Hurricane Katrina
ZephyrZodiac:
Over here in the UK they're just gullible and believe what the Met Office tell them! I can remember listening to a radio weatherman telling everyone the sun was shining and would continue to do so all day while all of Central London was in the middle of a thunderstorm and the rain was coming down in buckets! He obviously had a windowless basement office!
reggikko:
Well, we're back to a play it by ear stance. It looks like Katrina may be taking a slight northward turn. I've actually never evacuated for a hurricane and I've lived in the New Orleans area my entire life. I was around for Hurricane Betsy, the last big hurricane to hit New Orleans, in 1965. My main concern was my kindergarten homework not getting done. I did it by hurricane lamp at the kitchen table while the storm raged outside. Yes, I was a very strange child.
A direct hit by a Category 4 storm is worth getting out of the way of, but below that and I feel safe enough in staying. Of course, we live 80 miles inland and our area is a whole 15 ft above sea-level (Woo!). And we're inside the hurricane protection levee system, so storm surge isn't really an issue. The city of New Orleans is a whole other issue, as it is basically a soup bowl which is surrounded by water *and* is 10 ft below sea-level. There simply isn't anywhere for the water to go. My prediction is a Biloxi/Gulfport or Pass Christian/Bay St Louis, MS landfall.
So, I'm here until tomorrow for sure, anyway. If I do disappear for a few days, it's probably because we're without power.
ZephyrZodiac:
We'll keep a look out for you!
Kitiara:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 27, 23:59:37
You guys don't know how to build homes, obviously. If you're in a hurricane area, what you SHOULD be building is a reinforced airtight biodome. One thick enough that it can withstand hurled cars, stray bullets, cannonballs, etc. with no damage. Honestly, why is it that people don't learn to build appropriately in accordance with the hazards of their environment?
JM, if I had the budget I would be quite happy to build a bunker capable of withstanding a nuclear holocaust (and then invite you over to inspect it), but I don't. I am broke. Poverty stricken actually. So, unfortunately, I will continue on in my crappy home that is very vulnerable to the weather (among other things). I would love to be better prepared.
ZephyrZodiac:
I have the same problem with finances, but luckily hurricanes are not frequent here, just the tail-ends of US ones when they've crossed the Atlantic! However, we do still get a lot of storm damage and some parts of the country where they've built new estates on flood plains have dreadful problems with flooding. I'm lucky in that the city where I live is fairly high up, and also is networked underneath with mine workings so water has somewhere to go, but everywhere in the UK is getting wetter, so there could well come a time when whole areas of the country are underwater permanently! And unless you can afford a submarine, you would have no choice but to move and before long insurance companies are going to class this kind of thing as an "Act of God" and refuse to pay out!
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