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raw wrote:There's one person I wish was there to die but that's it.

It's not nice to talk about YourGrandpa like that

I was just trying to "Keep it Real"

raw wrote:There's one person I wish was there to die but that's it.

His ex is my guess.

raw wrote:I was just trying to "Keep it Real"

Real Talk man, Real Talk

I just heard that the path had shifted very slightly east, taking the direct eye just miles east of NO, meaning the worst corner of the storm (upper right) will be closer to the biloxi area or something, and the latest was that it will probably be a high cat 4 at landfall at this point...

National 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.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

yea, but my info came from FOX NEWS...what do those dumbasses at noaa know?

bear in mind it's the media's job to create panic and it's the governments job to avoid it

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....

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.
People have to leave, there are no place to hide in this type of hurricane.
Wish you all the best of lucks everyone.
Pete

The worst thing about all this is that all of New Orleans is below sea level.

EO'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.

nothing is gonna happen...i doubt theres really even a hurricane out there...

seremtan 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

Cool. It seems the Netherlands rocks for % of GDP. Most of the rest of Europe actually is falling behind their agreed upon goal of 0.7

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.


The American citizens privately give more than double what their government gives.

i mean u morons do know that cat5's almost always significantly weaken right before landfall and the media purposely does not report it until after they blow over? haven't u dipshits noticed how they aren't talking about the winds near as much now? take a wild guess why no0bs?

From this web Site http://www.anythingweather.com/satellite.aspx?id=3968

It is scary.
Pete

riddla wrote:whatever geoff

oil will hit another record high after this storm as well.

current infrared

lol...seeing that it already has u ain't much for predictions...rofl...

Do you know if anyone from here is living in the area?
We know of Raw and andyman in fla but now.
Pete

Maiden wrote:902mb now. 4th strongest on record. this could get real ugly.

hope the superdome can hold all those left behind.

pussies...
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

All I can say is good luck New Orleans and you US folk :icon14:

Freakaloin wrote:nothing is gonna happen...i doubt theres really even a hurricane out there...

Hey you over-the-hill geriatric. I'm not sure if you noticed but I'm cleaning house of morons. Keep this up and you can say goodbye too. Capiche?

My cats breath smells like cat food

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

I just heard them say something about their crew being down near the levee that's breaking.

If there is one breaking already, then there is sure to be some serious damage down there.

Don Carlos wrote:My cats breath smells like cat food

To whom is this comment directed? raw? Is the ADD side-commentary more entertaining when riding the riddlin train or am I missing something?

Plus, a piece of the SuperDome roof has been torn off and it's leaking.

They're even talking about trying to move people out of it now, though I can't imagine what they think they could do with 10,000 people during the storm.