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My boyfriend and I are planning a trip down to Florida. We plan to visit around the Miami area. We want to enjoy our trip without weather/storm interruptions. When is a good time to go?

If so, please tell me! I am very scared! I must know when to stock up on supplies

Cold Front
by C.S. Scotkin

Hoarfull legion
rampant, skyborn
seeths in
from a northern clime.

Feel the pressure
falter, failing
shrink now
from ice razored rain.

Trees uprooted
blossoms savaged
cyclone
screaming in the dark!

Yet survival
comes at light time.
Mother’s
kiss is cold today.

We plans for a vacation to Orlando starting Aug 23 till Sep 6. What’s the weather there? People says it is the hurricane season with lots of rain. So, I want to know and get better prepared. Please advise. Thanks.

What tornado ranking on the EF scale, at minimum, would be able to damage the walls of a brick house? I think I have seen photos of EF2s causing slight damage, though I am not certain.

Hmm..Another "terrorist" attack? A Katrina-like disaster? In my opinion…its for the next self-inflicted wound commited by our government to be blamed on terrorists…but what do YOU think?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/020308Prison.htm

Prison’s for your families. How does that sound? atleast they won’t split you up before they shoot you down.

Footage of Hurricane Ike shot on 9/9/08 in Key West Florida

Without having to go to the store for supplies like batteries, bottled water, flashlights, nonperishable foods, medicine, etc? Being prepared is ideal, but really, how many of us are?

March 1, 2006

Video Shows Bush Was Warned Before Katrina
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP)—In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn’t ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

The footage—along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press—show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Linked by secure video, Bush’s confidence on Aug. 28 starkly contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.

A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and then-Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown told the president and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren’t enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome.

"I’m concerned about … their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.

Some of the footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 conflicts with the defenses that federal, state and local officials have made in trying to deflect blame and minimize the political fallout from the failed Katrina response:

—Homeland Security officials have said the "fog of war" blinded them early on to the magnitude of the disaster. But the video and transcripts show federal and local officials discussed threats clearly, reviewed long-made plans and understood Katrina would wreak devastation of historic proportions. "I’m sure it will be the top 10 or 15 when all is said and done," National Hurricane Center’s Max Mayfield warned the day Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast.

"I don’t buy the `fog of war’ defense," Brown told the AP in an interview Wednesday. "It was a fog of bureaucracy."

—Bush declared four days after the storm, "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans. But the transcripts and video show there was plenty of talk about that possibility—and Bush was worried too.

White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Brown discussed fears of a levee breach the day the storm hit.

"I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One," Brown said. "He’s obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he’s asking questions about reports of breaches."

—Louisiana officials angrily blamed the federal government for not being prepared but the transcripts shows they were still praising FEMA as the storm roared toward the Gulf Coast and even two days afterward. "I think a lot of the planning FEMA has done with us the past year has really paid off," Col. Jeff Smith, Louisiana’s emergency preparedness deputy director, said during the Aug. 28 briefing.

It wasn’t long before Smith and other state officials sounded overwhelmed.

"We appreciate everything that you all are doing for us, and all I would ask is that you realize that what’s going on and the sense of urgency needs to be ratcheted up," Smith said Aug. 30.

Mississippi begged for more attention in that same briefing.

"We know that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana that need to be rescued, but we would just ask you, we desperately need to get our share of assets because we’ll have people dying—not because of water coming up, but because we can’t get them medical treatment in our affected counties," said a Mississippi state official whose name was not mentioned on the tape.

Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government’s disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"We’re going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event," Brown warned. He called the storm "a bad one, a big one" and implored federal agencies to cut through red tape to help people, bending rules if necessary.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I’ll figure out some way to justify it. … Just let them yell at me."

Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him. Neither asked questions in the Aug. 28 briefing.

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

A relaxed Chertoff, sporting a polo shirt, weighed in from Washington at Homeland Security’s operations center. He would later fly to Atlanta, outside of Katrina’s reach, for a bird flu event.

