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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.
It's a bit of a misnomer. They can't and don't force you to leave. They sweep the area and strongly suggest you leave, but they won't make you. In Florida at one time they (Charlie) had you list your next of kin so they knew who to contact.
It basically means that if you decide yo stay, you are on your own.
Gone!
America isn't going to function without a port at New Orleans. Incredible amounts of produce from the breadbasket of the country flow through that port. You can't run that port without a city to support it. New Orleans is important to the economy of the entire country.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
...and guess what. All democrats. Learn your history. Stop being a drone.
Apparently you think history stopped in 1964. Maybe you should pay attention to what happened since then: pretty much all the Democrats who opposed integration and civil rights legislation had become Republicans by the end of the 1960s. One of the very few exceptions was, yes, Robert Byrd, who has over and over recanted his racist views, apologized for the evil he did, and worked hard for racial equality. For decades now, the KKK crowd has been the property of the Republican Party.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Where in the world *isn't* there a natural disaster waiting to happen
Some parts of northern Europe, at least. It's actually a bit boring.
(Every now and then there's a storm that brings down a few trees. We do call those "disasters")
it's in my head
Not even close to being the largest port: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_port_by_cargo_tonnage
In New Orleans, without electricity the pumps stop and the city defaults to it's flooded state. California's default state is "normal" with the earthquake being the anomaly. California doesn't drop chunks into an abyss every time the power drops out.
Care to cite the links between the KKK and the Republican party. Apparently I'm uneducated since I failed to find any.
Don't try to pretend I said something I didn't. I said "the KKK crowd" rather than just "the KKK" quite deliberately; there aren't really any links between any political party and the KKK itself any more, because except for a few die-hards the KKK as an organization has been pretty much defunct for decades -- thanks in large part to the efforts of Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and Democratic Attorneys General Kennedy, Katzenbach, and Clark. By "the KKK crowd" I mean, of course, the sorts of people who would be Klansmen if it were still socially acceptable ... including, again, almost all the ex-Dixiecrats except Byrd, who nearly alone among his contemporaries had the guts not only to admit that he was wrong, but also work to do something about it. Meanwhile, Thurmond's and Helms' spiritual heirs go Republican in overwhelming numbers.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
When Rainer goes, and when it likely blows apart Redmond and Tacoma, it'll be like a nuclear device went off, look at Mount St Helens to see the effects. A Hurricane, even Cat 5s, don't cause that kind of damage.
24 megatons thermal energy (7 by blast, rest through release of heat) in seconds, a Cyclone releases 10 megatons of thermal energy every 20 minutes, on average. 300 mph blasts...
Pyroclastic Flows - At least 1,300 ÂF, what does a hurricane have to compare to that?
When Rainer goes off, the damage it could do will be more than all of the hurricanes that hit a major metropolitan area like NO.