ready for round 2!
who will the bigots and homophobes point their hateful fingers at this time?
PAM EASTON, Associated Press: Galveston, low-lying parts of Corpus Christi and Houston, and mostly emptied-out New Orleans were under mandatory evacuation orders as Rita sideswiped the Florida Keys and began drawing energy with terrifying efficiency from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters said Rita could be the most intense hurricane on record ever to hit Texas, and easily one of the most powerful ever to plow into the U.S. mainland. Category 5 is the highest on the scale, and only three Category 5 hurricanes are known to have hit the U.S. mainland - most recently, Andrew, which smashed South Florida in 1992.
Military personnel in South Texas started moving north, too. Schools, businesses and universities were also shut down. Some sporting events were canceled.
go ahead, repent america, tell us all, and especially texas, how much god hates soldiers, students and athletes.
i have a feeling that what this and other despicable groups will actually say is that these cities are about to be smote for their willingness to harbor the sinners of new orleans, thus defying god, who so clearly wanted them out of the game. houston wound up sheltering the greatest number of katrina evacuees, and at least 1,500 have been bused out of the galveston community center already in anticipation of this next storm. it's twisted, but it isn't more twisted, and it certainly wouldn't be out of character. somebody will say it, you watch. and then you cry. and then you, i don't know what. i don't know what you do then.
at least some people have learned something, even if that something is only to avoid being spanked:
Government officials eager to show they had learned their lessons from the sluggish response to Katrina sent in hundreds of buses to evacuate the poor, moved out hospital and nursing home patients, dispatched truckloads of water, ice and ready-made meals, and put rescue and medical teams on standby. An Army general in Texas was told to be ready to assume control of a military task force in Rita's wake.
why did we have to hit bottom before realizing that this was the way to go? well, as long as they can keep FEMA* the hell out of there, it sounds like there's more to be optimistic about this time around. i won't make any stronger declarations than that, for fear of bringing the jinx down on a lot of heads.
update, 9/22/05: god damn it! either i did jinx us, or the bastards secretly love the spankings.
* this does not apply to the FEMA dolphins. they can do no wrong.
PAM EASTON, Associated Press: Galveston, low-lying parts of Corpus Christi and Houston, and mostly emptied-out New Orleans were under mandatory evacuation orders as Rita sideswiped the Florida Keys and began drawing energy with terrifying efficiency from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters said Rita could be the most intense hurricane on record ever to hit Texas, and easily one of the most powerful ever to plow into the U.S. mainland. Category 5 is the highest on the scale, and only three Category 5 hurricanes are known to have hit the U.S. mainland - most recently, Andrew, which smashed South Florida in 1992.
Military personnel in South Texas started moving north, too. Schools, businesses and universities were also shut down. Some sporting events were canceled.
go ahead, repent america, tell us all, and especially texas, how much god hates soldiers, students and athletes.
i have a feeling that what this and other despicable groups will actually say is that these cities are about to be smote for their willingness to harbor the sinners of new orleans, thus defying god, who so clearly wanted them out of the game. houston wound up sheltering the greatest number of katrina evacuees, and at least 1,500 have been bused out of the galveston community center already in anticipation of this next storm. it's twisted, but it isn't more twisted, and it certainly wouldn't be out of character. somebody will say it, you watch. and then you cry. and then you, i don't know what. i don't know what you do then.
at least some people have learned something, even if that something is only to avoid being spanked:
Government officials eager to show they had learned their lessons from the sluggish response to Katrina sent in hundreds of buses to evacuate the poor, moved out hospital and nursing home patients, dispatched truckloads of water, ice and ready-made meals, and put rescue and medical teams on standby. An Army general in Texas was told to be ready to assume control of a military task force in Rita's wake.
why did we have to hit bottom before realizing that this was the way to go? well, as long as they can keep FEMA* the hell out of there, it sounds like there's more to be optimistic about this time around. i won't make any stronger declarations than that, for fear of bringing the jinx down on a lot of heads.
update, 9/22/05: god damn it! either i did jinx us, or the bastards secretly love the spankings.
* this does not apply to the FEMA dolphins. they can do no wrong.
Labels: antihuman, half full/half empty, weather
posted by juniper pearl @ 10:31 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:53 AM,
Me said…
i sinned in New Orleans in june. I guess she missed me by a few months.. oh well better luck next time, mother nature!
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