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Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention
Hugh Pickens writes "ABC News reports that Hurricane Isaac, currently a tropical storm brewing southeast of Puerto Rico, is on track to hit Florida the same day that Mitt Romney and 50,000 Republican delegates, journalists, protestors and guests descend on Tampa for the Republican National Convention but whether it will skim the east coast near Miami or crash head-on into Tampa, is still up in the air. The worst possible scenario is that Hurricane Isaac stays on the western track, skating over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti, crossing the primarily flat landscape of western Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico then curving east and hitting Tampa dead-on. 'Tampa is just as vulnerable as New Orleans was in the sense that the water will funnel into the bay area and from the storm surge which will flood completely the whole entire city of Tampa,' says meteorologist Max Golembo. 'It would be a disaster in the Tampa area.' If a hurricane or tropical storm is bearing down on Tampa, the priority of law enforcement is to evacuate residents, leaving GOP officials to make the decision of when to evacuate delegates says Hillsborough County Emergency Management spokeswoman Holly Wade. 'We have to look at a lot of factors, like timing and landfall,' says Wade. 'We provide the weather information, then we take that to the host committee, which decides if the event goes on or if the event gets altered.' A Category 2 hurricane could disrupt convention activities because the Tampa Bay Times Forum, site of the festivities, is within a mandatory evacuation zone for storms of that magnitude."
Absolutely nothing of value was lost.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
This is just an excuse to forgo the brokered convention Paul's delegates will force... They have broke every rule in every state to stop the Paul revolution, and now it looks like they have paid off Isaac to make an appearance to silence Paul's voice.
And if some people's/group's twisted logic is applied this must surely mean that God hates Republicans.
Me? I feel bad for everyone in Florida and hope the convention errr I mean hurricane passes quickly.
People only get killed in cases of "legitimate" hurricanes!
I wonder what Pat Robinson would blame this one on? God punishing the Republicans for nominating a Mormon?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Don't worry, I hear it's not a legitimate hurricane. The body politic has ways of shutting that whole thing down.
Evacuating the GOP convention with a hurricane is just God's way of voting. I'd pay attention and not try to "misplace" God's ballot if I were them.
Just tell them the hurricane is caused by global warming. They'll ignore it.
There is no one true dictionary any more than there is one true god.
How can you claim that there is only one true dictionary when humanity has not spoken a single language since the tower of Babel?!