What is your worst night ever on DU?

[Elwood P Dowd]

I remember as a lurker the 2002 election night was bad. The start of the war in Iraq? The Medicare Drug Bill in the House was a long and disgusting night. The repuke bastards held the vote open for hours. Then there was a similar problem with CAFTA. The best night had to be the 2006 election night. I think I finally went to bed about 4:30 am.

[vogonity]

1. Nov 2-3 2004. No question

I bailed from all political boards for 2 months after that.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. I keep trying to forget that

It was probably the worst.

[bigwillq]

2. Nov. 2004 was the worst.

The aftermath of the 2006 mid-terms were the best. I wasn't on a lot the day of the 2006 mids but the days that followed I was on a lot and it was so much fun!

:bounce:

[GreenPoet64]

32. Nov 2004 n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. around the time the pope died, that was awful. The 04 primaries were awful

as well but the flame wars about the pope were off the charts.

[KaryninMiami]

5. The night that Andy Stephenson died was a pretty horrible night.

Probably my worst night ever on DU but I was grateful to have everyone here for their support and I know he knew we were all sending him prayers and love. But it was a terrible night overall.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Yah, the loss of all the DUers who are gone now was a hole in the heart.

[Reterr]

6. The week of Nov 2, 2004

Ugh...I still remember the morning after..It was one of those days one didn't want to get out of bed.

[Pushed To The Left]

7. My one and only flamewar back in December of 04!

I was defending my girlfriend at the time, who was a Republican. Ironically, this is the same woman who, in 2006, broke off our engagement over the phone after revealing she had been seeing somebody else!

[rug]

10. Republicans cannot be trusted. Ever. For anything.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. It's a tie between the November 2002 elections

(which occurred shortly after the Wellstone crash) and the day Khephra died so suddenly.

[Horse with no Name]

9. During Terri Schiavo

that was surreal.
Also...the night that Katrina hit...many of us were up watching--totally horrified and helpless.

[fishwax]

38. the weekend before katrina was really bizarre

and it was thanks to DU that I was more informed about it than anyone that I knew. It was certainly unreal, reading threads about how we just might lose a major american city. It was spooky, even long before landfall ...

As bad as election 2004 was, DU provided an outlet for those feelings. It was painful, yes, but rendered somewhat less painful by our collective pain and anger and commiseration. But waiting for Katrina was made all the worse by our collective helplessness. After the election, DU was a source of solace and comfort, however cold. But before Katrina, sensing what was coming, there was no comfort, cold or otherwise.

[nam78_two]

11. 2004 election...lousy week.

I was working with a bunch of Dem tablers (? if that is a word) and someone got a call from someone with "inside information" that it was in the bag. Then all those exit polls...
I was in shock for a week.

[blonndee]

12. It had to have been last summer

I wasn't here for the 2004 election. But last summer during the I/L catastrophe, things got nasty for days and days. It was really pretty traumatic, at least for me.

[TahitiNut]

13. Any night on DU is better than a night under fire in Iraq.

:shrug:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. Let's see...

DU Flame War...Mortar Attack
DU Flame War...Mortar Attack
DU Flame War...Mortar Attack
DU Flame War...Mortar Attack
DU Flame War...Mortar Attack
DU Flame War...Mortar Attack

I don't know, TN. It's a tossup here. ;-)

Oh, and the days and nights some spent savaging a certain Mr. W.R. Pitt of Bahstahn, MA was certainly a bad time for me. I developed a lot of contempt for some people and I don't do contempt well, in real life. The whole thing was quite venal and smacked of orchestration.

[TahitiNut]

22. Any day looking at sod from the green side is a good day.

:shrug:

Moderating DU during the 2004 primaries (with the best DU team ever assembled) was challenging.
I felt like I was a DU proctologist.

:rofl:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

23. Some folks...

Really were trippin' back then. I couldn't believe that people weren't being tombstoned by the hundreds. Some for obvious reasons and some for, shall we say, less obvious reasons. The clever shit-stirrers, I mean. The ones who roll a grenade into a thread and then run off.

[blue cat]

14. election 20004

I cried my eyes out, then was clinically depressed for months about it.

[TomInTib]

15. The night a guy named Paul told us that Monkeyman's wife had died

And the night oneighty died.

We old vets have to hang together.

Monkeyman and I have our own bond.

oneighty kept my ass covered (many times) and kept me from being banned on at least one occasion.

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. I remember that. I'm an old vet also

Drafted during Vietnam, but got lucky and was stationed in Washington, DC.

[TahitiNut]

25. I've been going down to the VFW in Friday nights for their fish fry.

Off and on for 4 years, it's been fairly regular for the last 3-4 months. It's a relief to spend some time with people who don't need an 'explanation.' Last night, I was chatting with an ex-SeaBee who was in the northern delta around Vung Tau. We shared memories of how we both loved the natural beauty of Viet Nam ... and the beauty of the people. Even those who might have been VC by night. Like I say ... no 'explanation' needed.
:shrug:

[TomInTib]

26. That is just so cool...

There is nothing here that even remotely resembles a VFW Hall.

But there is a remarkable number of ex Special Forces vets in Belvedere-Tiburon.

So we go meet in a local bar and everybody eventually gets crazy.

I am the only one of us who has always faded to the Left. Everyone else was gung-ho USA.

Not any more.

