Hurricane Gustav

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  1. masalai
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    Please stay careful and safe.... - - - The plots here were, (17:22 OZ east coast time), suggesting a Texas landfall....
     
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    http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1082&tstamp=200809

    This is a great blog on how devastating this is going to be...glad I'm safe in Port Fourchon. We have had 40+ knot winds here for over 36 hours. We are still getting gusts of up to 58 knots. There is about 6-7 feet of storm surge - all of the roads are under water and the Gulf of Mexico is washing against the hull - all of the land is covered to the East of the Flotation Canal. Sometimes it is good to be on a boat.

    There are still a few boats offshore - one of them with busted out windows and an injured person that they are trying to airlift off. You have to wonder how they screwed up enough to be caught offshore. It isn't like this hurricane just snuck up on everyone. It sounds like a Captain or two needed to step up and tell whoever wasn't letting them in to go screw themselves and go and find a safe harbor...and a new job if necessary.

    I'm glad that I am not offshore and I am really glad that I'm not in Galveston right now.
    --Chuck
     
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    Yeap! Even the whooping cranes have flight out of there!

    Cheers and good luck.
     
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    I've been looking at the pictures from Crystal Beach, Texas. It doesn't look nice. Lots of massive destruction. I have been there a lot and I could only make out a couple of the land marks - lots of empty lots where there used to be houses. The Chief Engineer on this boat lives there. He is probably going to be let back in sometime around Wednesday to see what, if anything, he has left.
     
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    I'm very much sorry for all those who lost their homes because of the hurricanes in the whole area these last weeks, not to talk about the ones who lost their lives, or the lives of their beloved ones. Specially in the poor countries where things are even more difficult.

    Sad regards.
     
  8. lazeyjack

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    you know, in 72, Cyclone TRACY hit Darwin, knocked it out
    After that they talked about dome shaped rooves, circular houses
    I simply can not understand why after storm after storm, people erect tin rooved structures of wood
    I mean do folk never learn, the planners, the building code of practice
    Yes we all feel sad at losses, but , there are simple effective answers, , 300 knots can not get a grip on a round house with domed roof
     
  9. masalai
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    There was one such house in Darwin and it had not been bolted down. - - - It got rolled down the hill and was back in place (bolted down straight away) and crockery replaced and serviceable within a couple of days... - - - It was made in or to a Canadian design and was known as the "flying saucer" even before it flew.... I saw as I was in Darwin on Boxing day - the day after.... What a sight....
     
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    I have a lot of sympathy for the people in poor countries who are not able to relocate and prepare for hurricanes - I have very limited sympathy for those who are too stubborn or too stupid to leave. Like on Crystal Beach - the National Weather Service gave a warning to leave "or face certain death" and people still stuck around. The Chief Engineer's brother didn't leave and ended up being rescued by a crabber who fished him out of the water after his house fell apart. Sorry. I think he was extremely lucky and extremely stupid for going through all that. It is like standing in the middle of a highway when you know a truck is coming. If you get run over and killed I am not going to think "That is soooo tragic" I am going to think "Wow. That dumb sucker should have gotten off the highway!". Especially after Ivan wiped out Florida, Katrina wiped out New Orleans, and Rita wiped out Holly Beach. What the hell? Somehow this massive storm surge isn't going to have the same effect?

    Sorry for the rant. I feel better now.
     

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    masalai masalai

    No shortage of idiots, we occasionally get the odd fool who seems to think a roadway is a nice place to sleep and "their friends" get all indignant when the idiot is run over????
     
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