interdictor ([info]interdictor) wrote,
@ 2005-08-29 04:53:00
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I'm no meteorologist, but it looks to me like this storm is falling apart fast as it hits land.

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Falling apart
[info]evilegg
2005-08-29 11:06 am UTC (link)
Hurricane Dennis did that with gusto.
The predicted 75 mph inland winds became ~puff~.

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(Anonymous)
2005-09-03 07:49 pm UTC (link)
famous last words!

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Re: Falling apart
[info]evilegg
2005-09-03 08:11 pm UTC (link)
The storm did maintain some integrity, but the issues with Katrina are not inland, and in NOLA in particular, the loss of life is due to flooding more than wind strength.

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Re: Falling apart
[info]millerwolf
2005-09-06 12:39 pm UTC (link)
At this point when he wrote this journal entry, there were two "storms" stalking the human beings down there. One was the physical one and one was the human-created, social one. The only near-reference to the second one interdictor made at this point was anticipating of "looting" (which didn't actually address it at all, because the storm really had to do with Federal Government ineptitude and callousness, and a widespread complete lack of any grasp of what it meant to be those human beings in that huge poor area of the city). I'm glad that by Friday or saturday, they authorities said people could take whatever they wanted from the surreal abandoned supermarkets, so long as they didn't damage anything. There was no need to turn that desolate landscape into some vast "Poor People Shootin' Range".

Something like 1/3 of the 1,500 police walked off the job and at least two of them committed suicide. Doesn't sound like it was a fun place to be a cop.

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[info]evilegg
2005-09-06 01:46 pm UTC (link)
Federal Government ineptitude and callousness... police walked off the jobs

NOPD is denying the walkout (yeah, I know they're crooked bastards, but the numbers are still to be run on that one), and in no other major disaster in an urban area did looting occurr within hours of the event.
And they didn't shoot, at first- they let them loot- until the looting was hampering the rescue efforts- and the way to get that undercontrol was to eliminate the looting. Remove the incentive to be out in the streets at all.

And yeah- at the time this post was written and I responded, which was within a half hour, we were discussing storm strength, not human weakness.

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[info]millerwolf
2005-09-06 06:49 pm UTC (link)
When I said federal government, I meant the very higher ups (which is what everyone, in the government or out of it, has been referring too all week as well - that's what the Mayor was swearing about on national TV... and now, at least Bush has now made a statement about the extreme shortcomings). I have a lot of respect for the police who stayed there through that... they aren't the federal government they are city government.

Anyone who was there to actually help people, I don't care who they are, famous or poor, left or right, or whatever, I have respect for.

The comment about the police was a different point I was trying to make. Anyone stuck out there was under immense stress. It was an overwhelming disaster. I do not blame anyone who was there from the start for walking off the job. At my last job I saw exactly how each human being has a stress level. You don't know what level it is exactly for each person, but when it breaks, they stop functioning.

See this article:
New Orleans police chief defends his force

Oh yeah, this reminds me of part of the movie Miracle Mile... the police are chasing a guy they think committed a crime, and then a call comes over the radio... there's an impending nuclear attack. All the police in the area (Los Angeles County, Orange County) immediately stop what they are doing and break for it. (Didn't matter, ICBM's come flying in within an hour and destroy everything.) ... I know it's just a movie but it did make me think, when I saw it, just how different things are when the world falls apart.

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