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Is Isaac The 'New' Katrina?
Tropical Storm Isaac has battered the hopes of an on-time departure of the Romney-Ryan express and now looks set to threaten New Orleans and the Gulf. Weather trackers are predicting an increase in intensity given its size and the storm's predicted paths are set to cross straight through the middle of the Gulf's oil production in a replay of the terrible August of Katrina (though we can only hope not as severe). All major rig operators are evacuating which leaves output notably down already. (via Bloomberg)
- *U.S. SAYS 24% OF OIL OUTPUT SHUT FOR TROPICAL STORM ISAAC
- *U.S. SAYS 8.2% OF NATURAL GAS OUTPUT SHUT FOR ISAAC
- *U.S. SAYS 39 PLATFORMS EVACUATED FOR TROPICAL STORM ISAAC
- *U.S. SAYS 8 RIGS EVACUATED FOR TROPICAL STORM ISAAC
and as a reminder - the average US retail gas price rose 75c during Katrina...
Isaac's predicted path (via WeatherBell models)...
goes straight through the oilfields... (source: Forbes)
and the impact of Katrina is very clear - a 75c rise in average US retail gasoline prices from Aug 2nd to September 5th...
The green-dotted line is the 'average' price change through the year for the average US retail price of gasoline - it would appear the rise this year (blue) is right on target at the moment - but a Katrina-esque spike will be the final 'transitory' nail in the coffin of this curmudgeonly stagnation.
Chart: Bloomberg
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Uh, no. The conditions are not the same. However if the storm strengthens to Cat 3, then New Orleans will be a distant memory.
Hide your firearms, and yourself.
and with oil so too shall gold and silver rise.
Don't forget corn, soy, wheat and beef, pork, etc.
And Urban Pacification Cardz
I want the one that comes with Stripperz
Well, at least all those rigs we paid Petrobras two billion dollars to park off Brazil are out of harms way.
Is this like Katrina?
HELL NO!
It's nothing anywhere like the scale and intensity of Katrina, it's an emaciated pathetic little spiral cloud band compared to Katrina. I watched Katrina in detail from before it formed east of Miami, until it's final landfall and dissolution.
Isaac is pitiful compared to the visual and data-stream horror that was Katrina before it hit the gulf coast.
Isaac is affecting us about as much as Katrina did (some but not much in S FL). The wind and rain has been enough to keep us in today. While Isaac is not projected to be as strong as Katrina, yes, it will force temporary abandonment of offshore oil facilities. But, these guys (usually) know what they are doing, and if they rebuilt their Katrina-damaged facilities stronger than they were before Katrina, then there should be less damage.
Review of Barron's -- Dated 27 August
http://tinyurl.com/9kbsk6b
...know what they are doing...
Snort.
Torrential rain and wind not good for the soy crop, but on a good note, it looks like the river levels will be coming up.
Has anyone else noticed that we'er at the end of August and this is the 1st storm to threaten the US? But but but..... global warmng... more hurricanes... yadda yadda
This reminds me of the Drudge propaganda where he'll point out that it snowed at some particular global warming rally, setting up the false idea that scientists predicted that snowfall would heretofore be a thing of the past. By the way, you may want to look outside a single country once in a while if you want to discuss the effects of something which actually uses the word "global" as part of its very name.
When do we vote again. Obamocane
here: HPC Surface Analysis/Radar Loop
unfortunately the actual weather map has "decoupled" from the zH "model" a bit and the storm is ashore over the everglades and heading into tampa right now
hi, mittens!
what i find interesting is that at the center of the storm, the "glass" is barely below 1000
so this is a big rainstorm but it doesn't seem to pack a lotta punch
once it hits land like this, pretty hard to get stronger isn't it?
but maybe it will slide below that Hi and dump some water along bigRiver
that other rain (from the west) is hitting the same river system, where we recently saw so little water that the barges were waitng to get thru
so there might be a water event along the southRiver but this doesn't look like anything the mississippi watercourse can't handle by mid-week at the latest
this is no Katrina and the rain, especially from the missouriR system sould be welcome b/c it looks to re-open the river to traffic
that's "good" news tho
oops?
