Gustav

[GTAHVIT]

Cool!

Glad you hear it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

By the end of today, Florida is supposed to have three named storms off the coast..... YippEEEE!!!

[diddiyo]

Originally Posted by diddiyo

btw, fill up your car one last time before prices go back up again :/
Gustav apparently hit major oil platforms.

mh, guess i was wrong on that one. crude oil plunged $8 today already. lol

[Camaro_Corvette]

Originally Posted by gtahvit

Katrina was a true disaster. I'm sure a lot of us know people that were devastated by it. But the FEMA failure is two sided. People took advantage of FEMA as much as FEMA blew it. For me the frustrating part is how we expect gov. to come in with a magic paint brush and wipe away a Cat 3 Hurricane that hit a city which resides below sea level. It's like we expect the restoration process to run without a hitch. And things to be back to normal in a matter of months.... Try Decades... Lets use the Tsunami that hit Asia a few years earlier. They are still no where near to getting back to where they were before the Tsunami. Yet N.O. is salvageable and largely back on track. Is it completely restored? No. Will it be yes. Would any other organization in the entire world be able to restore N.O. faster or better than our country can? No. These are huge problems that McGyver can't fix with a roll of duct tape, some alligator scales and chewing gum. Big problems cost big bucks and need big time and will have big shortfalls. Why do we have such unattainable standards? It's called a disaster for a reason.

Are we so arrogant to expect our leaders (all of them) to be absolutely perfect. We need to be a bit more realistic about what it takes to fix huge problems like this.

I couldn't have said it better,


Catiajockey: do you have a blown up version of that sig??

[CatiaJockey]

Originally Posted by gtahvit

Cool!

Glad you hear it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

By the end of today, Florida is supposed to have three named storms off the coast..... YippEEEE!!!

I guess this season is trying to go out with a bang. Looks like they're getting pretty good at modeling the tracks. If Hanna holds true to the predictions Charleston is going to take this pounding and surfers are going to have some good riding in Floridia. Ike is something I'll have to watch for a while.

[CatiaJockey]

Originally Posted by camaro_corvette

I couldn't have said it better,


Catiajockey: do you have a blown up version of that sig??

Sorry, I scaled the car down to fit the image of the woman. Thats as large a pic as I have.

[GTAHVIT]

Originally Posted by diddiyo

mh, guess i was wrong on that one. crude oil plunged $8 today already. lol

The good news is the oil platforms have prooven through two major storms that they can hold up... Now if the speculators could just figure that out.... Well, in light of oil prices maybe they have... for now...

[The_Blur]

Originally Posted by Kyle2k

I will say I misunderstood what you meant and I apologize for that, but the rescue/rebuilding of New Orleans was one of the worst examples of FEMA, ever, and that's their specific function...to provide aid, etc.

One of the problems with FEMA during Katrina was that it was in the middle of reorganizing under the Department of Homeland Security. It takes years for this process to complete, and it ruins any hope of an agency doing its job until the process is done.

Of course, another major problem was that Louisiana didn't ask for help in time, then President Bush didn't authorize it fast enough, and, finally, that New Orleans didn't keep up the levees.

There's a lot of blame to be had for Katrina. I put most of it on the crab people.