Hurricane Logic
8/17/0 - 4th Day - Mid-Day. Tropical Depression Erin caused some havoc down south where the flooding has been bad all year, but we got barely a 1/2 or so from her. We're still getting the occasional small squall run through, and we are grateful for all we have received, but we certainly didn't get the 2-3 inches the prognosticators were calling for. So here is the real deal for those who are flooded down south...
Hurricane Dean
Ol' Dean is on a path that could lead him at Category 4 or 5 strength right into Galveston and Houston. I hope most of y'all remember what happened when they ordered a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Rita. It was a textbook show of urban efficiency and the depravity of man. With predictions of a 23 foot swell and winds over 150 mph, folks down south would be well advised to be planning right now. The ground is well saturated after Erin, and if so many died from flooding over that little sprinkling, can you imagine what Dean will bring if it comes this way.
On a weather blog I read, there was a debate on which is most dangerous and deadly - the storm surge or the winds. Statistically the storm surge does far more damage and killing than the winds do, but I disagree with the premise. The most dangerous thing when a hurricane hits a populated urban area is...
PEOPLE
God did not intend folks to live so close together and so dependent on corporate "services" for survival. The people that live in these places are, by nature, the most dependent and mentally colonized class of people - so when you add up all the factors you can see how storms like Katrina turn into disasters and how humans (the lowest kind) in a time of stress and emergency revert to their true character.
It is interesting sitting here writing this 4 or 5 days before whatever will (or will not) happen. Before Katrina hit I made the same observations. When Rita was on her way, I pointed out that it is interesting to see the true "calm before the storm" when people could be doing something to help themselves but they will not. The majority of Galvestonians and Houstonians will sit on their arses until a evacuation order is given, then they will clog I-45 and scream and wail about why there aren't government fuel trucks filling up their SUV's on the way to Dallas. Frankly, I'd be out of there sometime this weekend, and I wouldn't plan on returning for some time if the hurricane actually hits Houston. But that's just me. I wouldn't live in that hellhole with the scalawags and scumbags who live their anyway - so this is all an exercise in social commentary for me... that is all.
So, Dean could be nothing, which would be great - or it could be something, which would be bad. But I can't help but think if I will be blogging about this a week from now and saying (like a say so often I make even myself sick)... I TOLD YOU SO.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
Hurricane Dean
Ol' Dean is on a path that could lead him at Category 4 or 5 strength right into Galveston and Houston. I hope most of y'all remember what happened when they ordered a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Rita. It was a textbook show of urban efficiency and the depravity of man. With predictions of a 23 foot swell and winds over 150 mph, folks down south would be well advised to be planning right now. The ground is well saturated after Erin, and if so many died from flooding over that little sprinkling, can you imagine what Dean will bring if it comes this way.
On a weather blog I read, there was a debate on which is most dangerous and deadly - the storm surge or the winds. Statistically the storm surge does far more damage and killing than the winds do, but I disagree with the premise. The most dangerous thing when a hurricane hits a populated urban area is...
PEOPLE
God did not intend folks to live so close together and so dependent on corporate "services" for survival. The people that live in these places are, by nature, the most dependent and mentally colonized class of people - so when you add up all the factors you can see how storms like Katrina turn into disasters and how humans (the lowest kind) in a time of stress and emergency revert to their true character.
It is interesting sitting here writing this 4 or 5 days before whatever will (or will not) happen. Before Katrina hit I made the same observations. When Rita was on her way, I pointed out that it is interesting to see the true "calm before the storm" when people could be doing something to help themselves but they will not. The majority of Galvestonians and Houstonians will sit on their arses until a evacuation order is given, then they will clog I-45 and scream and wail about why there aren't government fuel trucks filling up their SUV's on the way to Dallas. Frankly, I'd be out of there sometime this weekend, and I wouldn't plan on returning for some time if the hurricane actually hits Houston. But that's just me. I wouldn't live in that hellhole with the scalawags and scumbags who live their anyway - so this is all an exercise in social commentary for me... that is all.
So, Dean could be nothing, which would be great - or it could be something, which would be bad. But I can't help but think if I will be blogging about this a week from now and saying (like a say so often I make even myself sick)... I TOLD YOU SO.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 8/17/2007 10:33:00 AM
1 Comments:
Just a plain ole, AMEN MB!
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