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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:07 AM Original message |
Hurricane science:Why does a "mere" Cat 2 hurricane like Ike threaten Katrina-like destruction? |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because the eye is the strength of a cat 4, also because of the size of the storm |
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rwheeler31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. oil |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
3. That and the fact that no government official or agency wants to have anyone say they underestimated |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. with all due respect, they would be negligent if they didn't warn |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. They didn't say that though... they said people on Galveston Island would die.... |
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halobeam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. As I understand it, they had volunt. evac. Weds. and Mandatory evac. TODAY. |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. If people are to stupid to leave when this storm has been in the news for weeks.... |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
5. STORM SURGE.... 25 FT surge PLUS 30+ Foot waves on TOP of that!! |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Yes. And I just read that 40% of Galveston's residents DIDN'T evacuate |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:37 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Fool hardy, at the least.... what a shame... |
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eshfemme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:27 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. I'm really upset about that |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. 23000 in Galveston alone...in all 90000 people stayed back in two coastal counties |
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eshfemme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:55 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I'm just so worried because Galveston was destroyed about a century ago by hurricanes. |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. "Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE)" |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Just a coincidence |
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RL3AO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Coincidence |
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halobeam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 12:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Damn IRONIC if ya ask me. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
14. If they called it a Cat 5, I bet more people would have left. |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:35 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. True that, very true |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
18. It's a nearly 600 mile wide storm. Wind aside, this is Noah's ark type shit! |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 02:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. It is the storm of the century in terms of energy |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-13-08 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
21. Storm is actually nearly a 3. |
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