Democrat Mayor Of Houston Causing A Catastrophic Disaster

[Billy_Kinetta]

Think he's Nagin bound?

You mean get re-elected again despite his failures?

No, I mean go to jail on corruption changes.

 

[Conservative65]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

 

[Pogo]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is. Especially Katrina, which was notoriously unpredictable.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

In other words had the levees not breached under the same storm, there would have been no basis for armchair wags to sit on the internet whining about "who didn't evacuate", because the storm itself didn't do all that -- the flooding did.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

 

[mudwhistle]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Pogo]

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

 

[Conservative65]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

While the specific path may not be able to be predicted that far ahead, if it's in the Gulf, there is a much higher possibility that it can hit places like NO than if it's not in the Gulf.

No one everyone in the Gulf has to evacuate when a hurricane enters it. However, preparation when one does should become a much higher priority in case you do. People prepare for all sorts of things that may not happen but they're ahead of the game incase it does. If you spend 5 hours preparing for it and it doesn't happen, that's five hours you can save in case it does come your way.

A flood wall breech can't be predicted but concern that it could happen with as much rain as a hurricane brings can't be considered. When you live in a bowl, don't be shocked that when it rains that much the water doesn't settle to the bottom of the bowl.

What we have is you making excuses for being unprepared.

 

[Conservative65]

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Or don't live in a bowl like New Orleans. There's a reason people there can't be buried underground.

 

[mudwhistle]

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

Point being....you libs are only good at dreaming up excuses and dishing out insults when anyone points out the flaws in their arguments.

 

[Conservative65]

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

If you're man enough, why don't you try.

 

[Conservative65]

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

Point being....you libs are only good at dreaming up excuses and dishing out insults when anyone points out the flaws in their arguments.

Pogo didn't make preparations but he damn sure made plenty of excuses.

 

[Pogo]

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

Point being....you libs are only good at dreaming up excuses and dishing out insults when anyone points out the flaws in their arguments.

Yeah um, I AM the one who pointed out the flaws in this dickhead's arguments, dickhead. One, there's no way to accurately predict a Gulf storm five days out. NONE. Two, no city controls the interstate highways that lead out of it. And three, the state police who DO control it DID contraflow traffic for evacuation, and the reason it was at a crawl WAS back to number one again.

I don't *NEED* "excuses" here Gomer. HE does.

I suspect neither of you mental midgets have ever been anywhere near a hurricane in your wasted lives.

 

[Moonglow]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

The mayor downplayed the need to evacuate, and many people died. That was the topic. See if you can stay on that.

He did fuck up and play stodgy old man..I doubt he gets re-elected..

 

[Conservative65]

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

Here's something you can do years in advance, don't move to a well known flood zone near the Gulf of Mexico.

Here's something you can do right now --- cram it up your ass.

Point being....you libs are only good at dreaming up excuses and dishing out insults when anyone points out the flaws in their arguments.

Yeah um, I AM the one who pointed out the flaws in this dickhead's arguments, dickhead. One, there's no way to accurately predict a Gulf storm five days out. NONE. Two, no city controls the interstate highways that lead out of it. And three, the state police who DO control it DID contraflow traffic for evacuation, and the reason it was at a crawl WAS back to number one again.

I don't *NEED* "excuses" here Gomer. HE does.

I suspect neither of you mental midgets have ever been anywhere near a hurricane in your wasted lives.

I pointed out the flaws in your excuses and you still make them.

There are ways to get ahead of the game when a storm is in the gulf and has a greater chance of hitting where you are than one skirting the Atlantic coast. You didn't prepare like you could have and you get your panties in a wad when someone says that may have been a good idea.

 

[Pogo]

Yet another partisan hack looking for internet "points" by pretending flood management has something to do with fricking political parties.

Hard to believe Harry..............

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

While the specific path may not be able to be predicted that far ahead, if it's in the Gulf, there is a much higher possibility that it can hit places like NO than if it's not in the Gulf.

No one everyone in the Gulf has to evacuate when a hurricane enters it. However, preparation when one does should become a much higher priority in case you do. People prepare for all sorts of things that may not happen but they're ahead of the game incase it does. If you spend 5 hours preparing for it and it doesn't happen, that's five hours you can save in case it does come your way.

A flood wall breach can't be predicted but concern that it could happen with as much rain as a hurricane brings can't be considered. When you live in a bowl, don't be shocked that when it rains that much the water doesn't settle to the bottom of the bowl.

What we have is you making excuses for being unprepared.

Go forth and learn how to read. I have never claimed to have been "unprepared" nor was I "unprepared". All my possessions were secured and I had what I needed to evacuate including the aforementioned battery powered radio (a Sony ICF 2010 in fact) to keep informed without power. All that got done. I just happen to know a crock of bullshit when I see it, and won't hesitate to call it exactly what it is. One crock of absolute bullshit is this fantasy of predicting Katrina's path five days out. BULLSHIT. Another was the idea that the city of New Orleans has the authority to contraflow Interstate 10. BULLSHIT. A third was his lie that the contraflow didn't happen. BULLSHIT. I was in it for hours. In fact I got shunted toward Baton Rouge, a direction in which I did not want to go, exactly BECAUSE I was in the contraflowed side of the highway, going west in the lanes that normally flow east.

