OK I get it now. When it comes to hurricanes,

[proud2BlibKansan]

Florida - good.

New Orleans - bad.

Anyone else watching this crap on CNN?

[mestup]

1. Exactly! n/t

[AirmensMom]

2. Fill me in, please.

I have TWC on. :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. It is Wolf Blitzer

Interviews with Jeb and his emergency management head. They are going on and on about how prepared they are and Floridians are used to emergency evacuations and they have everything they need and on and on ad nauseum. Then the Red Cross lady comes on and talks about all the wonderful things her agency has done for NO.

Underlying message is very apparent. FEMA has not been mentioned. Those Floridians don't need FEMA. Meanwhile, if it wasn't for the Red Cross, NO would be toast.

[AirmensMom]

7. I knew there was a reason I wasn't watching.

Can't stand to see Jeb's mug on my TV. Things are so great down here that there are still blue tarp neighborhoods from last year's storms. :shrug:

Preparing for hurricanes is always a learning experience. Every time we have one, I find at least a few more things I could have done to make it easier ... and that's assuming the roof doesn't blow off. It's useless for Jeb and his gang to get up there and say we all know how to handle it. It makes it look like we're all as arrogant as he is.

Thanks for filling me in. :hi:

[stop the bleeding]

15. Ditto, I live outside Tampa and have been through a few now, and

every time the next one comes around you have to go out and get items to make the "Adventure" so much more enjoyable that you realized you didn't have from the previous time(s). The whole gulf coast has been given their "heads up" warnings from Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. I think most people will be prepared from now on.

[AirmensMom]

16. That's right.

We got a rechargable fan after last year and a battery powered TV, just to make it more comfortable. Lots of flashlights and batteries, no candles or other open flames.

We lived here for one hurricane season w/out hurricane panels -- we were lucky that year. Very few houses in our neighborhood have panels yet, after 11 years. Having them up calms the nerves.

Stay safe over there.

[stop the bleeding]

20. I think we're going to miss the brunt of it, the NHC has been calling

for it to hit Naples / Ft Myers area but here is a link to forecaster that just updated his prediction.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/SteveGregory/show.html

Maybe you already go threre. :hi:

[AirmensMom]

21. Well, yeah, but you'll still feel it.

We're a 2 hour drive east of Naples. Right now we're in a hurricane watch.

[stop the bleeding]

24. Well jeeze, I thought you were in the panhandle, please take care,

that whole area around Naples is no condition to have a storm like this. I'll be thinking of you and everyone else that has been affected by this storm.:hide:

[AirmensMom]

25. Naw, I'm in South FL.

Palm Beach County, south of Lake O. We're not in the Naples area, but it only takes 2 hours to drive there. Not a lot of time for Wilma to weaken over land. But we'll be fine. :hi:

[magicoflife]

4. Florida seems to be more prepared than

New Orleans. After Hurricane Andrew wiped out Homestead I think Floridians made a vow to always take hurricane warnings/watch very seriously and always be prepared.


You can bet your bicycle the next time New Orleans gets a hurricane watch they too will be prepared and take it very serious. Of course this is after they rebuild New Orleans and the rich are the new owners.

Did I tell you that is another one of my predictions! :-)
I suspect the poor will not return, atleast not around the water front. The rich will buy up the land build beautiful houses and levys that will sustain a cat 5.

Those middles to lower class folks who did own their homes will be in dept forever, thanks to our new bankruptcy laws and will never financially recover from this.

[markus]

12. In what specific way was New Orleans unprepared?

Foridians are being told to evacuate, and a mandatory evacation in some areas. But I don't hear anything about public transportation for those who don't have any. Where are the buses and planes and trains to take people out?

People are being told they are responsible for three days food-and-water and their own medicine, just like the people in New Orleans were told. Why can't Florida provide for the people in their shelters in the way people are insisting that New Orleans should have.

Most of the rescues made in Louisiana were made my Louisianians with boats (especially the Wildlife and Fisheries Services), yet the Coasties have their own series on Discovery Channel.

[magicoflife]

19. you are kidding

They were just reporting this morning of buses sent down to the keys to help with the evacuation. They have already evacuated many nursing homes.

Of course we are not comparing apples to apples when we talk of Florida vs New Orleans in regards to these hurricanes.
Florida has many wealthy people who spend the winters in FLA and the summers in New England. Makes it easier to leave. My brother lives in Broward County he is well prepared. From the structure of his home, to his generator and his water and food supplies.
That seems to be the norm in FLA. I don't think that was the norm in NO.

[teknomanzer]

23. New Orleans was a Worst Case Scenario...

There isn't a single city in the whole of Florida that sits as precariously as New Orleans does. In Florida there will be wind damage and some flooding. Homes will be destroyed, lives will be lost, but the kind of disaster represented by New Orleans will not happen in Florida because a levy will not break and flood out a large city. New Orleans was a disaster of the worst case scenario the likes of which cannot occur in anywhere in Florida.

[William769]

5. Sorry you feel that way

I for one like the way Florida has not forgotten it's citizens.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. That's not the point

They seem to be talking about Florida in an attempt to slam New Orleans.

[markus]

11. In what way have they not forgotten their citizens?

By dumping the working class into trailer parks and leaving them there, while their old homes are redeveloped into condos they can't afford? Read this for the loverly details.http://wetbankguide.blogspot.com/2005/09/bricks-in-sticks.html">Bricks in the Sticks

They can afford to be prepared for some people since they are stealing millions of dollars in Katrina relief money through no-bid contracts to Florida firms.

They're licking their chops thinking of all the extra federal money they will get, far above and beyond, and all of the property they will be free to redevelop out from under the asses of working Floridians without having to bother to evict them.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. Jebb Bush will gloat on Louisiana

he will put on a good exhibition of how good he is fighting hurricanes! :puke:

[markus]

9. Jeb's and Fla.'s demonstrated incompetence

They keep telling people that they must have three days worth of food and their own medicine.

How incompetent can they be? Can't they prepare to house and care for their people?

Why was Nagin villified for telling people coming to the Superdome they needed three days of food and water, and to bring their medicine, and Jeb gets to stand on TV and look organized.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. So you get it too

Good deal. :hi:

[KittyWampus]

10. if Key Largo is destroyed it's not worth rebuilding..you know, like NOLA

[AndyTiedye]

13. When FL Gets a Hurricane the Bush Regime Shows Money on Them...

...when New Orleans gets a hurricane, they shower money ...

...on Halliburton.

[AndyTiedye]

14. The Lesson Is, Turn Your State over to the BFEE Or Else

they will let you die when the storms come.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. And you get it

:hi:

Glad I am not alone in this.

[catzies]

22. Thread over, Andy Tiedye wins.

Be safe, South Floridians.