It'll have plenty of opportunity to get wound up once it's further west in the warm gulf.
yup; get "gulf looped" for da pump & dump!
and the latest says there is "recoupling to model" as the storm is moving "a little to the left" (link):> Tropical Storm ISAAC Forecast Discussion
a little to the right! woulda been better! L0L!!!
this is worth a click b/c it charts the expected MAXwinds thru friday but so far...(peak :> 100 mph winds max by wed)...
ALTHOUGH SATELLITE AND RADAR IMAGES HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE TROPICAL CYCLONE WAS BECOMING A LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED...AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATING ISAAC THIS AFTERNOON HAVE FOUND THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO STRENGTHENING OF THE STORM.as you say... yet!
"AND VERTICAL SHEAR SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY LIGHT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS."
and then...? but so far, so good...
this is the motherPicture :> HPC Tropical Cyclone QPFs
and here's katrina's rainfall totals:> katrina rainfall totals
the storm center is now @992 mb; and katrina got down to almost 900 and hit NOLA at abt 920+ mb; so 'watch the glass' to see if we start shaping into this :> katrina
right now we got a ways to go to get there and things are happening slowly and will probably continue to develop slowly; worst-case scenario sucks but for this evening this isn't quite as bad as expected. so far
One seaman to another... the term Glass is rarely used these days.
I see the glass falling here...
Get back to us all on "global warming" when you have an explanation for the Medieval Warming Period that doesn't involve cooked algorithms to "hide" it.
It's not a steady-state planet. You have ice Ages, you have tropical Ages. They come and they go, irrespective of you humans and your puny deeds. Once, there were dinosaurs in Antarctica. And they're coming back.
"irrespective of humans and their puny deeds"
It's ironic that you would say that but use for your icon a picture of a puny human exploding a nuclear device, enough of which exist to effectively kill every living thing on the planet through radiation and nuclear winter. But we don't even need to imagine such things to prove you wrong. I'll tell you what -- why don't you go hang out in Fukishima for a while and then get back to me on what humans can and cannot do to fuck up the planet. The radiation is invisible and TEPCO says it is safe so why worry?
No one gets outta here alive. And I now have alternate avatars. Like global warming, they come and they go. Sometimes it's the Bomb. Sometimes it's Italian Folgore Division paratroops, anchoring Rommel's line at El Alemain: lightly armed but held out against incessant Empire air, armored, and tank attacks for two weeks. 90% KIA. Only Axis division granted full battle honors by victors in WW II. True Fascists.
Global warming, peak oil, and other socialist/Jewish/homosexual deceptions are transparently impossible because God would have never created a world where a hard working man, without any guilt, couldn't purchase the biggest pickup truck he could afford. It's a simple ontological contradiction.
s'Truth
It's THE SUN's Fault!
Everyone knows it is obviously Bush's fault
Great free podcast on Puplava on the climate change scam..
http://www.financialsensenewshour.com/broadcast/fsn2012-0825-3.mp3
Yeaaa what he said.
LetYouEatSand ! Global warming bitter clinger !
LetThemEatRand, Of course his post is a bought and paid for post by one of the PR firms hired to post anti science posts on any and every climate or weather related story. His premise is an embarrassment to the simplest intelligence out there.
To claim that this being the first hurricane to make land fall in America this year and it is already August somehow disproves global warming due to CO2 increases in the atmosphere trapping heat is simple beyond measure. And demonstrably wrong on all counts. Being wrong is a bage of honor for a certain type of American. There is no accounting for their willful ignorance. But, the best part about it is that they can't run and they can't hide, they can only use dubious logic to deny. Reality affects them as much as anyone. I enjoy listening to how desperate they get in denial of things like a record artic sea ice minimum already this year.
Two kinds of deniers post on ZH, those PR employees paid to do so, and the usefull idiots who actually believe what an oil company tells them to think. Inability to think is a widespread American trait, fueled by the US public education system and the religious right who collect money from their believers so their high priests can live in lazy luxury. Such as the drug fueled moron Rush [I am a draft dodger coward] Limbaugh.
At the risk of many red arrows slung in my direction, I must agree, and must further state my objective observation that there is a vast amount of hypocrisy and kneejerk thinking in the debate over global warming --- with the bulk of it coming from the right-wing, not the left.
(That is not an endorsement of left-wing politics in any way, shape or form.)
