Earl the Pearl

[+ glutes]

No, not the famous basketball player. Hurricane Earl looks like a gem & on par with Andrew or Katrina.

To our East Coast brothers, good luck, and batten down the hatches!

[MsGuy]

Category 4. Nasty. Not yet clear if it will make landfall.

 

http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/trop-storm-earl1.jpg

[+ ArVaGuy]

Let's hope that FEMA has it's act together.

[leigh.bess.toad]

We're keeping our eye on Earl, but the very first thing I heard on the weather report this morning was that Earl wasn't the one to worry about. It was going to be Fiona. At that point it wasn't even named. So far it doesn't look impressive, but just passing along what I heard this morning.

 

Just what we need for a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

 

Lee

[+ glutes]

Let's hope that FEMA has it's act together.

 

Think we are in better shape without Heck of a Job Brownie and the dickhead who appointed him pictured below...

 

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/M/f/bush_guitar_playing.jpg

[orbital sander]

Let's hope that FEMA has it's act together.

 

Yeah, lets hope...........

[Samai139]

Not sure how I feel sharing a given name with what might become a major hurricane. Think I liked it better when they all had feminine names ((

Hopefully the HIGH pressure system coming in from the west will nudge "Earl" far enough east to keep him away from the coast--all of us here need to watch and be prepared.

[KMEM]

What I hope is that our citizens have their act together. Basically all our "officials" can do is warn or request until something drastic happens. It is up to the individuals to get moving (out of the way). That means paying attention, something we don't always do.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[orbital sander]

What I hope is that our citizens have their act together. Basically all our "officials" can do is warn or request until something drastic happens. It is up to the individuals to get moving (out of the way). That means paying attention, something we don't always do.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

People paying attention....hmmm

Based upon prior experiences, it seems like many people fail at this. How many people stayed behind when ordered to evacuate when Katrina hit?

And whom should they be paying attention to?

[KMEM]

The weather forecast? I realize that folks with limited means have both physical and mental problems with just "leaving or going" but it is in their best eventual economic as well as physical interests to do so, with friends, casual travelers or whomever when there is such as a hurricane imminently approaching.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ deej]

The weather forecast? I realize that folks with limited means have both physical and mental problems with just "leaving or going" but it is in their best eventual economic as well as physical interests to do so, with friends, casual travelers or whomever when there is such as a hurricane imminently approaching.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

Those are pretty but totally meaningless words.

 

Our own KYTop was trapped in NOLA during Katrina, a story told here at the time. It wasn't his fault and he certainly wasn't constrained financially. There just wasn't a way out. Airlines reduced the flights in so the planes wouldn't be trapped, and that reduced the number of flights out.

 

There were a ton of people in NOLA who would have trouble raising cross-town bus fare, assuming buses were available (when airplanes weren't), much less fare to Houston or some other place considered safe.

 

If the affluent can't get out, it's completely disingenuous to blame the poor for not getting out.

 

Earth to KMEM: You're wrong here.

[KMEM]

I certainly realize it isn't always easy to decide to do something in the face of what could be an emergency when others are not doing anything. If you have the means and the opportunity to leave and don't, then whose fault is it IF something negative happens? KYTop seems to have lived through this somehow.

 

Of course, one of the things you are suggesting involves the failure of the Mayor (and city government) to provide buses to help evacuate. There would have been no "fares" involved.

 

One of the problems with this whole situation was the plans and structures provided by the Corps of Engineers failed and, worst of all, failed well after the hurricane had departed. MSY was basically dry after the rain stopped until the levees failed and flooded 1/2 the city. Blacks, whites, rich and poor were under water, although the MSN played up the poor folks and thier plight.

 

I am not saying it would have been easy but in most situations of imminent weather situations, folks fail to do anything, until it is too late. That is my main point.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ deej]

Of course, one of the things you are suggesting involves the failure of the Mayor (and city government) to provide buses to help evacuate.

 

I did? I don't remember suggesting it.

 

There would have been no "fares" involved.

 

I certainly didn't say this. It's your invention. That *would* have been cool. Dump the poor people outside the city and leave them on their own to find their way home just like stray cats.

 

although the MSN played up the poor folks and thier plight.

 

I didn't know the Microsoft Network was even involved. Wow!

 

I am not saying it would have been easy but in most situations of imminent weather situations, folks fail to do anything, until it is too late. That is my main point.

 

Yes, people do not evacuate in advance of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, landslides, wildfires, and other natural disasters.

 

Tell us, KMEM, how many total evacuations of major American cities of over a million in population have been effective in the last century?

[KMEM]

Those are pretty but totally meaningless words.

 

Our own KYTop was trapped in NOLA during Katrina, a story told here at the time. It wasn't his fault and he certainly wasn't constrained financially. There just wasn't a way out. Airlines reduced the flights in so the planes wouldn't be trapped, and that reduced the number of flights out.

 

There were a ton of people in NOLA who would have trouble raising cross-town bus fare, assuming buses were available (when airplanes weren't), much less fare to Houston or some other place considered safe.

 

If the affluent can't get out, it's completely disingenuous to blame the poor for not getting out.

 

Earth to KMEM: You're wrong here.

 

Buses were available but the city didn't use them.

 

Of course, MSN was a typo, meaning MSM. Just refresh my memory, which US city of over 1 million needed to be evacuated in the last century when faced with a known and forewarned disaster?

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ deej]

Just refresh my memory, which US city of over 1 million needed to be evacuated in the last century when faced with a known and forewarned disaster?

 

You're the one saying evacuation is the magic bullet, not me.

[leigh.bess.toad]

And FWIW, one of my best friends at work today told me one of her friends is supposed to be getting married on the beach at Kitty Hawk, NC on Saturday night and she was driving down there to attend the wedding on Friday afternoon.; Good luck with that one.

 

Lee

[KMEM]

The folks in Carolina seem to be taking the hint and departing the fix.

 

Best regards,

KMEM