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Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

Ok...

Having lived through several hurricanes (11, to be exact), I can tell you that most of them are over-played thunderstorms that the media hypes up in order to get everyone scared.

However, the most powerful hurricane that I have ever been through was Hurricane Fran (Cat. 3), where there were so many trees knocked down that we were without power for 2 weeks andthe rednecks had enough firewood for a decade of cheap heat. Many people lost their homes, and it was a tragic situation for those that didn't have appropriate insurance.

Hurricane Floyd flooded the hell out of us, but many other less intense storms rolled through the Cackalack that were just entertainment.

Now comes Katrina, a pissed off bi-atch hell-bent on rolling through an area of the US populated by many poor and poverty ridden communities. Many of these people will lose everything that they have. A Cat 5 storm is deadly and powerful. Most of you have never experienced anything like it, myself included.

While I know that many of you have less-than-amicable feelings towards the United States, please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers.

They will need it.

RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

I was just watching CNN world - winds are topping 200KM/hour!
Earlier, they showed some footage of people going out in the winds (which were at the time 125/h) and jumping up and down, apparently trying to fly.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

My apartment in Miami still doesn't have electriciity back. There are tree branches and crap all over the place and massive trees just ripped out of the ground. Some pretty amazing pictures to be taken... if my American handphone didn't suck so many balls.

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

my entire extended family lives in new orleans/gulf coast mississippi. i'm pretty sure everyone made it out okay, but this is the first time in my memory that a hurricane was bad enough to make it necessary to flee. hell of a storm.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

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Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Here's a link I just encountered at CNN.com.

"Survivors screaming for help"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/udoji/index.html

Another title:
"You can't hold me...take care of the kids"

Please don't confuse this with the Fox News vs. CNN people. I take issue with "journalism" here.

Why in the f do they love death so much?

wannago · Joined: 16 Apr 2004

Journalists are scum. Maybe only slightly above attorneys.

On another topic: I'm waiting for all that foreign aid from Europe and Asia to come flowing into the U.S. to support those people in their time of need. Surely they're mobilizing already, right? Food, medical aid, etc.?

sundubuman · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

Possibly the worst disaster in the US in our lifetime. So sad.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

I thought New Orleans made it through the hurricane with relatively minor damage, but the latest headlines are that the *aftermath* has been devastating. The levee on Lake Pontchartrain broke in two places, and the city has been flooded. Some reporters are saying New Orleans has been destroyed. Certainly it's going to take weeks or months to repair the levee and pump the water out of the city, and then years of rebuilding. This is really dreadful. If all the tree-lined streets and Spanish architecture is destroyed, what will they replace it with? The city may truly have died.

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

new orleans is 80% covered with seven meters of water! that's so wild. can the big easy bounce back? all of my family made it out okay. anyone else on here from the area?
my parents toughed it out in diamondhead, mississippi. my brother, lives in richmond, but he heard from the old man, and they're okay. but now there's a tree in the house where there wasn't one before. i don't know yet whether it came in through a window, or crashed through the roof or what. my mom hid in a closet, and my dad scrambled to save the furniture. the house is a little bit elevated, so there was only a little bit of water in the house. we still don't know anything about my sister and her family, but i think she's a little bit farther away from the coast, so she should be okay.
all of the casinos on the coast have been destroyed, so says cnn. that would include the beau rivage, which is the one i worked at for a few months before coming here for the first time. a lot of the people i worked with are still there now. i hope they're okay. mississippi is in trouble. that tiny scrap of land that meets the gulf is the only happening part of the whole state.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I don't get it. These people had several days notice to evacuate. They had several days notice to lay in food/water. But they just sat on their ass and now many are dead and the others, who should have evacuated days before, are begging for help. Are these people stupid?

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

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RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

Endoftheworld, best of luck to your family and friends. Good to hear that they are ok.
I saw a picture of this oil rig that broke free and smashed into a bridge - unbelieveable stuff.

jinglejangle · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Location: Far far far away.