Drudge is a paid liar. If he is a drug addicted coward fat big mouth draft dodger whore like Limbaugh I do not know. But I do know he is paid huge sums to be a liar and to go on being a liar. He has a simple minded following who are too lazy to think so they read Dridges lies as a substitute for thought. They can get their opnions ready made by the big liar Drudge and his corporate masters who pay him money to lie
Like the Limbaugh corporate whore who spends his millions on drugs and under age boys and viagra.
I <3 Jack Burton
Why won't someone stop the lies perpetrated by hyperlinks to other sites??!
SUPPORT THE INTERNET!
END THE HYPERLINKS!
Ray1968,
Get your head out of your ass. Whatever you think on climate change, the number of named storms is quite high (compare Hurricane Andrew, the first named storm, in August 1992). In many seasons, no hurricanes strike the US of A.
Kiss my ass.....
Everyone writes a paper with a theory. One guy predicts more rain, another guy predicts drought. One picks more hurricanes, the next picks less. Same for snowfall. No matter what the outcome... the result is global warming.
Hey how about this.... it is a fucking natural cycle!!! Hurricanes happen. Get over it.
Please pull your head out of your ass.
Ray1968,
You didn't address your misunderstanding of hurricane history in the USA. I made no comment re: global warming. Good luck on separating your cranium from your rectum.
It could be that they used to not name every thunderstorm like they do now. I'm sorry but a tropical depression with 40mph winds should not be given a name.
The number of hurricanes and sever storms declined after the Katrina season, but somehow we still kept getting into the lower letters of the alphabet. The only answer was that storms that weren't strong enough to get named before , were geting named now.
A strong front with severe thunderstorms blew through Ohio with sustained 50mph+ winds, gusts up to 60mph+. That storm didn't get a name. Probably did more damage than Isaac will.
It drizzled the other day. I named it Darrell.
Hohum: wow, because of you, I've reevaluated my entire world-view and corrected my fundamental misunderstandings of hurricanes. How can I ever repay you??????.
/sarc
I think hokum is better.
TROLL........ (and an ignorant one at that.....) lol
Another thread wasted on some fuck head know it all government ass pumping cock and cum guzzling retard.
Oh please help meeeee, help meeee!! LOL!!
to think my precious life was wasted reading that. bleech.
Even the simplest among us cannot see AGW is just another Tax Increase.
Simple? You said it! AGW is just another tax increase. Wrong! Is being wrong fun? Is being proud of being wrong a kick or what?
Cool, you can pay my share of the phony AGW taxes, Gorebot.
Actually the increase in temperature of the oceans means more of the stronger hurricanes. That would be how global warming would affect hurricanes in the the US.
I believe that's the point the previous poster was making about "more named hurricanes" (only the stronger ones are named).
So far, what has happened in there is consistent with an increase in average ocean temperatures and thus global warming.
More in general, one would really had to be seriously willfully-blind to deny things like the ever shrinking ice area in the Artic.
As far as I know. outside the ranting rabid-anti-ecologist-cause-they're-pinkos fringe, nobody denies global warming.
The one thing that might still be open to discussion is wether global warming is being caused by man or not.
The BEST data shows no warming in over a decade. And they're pro-AGW.
Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleagueBut today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers.
Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago.
In fact, Prof Curry said, the project’s research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained.‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped,’ she said. ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’
‘This is nowhere near what the climate models were predicting,’ Prof Curry said. ‘Whatever it is that’s going on here, it doesn’t look like it’s being dominated by CO2.’In fact, she added, in the wake of the unexpected global warming standstill, many climate scientists who had previously rejected sceptics’ arguments were now taking them much more seriously.
They were finally addressing questions such as the influence of clouds, natural temperature cycles and solar radiation – as they should have done, she said, a long time ago.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html#ixzz24iG6FYoONamed storms "quite high". I'd say nine named storms with only one headed in is quite low.
Hurricaines are part of nuage entertainment now. Enjoy !
Propagandist fear pupming typical for this retarded administration.
So, go ahead and evacuate the entire state of florida, since this is really what it's all about.
I will sit here and laugh!
Soggy black swan?
The wind speed probability chart at the NHC http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ shows that this is most likely a cat 1 storm, at worst a cat 2. A short blip in the GOM production.
Tropical Storm Isaac Should Rival Hurricane Katrina
Time to loot?
HAARP!
