Saturday, August 30, 2008

KATRINA: ROUND TWO??

In case you don't watch the Weather Channel (like most people don't), there's another hurricane out there. It's headed straight for Louisiana. And it's a high Category 4, which is fucking STRONG already...and it's projected to strengthen. Katrina was a Category 3, and look what it did.
They just started rebuilding after Katrina, which was devastating. But there's a pretty good probability that Gustav will be just like Katrina, but STRONGER. Yeah...if you live in coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, or southeast Texas, you need to get the hell out of there.
I wonder if this is Mother Nature's way of saying, "this is what you dumbasses get for building a city BELOW sea level."
This really isn't fair, though. Two major hurricanes within four years? What the fuck?
Katrina hit Louisiana on August 25th, 2005. Gustav is expected to make landfall on Monday, during the early afternoon. That's September 1st, one week after August 25. Sources put the point of landfall about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans. Hurricanes are storms that cover a large amount of area, though. New Orleans will face at LEAST minimal hurricane-force winds, probably at least the winds of a direct-hit Category 2-3 storm.
What is it with Louisiana, Mother Nature?
Geez.

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