I looked at photos of those buses - they are probably OK and would start if only there were drivers available. However, the diesel tanks required to fill them up, may be under water.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the very first bus to reach the Houston Astro Dome was one that some guy managed to start, fill with people and drive - he deserves a medal.
Gee man, the affected area is larger than many countries in the world and is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. FEMA was simply overwhelmed by a problem 10 times bigger than they could possibly handle.
Yes, some stupid things were done over many years, like building the whole damn NO city there in the first place, but you can't blame all of that on the present mayor.
So, don't look for malice when stupidity provides an adequate explanation...
Uhhh, as as far as I know your country's constitution, the President actually has no jurisdiction over any of this - he is responsible for foreign affairs and defence.
It is the State governments and Congress that are supposed to act. The president can only step forward and help after everybody else fucked up...
Yup, and take an average European, give him a shave and a haircut, dress him in modern pajamas and drop him off downtown in a Chinese city and the people will run away screaming...
Amazing, only in America would people teach in Public School that Earth was created by the Magrathean planetary construction engineer Slartibartfast.
Douglas Adams would be proud!
I have my thoughts about the strong Caucasian features, vs soft Asian features. That seems to indicate that Neanderthals simply interbreeded into the Caucasians, which would explain why we are so big, bony and fierce, compared to the rest of the human race.
D00d, define polution. CO2 isn't polution, it is commonly known as stale air. It is also well known that when there is more CO2, plants grow better. In general, plants are CO2 limited.
Also, define the optimum temperature for the earth - is it 30 degrees celsius wherever you happen to be living - or where I happen to be living?
There are people stuck in various areas that are fairly dry and which has areas where they can drop food by helicopter - well OK, they have started to do just that - good, thanks Navy!
BTW, you can drop MREs in water, provided that it is not so deep that people can't fish it out. It is very well packaged, but I won't bomb sandbags on levees - the kinetic energy is too much.
MREs are used during battle. I guarantee you that they have unfathomable amounts of MREs on board that carrier - that ship is gigantic. During normal circumstances, they eat freshly prepared food of course, else the soldiers will revolt!
The navy can afford to unload all its MRE supplies on land - hell, they can even unload all their fresh and frozen food too, if it would do any good, since the soldiers can go without food for a week, but the people on land (well, in the mud and water) can't.
First of all, most of those people are the poorest of the poor who could not afford to leave the city and were undernourished already, others are young or old and frail. Secondly, they don't have drinkable water and by now all the convenience stores have been cleaned out.
Well, the US has a friggen aircraft carrier off the coast at this very moment. That one ship probably has a million MREs on board, but they are physically unable to take those supplies and go drop them off. They simply don't have the ability to move hundreds of tons of food over 200km of mud and water, yet they would have no problem to move hundreds of tons of bombs over that distance.
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Just hack it to report everybody else's players and cause Blue Ray to suspend service to all their legitimate clients...
Yeah, but how are you going to make your home move at 20km/h?
presently has an enormous excess of deuterium...
I looked at photos of those buses - they are probably OK and would start if only there were drivers available. However, the diesel tanks required to fill them up, may be under water.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the very first bus to reach the Houston Astro Dome was one that some guy managed to start, fill with people and drive - he deserves a medal.
Gee man, the affected area is larger than many countries in the world and is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. FEMA was simply overwhelmed by a problem 10 times bigger than they could possibly handle. Yes, some stupid things were done over many years, like building the whole damn NO city there in the first place, but you can't blame all of that on the present mayor. So, don't look for malice when stupidity provides an adequate explanation...
I always thought that is what a Sergeant Major is for. A good SM can easily communicate with a crowd a mile away, using nothing but his voice...
Obvious: Sell MS, buy Exon-Mobil
Well, take this: http://plf.zarb.org/logo.php
is MS good or bad now?
Better: Give them buckets and let them bail out the city.
The looters should be rounded up and used to clean out the Toilet Dome.
Uhhh, as as far as I know your country's constitution, the President actually has no jurisdiction over any of this - he is responsible for foreign affairs and defence. It is the State governments and Congress that are supposed to act. The president can only step forward and help after everybody else fucked up...
Nope, Jon is safe. The US military is occupied in Luisiana.
The Free and Open Sex Society won out...
Yup, and take an average European, give him a shave and a haircut, dress him in modern pajamas and drop him off downtown in a Chinese city and the people will run away screaming...
The Neanderthal women suffered from severe migraine...
Amazing, only in America would people teach in Public School that Earth was created by the Magrathean planetary construction engineer Slartibartfast. Douglas Adams would be proud!
In the good old European tradition, the Neanderthals had a different religion and were all killed in a Pogrom...
Hmm, maybe Neanderthals invented fire but Homo Sapiens patented it and killed the competition?
I have my thoughts about the strong Caucasian features, vs soft Asian features. That seems to indicate that Neanderthals simply interbreeded into the Caucasians, which would explain why we are so big, bony and fierce, compared to the rest of the human race.
If you can't beat them, join them...
D00d, define polution. CO2 isn't polution, it is commonly known as stale air. It is also well known that when there is more CO2, plants grow better. In general, plants are CO2 limited. Also, define the optimum temperature for the earth - is it 30 degrees celsius wherever you happen to be living - or where I happen to be living?
Yes, but it sure didn't take that long to slashdot the server...
There are people stuck in various areas that are fairly dry and which has areas where they can drop food by helicopter - well OK, they have started to do just that - good, thanks Navy! BTW, you can drop MREs in water, provided that it is not so deep that people can't fish it out. It is very well packaged, but I won't bomb sandbags on levees - the kinetic energy is too much.
'Been in the army... ;-)
MREs are used during battle. I guarantee you that they have unfathomable amounts of MREs on board that carrier - that ship is gigantic. During normal circumstances, they eat freshly prepared food of course, else the soldiers will revolt!
The navy can afford to unload all its MRE supplies on land - hell, they can even unload all their fresh and frozen food too, if it would do any good, since the soldiers can go without food for a week, but the people on land (well, in the mud and water) can't.
First of all, most of those people are the poorest of the poor who could not afford to leave the city and were undernourished already, others are young or old and frail. Secondly, they don't have drinkable water and by now all the convenience stores have been cleaned out.
Well, the US has a friggen aircraft carrier off the coast at this very moment. That one ship probably has a million MREs on board, but they are physically unable to take those supplies and go drop them off. They simply don't have the ability to move hundreds of tons of food over 200km of mud and water, yet they would have no problem to move hundreds of tons of bombs over that distance.