And now Rita!

Mother earth are mad at us!

She and Danny Devito must be on the outs...

Hope this one stays small, relief services couldn't handle anything big right now.

And my mother is trying to get me to move to Florida

At least I got a paid day off because of it.

God, I'm bored!

Yeah all hotels here are booked up already for this weekend. ...

Thanks to Bush the Southern States are going to be inhabitable in a couple of years....

up to a 4 now

hopefully it will not go up to 5.

We're really struggling to acomodate people here. People called like crazy these days to reserve 4-5 nights with all their families and dogs etc.

Can you imagine if the hurricane will pass it other way? All these people cancel their reservations at once. Damn, I forgot to run to the gas station to get as much gas as possible. :(

wow. They moved from K-name hurricanes to R. It must be a busy tropical storm season.

Oddly enough, here in this city we usually get hit hard by thehurricanes remnants. Hasnt really happen this yr.

they're evacuating low-lying parts of houston; galveston's being evacuated, as well. we know what happens when hurricanes hit galveston....

Erm, I don't.

Galveston was once destroyed by a hurricane? right?

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Erm, I don't.

You're going to ride a bike.

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Erm, I don't.

the galveston hurricane of 1900--america's deadliest natural disaster. it killed between 8,000-12,000 people in the area due to the storm surge, and wiped out the entire city of galveston.

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bLuE oRdEr wrote: Erm, I don't.

You're going to ride a bike.

Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?

AgentWood wrote:

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Erm, I don't.

the galveston hurricane of 1900--america's deadliest natural disaster. it killed between 8,000-12,000 people in the area due to the storm surge, and wiped out the entire city of galveston.

So afterwards they rebuilt the city in the exact same spot?

bLuE oRdEr wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Erm, I don't.

the galveston hurricane of 1900--america's deadliest natural disaster. it killed between 8,000-12,000 people in the area due to the storm surge, and wiped out the entire city of galveston.

So afterwards they rebuilt the city in the exact same spot?

uh, yeah. i think so.

You know the hurricane is all Bush's fault, right? Everything is. ;)

bLuE oRdEr wrote: You know this is all Bush's fault, right? Everything is. ;)

damn that william mckinley bush!

Exactly. ;)

(Interestingly enough, Karl Rove greatly admires and models himself after Mark Hannah, McKinley's aide. The Bush agenda is to rollback to the McKinley era, and Rove sees Bush as McKinley and himself as Hannah. One can only wish it were so.)

One of my best mates (we met comparing New Order graffiti on our pencil cases at high school) just moved to Houston last week. He hasn't even had time to buy some snakeskin boots and whistle Dixie and he's facing possible flood evac.

:\pimp3:

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Exactly. ;)

(Interestingly enough, Karl Rove greatly admires and models himself after Mark Hannah, McKinley's aide. The Bush agenda is to rollback to the McKinley era, and Rove sees Bush as McKinley and himself as Hannah. One can only wish it were so.)

Mckinly was killed in buffalo by an anarchist.

Jonathan wrote:

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Exactly. ;)

(Interestingly enough, Karl Rove greatly admires and models himself after Mark Hannah, McKinley's aide. The Bush agenda is to rollback to the McKinley era, and Rove sees Bush as McKinley and himself as Hannah. One can only wish it were so.)

Mckinly was killed in buffalo by an anarchist.

And a teary Mark Hanna was at his side when he died a painful death 8 days later.

a bit of foreshadowing, possibly?

It wouldn't turn out the same. Then we got Roosevelt; now we'd get Cheney.

Anyway, let's hope that Galveston won't be wiped out a second time, even if they did rebuild in the exact same spot, apparently. Never overestimate human intelligence, I suppose.

Galveston is also a major oil transportaion city with its seaport...

Galveston is also a major oil transportaion city with its seaport...

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hmmm... maybe this IS all the Bush admin's plan... drive the price of gas to 4 dollars a gallon so the economy will crash and he can justify attacking any country and forcing censorship and controls all thru society... sort of like how the Emperor in Star Wars got the Republic to justify war and give up democratic power... maybe Karl Rove or Cheany are the real Emperor-to-be, and Bush is our Jar Jar Binks... or maybe not.

