Oh dear. I laughed so hard. Hurricane your fucked that's gold. I feel terrible.

Although in America it's more like Hurricane: Poor Fucked.

and why does it always seems to be a female name??

Oh, here's a bit about it. They alternate male/female as they go through the alphabet.

[ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml ]

If only it had been one down, it would have been "Hurricane Jose" -that'd be a great stage name for a mexican wrestler.

//any more than the usual (link)?

the Mayor of New Orleans was saying that he thinks much of the violence came down to junkies not being able to get their fix - a few people just went totally mental, because in ordinary circumstances society would still be working and the fix would be around the corner. + the fact that usually non-junkie other people were put into an extreme situation, no food, no property, no electricity, opportunists ... but yeah, interesting that it's been blown out of proportion, especially in comparison to murder rates from previous years.

in NZ it's drilled into us from a young age that we live on a ring of fire, the biggest area of volcanic seismic activity, and that the big 'un could strike at any moment. all of us know someone who is in Civil Defence or was in Civil Defence. we know about the Napier earthquake, the big Murchison 8 pointer, and we have active volcanoes scattered across our islands, the capital city's on a major faultline and our biggest city sits on a big patch of earth-acne. people got justifiably pissy when help came late in the floods last year (it was last year, eh?) i think NZ is pretty good at such end-game nature bites back logistics.

it didn't even seem to be a matter of scale regarding the south coast in the US - help just didn't even trickle in. many local police walked off the job, but help from outside (into an area that was often totally cut off) didn't seem to start arriving until at least 4 or 5 days after the hurricane had moved on.

so "Hurricane Bush you're fucked"?

yes ! I also noted that a couple of times

Well its like people who are living in poverty and cant afford to put food on the table but can afford alcohol, drugs and smokes to feed their habbit.

Or people who live in a shit box house but have 9 cars sitting in the front yard, all be it collective pieces of shit but still 9 cars is alot of cars.

//I would not, however, carry food and water and medicine in my handbag on a daily basis.
but you would if you had been told to evacuate?

This whole thing should have us checking our evac kits!

Bear in mind though, they're thousands of miles from home, don't know anyone, and they've just lost everything that was familiar to them, as well as having to deal with the sudden carnage that surrounds them. I doubt they're ignoring the people that have lost all their worldly possessions, probably it's not sadness they're expressing, but fear. I know if I was in that situation, I'd be petrified out of my skull.

//Bear in mind though, they're thousands of miles from home, don't know anyone, and they've just lost everything that was familiar to them, as well as having to deal with the sudden carnage that surrounds them. I doubt they're ignoring the people that have lost all their worldly possessions, probably it's not sadness they're expressing, but fear. I know if I was in that situation, I'd be petrified out of my skull

Oh yeah I just found it funny how these kiwis were going on about how they have lost everything, when they havent lost a god damm thing when you put it into perspective.

but yeah given that they were scared and all, and the way things are pretty lucky to get out alive.

//Plus they were just wee girls.

Na not those girls, these people were like late 40s early 50s people, it was insane, they had armed police escorts and travelling in a car where the police man driving had his gun in one hand and the steering wheel in the other, scary shit man

All it takes is a natural disaster for people to resort animal behaviour

Ooooooooooooh burn.

so if they used the buses before the hurricane:

1. where would the buses take people?
2. who is responsible for setting up the facilities to for the evacuees in those places?
3. who coordinates who gets to go on a bus?

I think I'd be pretty succulent, actually.

I don't think you can read anything into that trademark Bush smirk anymore. He does it whenever he's in public, sorta like a deer in the headlights but instead of thinking "holy crap what's that light?" he's thinking "holy crap, I'm the president!"

//Smiling, 10000 people dead and he smiles.

we should " smoke em out", thatll get them out of there, Bush is a war president dont forget...but apparently hes not so great when he comes up against things you cant blow up.

...wouldn't have contemplated...

//// but apparently hes not so great when he comes up against things you cant blow up.

not that he wouldn't contemplated that as an option, as others have... //

Holy shit that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard
"Dagnabbit, those pesky tornadoes are comin' again, Martha, go fetch me up my 10 megaton thermonuclear device.."