It's not nice to talk about YourGrandpa like thatraw wrote:There's one person I wish was there to die but that's it.
How come none of you are talking about the hugeass hurricane
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YourGrandpa
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http://www.nhc.noaa.govNational Hurrican Center Public Advisory wrote:MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 160 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. KATRINA
IS A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME
FLUCTUATIONS IN STRENGTH ARE LIKELY PRIOR TO LANDFALL...AND KATRINA
IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL AT EITHER CATEGORY FOUR OR FIVE
INTENSITY. WINDS AFFECTING THE UPPER FLOORS OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER THAN THOSE NEAR GROUND LEVEL.
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I was thinking about the same thing. Not only could it be flooded but with that kind of cat 5 can destroy everything...even a stadium.YourGrandpa wrote:N.O.'s city planning department said that the levees would most likely not hold a 15 to 20 feet strom surge.
It could fill that dome to the top....
People have to leave, there are no place to hide in this type of hurricane.
Wish you all the best of lucks everyone.
Pete
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Nightshade
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E
O's pic is Teahupo in Tahiti, and it's not photoshopped, that's really what it's like on a big day, it breaks over about two feet of water with coral reef under it. There are a lot of surf pics of the place, it's really heavy.
They're saying that New Orleans could be under 15 feet of water by the time this hurricane is done with it.
They're saying that New Orleans could be under 15 feet of water by the time this hurricane is done with it.
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Freakaloin
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Cool. It seems the Netherlands rocks for % of GDP. Most of the rest of Europe actually is falling behind their agreed upon goal of 0.7seremtan wrote:well yes i wasn't clear on that, i meant as % of GDP (as i just responded to daev de paatay poopah). obviously the US having such a large economy the dollar amount will be greater. then again, if europe's overseas aid were calculated as a euro total it would be even greater than that, but that isn't generally done
However, regarding the USA, in the same article with the numbers for the government aid, it also says
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelate ... sandGraphs
"Americans privately give at least $34 billion overseas — more than twice the US official foreign aid of $15 billion at that time:"
I'm thinking that if you are going to normalize by the total domestic product, then you should also ***obviously*** use the total foreign aid, not merely the sum from the government.
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Freakaloin
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lol...seeing that it already has u ain't much for predictions...rofl...riddla wrote:whatever geoff
oil will hit another record high after this storm as well.
current infrared
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pussies...Maiden wrote:902mb now. 4th strongest on record. this could get real ugly.
hope the superdome can hold all those left behind.
i lived though an 899 mb hurricane. 190mph winds... 3rd strongest on record.
another interesting thing... this hurricane is taking almost an identical path to andrew. cut a swath accross south florida, pick up steam in the gulf and smash into louisiana.
edit:
just looked up the stongest hurricanes on record... according to NOAA:
Gilbert is #1 @ 888 mb
#2. a crazy labor day hurricane from 1935 @ 892
Allen is 3rd with 899
902 would put this cunt 4th... looks like another girl will get her name retired.
and in related news... this is kinda neat : http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real- ... java2.html
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I just heard them say something about their crew being down near the levee that's breaking.Foo wrote:Seems quite irrelevent to this hurricane anyway. odd that it seems to be getting turned into another us vs the world style debate.
Have something on topic, local news!
http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/ ... s=livenoad
If there is one breaking already, then there is sure to be some serious damage down there.
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