Bush does seem awfully soft on the price of oil and gas... doesnt even pretend to bullshit about he cares about the little people on that one... does anybody know what the doubling of transportion fuel and heating fuel will do to the US economy? I don't claim to know, but there is reason to be frightened, along with the doubling of crude oil prices in a couple of years time, oil is a major component in all plastics, synthetics of all types in clothing and building materials, oil is a major factor in large scale agriculture, as well as the obvious transportation costs... plus factor in huge debt the US gov't has built up, and pensions and medicare being in serious problems... what will the future be like?

pumped full of drugs wrote:

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Galveston is also a major oil transportaion city with its seaport...

hmmm... maybe this IS all the Bush admin's plan... drive the price of gas to 4 dollars a gallon so the economy will crash and he can justify attacking any country and forcing censorship and controls all thru society... sort of like how the Emperor in Star Wars got the Republic to justify war and give up democratic power... maybe Karl Rove or Cheany are the real Emperor-to-be, and Bush is our Jar Jar Binks... or maybe not.

Bush does seem awfully soft on the price of oil and gas... doesnt even pretend to bullshit about he cares about the little people on that one... does anybody know what the doubling of transportion fuel and heating fuel will do to the US economy? I don't claim to know, but there is reason to be frightened, along with the doubling of crude oil prices in a couple of years time, oil is a major component in all plastics, synthetics of all types in clothing and building materials, oil is a major factor in large scale agriculture, as well as the obvious transportation costs... plus factor in huge debt the US gov't has built up, and pensions and medicare being in serious problems... what will the future be like?

Texans and Floridans move to Alaska. Alaskians move to Kamchatka, which belongs to Russia as of right now. :)

Or better: purchases of a few Mexican and Canadian territories? No more border illegal immigrants

Category 5.

A Connection Between Powerful Hurricanes and Global Warming?

Naah.

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Texans and Floridans move to Alaska.

HELL NO.

First I thought it's good for buisness - alot of people. Economy is booming :) But then I got a call from my sisters-in-law living in Corpus Christi and they are about to leave in a few hours to come to... my apartment, 6 people!!!! It's panic over there. The traffic is jammed already etc...

I cannot even tell you how crazy it is here in my hotel these days.

So we've got news.

I'm sitting in my office and watching the billboard with prices at the gas station across the street - ready to run up with my gas jars. So far it's $ 2.57.

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I'm sitting in my office and watching the billboard with prices at the gas station across the street - ready to run up with my gas jars. So far it's $ 2.57.

2.57? Is that all? Got mine for 2.58 today, and that's the lowest by far I've seen here in the valley by about 20 cents at the least, more likely closer to 35 cents everywhere else.

It's called "karma", folks. Either that, or as the Greeks used to say, "hubris"

I feel bad mostly for the people who just left Louisiana after Katrina, it looks like anybody from Houston on down is about to get the shit knocked out of them.

How much you wanna bet Bush goes on "vacation" during all this? :p

rita strikes

Houston... you have a problem.

Hello, Houston? Houston? Are you still there?

I'm drinking beer. Too much working all the time.

Attention Houston: Everybody, get in your cars and get on the highway NOW!!!

Don't stop to gas up, just go. You'll run out of gas in the traffic jam anyway.

George W. Bush: Bad on Terror, Bad on Preventing Hurricanes, Bad for America

what do you know, a levee broke again in new orleans.

gov. blanco said: 'if anyone's planning on staying and weathering this storm, maybe you should think about writing your social security number on your arm in indelible ink. '

great.

AgentWood wrote: what do you know, a levee broke again in new orleans.

gov. blanco said: 'if anyone's planning on staying and weathering this storm, maybe you should think about writing your social security number on your arm in indelible ink. '

great.

This is all God's vengeance on Mardi Gras. Damn your pagan bead-wearing!

I thought for sure Bush would respond more adequately to Rita bearing down on his home coast (as he is a "native Texan" by way of Conn., but a native Texan in his heart), but it looks like they're taking their sweet time and waiting for the storm to do her worst. He really does not give a fuck about anyone, does he?

hey, they scared the hell out of everybody, didnt they?

i wonder where all these panicky evacs are right now?

Bush Keeps Close Eye on Rita...something about that made me laugh just now for a good three minutes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_9

Just read an article by Jeremy Rifkin, in The Guardian, Friday issue.

Sorry, Mr President, homilies won't stop the hurricanes

A bizarre connection between SUVs and Lovely Ritas

So Jeff, is it raining men in Texas yet?

How was Thievery Corp. live Jeff? Various singers in front of Eric and Rob? Love the records, just not sure if they can pull off a live gig, besides I've been gone everytime they've made it to Oregon.