That is, everything was secured except my car, which was parked on the highest ground around and which I later located via satellite imagery submerged in eight feet of water. Again, had I parked it in another part of town that didn't happen to be near a future levee breach, I could have returned (in October when we were allowed back in) and driven it away. AGAIN -- that choice was impossible to predict. I had friends whose residences were completely submerged, even washed away altogether, and other friends who had no incident at all. AGAIN --- no way to predict that, not in five days, not in five minutes.

 

[Conservative65]

You're right. The ensuing catastrophe will be a result of the stupidity of locals who are to stupid to recognize several days of warning. Just like Katrina sloth.

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

While the specific path may not be able to be predicted that far ahead, if it's in the Gulf, there is a much higher possibility that it can hit places like NO than if it's not in the Gulf.

No one everyone in the Gulf has to evacuate when a hurricane enters it. However, preparation when one does should become a much higher priority in case you do. People prepare for all sorts of things that may not happen but they're ahead of the game incase it does. If you spend 5 hours preparing for it and it doesn't happen, that's five hours you can save in case it does come your way.

A flood wall breach can't be predicted but concern that it could happen with as much rain as a hurricane brings can't be considered. When you live in a bowl, don't be shocked that when it rains that much the water doesn't settle to the bottom of the bowl.

What we have is you making excuses for being unprepared.

Go forth and learn how to read. I have never claimed to have been "unprepared" nor was I "unprepared". All my possessions were secured and I had what I needed to evacuate including the aforementioned battery powered radio (a Sony ICF 2010 in fact) to keep informed without power. All that got done. I just happen to know a crock of bullshit when I see it, and won't hesitate to call it exactly what it is. One crock of absolute bullshit is this fantasy of predicting Katrina's path five days out. BULLSHIT. Another was the idea that the city of New Orleans has the authority to contraflow Interstate 10. BULLSHIT. A third was his lie that the contraflow didn't happen. BULLSHIT. I was in it for hours. In fact I got shunted toward Baton Rouge, a direction I did not want to to, BECAUSE I was in the contraflowed side of the highway.

That is, everything was secured except my car, which was parked on the highest ground around and which I later located via satellite imagery submerged in eight feet of water. Again, had I parked it in another part of town that didn't happen to be near a future levee breach. AGAIN -- that choice was impossible to predict. I had friends whose residences were completely submerged, even washed away altogether, and other friends who had no incident at all. AGAIN --- no way to predict that, not in five days, not in five minutes.

Then having less than 40 hours to get out shouldn't have been a problem.

 

[Pogo]

Actually Katrina didn't give "several days" of warning. And I know that because I'm a Katrinite.
I had less than 40 hours.

How much time do you need? While a specific warning for NO may not have been as soon as the knowledge of Katrina was available, that knowledge of a hurricane in the gulf was far more than 40 hours. No one says leave, but you can make preparations so when the warning comes, you don't waste time doing what you could have already done.

"How much time I need" is irrelevant to the poster's blatantly ignorant claim that the path of a Gulf storm like Katrina can be predicted five fucking days in advance. Anyone who's ever lived anywhere near the Gulf knows what an unmitigated crock that is.

Moreover the presence of "a hurricane in the Gulf" doesn't mean it's coming "HERE". The current storm in Texas was "a hurricane in the Gulf" too. If everybody evacuated every time there was "a hurricane in the Gulf" they'd be driving back and forth continuously for three months.

And again -- it wasn't Katrina that devastated New Orleans. That came and went without much incident. It was the faulty levee system that gave way and brought the flooding after the storm was long gone. I actually sat up all night with a battery-powered radio listening to it begin, via live reports from where I had evacuated 150 miles inland. Those who didn't evacuate and were not in a flood area, including my neighbors on my street, got through without incident. A flood wall breach can't be predicted, especially not five fucking days out.

Again, I could sit here and "predict", on the basis of no info at all, that the Chicago Cubs will lose their game on May 5 2023 by a score of 5-3. If that day comes and that actually happens, it doesn't mean I'm freaking Karnak. It means I was lucky to hit on a coincidence. There's no basis to predict that. What we have here is a poster as usual pulling it out of his ass to try to score "points" on a message board.

While the specific path may not be able to be predicted that far ahead, if it's in the Gulf, there is a much higher possibility that it can hit places like NO than if it's not in the Gulf.

No one everyone in the Gulf has to evacuate when a hurricane enters it. However, preparation when one does should become a much higher priority in case you do. People prepare for all sorts of things that may not happen but they're ahead of the game incase it does. If you spend 5 hours preparing for it and it doesn't happen, that's five hours you can save in case it does come your way.

