Houston, we have a problem

[DainBramaged]

What the evacutrickle proves is on short notice, any major city in this country is completely fucked. Remember the scene in the movie Independence Day when the good folks from Washington DC are trying to leave on 24 hours notice? Dead, crushed, road kill.

We might as well just ride it out in case of disaster, man made or natural, because the calvary is never coming. Run out of gas, die. Break down, die. Overheat, die. Have to go to the bathroom? I'm sure there are undercover cops in the masses leaving in Houston waiting to arrest your sorry non-white peeing ass for indecency.

[GrumpyGreg]

1. We should all stock up on water & food and stay put! You are right.

[fleabert]

3. Welcome to DU!

are you in the area that it might strike?

and I am thinking that your post might be sarcastic, am I correct? (check out the smilies, they can help a lot)

[GrumpyGreg]

22. Thank you---I have a lot to learn

[newyawker99]

20. Hi GrumpyGreg!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[GrumpyGreg]

23. Thank you

[VolcanoJen]

2. It's a turning point in history, I think. A palpable change.

Before Katrina, nobody would have written your post. Well, a lot of people wouldn't have written that post, I mean.

America has often doubted government, but now, it can taste the failure of government. Americans can touch, smell, feel the danger.

I really think it's a turning point. I'm not sure where it will turn us.

But something has changed. And you nailed it.

[DainBramaged]

6. I can see the headline that a terrorist has a dirty bomb in NY

or any other major city.

Kiss your ass goodbye

glad we're not there.

Your's truly,
The Bish Administration

[VolcanoJen]

14. Can you imagine if a dirty bomb went off, in, say, Long Island?

Correct me if I'm wrong, New Yorkers... but isn't "through Manhattan" the only way out?

It boggles the mind that it took Katrina to make the majority of Americans take this shit serious, for real.

It looks easy, now, 9/11, Iraq (it's how the President frames it). In the sense that while we all felt such great pain, we didn't really feel a personal impact.

It's as if we do now. The times are changing. Rapidly.

[DainBramaged]

16. No, you can go North also, but the traffic alone is frightening

According to the NYSDOT, the Long Island Expressway handles approximately 210,000 vehicles per day (AADT) through the borough of Queens, approximately 180,000 vehicles per day through Nassau County, approximately 150,000 vehicles per day through western Suffolk County, approximately 100,000 vehicles per day through central Suffolk County, and approximately 30,000 vehicles per day near its eastern terminus.


http://www.nycroads.com/roads/long-island/

[gardenista]

8. I agree with you. I think that a lot of people have just figured out

that no one is in charge, and never really has been.

[spacelady]

4. Stuck on the road with no gas and no porta potties?

Well I'm TNT, I'm dynomite; watch me explode!

I'm in Mobile, I'm entitled to gallows humor. Seriously, it's getting bleaker & bleaker with no end in sight.

[Erika]

5. It makes you wonder why they have the right to take our taxes

If they have no intent on helping us.

[area51]

19. "If they have no intent on helping us."

Erika said:

"It makes you wonder why they have the right to take our taxes If they have no intent on helping us."

Well-put. It's a point that the nazis fail to understand. They continue to be outraged by people getting rescued, b/c they're {the nazis are} too stupid to figure out that people getting rescued are merely getting their tax dollars back.

[niyad]

7. I would prefer to face the disaster, and NOT the crazed, frightened people

on the roads. if I die, oh well. . . . at least I will die at home, with my furbabies, my wine, and my chocolate.

[iamthebandfanman]

9. yes this is crazy

they scared the crap outa people and they all fled to the north and by the looks of it to me its gonna hit somewhere above the houstin area, so...gonna be lots of cars on the road when it does move thru...cause word is most of the hotels down there are filled up with alot katrina people as is

[swag]

10. Yeah.

Remember the scene in the movie Independence Day when the good folks from Washington DC are trying to leave on 24 hours notice? Dead, crushed, road kill.

that was bad when that happened. Who was president then?

[DainBramaged]

11. The only real President of the last 25 years.

The only President who ran a surplus after balancing the budget. The only black President. The only President who told them I will not resign over a blow job.

The only real President in my lifetime.

[swag]

12. Dag.

Don't make 'em like that any more.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Yup, and the NeoCons think they can but the facts show they are

inept and confused much more than Mongo of RockRidge

Where O Where is DAVE when we need him?

[VolcanoJen]

18. <<< hug >>>

Nice one, Dain.

[AndyTiedye]

15. including the lack of fuel that was to have been prestaged by the state...

...and is not there.

Mayor Bill White

[DainBramaged]

17. It's the after effects too. These Bish goons can't handle it.

Housing the Displaced Is Rife With Delays


Nearly four weeks after Hurricane Katrina displaced more Americans from their homes than any event in at least 60 years, efforts to find housing for 200,000 families from the devastated Gulf Coast are getting bogged down, according to federal, state and private sector officials.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials complain of a drastic shortage of sites suitable to state and local officials for the huge trailer parks that FEMA hopes to establish for evacuees. Local and parish leaders say FEMA's plans to supply the trailer parks with water, sewer, electricity and other services are haphazard or nonexistent, and the encampments -- some of which could include 15,000 units -- are bigger than any the agency has ever established.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092202352.html

[DainBramaged]

21. I wonder what the stations are charging for the gas

and if the folks they are SUPPOSED to be helping who ran out on the road are being charged too?


This is your government.

This is your government on drugs.