's 6 or 12 feet and sh^t's gonna get wrecked big time.
At least the Fed's are better prepared for what's to come. After Andrew it took about 3-5 days for FEMA to move in too. It was pandemonium for a few days, but we didn't have half the cr^p NO went through. I guess the flooded meth-labs must have taken a toll on 'normal' behaviour.... :stick

[PacWestGS]

I hope for the sake of history this year and the results are called.

"Hurricane Karita"

Because [so far] this is a two-fold storm.

It will be the 'Standard' by which all other storms are compared for awhile.

Russ

[PUDGYPAINTGUY]

I also notice that the coverage of other country reactions to this tragic season is noticeably non-existent. I am sure that the street celebrations and declarations by certain people of the deserve of this stuff happening to the US would be catastrphic for foreign relations perhaps. I remember after 9/11 there were just a few news segments on that same thing from the Mid East and then they squashed that coverage very quickly.

It just seems strange that the US is the first or second to offer assistance to other countries in such a time, and now the roles are reversed the help seems so pitiful in comparison. It really makes you think that perhaps the foreign aid should really ecome domestic aid for a number of years...or at least a greater percentage of it?

Oh well enough ramblings...c-ya

[Mika]

I have just one word for this thread: Leprechauns.