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This is one case where I disagree. I've been through a lot more hurricanes than I care to count, and unless the media scares the bejeezus out of everybody they will all hunker down and stay through it. That means they have to give the worst possible scenario--and in this case it was that NO could be entirely devastated, particularly with the flooding. As it is I'm also praying for a friend of mine who lives in Hattiesburg--that appears to be directly in its current path.
Yes, this name is logged on my work computer.And don't put words into my mouth, it isn't excellent.
Yeah, but what a completely awful time for a stupid fishing expedition.Edit - and even if you don't personally know anyone who'll be affected, you certainly i-Know a lot of people right here who'll have their #### completely wrecked.
Why do people feel the need to post with an alias anyway? Don't want to tarnish your normal ID so you post with an alias and then can do whatever you want?
You do have point here - Geraldo's saying "THIS IS THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, FOLKS" and "WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS" was nauseating enough at the time, but seems even more shameful the day after. Then again, that's Geraldo.But the rest of your comments were
and you are right to back pedal.Some people have more than one computer. Some people have been banned before and had to start a new log-in name and left that name on their other computer. Some people don't care what name they post with and instead of bothering to log-in and log-out they just leave the other name on the other computer.When I post from this computer that is the log-in name it auto logs in with.Why do people feel the need to post with an alias anyway? Don't want to tarnish your normal ID so you post with an alias and then can do whatever you want?
The Geraldo type media coverage is my main issue, and caused me to make other comments that were taken the wrong way.Also I was livid when ABC left the LL World Series coverage that was in extra innings to give a 15 minute update when 500 other channels were taking care of that already.You do have point here - Geraldo's saying "THIS IS THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, FOLKS" and "WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS" was nauseating enough at the time, but seems even more shameful the day after. Then again, that's Geraldo.But the rest of your comments were
Really? Geraldo is a sensationalistic hack of a reporter?You do have point here - Geraldo's saying "THIS IS THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, FOLKS" and "WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS" was nauseating enough at the time, but seems even more shameful the day after. Then again, that's Geraldo.But the rest of your comments were
This is just, Generalísimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
I've been saying this all along. The storms that hit along the Gulf Coast always seem to hit a little further east than they predict. Gulf Shores was supposed to get nailed by Opal, but Pensacola got it. Ivan was supposed to destroy Mobile, but Gulf Shores to Navarre got it. New Orleans was supposed to get hit, but the eye passed over the Mississippi border.They'll talk about the unpredictable wobble, but from what I've seen over the past 10 years, the wobble is pretty f'n predictable when it hits the Gulf Coast.
Oh, joking about Franco's death now. Callous ba$tards.Really? Geraldo is a sensationalistic hack of a reporter?You do have point here - Geraldo's saying "THIS IS THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, FOLKS" and "WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS" was nauseating enough at the time, but seems even more shameful the day after. Then again, that's Geraldo.But the rest of your comments were
The Doomsday scenario wasn't started by Geraldo, since disaster planners in New Orleans have been contemplating it for over 50 years. The prediction called for a major hurricane to hit the city squarely enough to breach the Pontchartrain levees (the Miss levees aren't quite as critical), and then New Orleans becomes a cove of the lake. This one had all of the makings, but the city lucked out (relatively speaking) at the last minute when the storm took a little jog to the east.Most people who live on the gulf coast can read between the lines when hurricane warnings come out. When some very sober sources (eg Max Mayfield) come on the air and tell people to drop everything and get the hell out, they listen. This one wasn't Geraldo-driven hype, it was and is the real deal. The whole ####### east side of the city is under water.
When the mayor of the city says, "I'll never make an evacuation notice again," and then you wake up one morning to him on the TV telling people to get the f out, it is the real deal. To the best of my knowledge he said this after they called for evacuations before Ivan last year.
I don't think too many people are going to be headed back to homes and neighborhoods pristine and untouched by the storm. I think people are going to be going back and looking at the havoc that was unleashed on NO and think "Wow, if this is what a near miss looks like, I better be real sure I am gone when the near miss doesn't miss and actually does dump Lake Ponch into NO. " They're also going to see the hell unleashed 50-75 miles to their East and think they're pretty damned lucky to have a home or a neighborhood to go back to.
Shick! called it.
