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What frustrates me about the current New Orleans situation is how even in the middle of an emergency like evacuating for a Category 5+ storm whose winds are now **175 mph** according to reports, people still only use one side of the freeway.

I'm looking at that photo in the link from my previous post, and only one side of the freeway is being used to get people away from a 175 mph hurricane.  Have some SMARTS!  I can't believe how programmed we are as a people that it doesn't occur to us to *BREAK THE RULES* if it means saving lives.   Obviously nobody is going to be heading TOWARDS New Orleans in a time like this, and if they are, it's only going to be the random car.   So open the other side of the freeway, use all 6 - 8 lanes.   They'd have people out in no time.

When we were evacuating for Frances, people didn't even have the common sense to use the breakdown lane.    Only a random car here and there.............and even then, we had citizen vigilantes trying to police everybody by blocking those lanes to keep everybody using only the 3 main highway lane.  NO smarts.   It was VERY VERY frustrating.   But that was the other factor in us managing to get out....my insistance on using the breakdown lane.   Tom and I had our 2 way radios so we could talk to each other from our cars, we got in the breakdown lane, and drove around the vigilantes on the grass.    And that's how we got out. 

I'm just shaking my head.  I just know that if I ever find myself in a situation like that again, where I can see that the other side of the highway is totally empty, and I'm in bumper to bumper traffic, and it's life threatening, I'm using the other side.

I hope every person in that area has the wherewithall to evacuate... and find a new place to live, because there'll likely be nothing left standing, even likely a good portion of the delta mouth to the Mississipi river will be gone.

They say that if it does hit New Orleans, it'll be the strongest hurricane to hit them in recorded history, and only the third category 5 hurricane to hit the States in history, after Andrew in 1992 and Camille, in the 50's.

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While some may indeed find this "egotistical" (my word choice is based solely on your word choice), I don't. It seems to be an apparent notion, as a fact... veils are dropping, they have been, we have easier access to knowledge that was before obscured. The only thing is is that you do have a predisposition to intuitiveness because you're a Stellium Scorpio, like me. You have three planets in your descending house, and I have four. That's like being layered over and over again with an aptitude for intuitiveness. You are who you are, and it has not a single thing to do with ego . I hope you don't feel I'm lecturing you, stepping over a personal boundary line, it's just that as a fellow Scorp, I would just like to see you speak of your person without having to counteract that with a negative disclaimer.

Well thank you, that's much appreciated.   

That's interesting that you noted strange head feelings and nausea with this hurricane.    Connecting some dots here, but there was a  HUGE solar storm this week which coincided with the hurricane.   Montalk, me, and a few others got sick this week with these strange sore throats, and we're people who rarely if never get sick.  The fact we all got sick with the same symptoms at the same time in the middle of the solar ruckus is certainly coincidental!   Also, right in the middle of this solar storm period I noticed that I was having troubles with my pendulum.   For the first time since I got it, I received contradictory answers.  I was perplexed, not knowing about the sun.  So I think it might explain that as well.

Yeah, my intuitive impression on Dennis was that it was just a regular ol' hurricane.  Who knows though........for all we know, EVERY hurricane now is completely controlled.   I wouldn't be surprised!   And maybe the difference in feelings from one to the next has to do with the technology they're using to play around with it, and the intensity of how the technology is being applied.    Again, I'm just grabbing at straws here. Who knows!    I do know that complete planetary weather control is supposed to be one of their goals.

(PS...and I don't write this to try to sound egotistical or something......I've always had intuition, but NEVER like this before, to where I can tune in to external events and be so accurate.  So it's not meant in ego, I say it as an indicator of the changes that are happening to people, of which a major one includes a mega increase in one's natural psychic abilities. I think this is happening because we're going to need them for whatever's coming up down the pike.  but i digress!!!)

While some may indeed find this "egotistical" (my word choice is based solely on your word choice), I don't. It seems to be an apparent notion, as a fact... veils are dropping, they have been, we have easier access to knowledge that was before obscured. The only thing is is that you do have a predisposition to intuitiveness because you're a Stellium Scorpio, like me. You have three planets in your descending house, and I have four. That's like being layered over and over again with an aptitude for intuitiveness. You are who you are, and it has not a single thing to do with ego . I hope you don't feel I'm lecturing you, stepping over a personal boundary line, it's just that as a fellow Scorp, I would just like to see you speak of your person without having to counteract that with a negative disclaimer.