Time for Israel to bomb Iran just for the lulz of adding even more pressure on gas prices.
500$ a barrel, yes we can!
If u don't own BP by now, You clearly are not thinking like the enemy. Be wise as serpents, gentle as doves....
Clearly, the Bible Belt is not praying hard enough.
how can their prayers compete with those of the "speculators" and central planners? HE only has a limited bandwidth attuned to the 1% of the 1%, but the meek, ah the meek.....
Yes, we all know what Jesus said about the meek inheriting the earth.
But that is just a long-standing mistranslation from the original article-less Greek.
What Jesus actually said was: "The meek shall inherit earth (i.e., dirt)."
Dude, it's a 4x8 plot.
Blessed are the Greek and the cheesemakers.
http://youtu.be/slbMe-aTY1A
Clearly, God will do, what this Nation deserves done.
Good or Bad
Might as well get it all over with this week, Isaac hitting oil rigs, Ben Shalom QE3 announcement, and Israeli air strike on those pesky Eye-rain-ians... send crude to 150/bbl and give the sheep a few months to adjust to the "new normal" before the holiday shopping season starts...
Must be Dick Chenney again; steering the storm with the secret Haliburton weather disgrominificator. This will produce lots of new work for Haliburton and is his chance to really do-in those lazy asses in New Orleans. He just really hates Blacks.
So much for getting rid of the ethanol mandate. Does anyone really care anyways?
Move on, I couldn't care less!
Quick O'Barry...get a giant fucking windmill down here stat!!!
That's not a bad idea for a stimulus package../sarcasm
Yeah, he could put Biden in charge of it like last time, I mean, what could possibly go wrong? ;-)
Um, put Biden in front of a windmill and you have all the wind and hot air you need. Just don't listen to what he's saying, it will drive you to drink(and drink and drive and the cops frown on that).
'I say, I say, that boy is about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. He's so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent...'
'...they're gonna put y'all back in chains!'...Joe 'Shabazz' Biden 2012
If you are keeping your eyes on the sink hole in Lousiana, this video about the salt mines/Lake Peigneur sinkhole disaster
may interest you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI&feature=related
If you are a weather watcher, there's 2 Min News every morning:
http://www.youtube.com/user/suspicious0bservers?feature=results_main
Wow.... bad day on the rig!!! Thanks for the link.
Awesome sinkhole video - thanks for posting!
Gas is going to go up up up
39 killed in huge Venezuela oil refinery fire; gas leak suspected
US Faces Stiff Opposition to Oil Release For Political GainReleasing oil from the SPR is such a blatant campaign gimmic.
Payback time: remember the SF refinery explosion coopla weeks ago?
Actually, this should be common going forward. Most of these refineries are OLD. Can't get any permits to build new efficient units.....all you can do is expand your old infrastructure. This causes leaks/failures and ultimately accidents.
The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company can increase it's fleet to gain a monopoly on corexit laced shrimp...
~~~
BULLISH for AAPL stock if Lt. Dan is still running the investment
I don't recall "Corexit laced shrimp" being on Bubba's menu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK98f5S00
Just in time for the Labor Day Weekend,the Offical end of Summer in America and hello to $$$$$$$$4.00 gasolineeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Yippee! Just paid over $4 today in central FL. But it was non-ethanol gas. Selling like hotcakes at a mini 2 pump outlet on SR50. Owner says he's done 4000 gallons since Friday. Guy in front of me had almost a dozen cans. They have 90 and 110 octane, makes your car purr again...
Side note: dreaded trip to WallyWorld for a battery and checked out the aisles. Bread aisle was picked clean. Water shelves were empty except 'sparkling' stuff. They had pallets of bottled water in the aisle which were disappearing. Gas cans were nearly all gone. Lots of pet food shelves empty. Long line at the pharmacy. For the first time I saw 5 gallon 'Emergency Food' buckets in the aisle rows. Only a few gone but that was new.
Raining and windy since 2pm. We've already had nearly 30" of rain in the last month according to Swftmud. They're calling for up to 12" more. I found a 2' gator walking down the road a few days ago. They're sniffing out new water everywhere and are on the move. This is a banner year for mosquitoes, next year will be for gators...
I have an idea... let's not waste the money rebuilding New Orleans again.
