Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Plantagenet wrote:Hopefully Biden has learned his lesson from his chain of stupid decisions in Afghanistan and won't wait until hurricane Ida hits before ordering the citizens of coastal cities in Louisanna to be evacuated.
Cheers!
Newfie wrote:Good question, why must people be told what to do?
It strikes me it is because they can not figure it out for themselves. They turn to the government for direction. And if course there are those in the government who gladly accept this responsibility because it puts more people under their control.
Personally I don’t like it, but I am an outlier, big on personal responsibility.
Tuike wrote:Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline network, halted motor fuel deliveries from Houston to Greensboro, North Carolina. Its lines supply nearly half the gasoline used along the U.S. East Coast and an extended May shutdown led to fuel shortages. A spokesman on Monday did not say when it expects to resume full operations.
Insured losses to offshore platforms, rigs, and pipelines are estimated to be between $700 million and $1.5 billion, according to industry experts.
That is markedly below $2 billion to $3 billion of insured losses suffered by operators during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as estimated by the Insurance Information Institute.
RMS says, however, the current numbers underestimates the scale of total damage caused by Ida because insurers have scaled back coverage of offshore assets in the region since Katrina and other major hurricanes such as Ike in 2008.
ROCKMAN wrote:newfie - Big difference between being recommended/told to evacuate and being forced to leave. I grew up in NOLA and for the most part leaving had nothing to do with KNOWING what to do and WANTING what to do. Forget logic and even common sense: we don't want to leave our homes. Of course not having a specific place to go and a way to get there does play a part. My family had neither the 2 times I found myself wading through waist deep waters. And we were renters and didn't even own the houses. Call us "old school".Foolish old school but old school none the less. LOL
BTW living in Houston I am now an expert on evac procedures. Typically just a 3 hour and a night in a motel. But didn't even have to do that for Harvey since my retirement home is in the highest part of coastal land between Corpus Christie and Mobile. Being a geologist I can read a topo map as well as the Exxon refinery folks across the highway from me. LOL. Being on the east side of Harris Count/Houston and on the high cut bank side of the San Jacinto River all I saw was water up to my curb.
Tuike wrote:Southern Italy braced for rare Mediterranean hurricane -guardian
“Sicily is tropicalising and the upcoming Medicane is perhaps the first of this entity, but it certainly won’t be the last,” said Christian Mulder, a professor of ecology and climate emergency at the University of Catania. “We are used to thinking that this type of hurricane and cyclone begins in the oceans and not in a closed basin like the Mediterranean. But this is not the case.
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