Jeff Ranieri, a Weather Plus Correspondent for NBC News, was asked, "Were the people of Biloxi taken off guard by the severity of the storm?"
Well, the original storm track had a lot of the heaviest winds going over New Orleans. Then the storm started to veer a little bit further east than expected.
But, in the beginning, they were calling for evacuations here. It’s just that so many people in the Biloxi region, from what we are hearing, were trying to compare this storm to Camille. You really can’t do that with hurricanes. You can’t compare one storm to the next, because it is really Mother Nature and things certainly vary from time to time and place to place.
So, a lot of people stayed here thinking, well, we made it through Camille, our house was OK in Camille; we’ll make it through Katrina.
A lot of those people waited it out in their homes. And, we’re finding that’s why the number of deaths is rising. A storm like this, trying to wait it out, and being so close to the ocean, you’re not going to find a lot of survivors in that area.
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I like my kids.
Not sure what I like about myself, I feel kinda blech at the moment.
Is it just me, or does the relief concert just cry out for a certain Eurovision-winning Anglo-American band with a single top 10 hit in the United States back in 1985?
My first thought was, "I have pretty good legs." Make of that what you will.
Hivemind question for those with pagers: My office currently staffs a public desk, and when it gets really busy we use a built-in buzzer to call the office for backup. We're soon to move to a new space with no buzzer. It has been suggested that we use a pager to contact the office, and it has been suggested that I "look into it." So, does this sound nuts? We buy a pager and put it in our cube farm with the volume turned up way high. When the desk gets busy, people call the page number and it makes a noise in the cube farm, and someone goes down to the desk. Can anyone think of a better way? How do pagers work - do you register the number with the phone company, or use a private service? (MY idea is to use an IM chat room, but I think there are technophobes.)
flea, get a wireless doorbell instead.
I'm especially fond of my nose.
It's a good nose, but really your eyes are where the action is.
Not sure what I like about myself, I feel kinda blech at the moment.
I like your imagination.
Dude, I never knew such a thing existed. DX am genius. [link]
flea, we use a wireless doorbell like this at my office. Would that work? You could just hit the button at the desk and it would ring back in the office.
(x-posty goodness!)
Lunar Robo-Penguin!!!
Robotic 'Penguin' could hop on moon
LONG BEACH, Calif. - A robotic Lunar Penguin explorer could be hopping around on the moon by 2009, Raytheon Co. said Tuesday, as it unveiled the concept lander at an aerospace conference.
The unmanned lunar device, in development for two years, is 3 feet (1 meter) tall and weighs approximately 230 pounds (105 kilograms). It “hops” by reigniting small propulsion engines.
The Penguin, unveiled at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2005 Conference, can make a single jump of about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) and could be adapted to make additional jumps, possibly over greater distances.
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The squat, compact unit has a few tiny jump boosters protruding below and on its sides, and looks nothing like an actual penguin.
Aw, crap....
