well, you could have been in lake charles. they had plenty of drops they could spare you.
you know, these past two years have been nuts with hurricanes. the florida-four last year (which also includes ivan, which freaked everyone in louisiana out... but it was a blessing, because the evacuation was SO bad, they actually DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT and had the contraflows up and running better, earlier, and further up the interstates. still, it was no walk in the park, but much, much better than last year), and this year cindy (a tropical storm that loosened a LOT up in louisiana), katrina and rita.
i have to assume we'll be seeing another ferocious season next year... just when the gulf coast will be getting its feet under it again.
i have to assume we'll be seeing another ferocious season next year... just when the gulf coast will be getting its feet under it again.
That's what's expected but, then-again, the predictions were for a lighter season this year than last, which was not the case. I read some articles about hurricane patterns, and supposedly the consensus is that it's not global warming, since the rest of the world (there are other hurricane basins) aren't having big seasons. Hopefully we'll be sliding back into normalcy.
That's what's expected but, then-again, the predictions were for a lighter season this year than last, which was not the case. I read some articles about hurricane patterns, and supposedly the consensus is that it's not global warming, since the rest of the world (there are other hurricane basins) aren't having big seasons. Hopefully we'll be sliding back into normalcy.
As they say down here. . . "Hurricanes blow."
Actually according to most climate experts I have seen interviewed we can expect two more decades of intense hurricane seasons.
I remember watching photos during and after Katrina: during, there was a guy seated in front of a wharehouse with a gun and a sign saying 'we shoot looters' . . . later, a couple of days, I saw a picture of that same wharehouse burned to the ground . . . I can only guess what happened to the proud man with his gun . . .
Having the means to defend oneself does not make most people more confontational, rather more humble and thick-skinned. When you realize that you cannot control how confrontations escalate, and how costly a big confrontation is, you don't want to enter even a small argument. This guy belongs to a minority.
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I recommend that if you feel that you need a gun in a situation where you might be alone with some rough folks, don't show it and count on it as a scare device
Yeah. No point escalating the situation, and on the other hand, losing the element of surprise if you end up having to use force.
Neither of these points are specifically about guns, of course.
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U2
Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Heaven on Earth, we need it now
I'm sick of all of this hanging around
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be peace on Earth
Where I grew up there weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
And it's already gone too far
Who said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt?
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No whos or whys
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth
They're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth and Ann and Breda
Their lives are bigger than any big idea
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
Jesus sing a song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth
This peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
We had a friend who left the same time we did who was determined to take the official "evacuation route"... 21 hours.
what a disappointment.
not even a drop of rain...
Originally posted by _ alliance _
what a disappointment.
not even a drop of rain...
well, you could have been in lake charles. they had plenty of drops they could spare you.
you know, these past two years have been nuts with hurricanes. the florida-four last year (which also includes ivan, which freaked everyone in louisiana out... but it was a blessing, because the evacuation was SO bad, they actually DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT and had the contraflows up and running better, earlier, and further up the interstates. still, it was no walk in the park, but much, much better than last year), and this year cindy (a tropical storm that loosened a LOT up in louisiana), katrina and rita.
i have to assume we'll be seeing another ferocious season next year... just when the gulf coast will be getting its feet under it again.
Originally posted by rok
i have to assume we'll be seeing another ferocious season next year... just when the gulf coast will be getting its feet under it again.
That's what's expected but, then-again, the predictions were for a lighter season this year than last, which was not the case. I read some articles about hurricane patterns, and supposedly the consensus is that it's not global warming, since the rest of the world (there are other hurricane basins) aren't having big seasons. Hopefully we'll be sliding back into normalcy.
As they say down here. . . "Hurricanes blow."
Originally posted by Splinemodel
That's what's expected but, then-again, the predictions were for a lighter season this year than last, which was not the case. I read some articles about hurricane patterns, and supposedly the consensus is that it's not global warming, since the rest of the world (there are other hurricane basins) aren't having big seasons. Hopefully we'll be sliding back into normalcy.
As they say down here. . . "Hurricanes blow."
Actually according to most climate experts I have seen interviewed we can expect two more decades of intense hurricane seasons.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
As they say down here. . . "Hurricanes blow."
Sometimes they suck, too.
Originally posted by pfflam
RE: thinking a gun is a good idea.
I remember watching photos during and after Katrina: during, there was a guy seated in front of a wharehouse with a gun and a sign saying 'we shoot looters' . . . later, a couple of days, I saw a picture of that same wharehouse burned to the ground . . . I can only guess what happened to the proud man with his gun . . .
Having the means to defend oneself does not make most people more confontational, rather more humble and thick-skinned. When you realize that you cannot control how confrontations escalate, and how costly a big confrontation is, you don't want to enter even a small argument. This guy belongs to a minority.
I recommend that if you feel that you need a gun in a situation where you might be alone with some rough folks, don't show it and count on it as a scare device
Yeah. No point escalating the situation, and on the other hand, losing the element of surprise if you end up having to use force.
Neither of these points are specifically about guns, of course.