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Anonymous Coward User ID: 326376 United States 09/12/2008 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 496508I BET THEY ARE Black FOLKS..Black FOLKS ARE ghetto...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...shooting dice, hoops and robbin folks and eating watermelon and fried things .... That's not fair! I am poor and often hungry and that is why I stayed here and at Katrina and the TV I got at new Orleans is wore the f*ck out and I need a new one. It is only because of racism and sklavery that I , a BLACK MAN, am hungry in Ammerica and thereby must steal to obtain a Sony 56 inch HD TV cause the digitary thing going to change in february nex year so don't pick on black folks.we need TV too. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cantore is saying that 30,000 people have stayed on Galveston Island. Quoting: Circuit BreakerJim Cantore says FIFTY PERCENT of the people stayed. Did not leave the Galveston area. I have a feeling we are about to see a major disaster across that whole area. The water height can't be escaped - swimmer or not. Dr Lyons saying waves are around 15' now and will double as the storm moves closer. That is just the waves...not the surge! If they stay and the storm makes it to a 3 and wipes out the town, then I'm not really going to feel very bad for them if they die. It's hard to do when their stupidity was the cause. I can't argue with you on that point. I bet the NWO is quite pleased knowing at least 30,000 "useless eaters" will be killed in one fell swoop. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 500859 United States 09/12/2008 01:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FREEDOM... that's America... FREEDOM to stay! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 225190Hope you crazy bastards make it in Galveston!!! I love Galveston... Let's hope Miracle Mary on the roof will hold ya! Yes, the pagan statue manipulating occult forces will surely save them..... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 496508 United States 09/12/2008 01:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 326376I BET THEY ARE Black FOLKS..Black FOLKS ARE ghetto...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...shooting dice, hoops and robbin folks and eating watermelon and fried things .... That's not fair! I am poor and often hungry and that is why I stayed here and at Katrina and the TV I got at new Orleans is wore the f*ck out and I need a new one. It is only because of racism and sklavery that I , a BLACK MAN, am hungry in Ammerica and thereby must steal to obtain a Sony 56 inch HD TV cause the digitary thing going to change in february nex year so don't pick on black folks.we need TV too. hey man ....why dont u go back to page 1 and read who i quoted from the 1st time.... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 496508 United States 09/12/2008 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 463567I BET THEY ARE WHITE FOLKS..WHITE FOLKS ARE TRILATERAL...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...BUNGY JUMPING, SKYSCRAPER CLIMBING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SKY DIVING, SNORKLING, RUNNING MARATHONS, EATING SOY.... you see |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FREEDOM... that's America... FREEDOM to stay! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 500859Hope you crazy bastards make it in Galveston!!! I love Galveston... Let's hope Miracle Mary on the roof will hold ya! Yes, the pagan statue manipulating occult forces will surely save them..... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 438861 United States 09/12/2008 01:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OMG! you people sit there and bitch and moan about being told what to do then you are outraged when they don't do it! If these people want to stay in a storm it is their choice. It may be a stupid choice but it's theirs. At some point you have to draw a line. This is about the same as choosing to wear a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet. don't be cautious and suffer the consequences. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 487397it is not about choice. as a firefighter i know that there will be numerous rescue personal that will have to risk there lives to save the idiots that stayed behind. it is unbelievably selfish. it is - that's the part about stupid choice. Still - don't you guys have the ability to say - 'fuck them - they really are too stupid to live." sometimes i wish we could say that. but rescue personal are have too much heart to let anyone just die. that is why we risk our lives for everyone not just a select few. but like i always say "if it weren't for idiots, i would be out of a job". i would have to say in my experience 95% of all accidents are preventable . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Western end of the sea wall is giving away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 352900From Jeff Masters latest blog at 11am. Ike continues to grow larger and has intensified slightly since yesterday, and the hurricane's Integrated Kinetic Energy has increased from 134 to 149 Terajoules. This is 30% higher than Katrina's total energy at landfall! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 490625 United States 09/12/2008 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's incredible. Have they no fear? Quoting: Me114what are they thinkin they need a miracle now i think after what they saw after Gustav with people not being allowed back to their homes when they returned has made then leary to leave for fear of not being allowed to come back for a very long time |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Western end of the sea wall is giving away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422855From Jeff Masters latest blog at 11am. Ike continues to grow larger and has intensified slightly since yesterday, and the hurricane's Integrated Kinetic Energy has increased from 134 to 149 Terajoules. This is 30% higher than Katrina's total energy at landfall! Dr. Neil Frank is saying on KHOU expect Category 4 or 5 storm surge in Galveston! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Western end of the sea wall is giving away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422855From Jeff Masters latest blog at 11am. Ike continues to grow larger and has intensified slightly since yesterday, and the hurricane's Integrated Kinetic Energy has increased from 134 to 149 Terajoules. This is 30% higher than Katrina's total energy at landfall! Dr. Neil Frank is saying on KHOU expect Category 4 or 5 storm surge in Galveston! Also said expect Surge/Waves: 5.1 out of a possible score of 6.0 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 501998 United States 09/12/2008 01:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I feel sad for them. In the aerial videos of the island the houses seem so small on the shore of the ocean. I don't think the people that decided to stay realize how terrible and destructive the power of water can be. The hurricane force winds will add to the rampage. If they survive, they will be some of the most spooked people on earth and will never make the same decision again. |
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User ID: 498780 Canada 09/12/2008 01:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | first off why even live in galveston after what happened a hundred or so years ago when the whole place went under water. second, the big brouhaha over gustav probably desensitized people so that they think well... whatever, what's the use. this is a weird hurricane with such a large surge. usually people would think they could ride out winds, but a surge, i wonder if they were expecting that? the gulf of mexico is starting to remind me of the indian ocean and it's typhoons. texas is the new bangledesh. |
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User ID: 491923 United States 09/12/2008 01:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 463567I BET THEY ARE WHITE FOLKS..WHITE FOLKS ARE TRILATERAL...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...BUNGY JUMPING, SKYSCRAPER CLIMBING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SKY DIVING, SNORKLING, RUNNING MARATHONS, EATING SOY.... Eating SOY!!!! anything after 'but' is bullshit! [link to www.myspace.com] "Once you open your mind to the possibility of conspiracy, you then see conspiracy in everything." [link to deadbydecember-sireen.blogspot.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 422855 United Kingdom 09/12/2008 01:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cantore is saying that 30,000 people have stayed on Galveston Island. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422855Jim Cantore says FIFTY PERCENT of the people stayed. Did not leave the Galveston area. I have a feeling we are about to see a major disaster across that whole area. The water height can't be escaped - swimmer or not. Dr Lyons saying waves are around 15' now and will double as the storm moves closer. That is just the waves...not the surge! If they stay and the storm makes it to a 3 and wipes out the town, then I'm not really going to feel very bad for them if they die. It's hard to do when their stupidity was the cause. I can't argue with you on that point. I bet the NWO is quite pleased knowing at least 30,000 "useless eaters" will be killed in one fell swoop. Masters said a bunch of are walking around in flip-flops on Galveston beach! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 496508 United States 09/12/2008 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Sireen-rebornI BET THEY ARE WHITE FOLKS..WHITE FOLKS ARE TRILATERAL...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...BUNGY JUMPING, SKYSCRAPER CLIMBING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SKY DIVING, SNORKLING, RUNNING MARATHONS, EATING SOY.... Eating SOY!!!! LOL i kno rite WE EAT GRILLED CHEESE DAMMIT |
