Rita Reaches category 5
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Some amazing weather readings from the buoys in the Gulf 
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/WestGulf.shtml
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php...dist=250&time=3
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/WestGulf.shtml
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php...dist=250&time=3
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Station 42001 - MID GULF 180 nm South of Southwest Pass, LA.
Click on the graph icon in the table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that observation.
Wind Direction (WDIR): NNE ( 30 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 46.6 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 60.2 kts
Wave Height (WVHT): 34.1 ft
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 15 sec
Average Period (APD): 10.4 sec
Mean Wave Direction (MWDIR): E ( 97 deg true )
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.36 in
Air Temperature (ATMP): 79.0
Click on the graph icon in the table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that observation.
Wind Direction (WDIR): NNE ( 30 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 46.6 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 60.2 kts
Wave Height (WVHT): 34.1 ft
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 15 sec
Average Period (APD): 10.4 sec
Mean Wave Direction (MWDIR): E ( 97 deg true )
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.36 in
Air Temperature (ATMP): 79.0
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To think that, against the mayor and the governor's own wishes, they wanted to start shipping people back into N.O. in a week! The entire medical system of the city...once 12 hospitals...is completely wiped out. What a ridiculous mess we've voted ourselves into!
I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
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I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
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Looks like the east (and worst) side of Rita might hit Lafayette. We'll at leat get tropical storm force winds and a bunch of rain. We might be evacuating, not sure yet. Will decide in the next 24 hours. 
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Originally Posted by Ledfoot,Sep 22 2005, 10:53 AM
To think that, against the mayor and the governor's own wishes, they wanted to start shipping people back into N.O. in a week! The entire medical system of the city...once 12 hospitals...is completely wiped out. What a ridiculous mess we've voted ourselves into!
I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
:spits:
I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
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..And the bureaucracy continues to get fatter 
Lets see if the Republican controlled Congress will rollback the pork on the friggen stupid wasteful highway bills. I would guess NOT! 
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Originally Posted by Ledfoot,Sep 22 2005, 07:53 AM
To think that, against the mayor and the governor's own wishes, they wanted to start shipping people back into N.O. in a week! The entire medical system of the city...once 12 hospitals...is completely wiped out. What a ridiculous mess we've voted ourselves into!
I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
:spits:
I'm sorry, but the Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest mistakes we have ever made on a government level. It's basically glorified window dressing to cover up the cracks in the glass from pre-9/11 failings of our existing national security infrastructure, but has been given the task of delegating, organizing and facilitating so many aspects of our national emergency and relief systems that they don't know what to do with themselves. When the Mississippi River flooded repeatedly, pre-Dubya, were there ever any serious, nationwide criticisms of FEMA's lack of initiative? No..... Why? because FEMA had the ability to operate on its own, independent of an ambiguous overloard, required to call the shots, adding 13 more steps to the process of mobilizing any effort.... To say nothing of the fact that, at the time, FEMA wasn't in the hands of an unqualified, lying, BOOB!
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