[green_achers]

I'm sick to death of misinformed speculation (edited after my blood stopped boiling). I hardly know where to begin.

Evacuating New Orleans at this time would be absolutely idiotic. Period. There is no way to make an intelligent statement of probability that the hurricane will hit NO or anywhere else at this time with enough confidence to justify an evacuation. Do you think full evacuations of a major metropolitan area is something you do at the drop of a hat? Do you think there aren't severe disruptions of people's lives and costs incurred every time you do that?

So what if you abandon NO because armchair generalissimos at Peakoil.com think you ought to and the storm hits Houston instead? Or Pensacola or Mobile? Jeez, you folks have worse strategic sense than Donald Rumsfeld.

NO is not lower than it used to be because of subsidence. The old section (aka the French Quarter) never flooded during Katrina. the low sections of town were built on years after the city was settled as a result of population growth.

There are a lot of low areas of southern Louisiana that are losing ground because of the changes in the Mississippi River flow regime, but not NO.

NO is where it is because it is on the lower terminus of one of the major shipping arteries in the world. If you don't want NO there, call it something else, but there will be a city there as long as there are industrial humans on the North American continent.

[Muckingfess]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MidwesternMom', 'A')nd if you have a 2 day old baby, don't cry to the media that you don't have any formula to feed it, brestfeed it it for God's sake!

I will never forget seeing that on tv, oh i just wanted to scream!

[burtonridr]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('green_achers', 'I')'m sick to death of misinformed speculation (edited after my blood stopped boiling). I hardly know where to begin.

Evacuating New Orleans at this time would be absolutely idiotic. Period....

[fletch_961]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')nteresting discussions. We, Europeans, only got the media shouting that the inept US Govt. wouldn't help its people. And that Bush was a _________________ (insert swearword).

[r101958]

Well, the folks of New Orleans saw fit to re-elect Ray Nagin. Let's see if he learned anything from his past experience. If the hurricane ends up tracking as currently predicted then I truly hope that we don't see any more pictures such as the one displayed above (the unused mass transportation).

[roccman]

Dear Citizens of NO,

Please stay put - we need more practice.

Regards,

Blackwater

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'I')'m going to post a map of Gustav's most likely path. You'll note that it is headed right for New Orleans. Predicted landfall in Monday. That gives you 5 days.

You have no excuses. Leave now, or make plans to leave in the next 3 days.

[green_achers]

Such hysteria.

[Quinny]

Hope you're right or you're going to look a little silly!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('green_achers', 'S')uch hysteria.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '[')img]http://www.wetmaap.org/Chimney_Rock/Supplement/cl_background_files/image003.jpg[/img]

Not a static geographic feature by any means.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('green_achers', 'N')O is not lower than it used to be because of subsidence. The old section (aka the French Quarter) never flooded during Katrina. the low sections of town were built on years after the city was settled as a result of population growth.

There are a lot of low areas of southern Louisiana that are losing ground because of the changes in the Mississippi River flow regime, but not NO.

[ReverseEngineer]

NO because of its location at the mouth of the Mighty Mississippi cannot be dispensed with as a Port. However, environmental conditions are such these days its a poor place for people to actually LIVE all the time. So how do you fullfill both the need to have a Port there and the need to not have a city there?

You do it like we do up here on the North Slope. Slope workers go up for 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off back home. Of course this is a more expensive way to do business than having your workforce local, but given you have little other choice here, this is how it has to be done.

Reverse Engineer

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('green_achers', 'S')uch hysteria.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��There is nothing in Gustav's path that will hinder development.
There is a strong probability that it will be a Category 3 storm by the time
it enters the Gulf, and it has the potential to strengthen into a Category 4 or 5
storm over the Gulf.” - AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist, John Kocet

[Cashmere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Some Guy from Mississippi', 'E')vacuating New Orleans at this time would be absolutely idiotic. Period. There is no way to make an intelligent statement of probability that the hurricane will hit NO or anywhere else at this time with enough confidence to justify an evacuation.

[CarlosFerreira]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('green_achers', 'S')uch hysteria.

[Micki]

Did people of New Orleans ever get their confiscated weapons back? I like to remember I read somewhere that they never got them back.

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Micki', 'D')id people of New Orleans ever get their confiscated weapons back? I like to remember I read somewhere that they never got them back.

[pedalling_faster]

these maps show the ocean temperature, at the surface.

http://www.maineharbors.com/weather/seatemp4.htm

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/egof.html

i don't remember how this compares to Katrina.

some meteorologists say temps. above 80 F add energy to a storm ... that's the short version.

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarlosFerreira', 'I')nteresting discussions. We, Europeans, only got the media shouting that the inept US Govt. wouldn't help its people. And that Bush was a _________________ (insert swearword).