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User ID: 491923 United States 09/12/2008 01:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they just don't care anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 496508I BET THEY ARE WHITE FOLKS..WHITE FOLKS ARE TRILATERAL...THEY WILL TRY TO DEFY ANYTHING AND THINK THEY CAN LIVE THROUGH IT...BUNGY JUMPING, SKYSCRAPER CLIMBING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SKY DIVING, SNORKLING, RUNNING MARATHONS, EATING SOY.... Eating SOY!!!! LOL i kno rite WE EAT GRILLED CHEESE DAMMIT Had to show this comment to my boss, we're both laughing with tears in our eyes! Thank you so much for that! anything after 'but' is bullshit! [link to www.myspace.com] "Once you open your mind to the possibility of conspiracy, you then see conspiracy in everything." [link to deadbydecember-sireen.blogspot.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 501540 United States 09/12/2008 01:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to archives.cnn.com] photos and extensive coverage at CNN on the 1901 hurricane and it's damage to Galveston |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 317795 United States 09/12/2008 01:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OMG! you people sit there and bitch and moan about being told what to do then you are outraged when they don't do it! If these people want to stay in a storm it is their choice. It may be a stupid choice but it's theirs. At some point you have to draw a line. This is about the same as choosing to wear a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet. don't be cautious and suffer the consequences. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 487397Because WE have to pay for those bodybags with OUR taxpayer money! Of course, they may just wash out to sea... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 501540 United States 09/12/2008 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ike is a nickname for Isaac: quote from CNN article above... A city with hubris "People in Galveston knew that there was a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. It was reported in the Galveston County Daily News but they didn't know where the storm would make landfall," said historian Casey Greene. Some historians say people's attitude increased the number of fatalities. "That's one of the reasons so many people lost their lives: complacency," said Greene. In 1900, Galveston was stuck on itself, boasting Texas' first post office, telephones and medical college. There was more money in Galveston than in Newport, Rhode Island. Downtown was packed with ornate office buildings, many on The Strand, known then as the "Wall Street of the Southwest." Galveston was the hub of a booming cotton export trade because it had the only deep-water port in Texas at the time. City streets led to imposing Greek Revival, Romanesque and Italianate mansions. Street cars ran along the beach. Bathhouses jutted out like sentinels in the gulf. "There was this great sense of hubris that America and Galveston -- Galveston in particular --was going places, could do no wrong," said Erik Larson, author of "Isaac's Storm." One in six Galveston residents died 'Isaac's Storm' Isaac was U.S. Weather Bureau climatologist Isaac Cline, who dismissed as absurd the notion that a hurricane could devastate Galveston. His stance discouraged the town from building a sea wall. The day before the hurricane arrived, warning flags were raised as huge waves pounded the shores, barometric pressure dropped rapidly and high fish-scale-shaped clouds moved inland. Before dawn September 8, the water crept ashore and kept rising, despite strengthening north winds that should have repelled the storm. By now, Cline was worried. "Unusually heavy swells from the southeast. ... Such high water with opposing winds never observed previously," he wrote in a telegram to the bureau's headquarters in Washington. But less than half the population evacuated the island and some sightseers even came over from Houston to view the spectacle of the huge and powerful surf. Cline rode down the beach in a horse-drawn buggy, warning people to get to the mainland. But for most, it was too late. A steamship broke free of its moorings and destroyed three bridges to the mainland. As people fled to higher ground, waves raged inward from both the gulf and the bay. Homes disintegrated and rushing waters swept people away. Cline's aides measured speeds of 100 mph before their anemometer was blown away, and the wind would eventually peak at 150 mph. Of the 93 orphans and 10 nuns at St. Mary's Orphanage in Galveston, three boys survived the storm Entire island under water "The roofs of the houses and timbers were flying through the streets as though they were paper and it appeared suicidal to attempt a journey through the flying timbers," Cline wrote later that month in a report to his superiors. St. Mary's Orphanage, home to 93 children and 10 Catholic nuns, stood near the beach and was one of the first buildings to succumb to the storm. The only survivors were three boys who managed to cling to an uprooted tree as it was tossed around by the rising waters. Water continued to rise until the whole island was submerged by 3 p.m. and by midnight waves 15 high tore buildings apart with contemptuous ease. Cline's own home, battered by the waves and heavy debris, eventually collapsed. "My residence went down with about 50 persons who had sought it out for safety and all but 18 were hurled into eternity. Among the lost was my wife who never rose above the water after the wreck of the building," Cline wrote in his report. Almost a month would pass before Cora May Cline's body was found among the mounds of debris that littered the city. Cline himself nearly drowned but recovered and found himself clinging to his youngest child. His brother Joseph had grabbed Cline's other two children and they managed to keep afloat for three hours on wreckage until the worst of the storm had passed. Rich and poor alike huddled together in ornate mansions such as "Bishop's Palace." Still standing today, its strong walls saved the lives of some 200 people. |