At the current rate of sea level rise/shoreline erosion/just flat-out sinking, in 75 years it'll be 3 miles out in the ocean with seawalls 100' high, and the first Cat 4 will turn it into Atlantis.
The Port of Southern Louisiana is not optional, but the city itself has no chance over the long run.
Natives there have had plenty of practice.
WTF.... Live below sea level and get hurricanes....
Don't need money, need mental health assessment.
5150 shit, for real...
It always breaks my heart to hear comments like this. I live one hour up river from New Orleans, we know in the back of our minds, all of us, that our marvelous city is on the edge of doom. Those of us who live here understand that this place is one of the last special places in our country. Once you have lived here and she's sunk her teeth into you the rest of the country looks bleak. One "Home Depot, Best Buy, gas station intersection after another. After Katrina I witnessed the most marvelous wave of giving and humanity. The U.S. government couldn't find us three days but the american people came to help in waves. The first year after the storm we received nearly seven million dollars in free labor from volunteers from all over the country. Young people still come down to volunteer (a far better coming of age experience than going to war). New Orleans is smelly and loud and below sea level but it deserves more respect than to be scratched off of someones spread sheet. You either get New Orleans or you don't. Perhaps we should't get a government bail out. Perhaps those of us who understand New Orleans's worth will either fix it or we won't. Let me leave you with a quote from one of our writers: “Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministraions so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.” Lafcadio Hearn ca 1880.
That Isaac blue line needs a god damned "Stimulus"
After all, you have to be Bullish on everything these fucking days except your paycheck..
Benny will contact the God's shortly...
Stay tuned Bitchez
watch out for cops with guns !!!!
This time they won't miss, i promise!
Regards,
Choomy & Cohorts
hope they have enough sense to get the hell out of the city, roof top living can't be any fun.
New Orleans..... What a shit hole. I spent 7 months down there painting on the Huey P Long bridge widening project and couldn't wait to leave.
If God won't stop the horror, why won't Washington?
(for the brain-dead out there, sarc off....)
If only DC were below sea level, we could have 7 billion people hyperventillate and be done with it...
I thought Dick O'Bama said he could control the weather and such.
Come to think of it, the Big O-man and his fellow travelers accused Bush of not responding to Katrina because he was Ra-zist.
Well, well, well.
Here Comes Karma, Motherfucker....
(and PS I am about as apolitical as they come... just sick and tired of the one team throwing the racist designation at everything and everybody...)
Knukles, TSA Viper teams have it under control.
No he can only lower the sea levels.
Right. I forgot. But, wait! He could lower the sea level under the storm and it would dry up!
C'mon, Dick! Get to it!
Also, don't forget, chart gold price after Katrina. August 31, 2005 was the start of a huge breakout.
When I heard they were handing out $2500 urban appeasement debit cards, I bought.
Anyone notice the swarm of small to moderate earthquakes near Brawley, California today (about 40 and counting)?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/swarm-of-moderate-earthqua...
shaky black swan?
Tawana Brawley Black Swan?
Near Brawley? Holy Shit! That's where the Moiola Brothers hang out. The boyz Ann Barnhardt ripped for a half-mil or so. Maybe they're still angry: @ http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/Arbitration.aspx?entityid=0282801&case=09ARB00009.
Forecasting a tropical storm (60 mph) to morph into a Cat. 5 horror like Katrina (200 mph) is like expecting a 1 percent dip in the S&P to become the Crash of 1987 (minus 18%) by the end of the day.
Fat tails aren't that fat. Joe Bastardi is going to trash his professional reputation writing sh*t like the Forbes article linked at Drudge.
Welcome to the 'storm of the century' ... wanna buy some cheap puts? Okay, how about some cheap putas?
if NHC has it as a Cat 2 at landfall, will likely be a minimal Cat 1...right now i'm sure they're laughing their asses off in the keys at the attempt at drama on the boob tube...
So ... umm ... was Katrina a cat 5 right out of the starting blocks? ... must have been quite a surprise for any poor assholes unlucky enough to be near it when it suddenly started up ...
Katrina had been downgraded prior to hitting landfall. It wasn't until afterwards that we knew just how bad it had become.
