Hurricane Gustav

[Evie]

Probably the same thing. It's just NOLA is, as we saw three years ago, especially vulnerable.

 

[JohnRM]

Oh please, not another repeat of 2005. Please, no.

 

[Quasar1011]

Whoops, sorry, I posted the wrong graphic. Anyway, one of the Navy models, has Gustav heading right for Mobile Bay...

 

[Evie]

Then yes, I would definitely take a quiet look at my evacuation and emergency plans as the mayor of Mobile.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Hurray! No classes on Monday!


I'm kidding, of course. I probably still have to do my assignments. I'll look into evacuation plans tonight or something to the like just in case.

 

[Leonel]

Oh boy here we go again with New Orleans.

 

[bhsup]

If New Orleans gets hit again, the damned city should just be abandoned. We shouldn't waste anymore tax money just so people can go back to a damned city that happens to be under sea level AND is a hurricane target.

 

[Leonel]

Seriously what do you expect for an area below sea level that's a hurricane corridor? I mean the Dutch can pull it off as the harshest weather they get is a bad storm.

I don't look forward to hearing news reports of people refusing to evacuate and then wondering why they're in trouble. I do however look forward to Mike Myers face reacting to Kanye West's ramblings. Needless to say, he was mortified!

 

[emzie]

If New Orleans gets hit again, the damned city should just be abandoned. We shouldn't waste anymore tax money just so people can go back to a damned city that happens to be under sea level AND is a hurricane target.

The city wasn't built there for the lulz. It's there because commerce puts it there.

 

[bhsup]

The city wasn't built there for the lulz. It's there because commerce puts it there.

Yeah, I understand a port is there. But I don't see the need for a port requiring a large metropolitan city to support it. If anyone else wants to move there, they should do so with the understanding that we'd let the city flood rather than spend billions to try to keep it from flooding, and they are on their own for replacing their home.

 

[JollyRoger]

Yeah, I understand a port is there. But I don't see the need for a port requiring a large metropolitan city to support it. If anyone else wants to move there, they should do so with the understanding that we'd let the city flood rather than spend billions to try to keep it from flooding, and they are on their own for replacing their home.

Just about everywhere you live is in some natural disaster zone requiring periodic taxpayer bailout. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes . . . why should anybody live anywhere?

 

[Godwynn]

Just about everywhere you live is in some natural disaster zone requiring periodic taxpayer bailout. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes . . . why should anybody live anywhere?

Move to Missouri. There you have a real chance of dying of boredom.

 

[bhsup]

Just about everywhere you live is in some natural disaster zone requiring periodic taxpayer bailout. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes . . . why should anybody live anywhere?

It's a city below sea level that is prone to getting hit by hurricanes. That screams stupidity to live there more than any other zone.

Move to Missouri. There you have a real chance of dying of boredom.

Hey! Biggest ball of twine, one state west. Top that, Illinois.

 

[emzie]

Yeah, I understand a port is there. But I don't see the need for a port requiring a large metropolitan city to support it. If anyone else wants to move there, they should do so with the understanding that we'd let the city flood rather than spend billions to try to keep it from flooding, and they are on their own for replacing their home.

The stupidity of building New Orleans is the same stupidity as building a farm on a flood plain: there's a large reward and an infrequent but deadly risk.

The reason the federal government had to pay for New Orleans wasn't just a matter of lessening the economic shock, but that they had failed the city in the first place. Had the levees worked, New Orleans wouldn't've been hit like it was.

 

[Singularity]

The first landfall will be in Haiti, where it ought to graze that country as a category 1. As far as a second landfall is concerned, the official forecast does not go out that far in time. A US landafall is likely a week away- which is plenty of time for the storm to strengthen. This one bears watching!

Nice to see that you're still around Quasar. I still remember the Katrina thread unfolding on these boards as it slid into the gulf.

Let us hope that the shear over florida will force Gustav further southeastwards. As if this isn't enough there's also a chance that there's a second weathersystem on Gustav's heals that might develop into a tropical storm as well.

 

[Godwynn]

Updated and heading straight for New Orleans, currently.

CNN tonight had a story about it on the air during the DNC. They had it estimated at being a Category 3, maybe a Category 4 during landfall. Quasar, you're the meteorologist, what should we expect from Gustav?

 

[JollyRoger]

I guess that wall being built along the southern land border isn't going to protect us. Has Bush offered amnesty to Gustav yet? Or does he have to steal a job at Overstock.com first?

 

[JollyRoger]

Under Pat Robertson theory, is Gustav's timing God's mysterious way of giving a delayed answer to this?

 

[Babbler]

I guess that wall being built along the southern land border isn't going to protect us. Has Bush offered amnesty to Gustav yet? Or does he have to steal a job at Overstock.com first?

See, you just suffer from a lack of imagination ...

 

[ShannonCT]

Thank goodness that Obama will be President soon, so that we can create the meteorological opportunities beyond our borders that will disuade hurricanes from entering our territory.