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HiYa

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  1. -------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, they knew about Katrina days before any info was released. They always know, and they always try to keep us in the dark. For the good of the country. To avert a possible panic. Because they know what's best for us. -------------------------------------------------------------- While that idiot mayor in New Orleans claimed not to know how bad Katrina was I certainly did! For all of you who live in hurricane country, check out Crown Weather. It's a great hurricane website run by a meterologist in Maine (I believe that's where he is.) He forecast Katrina 9 days before it hit -- showing it out in the mid Atlantic and he also posts ALL the computer models. I remember watching the news the morning that Katrina was due to hit New Orleans and watching Ray Nagin ask the news anchor why she thought he should call for an evacuation. What an IDIOT!!! And they re-elected him - Barnum had it right when he said there is a sucker born every minute. New Orleans proved that without a doubt. Luckily I lived in Savannah at the time and they have the model evacuation plan for the US. The plan is an insert in the newspaper once a year. It's printed on grocery bags and 7-11 bags. Most stores also have the evac. plan brochure for free at the check out counter. There is a cable channel dedicated to Emergency Management Topics 24/7. If you don't know the evac plan, you are deaf, dumb and blind. They have city buses (with pets allowed either caged or muzzled) on board for those without transportation. Everyone knows which areas of the city, evac to which inland cities. They have pet shelters near the people shelters inland. All the roads from the coast are reversed so that all lanes are inland. etc. etc. etc.' You know ahead of time, where you are going and if you're at work, where the kids are going. New Orleans could learn alot from them. While I'm out west now, you'll chuckle at the storey of finding this house. It was a very fast job relocation and I had two weeks to move. I flew out the week before relocating to find a house. Had appointments set with realtors and went around with one looking at houses. I had looked at a map ahead of time and selected the zip code I wanted to live in (not near airports / army base and 1/2 way up the mountain from the valley where the Rio Grande flowed. One realtor kept showing me houses on the banks of the Rio Grande and I kept telling her NO. When she asked why, I told her rivers can flood - I'll stay away. She was rather snotty and told me it had not flooded in her lifetime and would not flood in mine. I stuck to my guns and selected a nice 2 storey, 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in my designated neighborhood. 8 months later, we have torrential rain, the dams upstream fail and valley goes under water. I could not risk calling Ms. Snotty Realtor to ask if she noticed the "little ponding" in the area she wanted me to live. That's why I wanted a home up the mountainside. (meow) By the way, the house she pressured me on was completely flooded (water past the roof line.) Prepping is a good thing in life. Common sense is even better! As for financial prepping - as soon as I get paid, my emergency prep $$ go to savings immediately. I'm fairly well prepped right now for the basics and like everyone else I'm trying to stash some $$ aside for bills when this hits. I'll be the first to admit that it's hard to do and takes a lot of willpower not to raid the account for the little emergencies that come up.
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