New Orleans SURVIVED Katrina, what it did NOT survive was the Army Corp of Engineers decades long piss-poor design strategies namely using outfall drainage canals to Lake Pontchartrain with no means to prevent high lake water levels from backflowing. Also the sheet piling for the levees on these outfall canals while 40'-50' at I-10 several miles from the lake (I saw these being driven) were only 10' long at the lake end!
I'm from the gov'mint an' I'm heah to hep you!
Fuck these incompetent assholes!
Thank you!
You're welcome.
This shits on drudge. Ohvye
I wonder - in the aftermath of Isaac's devastation if George Bush will congratulate Obama on his hard work, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job".
Barrack Obama hates black people.
That's only half true.
Tyler,
I done tole you dis las week ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/hurricane-issac-expected-pass-right-above-...
I gets no respect. none at alll.....
Bush's fault.
Bush is raycess.
I was thinking the same thing a couple days ago when they were talking about it hitting Tampa ...
I guess I should have said something. Now I just sound like I'm jumping on the bandwagon.
The Port Fourchon oil facility and the Loop pipeline / oil terminal to the southwest of New Orleans are the most critical infrastructure areas. Hopefully this storm stays east.
It's notable that Katrina came ashore at 8am on August 29, 2005. Isaac will hit exactly 7 years to the day (and hour) later based on current track.
Wednesday is the 7 year anniversary of Katrina. Wow.
It doesn't matter if it hits New Orleans or not. Someone along the coast is going to get slammed. Good luck. And don't wait around for the government to help you, because they won't.
"And don't wait around for the government to help you, because they won't."
NO SHIT!US gasoline refinery capacity is already diminished: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/gas-prices-continue-rise-unt...
Time to get the UGA calls in.
And soon some of the idiots who fell into the "solar panels save you money" bullshit are gona' see how much it's gona' cost to replace them after this storm.
So now you're against people trying to make their own energy and get off the government grid? Statist.
I am for people making their own decisions whether or not the chief of sales for this particular method of energy is the government itself (and amongst the heaviest subsidized) pitching a method that is more than likely not in their main financial interest.
Why do you care?
He didn't build that solar panel --- somebody else did that.
I would be ok with being able to make my own energy. I'm just not so sure the nut job next door should be able to create a potential environmental or worse hazard. I'd love to be able to trust my neighbors to do the right thing with making their energy as long as it was safe. Certain things are probably better left with a state and I hate saying that.
One does not need a state to provide security and adjudication. If anything the security and adjudicative services provided by the state are sub-par just like the DMV or the county assessor's office.
The second time we are in agreement. ;->
And the good news is that the storm track will take it into the Midwest to alleviate the drought!
umm...no... will dissipate over the delta region... or move NE nothing to push it that far north
hooray
More like Isaac will hit the midwest and flood what is left of the crop destroying everything. Actually that would be great because thousands of Wall Street speculators would be holding billions in contracts that couldn't be filled.
My uncle's corn harvest turned out great.
He didn't grow that corn.
Nature ALWAYS has the trump card........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDA5nHlDrQ
Oh look it's gonna hit Tampa. Um sorry we meant New Orleans. See how well we can predict the weather. Trust us we know global warming.
Attention all sheep. Please proceed to the Sun Life Stadium and wait for further instructions.
The sheep didn't build that catastrophe --- somebody else did that.
You can't have it both ways .... extreme drought or record hurricane season .... probably can't have both at the same time ? Sorry, I'm not a climate expert .... just a Yankee common sense butt kicker ! Crude up Monday for Chavez' problemon de refineria AND Isaac "Good Jew Boy Name" hurricane in the cane fields ?
BULLISH!
Latest models in show New Orleans at the least a possible target. As for the strength at land fall, that seems to be very much up in the air. Lots of different forces working on the storm at present. Just about anything can happen, a large tropical storm hitting, or a quite large dangerous Cat 3 Hurricane plowing into New Orleans. Nobody can predict at present what will become of this storm, but the potential is there for a big disaster. On the other hand it could meet unfavorable inputs and fizzle.
If I were in that part of the Gulf Coast, I would wait one more day for more news, and have everything packed and the car gased, if the news is bad I would bug out pronto!
If the economy is stalled/sliding, then supply isn't much of an issue.
Some good bullish news for oil/natgas - which usually happens at a top.
Pack up the guns, women and children. Holy hell FEMA is about to descend.
Kayne doesn't like hurricanes