URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA/1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

[Bluebear]

Two years ago, the President of the United States was briefed on this hurricane while at his "ranch". That was on a Sunday. The next day, he left to have a birthday cake with John McCain in Arizona. The following day, he flew to the glamorous Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, played guitar with country singer Mark Wills, played golf, and raised money for the Republican party.

During those hours, thousands of Americans died or lost everything.

Read this warning again, and remember how the President of the United States reacted.


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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005


DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

HURRICANE KATRINA
A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-282100-
ASSUMPTION-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE-
LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS-
ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-
UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD-
UPPER TERREBONNE-
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

[proud patriot]

1. I will Not Forget

:grouphug: :cry: :grr:

[iamjoy]

2. I Remember This Too Well

AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE

ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS

How could anyone claim they didn't know it would be so bad? If they didn't remember Camille in 1969, didn't they remember Andrew in 1992? Of course, Katrina was worse than Andrew, largely because of the levees failing and the fact that Andrew's worst was in relatively affluent areas of Miami and Katrina's worst was some of the poorest neighborhoods on the Gulf Coast.

[Wiley50]

3. I was on a sailboat on the ocean when it happened

Luckily I was coming down the New Jersey coast.

The week before this a hurricane came up the east coast
and I was coming up Long Island sound toward NYC
I had to pull in at Northport and wait all week tied up
until it finally veered off into the Atlantic about
150 miles south of Long island

Rained like hell for two days until it passed

[ThingsGottaChange]

4. The problem isn't with us/DU forgetting

The problem is the idiots that still think * and his minions did a heckuva job before, during and after Katrina. The blind will never see.

We will never forget or forgive that POS.

[merh]

5. *sigh*

Before & After:



After:

[global1]

6. Check Out The Nola Pics At This Site......

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

check out - In Katrina's Wake - Portraits of Loss From An Unnatural Disaster

[merh]

7. I've seen 'em

And folks still don't get it - Katrina was not just NOLA.

[uppityperson]

9. NOLA was the aftermath. MS was Katrina'd.

:hug:

[pingzing58]

8. Thanks and this should be read publicly every year in remembrance from St. Louis Square and

the Cathedral Steps.

[renate]

10. "most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks"

In retrospect, "weeks" sounds pretty darned good.

I guess they were expecting FEMA to do its job.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. I remember loads of us here at DU tracking the storm, posting about it and using

group consciousness to make Katrina divert and Katrina didn't hit New Orleans directly. It was the levees. The fact is, we all knew how bad it could be. It's all in are archives here.
We saw the devastation as Shrub went about his merry way and Stephanie did a fantastic photo collage right after-wards.

[malaise]

12. I remember

and I don't intend to forget.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Nor will I. nt

[Webster Green]

14. Kickin this!

The chimp should have resigned over Katrina.:mad:

[Lifelong Protester]

15. The president and his advisors would have to have been idiots

not to 'get' this....

Oh, wait, they ARE idiots....'scuse me.

Anyway, I will not forget either, still makes me outraged. Last week when they showed that hospital where the doctor and two nurses were that were being accused of euthanasia... all over again I could not believe my EYES that my fellow Americans were just left to DIE. It is ourtrageous, it is shameful. I pity the souls of the people who callously waited...and waited... and waited... to finally lift a finger to give the smallest amount of help.