If I typed in here what I have heard and what some of these guys are talking about, I would probably be arrested.

[TahitiNut]

27. Smirk's approval rating at this local VFW is lower than it is nationally.

I've got the same impression about some of the guys at the VFW ... disgusted and frustrated as hell.

[Elwood P Dowd]

29. Are they not very fond on the chimp?

Paraphrase for us a little.

[TomInTib]

31. I know hard-ass guys who find themselves in tears when Lehrer runs the pics

of troops lost.

And I am talking about seriously hard guys.

I have a few friends (and we are all SEAL, Beret and DELTA) who are actually waiting for this admin to be over and for their (my friends') wives to die so that they will not cause any real problems for their immediate families.

And I am not kidding.

If I was one of the assholes in the Admin, I would be sorely afraid.

And that is as far as I am going.

There are some serious folks out here who are seriously pissed off.

Seriously

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. The first night of the Iraq war.

Posts like "Oh shit! Did you see the size of that explosion, lots of people must have just been killed"

That was about the worst thing I can remember.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. I'd have to say the night 2 now tombstoned DUers set out to destroy Wes Clark with LIES.

They were both loaded with files upon files of trash they had dug up and came here with both barrels loasded and hit him from all sides with their bullshit. I'll never forget it. One of the lies they posted ended up on CNN that night! CNN Had to have gotten the info from DU because it was something that had never been posted or reported before and it was posted HERE on the very day Kerry's spokesperson repeated it on CNN. I am so glad those 2 are gone.:( What a nightmare they were.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. The night I came to say my mom had died. Nov 2004 ranks 2nd and

the start of the war in Iraq third.

[Raffi Ella]

24. The day Kerry conceded.

Scarred my psyche and my heart.I came here to find relief but found everyone else in just as much pain as I was in with no relief in sight.I could hardly breath that afternoon from the shock of what had happened.I was so frightened,felt so helpless and was so so so angry,enraged at what was going on.

I'll never forget that day.

The best day?It's been pretty damn fine since we won back congress;In particular Nancy Pelosi being sworn in was a mighty spectacular day for me and also Today was too!The March in Washington/across the country feels historic to me.I felt really proud and uplifted today because of what I saw.

[ribrepin]

33. The 2004 election was my worst too

I could feel myself sinking down a deep dark hole as the election results began to come in from the east coast. I cried for days. I just couldn't believe that people didn't see what I saw.

"I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in"
I Just Dropped in to See what Condition my Condition was in--Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

[LibraLiz1973]

28. November 2004.

Not because of anyone here, just because of the election. It was a down time. Very sad.

[Stephanie]

30. Katrina. Specifically, this post >

WE were up all night, fraught with worry. Where was Bush? On vacation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4490806

DoYouEverWonder (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-28-05 10:49 PM
Original message

OMG, I've never read a Hurricane Advisory like this one

WWUS74 KLIX 282139
NPWLIX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA...
...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-MSZ080>082-290300-
ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-
LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-
ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-
TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-
UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
PERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL
ONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEW
ORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTS
AROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET!

$$

LAZ034>037-039-046>049-MSZ068>071-077-290300-
AMITE-ASCENSION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-IBERVILLE-
PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST. HELENA-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-
WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
SREAD NORTHWESTWARD INTO THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AREA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS EVENING. TROPICAL STORM FORCE
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO ONSET AROUND 9 PM TONIGHT AND PERSIST
FOR 22 TO 26 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL ONSET AROUND
DAYBREAK AND PERSIST FOR ABOUT 5 TO 10 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND
GUSTS OF 80 TO 90 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA
AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET


http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/ww/wwus74.klix.npw...


God help those poor people trapped in the Superdome and everyone else who got left behind.

[murielm99]

34. 2004 election

At least we have each other for times like those. That was a tough one.

The 2000 election was unbelievable, but that was before DU.

I was watching TV, ready to go to bed, ready to wake up to President-elect Gore. My son was working his first election at the radio station. He called me and told me not to go to bed. We talked on and off all night. I was stunned. I went to work the next day, too, with almost no sleep.

I was even more stunned by *'s arrogance when he addressed the press the next day. Those people have such a sense of entitlement.

Even I was speechless was the supremes installed that lunatic as resident.

Thanks for being here, fellow DUers. I have a great family of Democrats, and a great county Democratic central committee. But you guys get me over the rough spots.

[Connie_Corleone]

35. Election night, November 2004.

I was ready to tear the house apart when Ohio was declared for The Chimp.

I pretty much stayed in bed the next day. Thank goodness I took the day off.

[Raine]

36. The Elections...WORST Nov. 2004- - -BEST Nov. 2006 nt

[Awsi Dooger]

37. 2002 midterm

Realistically you're not supposed to knock out an incumbent president whose party has been in power only one term. I had hopes for 2004 but we were always the underdog and DU didn't seem to acknowledge that.

But a midterm while out of power is a different story. We were the favorites to hold the senate that year. I certainly thought we would gain. Plus there were hopes of a huge net in governorships, in the area of +10.

The night started out decently enough, but once the Georgia results became obvious everything snowballed for hours. Taunting from freepers with the "senators belong to us" crap. Truly s stunning dismal night but at least it ended well in the early morning hours with Tim Johnson's comeback victory. I was one of a handful who stayed up and posted in that thread all night.