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Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans
Pickens writes "City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city's mayor called 'the storm of the century' and moved toward the Louisiana coast. 'This is the real deal. This is not a test. For everyone thinking they can ride this storm out, I have news for you: that will be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your life,' said New Orleans mayor, C. Ray Nagin. Already, hundreds of thousands of residents had begun streaming north from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas stretching from the Florida Panhandle to Houston. Bush administration officials took pains not to be caught as flatfooted as they were in Hurricane Katrina, announcing that President Bush had called governors in the region to assure them of assistance and that top federal emergency officials were in the region to guide the response. 'We could see flooding that is worse than what we saw with Katrina,' said Louisiana Governor Jindal."
The US Geological Survey will be running a real-time "Map of Hydrologic Impacts" to monitor flood levels, and the National Weather Service has charted direction and wind-speed probabilities. Reader technix4beos points out the need for IRC transcription of FEMA and NOAA feeds.
If that weren't racist, it would be really funny. Or, if I weren't so politically correct, that would be really funny.
That frickin falling tree will knock out your INTERNET ACCESS dweeb!
That's fricking news to some of us!
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I really just curious - do feds or anyone from government did their work _after_ Katrina?
Of course they did, they're highly trained professionals after all.
They put up signs
However they didn't expect Gustav and forgot to translate them in German.
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Made from the freshest electrons.
At the same time, you could easily use this argument for places like Tokyo and other areas that are and will be struck by tremendous earthquakes.
And monsters. Don't forget the monster attacks.
The big question is 'Who decides?'
Obviously you don't watch Fox News.
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Economics - New Orleans is a major port that services nearly 2/3 of the land area of the US. Not to mention the petroleum industry, fishing, cruise ships, etc... etc...
You forgot the most important, the Girls Gone Wild! industry at Mardi Gras.
Don't use math as punishment - she will only grow up hating it and probably end up as a hairdresser.
Remember kids, you should always evaluate any argument based on who's making it, not on what it says.
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due to dykes being breached.
I won't go there. I won't go there. I won't go there.
California doesn't drop chunks into an abyss every time the power drops out.
Thankfully not, what with rolling blackouts.
Anti-black/Jew contingents?
What do they have against Sammy Davis Jr.?
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That said, your point is completely accurate.
99.9% of individuals in the deep south are severely racist, both Dem & Rep, today as well as in the past. Even the black community has a deep hatred of whites and are racist.
But in the 60's when the Dem party was moving away from the KKK ideology, the southern Dems crossed lines to become Rep. All of these have remained the most evil and dangerous assholes on the planet.
Point & Fact: everybody feels some form of racism for some one else they don't know or understand, myself included.
But I have been trying to overcome this with looking at others (all races) from a candid perspective and have been able to see beauty in most people/races. It is there if you care to look close enough. This is the first step to recovery and becoming human once again.
This world would be a much better place if we all put out an effort to treat each other with honesty, kindness, dignity & respect.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
>>One might posit that it is just coincidence that we're getting two strong hurricanes in three years slamming into New Orleans.
If it's not coincidence, then what is it??
Of course, Michael Moore said that Gustav is evidence that God hates the Republicans, and some democrat leaders were filmed laughing about it... but still, I'd call it coincidence.