One snippet captures a missed opportunity on Aug. 28 for the government to have dispatched active-duty military troops to the region to augment the National Guard.

Chertoff: "Are there any DOD assets that might be available? Have we reached out to them?"

Brown: "We have DOD assets over here at EOC (emergency operations center). They are fully engaged. And we are having those discussions with them now."

Chertoff: "Good job."

In fact, active duty troops weren’t dispatched until days after the storm. And many states’ National Guards had yet to be deployed to the region despite offers of assistance, and it took days before the Pentagon deployed active-duty personnel to help overwhelmed Guardsmen.

The National Hurricane Center’s Mayfield told the final briefing before Katrina struck that storm models predicted minimal flooding inside New Orleans during the hurricane but he expressed concerns that counterclockwise winds and storm surges afterward could cause the levees at Lake Pontchartrain to be overrun.

"I don’t think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern," Mayfield told the briefing.

Other officials expressed concerns about the large number of New Orleans residents who had not evacuated.

"They’re not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they’re leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I’m very concerned about that," Brown said.

Despite the concerns, it ultimately took days for search and rescue teams to reach some hospitals and nursing homes.

Brown also told colleagues one of his top concerns was whether evacuees who went to the New Orleans Superdome—which became a symbol of the failed Katrina response—would be safe and have adequate medical care.

"The Superdome is about 12 feet below sea level…. I don’t know whether the roof is designed to stand, withstand a Category Five hurricane," he said.

Brown also wanted to know whether there were enough federal medical teams in place to treat evacuees and the dead in the Superdome.

"Not to be (missing) kind of gross here," Brown interjected, "but I’m concerned" about the medical and mortuary resources "and their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe."

I have to keep a track of hurricane Hannah- and Ike- (location, direction, pressure, category, things like that) and forgot tohe past week- anyone know where i can find those details for those 2 hurricanes for the past two weeks?

I am going to Jamaica at the end of Sept. (I know, I know, hurricane season) and am wondering if anyone has an idea of what the weather will be like given the current weather data.

Was it Florida, Louisiana, or North Carolina?

(Un)famous video of tornado on 26th April 1991 that passed by just next to people hidden under overpass.

It has been really cold out like negative 4 and my neighbor has their dogs outside with no shelter except for an open porch. They are just labs so it dont think it is good for them to be out. I was wondering if there are laws against this. I feel bad for them but what can i do?

weather forcast for the period 16 and 17 of june for the crossing

I also wanted to know about the crime rate in comparasion to los angelos. I don’t plan to invest property, I just want to live in Florida for about 2 -3 years, knowing the do’s and donts about huricanes. I also heard that orlando hasnt had a direct hit in a while. What are the major cities at risk? Are there any hurricane free cities, if any?

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/01/the_year_ahead_can_democrats_g.html

"The American people didn’t elect Democrats in November because they suddenly took an ideological swing to the left. Voters were unhappy with what they saw as the Republican Party’s inability to get things done, whether it was dealing with Hurricane Katrina, gas prices or the Iraq War. So, they took a chance on the Democrats, and now the Democrats must produce."

So by that standard, are Democrats competent? Have they produced?

Ok this is just for laughs…

Take the name of the street you grew up on for your first name (perhaps a variation depending on your gender or sexual orientation), then take an act of nature for your last name…

Example: "Cortland Cyclone," or "Main Monsoon"… you get the picture.
Well, miss J, you may be right… If I went by your formula, I’d end up with Grady Neville… ha ha - sounds like a character off "Good Times" or a blues musician… Thanks for the laugh!

Check this out for more info on this subject.

http://www.constitutionparty.com/documents/Crockett_CPweb_.pdf

My husband is an overnight stocker for Walmart and all local emergency depts are telling our area to leave early, don’t wait for the mandatory evacuation. I thought that was common sense. Well, he called his job to tell them he was evacuating with his family and they thought he was absurd and sort of threatened him. I told him tomorrow he is telling them he’s GONE because his family’s safety is more important than keeping Walmart’s doors open. Can he get fired?