Nighmare Hurricane Dean scenario for Bush

[Perky]

There is a reasonable chance that Hurricane Dean could hit just south of Brownsville Texas.

Which mean to get out of harm's way hundreds of thousands of Mexicans are going to want to stream across the border. It may be entirely possible that DHS is going to either have to order that the border be blockaded or just opened wide.

Mexico does not have the infrastructure to replace the substandard housing that exists in that area so if DHS orders the Border open there may be no controls on who is here and nothing for the Mexicans to go back to.


Talk about a rock and a hard place.

Bush either looks like a despot or risks the wrath of what reamins of the GOP base Virulent Xenophobes

[uppityperson]

1. I hadn't considered that scenario. Will have to think more on it.

[deadmessengers]

2. VERY interesting

My guess is that he'll do nothing, and let the chips fall where they may. He didn't give a shit about the humanitarian disaster he created in Iraq or the one he ignored on the Gulf Coast, so past history tells us that he'll do exactly fuck-all about this one.

[krispos42]

3. Oh, I'm sure there some Repub's birthday he can go to..

And Condi can ALWAYS buy more shoes!

[Perky]

4. ouch...but come on

it was a serious question... I think it be the his undoing either way.

[deadmessengers]

7. Serious question

If Katrina and Iraq weren't "his undoing" why would this be? Not trying to be snarky here, just trying to get a better picture of what could happen.

[krispos42]

10. He has no shame and no concept of his personal failings

And an enormous ego. Whatever happens with Hurricane Dean, in Bush's mind it's not his fault, nor will it ever be.

He cannot be shamed into resigning and Congress will not impeach him because they're wusses.

He's been undone already. The people that own the Republican Party will NOT let him go away because they need him to stop the Democrats. Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Defense, Big Insurance NEED him to keep their profits in the "Obscene" catagory, so they make sure their Republican puppets in the House and Senate will NEVER impeach Bush.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/14

[MADem]

5. Seems to me the smart move is to head inland, not up the coast.

You want to go to where the storm is MUCH less, where it will lose power, as they do travelling over land, not where it could maybe hit with just as much force with a slight jog of the trajectory.

Felix Gonzalez, governor of Quintana Roo state, which includes Cancun, said tourists should leave Isla Mujeres, Cancun, Playa del Carmen and other resorts.

"The residents in those zones have to leave, and in case they resist, we will use force," Gonzalez said. "We're not going to run any unnecessary risks."

Dean's estimated trajectory has it making landfall near Cancun on Monday night. But hurricanes often veer as they approach the peninsula.

Further evacuations might be ordered as early as Sunday, Gonzalez said.

About 1,200 shelters capable of holding 70,000 people have been prepared along the Quintana Roo coast. Most hotels have assigned shelters in schools and other fortified buildings and hotel staffs are providing food for evacuated tourists.

In addition, airport officials at Cancun and Cozumel were contacting airlines to ask that flights be canceled and diverted, Gonzalez said. He added 60,000 tourists had been scheduled to arrive along Mexico's Caribbean coast this weekend.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5065556.html

[Perky]

6. Different Mexican state altogher.

People on the Borderare are very poor and many do not have cars.

[MADem]

8. Well, my point is this--if the hurricane hits "on the border" it isn't going to keep to the

left of an imaginary line--it'll sock 'em on both sides.

[Screwfly]

9. I betcha

guns and amunition will be flying off the shelves in south Texas come Monday.

[okasha]

12. Chill.

South Texas and Northern Mexico have been through all this before. Evacuees from the Gulf Coast, Mexican or Texan, are going to go inland. If Dean comes in south of Brownsville, San Luis Potosi and Cd. Victoria will likely take in folks from north and east. So will Monterrey, which may get wet, but has the organization to provide shelter.

[lastliberalintexas]

11. I hope to god no one from N Mexico tries to go to Brownsville

That would be idiotic and dangerous actually, as most coastal dwellers know.

For you inlanders, Brownsville would be on the dirty side of the hurricane if Dean hits N Mexico, so it wouldn't be any safer than their home. They'd actually be better off heading inland or farther south into Mexico. I'm sure the coastal dwellers of the eastern side of Mexico know that just as everyone else who lives on the Gulf Coast does.