A flood wall breach can't be predicted but concern that it could happen with as much rain as a hurricane brings can't be considered. When you live in a bowl, don't be shocked that when it rains that much the water doesn't settle to the bottom of the bowl.

What we have is you making excuses for being unprepared.

Go forth and learn how to read. I have never claimed to have been "unprepared" nor was I "unprepared". All my possessions were secured and I had what I needed to evacuate including the aforementioned battery powered radio (a Sony ICF 2010 in fact) to keep informed without power. All that got done. I just happen to know a crock of bullshit when I see it, and won't hesitate to call it exactly what it is. One crock of absolute bullshit is this fantasy of predicting Katrina's path five days out. BULLSHIT. Another was the idea that the city of New Orleans has the authority to contraflow Interstate 10. BULLSHIT. A third was his lie that the contraflow didn't happen. BULLSHIT. I was in it for hours. In fact I got shunted toward Baton Rouge, a direction I did not want to to, BECAUSE I was in the contraflowed side of the highway.

That is, everything was secured except my car, which was parked on the highest ground around and which I later located via satellite imagery submerged in eight feet of water. Again, had I parked it in another part of town that didn't happen to be near a future levee breach. AGAIN -- that choice was impossible to predict. I had friends whose residences were completely submerged, even washed away altogether, and other friends who had no incident at all. AGAIN --- no way to predict that, not in five days, not in five minutes.

Then having less than 40 hours to get out shouldn't have been a problem.

You quote me where I said it was a "problem", Hunior, and I'll print it out, set it on fire and eat it while singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and wash it down smiling with a gallon of hot turpentine. I'll film the whole thing in HD and post it right here.

As I just said --- go learn how to read.

 

[SeaGal]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

I don't believe that any amount of hot wind expelled by politicians could have prevented or mitigated the flooding. The mayor's reasoning is sound...the logistics of mass evacuations are staggering. One young woman who did evacuate with her daughter - said she left because 'Houston floods in a drizzle'...plus she and her daughter 'are only 60" tall, and 50" of rain doesn't leave much breathing room.'

As to NO as some have mentioned - much has been rebuilt in 9th ward with state and federal money, the levees have been reinforced, new pumps have been installed - yet it is still below sea level...only a matter of time.

 

[Pogo]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

I don't believe that any amount of hot wind expelled by politicians could have prevented or mitigated the flooding. The mayor's reasoning is sound...the logistics of mass evacuations are staggering. One young woman who did evacuate with her daughter - said she left because 'Houston floods in a drizzle'...plus she and her daughter 'are only 60" tall, and 50" of rain doesn't leave much breathing room.'

As to NO as some have mentioned - much has been rebuilt in 9th ward with state and federal money, the levees have been reinforced, new pumps have been installed - yet it is still below sea level...only a matter of time.

New Orleans is also three hundred years old (officially next year).

 

[Conservative65]

As much as I hate to agree with my dem mayor he's right.
Those of us who remember Rita know it's a bad idea to try and evac millions of people.

My exit from New Orleans even on contraflowed freeways took seven hours, crawling at 2-3 miles an hour.

That was the next example of dysfunctional NOLA government I was going to cite.
A photo in the W Post from the day before Katrina hit showed the outbound lanes of I-10 looking like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the inbound lanes were vacant with the exception of one emergency vehicle. Anyone with sense would have designated all but one of the inbound lanes for outbound traffic to handle the overflow.

They were so designated. I drove the whole thing. THAT'S WHAT I JUST GOT DONE DESCRIBING.



And furthermore that was the state's operation. The city doesn't have the authority to contraflow I-10 outside its boundaries.

Again Hunior, don't you dare try to snow me. I lived it.

Does anyone in a position of authority know how to use a damn telephone and call those that do have the authority to contraflow I-10? No one in the City knoew anyone at the State level?

 

[Pogo]

As much as I hate to agree with my dem mayor he's right.
Those of us who remember Rita know it's a bad idea to try and evac millions of people.

My exit from New Orleans even on contraflowed freeways took seven hours, crawling at 2-3 miles an hour.

That was the next example of dysfunctional NOLA government I was going to cite.
A photo in the W Post from the day before Katrina hit showed the outbound lanes of I-10 looking like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the inbound lanes were vacant with the exception of one emergency vehicle. Anyone with sense would have designated all but one of the inbound lanes for outbound traffic to handle the overflow.

They were so designated. I drove the whole thing. THAT'S WHAT I JUST GOT DONE DESCRIBING.



And furthermore that was the state's operation. The city doesn't have the authority to contraflow I-10 outside its boundaries.

Again Hunior, don't you dare try to snow me. I lived it.

Does anyone in a position of authority know how to use a damn telephone and call those that do have the authority to contraflow I-10? No one in the City knoew anyone at the State level?

I'm sure they do but it's irrelevant since the state police already did that. And I know they did that because I drove the whole thing. The poster who claimed they didn't (actually he blamed the city for not comandeering federal highways) was lying.