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Observer - 27 Sep 2005 22:33 GMT

A mere 40 hrs before Hurricane Rita struck the Tex/La state line, my own
city of Houston was reported to be directly in the storms crosshairs. Since
we had no intention of leaving, I made preparations for the outside cats to
have a safe (dry and protected from high wind) place to bunk for the
duration.

When the predicted heading of the hurricane changed, I went ahead with plans
to make sure they had accommodations and provisions to sustain them in case
of tropical-storm velocity winds. As it turned out, very little rain fell
on my grounds, and wind was not much higher than a normal March blow-in.

The cats weathered it fine. But they liked their new hunkering places so
well that I've decided to expand on it for the upcoming winter. No
complaints from them.

--The Observer

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No More Retail - 27 Sep 2005 23:00 GMT

Thank God that your outside friends weathered everything just fine and your
family made it ok

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Barrnabas Collins - 28 Sep 2005 19:07 GMT

>Thank God that your outside friends weathered everything just fine and your
>family made it ok

There are several things now that are painfully obvious in the
wake of Katrina.
1. When are people need to evacuate they for understandable
reasons will refuse to leave their pets behind. Some of these
people were among the 10,000 who remained in New Orleans.
I can't blame them. I would refuse to leave my cats behind too.
2. Some of the people in the region didn't evacuate since they
didn't have a car, didn't have the money to rent a car, etc.
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Barrnabas Collins - 28 Sep 2005 18:52 GMT

>A mere 40 hrs before Hurricane Rita struck the Tex/La state line, my own
>city of Houston was reported to be directly in the storms crosshairs. Since
>we had no intention of leaving, I made preparations for the outside cats to
>have a safe (dry and protected from high wind) place to bunk for the
>duration.

I think you're missing the following points:
1. Hurricanes have a mind of their own, they are inherently
unpredictable. We've made great strides in the meteorolgical
community in improving the accuracy of predictions but the fact
remains they are still unpredictable. And yes sometimes a category
5 storm like Rita/Katrina is heading in one direction but takes a jog
in a slightly different direction.
2. Ask the people in the southern most part of Louisiana how much of
a dud Rita was. If you look at a view of Louisianna from space you
wehre the southern most part of Louisianna was wiped off the face
of the earth. The damage was devistating, the flooding imense.
3. When you have a powerful Category 5 storm churning in the ocean
you prepare for a direct hit and act accordingly. Katrina killed
lots of people and devastated a large area. With Rita you had to
assume the same thing was going to happen. Ask all the people
who were rescued from the roof tops in Katrina what happens
when you don't evacuate the area and your house floods to the
roof line.

>When the predicted heading of the hurricane changed, I went ahead with plans
>to make sure they had accommodations and provisions to sustain them in case
>of tropical-storm velocity winds. As it turned out, very little rain fell
>on my grounds, and wind was not much higher than a normal March blow-in.

Bear in mind when a hurricane jogs to the north/south/east/west it
could just as easily take another jog to the north/south/east/west
and you may have little or even no warning in advance.

The bottom line: when you have a category 5 hurricane
churning nearby you need to prepare for a direct hit,
for winds that will damage anything/everything, catastrophic
flooding, a tidal surge that will wipe a large portion of the
city/town/region of the map. To not prepare for this
is to risk getting killed.

As the governor of Louisianna instructed those
who refused to evactuate for Rita "write your
social securtiy number on you body with indellible
marker to you can be easily identified." Hurricanes
can and do kill people and it can't be predicted yet
with 100% accuracy.

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