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Hurricane Katrina (pg. 13)
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| plaxx |
| z0mg! its only a matter of time before everyone starts pointing fingers at Osama. |
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| kypez |
| quote: | Originally posted by plaxx
z0mg! its only a matter of time before everyone starts pointing fingers at Osama. |
great post, thanks for comin out... |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Greedy
i wonder if other countries are gonna come help us out with aid. |
we can't afford to run a decent health/education system or civilised country, don't think we can help |
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| nchs09 |
| damn it its raining lik a bitch here cause of the stupid katrina! :whip: |
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| plaxx |
| Why can these things happen when school is in session :( |
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| slinkyhead |
NO has been very lucky by the looks of it. A combination of a wobble to the east and an influx of dry air reduced the winds to the West of the eye meaning NO was hit relatively easy and certainly wasnt affected by any storm surge from the lake to the North.
Alabama and Mississippi seem to have it pretty hard thought, storm surge of 30+ ft with 30 ft waves on top of that. There will not be much left of any beach front property.
Still awaiting a cat5 hurricane to hit a major urban full-on, will happen.........eventually |
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| Mr. Pink |
the hurricane is a now.
category pusskat0r is what i heard on the news. :wtf: |
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| Creamfields23 |
| I always wondered what happens with the costs of these hurricanes? Do you have to have special insurances for them or what? |
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| Mr. Pink |
| quote: | Originally posted by Creamfields23
I always wondered what happens with the costs of these hurricanes? Do you have to have special insurances for them or what? |
As far as i know, no.
there isn't a hurricane insurance. Especially not in the states cuz they hardly get enough of them.
Back in Puerto Rico, we average about 6-8 hurricanes a year. some small, some NOT SO SMALL.......but if anything, you'd get flood insurance, or property damage, or something like that.
there really isn't a HURRICANE insurance that i know of. |
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| Creamfields23 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
As far as i know, no.
there really isn't a HURRICANE insurance that i know of. |
So If your house gets destroyed you literally lose everything. :eek: :nervous: |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by slinkyhead
NO has been very lucky by the looks of it. |
Those were the early reports, but the mayor says 80% of the city is under water. Yeah they did luck out a bit in that it moved a bit east before it struck though. It could have been much worse I agree.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina/
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Katrina kills 50 in one county
Hospital evacuates as New Orleans levee breaks
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Posted: 0909 GMT (1709 HKT)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As the death toll from Hurricane Katrina reached at least 54, a levee holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain sustained a breach two blocks long in the Lakefront area of New Orleans.
The breach triggered rapidly rising floodwaters in the city's downtown and prompted at least one hospital to evacuate patients by air.
The death toll was expected to climb from one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in half a century. Fifty of the deaths occurred in one county in Mississippi, CNN confirmed.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin confirmed the breach in a local TV interview. City fire officials said the break was about 200 feet long in the levee surrounding the 17th Street Canal.
"My heart is heavy tonight," Nagin said in the interview on WWL-TV. "I don't have any good news to share.
"The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation. We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater. With some sections of our city, the water is as deep as 20 feet."
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Creamfields23
So If your house gets destroyed you literally lose everything. :eek: :nervous: |
you would be covered but quite often, especially with smaller local insurace companies, they will go out of business as a result of all the claims |
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