How far to Mexico?
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 2:47:39 pm PDT #2814 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Aug 30, 2005 2:48:07 pm PDT #2815 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's it. New Orleans is going to be the Lost Submerged City without that levee fixed. Fifteen feet under? That's not so fixable later.
Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 2:50:40 pm PDT #2816 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm wondering how they're going to get people out of the Superdome (not to mention everywhere else, but there's what, 60,000 people or so there now). Helicopters are the only real option, right?
Scrappy - Aug 30, 2005 2:52:03 pm PDT #2817 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Boats?
sarameg - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:05 pm PDT #2818 of 10002
I saw a piece on the NOLA zoo animals at the gym -- saw, not heard, and had to look away because it was too upsetting.
Oh dear. All those wee lion tamarin monkeys (or something. size of a child's fist.) Actually, they are probably mostly fine, running rampant through the countryside. They were supposed to be confined into one walk-through enclosed aviary, but...they had escaped. I saw them all over the zoo, even on the way to the ferry down to the river. It's the ones that can't get out that...going to stop thinking now.
It's getting all weird stormy here. The kids outside are playing.... club bouncer and druggies. They are probably 8. Sigh.
billytea - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:16 pm PDT #2819 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hushed and eager. Like he was mentioning Jasmine during the thrall.
Yep. That's pretty creepy.
I still can't quite get my head around the New Orleans situation. I mean, given how much destruction there is, it's pretty clear the warnings about a direct hit weren't scaremongering. (I'm a little hung up on the notion that this could easily have been even worse.)
dw - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:36 pm PDT #2820 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
I'm wondering how they're going to get people out of the Superdome (not to mention everywhere else, but there's what, 60,000 people or so there now). Helicopters are the only real option, right?
Actually, no. The Mississippi isn't that far away. They could ferry people to the levee then walk them to waiting boats on the river, then send them to Baton Rouge.
Problem is, an armada like that would take a couple of days to assemble.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 2:55:28 pm PDT #2821 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Mayor's office has corrected the message: in 12 to 15 hours the city will be under NINE feet of water, or 3 feet above MSL.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2005 2:56:31 pm PDT #2822 of 10002
What is even happening?
(I'm a little hung up on the notion that this could easily have been even worse.)I'm starting think that what would have been worse is that it would have been happening more quickly and violently, and that would have probably resulted in a greater loss of life. But where the city (rather than the population) is concerned, what's happening now, is pretty much what was predicted had the Category 5 hitting dead on.
DavidS - Aug 30, 2005 2:57:00 pm PDT #2823 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mayor's office has corrected the message: in 12 to 15 hours the city will be under NINE feet of water, or 3 feet above MSL.
Yes, that's so much better.
The freaking mildew! It's all going to be deep rot in all the wood frame structures.