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That includes people from as far away as Kentucky "attributed" to Katrina. Not just LA and MS. At least that's what wiki said. I read once before that included people killed post Katrina that were killed from touching downed electrical, falling while doing construction and such. I don't know...

This was from Katrina, I assume south Florida has a lot more boats/ships per area than the gulf coast had. I'd be very concerned about somsone elses stuff come wrecking my stuff. Have a large boat float into your house would put a dent in your day I'm guessing.

During Katrina the biggest storm surge was in MS and there were areas where houses, casinos, buildings, etc...were just washed away including the slab for several blocks in. At that point I'm guessing doesn't matter how well your house is built when the entire slab is lifted and washed away with...

Anyone in FL having phone issues already? Got a message via ham from someone with a callsign registered to FL where they pass a message to call someone eventually on the other end. I passed it along. "OK, phone busy" and their name and callsign was in Miami. No idea if they meant all phones busy...

Just find it odd in that pic it almost looks like the hurrican would rach from the keys to El Paso.

That map makes it look like she's actually bigger than Fl, AL, MS, LA, and TX combined. Not sure on that.

Small town in East, TX got a group of people with special permits from Burma I think it was. The state department (Hillary) brought them over to work at Tyson chicken plants. Article I read on them said it was a tribe of very isolated people. Short time later article in the paper said school was...

Does Florida not have contraflow on the interstates? At least here every so often they have barricades that can go out to push contraflow into one direction ready to go.

Fired up the ham radio this afternoon, hurricane watch is in full effect. The local club takes over a full convention center (OK it's a small town) to work it as they practice it every year since Katrina.

Someone I know had a trip booked to the Bahamas. They called and cancelled and called their travel insurance, lady told them they needed proof before they could cancel the trip lol.

Thought it would start pushing east. It's really cool along the gulf coast for this time of year. Mid 70s for a high and low last night into the low to mid 50s.

The Florida attorney general said gas stations running out of gas, because stations holding out to artificially inflate the price even tho Florida has a no gouging law. Not because the 1st and 2nd largest refinery in the country shut down and in the process of restarting, and the 3rd running at...

Some places you will see one barely turn, but other times you'll drive for a few hours with nothing but windmill after windmill farms and nothing turning at all. T. Boone Pickens went all in on them and then later said they didn't have the power insfrastructure yet (he meant paid for by local...

Go to Wyoming, eastern half of the state is full of them. I still haven't seen one actually turning.

I left during Katrina, not because I was worried about winds or water. But I took the computers and could continue to work with no power and I think we were without power for 10 days where I left from. I stayed during Andrew. I had a cherrybark oak tree which is a very stoute oak and it was...

You're guaranteed to make the same as the dumbest fucking idiot at where you work. That's the benefit.

Only ever lived in FL in the panhandle, but for most of the state you only have the option to go north. That would bug the hell out of me, at least on the gulf coast you can go east, west, or north depending on where the storm is going and options you have to stay.

The southern half of MS is already on watch in case it turns and heads toward the FL panhandle. We're still full of water from Harvey. People watching it closer than most hurricanes as of late. They're waiting to see if it goes up the east coast of FL or the west coast. Ther's no place to go in...

Even if you are prepared and not hit directly, it's the idiots who didn't do anything that would worry me.

Sounds like they need this. I think Baton Rouge bought some not long ago, possibly from this same guy.

Can't have those that were prepared ahead of time defending their shit from the masses who didn't afterwards. Virgin Islands Allows National Guard To Seize Guns, Ammo Ahead Of Hurricane Irma U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns...

Most of the people you saw after Katrina that were out on the interstate and the superdome ran out of water the 2nd day. Living in a housing project and they couldn't draw up water to store in containers or in the tub. 2nd day, no waer, let's riot. But public water systems that still have power...

Apparently hurricanes come on a cycle, it's timed to how long before people forget. So they act like it's all climate change or the end is now. About 10-15 years, which happens to be the cycle we go thru big storm or 3 in a short period, then 10-15 years with mild to no activity then several...

They don't sandbag here for a storm surge. Mostly small flooding and then up against the house to stop the water from coming in because there's a foot of water on the road idiots think they have to drive thru it 1000 times a day at 40mph and the water goes into houses so people sandag against that.

Haven't looked at the water temp in the gulf but been pretty cool at night, cooler than average anyway. Can go out dove hunting in Sept and it be almost 100f and now it's around 80f for a high.

When they do it here it's as many sandbags as you personally want to bag and they bring in trucks of sand. But they also have a machine that makes them for people not able to bad them and to make a bunch in a hurry.

Apparently twitch is bored and they have to get a new home page/front end weekly. New one today.

Carry phone numbers on a piece of paper in your wallet or whatever. It's amazing how many people can't call anyone after the 24 hours of cell tower battery is gone. Noticed it in several things since Katrina that people have no way to contact anyone they know when evacuated if their phone is...

A lot of people who didn't buy any before the hurrican are now in panic mode and buying all they can before any service interruptions. Probably selling more gas now than before the storm.

Hard to tell how much is people panicking or what already. Reports of stations out of gas as far away as Georgia. I saw that lot of empty stations in central TX out. Of course it's a holiday, largest refinery down, and no telling how many stations in the Houston area will have to pump the water...

They thing they added where if you hit the back button to look at your list of followers but the stream keeps playing is kind of shit. I hit the back button to look at list of followers because I was done with this one.

People are nice to till they find out dipshits with no talent, desire to get better, have less skills, and produce less than they do make as much.

At least it wasn't in November of February when all the major refineries do maintenance and schedule their downtime with other refineries. So except for the closures due to weather everyone else should be able to run at maximum output now.

Just engineering drawings of all the processes and structures and associated stuff to go with it. I've never been in the one in the Woodlands or the one that was in New Jersey when Exxon was HQ'd there, but the one in Baton Rouge is pretty big. It's designed to withstand an attack, a big...

Along with all my other stuff had 2 skin biopsies today. Dr. wouldn't lean toward sclarderma or however you spell it. It's about the only thing that would explain all my issues, but I've had multiple ANA test which is the normal first test for it. The skin issues, high heart rate, abdominal...

The amonia is the only thing that scares me. I've been out of multiple chemical plants in my life, but amonia is the one that scares the shit out of me. Dow chemical had an amonia leak once and talking to the guys who made it out, no thank you. Rather deal with roach poison and whatever else...

Well the largest refinery in the country is down now, with Motiva down We'll see how that works out. I know the Exxon refinery in BR which used to be 2nd and is now 3rd runs at near 100% capacity at all times. I'm sure there's a lag and some stockpiles but we'll see how much is real and how much...

They are pretty tight with the "vault" they keep at the main deal in the Woodlands and the "vault" at the refinery in Baton Rouge. When 9/11 happened I was refused entry into the vault until additional higher ups cleared it which was odd cause I went into it daily or weekly. The funny thing...

On the radio today they were talking about how the storm was soooo big and the people that had to move out. People don't realise how much Houston and especially the areas that flooded have grown, even in my lifetime. Use to go to Conroe and then there was a break and then you got to Houston. Now...

If you flooded you really have to watch rebuilding. After Katrina drywall was in massive demand so home improvement companies imported a shit load of drywall from China. Several years later that was a multi billion dollar settlement because the Chinese drywall rotted out peoples copper pipes in...