Comments on: Gustav: Industrial Canal overtopping levee

By: GigG

GigG — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:17:29 +0000

So where are all the posts on how good a job the Corps of Eng. did fixing the levies? Oh, that’s right you can’t do that because it happened under the Bush administration.

#7 Right and there were like 7 different levee boards pre-Katrina. Now there is one and the Corp oversees it.

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:11:56 +0000

Well. This was a real ho-hummer, eh?

In spite of the breathless commentary by the Weather Channel talking heads.

I guess now Dumbya can say “heckuva job, R. David Paulison” and not be lampooned, even though there wasn’t really anything for R. David Paulison to do.

You go, R. David!

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:06:53 +0000

McCains wife said ,that she prayed and thats why the storm was a only a 2 when it hit land.
She should have asked why her lord is sending huricanes to the good ol USA.

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:02:50 +0000

Liberals, lesbians and the media are the cause of it all, they got bad attitudes which encourage the terrorist hurricane to spread its islamofascist water everywhere, damaging the reputation of dear leader Bush.

By: Digby

Digby — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:10:10 +0000

Hey. It’s raining in New Orleans. Hey! Things are getting wet. Wake me when it’s over. The media can’t wait for a disaster, and will be extremely disappointed if they don’t get one, and if there is a disaster, and FEMA handles it perfectly, they will be disappointed again.
This blog, incidentally, IS the media as much as any dumbass network. Let’s talk about the Olympics some more….ZZZZZZZZZZ…..Nothing to see here, people, Move along.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:07:37 +0000

Bobbo, I doubt that there are two super severe hurricanes hitting New Orleans in such a short time span. Plus, Katrina was a problem because of the contractors who built the dams. It was the newest construction that failed.

Even if it were Category 5, they could probably manage this time around. Cat 3 and lower should be easy.

I think it’s a problem if you are going to evacuate the city every time a hurricane comes nearby.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:04:09 +0000

#11 Which means alot fewer will the next time. There will be a next time.

What a joke. They should just abandon the entire Mississippi Delta region and give it back to the gators. New Orleans is a money pit that will flood again, just like it has over and over again in the past. This storm was far weaker, and passed 70 miles to the west of New Orleans, and still it almost went over the flood walls. And now it looks like the remains of the storm will camp out over Southern Louisiana for a few days, so New Orleans may still flood from the rain.

It sure is taking a dump on the RNC though.

Don

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:58:51 +0000

oh, yeah. It’s Fox News crew out there.

By: scadragon

scadragon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:56:38 +0000

So, did we have a hundred thousand idiots decide to stay home and party instead of following the mandatory evacuation orders again?

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:49:53 +0000

#12 they do call the place “the big easy.”

There is 4 reporters out next to that trail car.

By: CountSmackula

CountSmackula — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:32:08 +0000

There’s more to the state than New Orleans. We’re getting pounded in South-Central LA and I don’t see a single reporter on the air (except for the local stations) showing the hurricane in our part of the state.

Fuck New Orleans. Twice.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:23:28 +0000

Regardless of whether it is as bad a storm as Katrina is irrelevant. When the authorities told the people to evacuate, they actually did this time.

By: jpt1

jpt1 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:22:25 +0000

The only thing missing from CNN’s coverage is that ominous background music they play between segments and teasers. Apart from that they have covered – From red poncho clad correspondents screaming into wind battered microphones (I could do that from my back yard on a rainy, windy day too.), to the dramatic weather guy in studio (who clearly is running out of material and big hand gestures). Look I am not saying this is not a bad situation – However CNN are fear mongers. Legislation needs to be passed that all news footage should be date and time stamped (on bottom right of the screen) as it’s shot so news shows can’t get away with constantly repeating the same footage over and over. CNN consider the envelope “pushed”.

Does anyone else see this too?

By: QB

QB — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:21:24 +0000

Lou Minatti said: “I am not sure what your post has to do with New Orleans and the hurricane. Please keep your hate elsewhere.”

ROTFL

You’ll have to excuse me now. I need to sacrifice bunnies in a Wiccan ritual so the Flying Spaghetti Monster will swoop down at Republican National Convention and give John McCain a large and painful hickey on national television.

By: James Hill

James Hill — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:19:07 +0000

#6 – Angry liberals can’t help themselves, Lou. Considering the Chinese claimed to control the rain during the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, watch for some liberal kooks pushing this story as right-wing controlled weather.