Elaine Meinel Supkis
It almost seems a replay of last year. After hurricane season starts off, it peters out to nearly nothing. The Gulf heats up more and more and a drought grips Texas and the Gulf states. Then a fairly unorganized storm enters the bathtub and nearly instantly becomes a mega-hurricane.
Ernesto might replicate Katrina.
By MICHAEL MELIA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Tropical Storm Ernesto formed Friday over the Caribbean as it moved toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and could develop into the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Ernesto was projected to reach hurricane strength early next week and to enter the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday or Wednesday but it was too soon to predict whether it would hit the United States, said Robbie Berg, a forecaster with the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The jet stream is curved far to the north and is in the same groove it was in last year this same week. There is no cold fronts coming in that can 'push' this storm away. If it grows to a mega-storm and the chances of that are very high, then it will deform all weather patterns, anyway.
We are in no way ready for this. Bush just had a Republican operative pretend to be protesting the slow recovery work due to last year's storms. This idiot came trolling up with his bitty trailer, talking as if he were as uneducated as Bush, both having college degrees but evidently both drinking themselves to senility...and this clown, an owner of 31 Pizza Huts, pretended to be a yokel while saying, he hoped Bush would ruin America for four more years after the coming two years of nonstop disasters. Of course, this got loving coverage and made our silly ape happy as a banana but it won't save him if Ernesto blows all 31 Pizza Huts to pieces.
During and after the last set of storms, Bush and his idioti spent most of their time trying to create various photo ops and Potemkin plots. It is no surprise to see them pre-empting the coming storms with the same garbage.
Cars drive through a hail storm in Mexico City Aug. 23,2006. The hail storm shredded leaves from trees and left piles of unmelted ice in Mexico City. (Xinhua Photo)
Pretty amazing set of pictures of the huge hailstorm that clobbered Mexico City. Hot and cold at the same time! There is a lot of stored energy just waiting to express itself in this part of the earth, namely, along the equator. The drought which extends up the entire length of the central plains of America, all the way into Canada, have gotten only occassional showers this last six months. What they really need is lots of snow. If this latest potential hurricane follows the path of Katrina, it will swell up hugely and swiftly in the Gulf and probably reach catagory 5 status within one day of hitting the superwarm waters, then contract and lose energy as it hits the drought region and then pick up more moisture as it slips up the Appalachian mountains and then dump 7" of rain on my farm.
Here are the NOAA drought maps.
Louisiana irritates the insurance companies by giving an extention for homeowners to sue them.
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday upheld two new state laws giving policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.The Louisiana attorney general's office had asked the high court to review the laws after a state judge said they were constitutional. Although it is unusual for the party that wins a ruling to seek a review from a higher court, Attorney General Charles Foti said he wanted the matter solidly settled.
Isn't it funny how GOP pols suddenly love lawyers and want us to have the right to sue big businesses? Heh. I remember the outrage they displayed over Edwards running for VP. He was a villain, suing on behalf of a little girl who had her guts ripped out by a hot tub pump!
The insurance companies are retaliating by destroying paperwork.
August 25, 2006 2:25 PM
Brian Ross and Joseph Rhee Report:State Farm Insurance supervisors systematically demanded that Hurricane Katrina damage reports be buried or replaced or changed so that the company would not have to pay policyholders' claims in Mississippi, two State Farm insiders tell ABC News.
Kerri and Cori Rigsby, independent adjusters who had worked for State Farm exclusively for eight years, say they have turned over thousands of internal company documents and their own detailed statement to the FBI and Mississippi state investigators.
They should change the hands in the commercials from holding people to ripping up paper work! Of course, after State Farm is found guilty, the money will go to this set of homeowners who will happily rebuild in the path of all the future hurricanes. And there will be no more insurance, of course. Then everyone living in the path of danger will demand we all subsidize them and especially in the South, they will suck at the public teat and then lecture us in the north about limiting the size of the government and to stop asking for handouts.
It really annoys me. The howls of rage over government handouts coupled with begging bowls. Sort of like how we approach the Chinese who have been hammered by very ferocious typhoons this year not that we gave a fig.
One of the biggest challenges would be the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people who have been living in trailers since their homes were destroyed last August and September.About 81,700 temporary trailers currently provide shelter for as many as 200,000 people, according to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Louisiana.
"One important point to make is that they can't stay in those trailers during a hurricane or even a strong tropical storm," Mayfield said.
Maybe they can move into those 31 Pizza Huts.
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