Warrior102
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Will there be riots?
My guess Is yes
Any takers?
My guess Is yes
Any takers?
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Will there be riots?
My guess Is yes
Any takers?
Rioting during a hurricane. What a hell of an idea!
No, and there weren't any during or after Katrina.
What riots are you talking about?No, and there weren't any during or after Katrina.
Dear, I love you, but seriously.....
What riots are you talking about?No, and there weren't any during or after Katrina.
Dear, I love you, but seriously.....
Will there be riots?
My guess Is yes
Any takers?
Is looting rioting?
No, it isn't. And the looting issue was overplayed. We had looting during Andrew and after....and it wasn't done by the Negroes, as I believe is being implied here.Is looting rioting?
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said the 18-mile-long, 8-foot-high levee—which is not part of the nearly $15 billion federal levee system constructed after Hurricane Katrina—was in the process of being raised. "We knew we had a potential storm surge of 9 to 12 feet—we had an 8-foot levee," Nungesser said on CNN. "We're trying to get the few people who have stayed out. We've got a serious situation over there."
Isaac made landfall at 6:45 p.m. CT Tuesday in Plaquemines Parish, and the slow-moving Category 1 hurricane—now centered about 50 miles southwest of New Orleans with maximum sustained winds topping 80 mph—is expected to dump as much as 20 inches of rain in several parts of Louisiana. "Not only did we see the worst-case scenario, it got worse than that by this storm just stalling," Nungesser said. "So the levees can only take so much." Nungesser said there were reports of up to 12 feet of water in some homes. "This is something I've never seen before," he said. "And I rode out Katrina."
Nungesser said three parish residents, including a woman on a roof, were saved by a private boat. Rescue workers were waiting for conditions to improve—and skies to lighten—before attempting other rescues. "We're working with the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue people stranded on top of the levee," Nungesser said at a press conference. The southern end of the parish was under a mandatory evacuation order, though it's not clear how many residents followed it. "There are homes inundated and some folks trapped by water in those homes," Guy Laigast, director of homeland security for Plaquemines Parish, told the Weather Channel.
"Over 150 people have had to be rescued from #Isaac flooding," CNN's Rob Marciano tweeted. "The majority were within mandatory evacuation zones." According to News Orleans' Times-Picayune, Jesse Schaffer and his son have been rescuing stranded residents with their boat. "We've rescued at least 23 people including children," Jesse Shaffer Jr. said. The Army Corps of Engineers said the New Orleans levee protection system appeared to be working. Meanwhile, more than 500,000 customers were left without power in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, utility companies said. According to The Associated Press, most of the outages are in areas around New Orleans. A tornado warning has also been issued in southern Mississippi.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/hurricane-isaac-plaquemines-parish-124906826.html
As Hurricane Isaac swamps the nation's oil and gas hub along the Gulf Coast, it's delivering sharply higher pump prices to storm-battered residents of Louisiana and Mississippi and also to unsuspecting drivers up north in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The national average price of a gallon of gas jumped almost five cents Wednesday to $3.80, the highest ever for this date. Prices are expected to continue to climb through Labor Day weekend, the end of the summer driving season. "The national average will keep ticking higher, and it's going to be noticeable," says Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at Gasbuddy.com
The wide storm shut down several refineries along the Gulf Coast and others are operating at reduced rates. In all, about 1.3 million barrels per day of refining capacity is affected. So, it's no surprise that drivers in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida saw gas prices rise by a dime or more in the past week. But some states in the Midwest are suffering even more dramatic spikes. Ohio prices jumped 14 cents, Indiana prices soared 13 cents and Illinois prices jumped 10 cents on Wednesday alone according to the Oil Price Information Service. Days before Isaac is expected to douse those states with rain, the storm forced the shutdown of a pipeline that serves a number of Midwest refineries.
Drivers in the region were angry and confused. "''I saw gas in my neighborhood for $3.56 a gallon just Tuesday morning, and now I'm paying $3.95. It's terrible," said Mary Allen of Cincinnati as she paid $20 for just over five gallons of gas. She wondered how Isaac could drive up gas prices in Ohio and then resigned herself to a holiday weekend without travel. The price surge is happening at the wrong time and the wrong place for Dickson Stewart, a 56-year-old electronics consultant, who is driving from Minneapolis to Savannah, Ga. this week. He stopped at a BP station in downtown Chicago Tuesday home to some of the highest retail prices in the country and paid $4.49 a gallon to fill up his Jeep Wrangler.
Stewart expects gas prices to fall after Labor Day. Analysts say he's probably right. As Isaac fades away, the summer driving season ends, and refiners switch to cheaper winter blends of gasoline, stations owners should start dropping prices. "There is some very good relief in sight," DeHaan says.
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