These hurricanes are getting ridiculous.
 

Rita is now a Cat-5 with 165mph and climbing winds, and it's still got another 2 or 3 days to strengthen before it makes landfall. It's nearly the size of Texas already...

Wow. Here we go again. I'm so glad I live on this side of the country.

BTW you guys heard from Glenn yet? How's he doing?

I heard from him a few days ago and he was okay, in Shreveport for the time being. He managed to go back into the city after the storm & flooding hit and retrieve most of his valuables, and get back out safe too.

Well, if a second Cat 5 hurricane is going to hit the US, I guess the part of the country still destroyed by the last one is probably the best place for it...

Yeah, but this one's gonna hit Texas, not LA/MS.

http://image.weather.com/images/maps...us_600x405.jpg

Looks like it's going after the New Orleans refugees. I guess the guy God was after the 1st time survived so He's got to send a second storm.

Scary, but good to hear that he was able to get his stuff. Guess 3rd flr. apt. is a good place to be located.

Glad I don't live in the South!

Wait, what?

JC needs an umbrella. :)

he was looting! j/k.

No, he's white so he was foraging.

If you knew Glen, you probably wouldn't call him white. :lol:

hmmm...Either way, he's a criminal.

I can't believe how big this new hurricane looks wow.

Well, they did have to sneak in there and "rescue" over a million dollars worth of pacemakers and defibulators. :lol:

Plus Glen's Caddillac on dubs, and his guns. :lol:

In case you missed it on the weather channel.

^hahaha

[edit: my dad made a post making fun of me...lol]

As Deuce Bigalow(the script at least...) once said "Thats a huge bitch"

I first read that as "not ALMS" and did a :huh:

The projection was farther east last time I saw it. Texas sucks anyways, trust me. (Sorry Tim. :p)

:lol: Glen?

DeeDe - the west is no safer with th earth quakes and all, that have no warning!


The end is near :(

Um, I don't think so. While many hundreds were killed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, a grand total of 305 (If I did the math correctly)have been killed since in California due to earthquakes. And typically, they hit every 75-100 years in a given location. The most recent ones in memory, Loma Prieta in N. CA, and Northridge in S. CA killed 63, and 57 respectively. As far as a quick Google Search can tell, there has never been a recorded fatality in Nevada due to an earthquake.

Hundreds and thousands of people are killed almost every year in the south by Hurricanes, and Tornadoes they know are coming. Thanks but no thanks. I'll live in the West and take my chances with Earthquakes.

Abreviated Bibliography:
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/links/earthquakes.htm
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho...s/6469067.html

What Dean said.

Plus, earthquakes in earthquake prone areas don't do too much damage since the ground tends to be pretty broken up which dampens the quake and limits the travel of energy. A 7.5 hitting St. Louis would probably damage buildings in Boston, meanwhile that same 7.5 in San Jose wouldn't even be felt in Sacramento.

In addition, the earthquake prone areas of the west have very strict building codes to prevent catastrophic building failures. Earthquakes simply don't level cities in the west because they're all required to be well built. Usually the danger from earthquakes is from being buried in your own home (such as the tens and hundreds of thousands of people that die when a major quake hits in Mexico or that somewhat recent quake in Iran where the population tends to live in mud/earthen houses), but that threat simply doesn't exist in the western US. It would take a 10+ earthquake to do that sort of damage here.

Whereas the means for protecting a large area from catastrophic flooding... it's just not effective. You can't water-proof houses, and a single point failure in a levy results in massive flooding for many structures. A single point failure in a building during an earthquake will at worst damage/destroy a single building. Frankly the only real danger from earthquakes in a modern city is fire.

Or your neighbors, if the water/power gets cut for a few days...

Well I'm glad everyones name is DeeDe.......wtf!!!!

yah blah blah blah. most the building in the bay area would fall to an Earthquake to WILL hit them someday. Sure the building code has been improved, that doesent mean that all the structures (the more then 50%) that where built before earthquake codes have been improved!!!!!!


not to mention but if the weather storms are getting stronger then by god the earthquakes will also!!!!

Huh?

real useful post thanks for stopping by :rolleyes: