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New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/08/31 07:06Cuba damaged - now Gustave goes for the States - and Mother Nature yet again shows us just how puny we humans are, with unfortunate delusions of grandeur.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/08/31 18:49I remember when Katrina devastated New Orleans and Mr Bush gave his speech about seeing a new New Orleans rising from the ruins. He did very little to help the people there, possibly because they were mainly Democrats who weren't likely to vote for him.
The last situation was handled very badly. Has the American government learned it's lesson? I doubt it.
Meanwhile, I wonder if Fats Domino has left a notice on his house this time saying "I AM NOT DEAD!".
I wish all the people of New Orleans the very best.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/01 01:00These increasingly more frequent extreme weather conditions (i.e. huricanes 3 years ago, floods in uk in 2000 and 2007, and hurricanes again this year) are growing indicators of climate change and America is the biggest perpertrator of this. It shows a growing need that we must change our lives, use less energy, drastically reduce the number of flights we take and cut down on driving.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/01 08:56I think that a lot of UK residents do not really understand the scale of a disaster like Katrina, there is still a huge "it couldn`t happen here" attitude. To those people, all I can say is, this is such a small place that it would be no good running to Aunties at Eastbourne until it blows over.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/01 09:06Actually talking about the Sussex part of the world, can one imagine a hurricane hitting Seaford? It would simply be wiped out, there is no way the sea defences would hold anything back at all from the town and once you get past the seafront, most of the town from what I recall is below sea level.
There was a great Neil Tennant song in the 80`s called "It Couldn`t Happen Here", with many Kings Cross station references, I always found it spooky that the song seemed to depict what did happen there 6 mths later, although it was probably not what he might have meant. I think us 60`s born people, were all brought up with the "it won`t happen" attitude. Sadly, it does.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/01 12:08JK2006 wrote: It's my second favourite city in the USA (after New York and just ahead of Denver).
The cajun/creole food is fabulous.
I must dig out our feature on K-Paul's restaurant there in Ent USA.
I've got a VHS version of this! It was a comercially released video. Was there only the one edition to be released on tape?
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/01 12:24Eastbourne is a nice place. I'm not sure if a hurricane would hit Sussex with full force because it would have to cross other land to get there. If it came from Europed then the channel isn't big enough for it to rebuild strength, and east and west would mean other parts of Britain got the main impact. But I'm no expert.
I see Gustav has reduced to a Cat 3 storm now, so hopefully New Orleans can survive the encounter.
Re:New Orleans/Houston... looks nasty - 2008/09/02 06:46All I recall about Eastbourne, to be honest, is not being able to park anywhere near the little theater there and they used to have a brilliant studio which I think was called ICC. I think your are right though Denise, if a major storm hit Sussex it would probably swell over the South Downs and Kent is probably more likely to suffer the worst.
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