Now about Katrina. I have the past two days, been feeling some familiar feelings like I felt last summer with those 'canes, a swimmy head and nausea. I don't like it. I hope I don't sound like a nut ( now who's adding a negative disclaimer ), but I think this hurricane may very well have been tinkered with. When I get a swimmy head and nausea like this I always find some kind of indication that the magnetic-grid is getting jacked around, like solar flares or even scalar stuff (which I know diddley-squat about).

On the other hand, Hurricane Dennis? I felt not a bit of any of this, and the iggies never went to ground with that one either. Interesting that Katrina started out to be just a squirt of a hurricane and now they're projecting it to make it's second landfall as a Cat 4? Maybe this a natural course of action for her, but at this point, I'm not wholey convinced this is all of an innocent nature.

Fortunately for me, Katrina is moving further away so the ickiness is not really with me this morning... and thankfully so, because that swimmy head and nausea kwap just wears me out.

You know, it's the strangest thing, they don't forecast this hurricane to really touch  my area here, and yet the iguanas are taking to ground... hmmm, makes me wonder.

Well what's interesting is that they really didn't see this one hitting as strongly as it ended up hitting.  Right through til this morning they were STILL calling it a tropical storm.

Then it made landfall between Broward and Miami Dade county in the afternoon at 90 mph (so said the news report I read) and killed several people.

Nice "tropical storm".  !

I know 90 mph isn't much compared to a Category 3, 4 or even 5 storm, but still, it was so played down and people were pretty nonchalant about it, then within hours it gained 20 - 30 mph and hit as a hurricane.

I knew two days ago it was going to become a Cat. 1 hurricane and even mentioned it to montalk, so I have proof, dammit, he can back me up!     I've been dead on accurate about all the Florida hurricanes since last year - where they were going to hit, and how hard they were going to hit, even when the "experts" were saying something entirely different.  I knew Jeanne was going to loop around, become active again and smack the same place Frances did 3 weeks earlier (again, montalk can back me up on that one!), I knew 5 days before that  Frances was going to make landfall that Friday in West Palm Beach, I knew Ivan was going to swing up and hit the Gulf of Mexico region and NOT SW Florida as originally predicted, I felt something was fishy and off about Charlie and was glued to my computer screen at work, watching its progress like a person watches television, and sure enough, it swerved in and made landfall in a completely different area than predicted.   Yet I don't know a thing about meteorology, but damn, maybe I should go into business for myself as a psychic. !    Could specialize in Florida weather or something, who knows.  Just give me a ring, and for 5 bucks I can tell you what's going to happen and to who and when and where.  haha  Forget the meteorologists though, they have about as much clue as a medical doctor.

(PS...and I don't write this to try to sound egotistical or something......I've always had intuition, but NEVER like this before, to where I can tune in to external events and be so accurate.  So it's not meant in ego, I say it as an indicator of the changes that are happening to people, of which a major one includes a mega increase in one's natural psychic abilities. I think this is happening because we're going to need them for whatever's coming up down the pike.  but i digress!!!)

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It reminds me of one of those pointelist paintings.  It would make a great art image.

Even though this is a low end Category 1 hurricane, the wind (about 70 mph right now, as I write) and rain is worse than when the high end Category 2's hit 40 miles north of Fort Lauderdale last year, because this time Fort Lauderdale is the main landfall target.

I just can't BELIEVE that Fort Lauderdale's getting popped like this.  This was my home for 2 1/2 years. Usually it never gets the direct hits; hurricanes always veer north or south of that area from what the locals used to reassure me all the time.  If we were there we'd have no electricity, and no air conditioning or even a fan in the middle of the scorching hot and humid Florida summer.   Lines for gasoline, or none at all.   No ice.   Flooded roads, downed trees and power lines everywhere.   Etc.  So, glad not to be there, obviously made the right choice in leaving, but still sad for those who are going to face that.

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Accident???  Blunder???? I don't think so!  Sounds like someone made off like a bandit in Florida--AGAIN!

FEMA is blaming a "computer glitch" on the mispayment of funds in the amount of apx. $29 million to FL residents of Miami-Dade county.

Miami-Dade county?

Miami-Dade county was one of the very few counties in FL that wasn't affected by the hurricanes last summer. Miami-Dade county never even experienced winds over 40-50 mph, these not even tropical force winds. They don't anticipate recovering any of the money because those who were payed relief funds are "poor" and have already spent the money.

A $29 million computer glitch? Yeah, right.... more like the US Federal Blunderment at work.

Just how in the hell does something like this happen?

$29 million... for cryin' outloud! And to blame it on computers no less... somebody's got to run those computers, somebody's got to input the info, somebody's (in a position of authority) got to approve the release of funds somewhere along the line... somebody made a huge blunder, not a computer system.

I'll tell ya, those few minutes when we passed through the first time did more to make me reconsider living in FL than did the whole summer of storms we had here. Really. I had heard people who'd been to Homestead after Andrew talk about how stunning it was, but I didn't truely understand until last Friday.

.....exactly.  Because there's always next year's hurricane season, and the year after that..... 

Something to keep in mind is the fact that 2004's hurricane season may very well become the norm in the future.   Japan was hit by a record **Ten** typhoons this year.  Ten!   Including the biggest one to ever hit Japan in modern history.    Why?   Because the ocean temperatures finally rose several degrees.   The climatologists have been talking for years about the impending ocean temperature rise.....and it finally happened.   After I read that I wondered if it applied to the Caribbean / Atlantic  as well, and could be the reason for so many hurricanes hitting the U.S. in one season.

I believe this will be the norm from now on.  If the ocean temps have indeed risen by several degrees as it's been claimed, then of course it's going to keep wreaking havoc.  Not trying to be a fear monger and get people scared, it's more of a common sense monger, even if it's erring on the side of caution.         

sigh.   Some people are just disgusting.  It never ceases to amaze me.   THAT was the rampant attitude I found down there in Florida.   Just disgusting.   So many disgusting people with "me me me" attitudes."   And I'll be all politically incorrect and say this, but I find it simply amazing that they're the ones who live and survive and even GLEEFULLY PROFIT on these hurricanes, while the decent regular people were the ones who died.   I mean, what's going on with THAT??!?   

Freezing our butts off in 20-ish degree weather.   Yesterday I had random images going through my mind of Florida and Southern California and feeling like I want to just up and go back.   So funny timing of you resurrecting this thread.   I'm glad, cause I needed the reminder.........

You know those tall 50-60ft light poles on freeways? We saw a number of them bent in half like they were trashed paper straws. We passed by hundreds and hundreds of temporary housing units. There were still huge, huge piles of debris. In this one certain area the tree groves were all just stripped of their leaves and height.  The palm groves looked like they were all twisted up. This much still almost a half a year after Charley hit.

All of this was one thing, but the energy of anxiety that both myself and my mate (he not always so sensitive to subtle energy) felt was very strong. I had thought that I was feeling the anxiety the first time passing through because what was seen was rather shocking, but the same feeling came over both of us again as we passed back through going home. We both got the willies thinking about how horrific it must've been hunkered down somewhere with all that wind force for 3 hrs., praying for one's very life.

I'll tell ya, those few minutes when we passed through the first time did more to make me reconsider living in FL than did the whole summer of storms we had here. Really. I had heard people who'd been to Homestead after Andrew talk about how stunning it was, but I didn't truely understand until last Friday.

As it is now, even in my area where minimal damage was done relative to other areas, shingles for roofing are simply not to be had, people have blue tarps on their roofs down south. Screening is not to be had (for pool cages and patios). My mate is a construction super and his company, roofing and remodeling, had million dollar-plus years each.

At the company xmas dinner party the big bosses, three of them :x, actually had the nerve to say they were grateful for the hurricanes because they've made a lot of money in bonuses. One of them was bragging about paying off his house, another bought a boat... though they did say they were sorry so many lost their homes . Very, very tacky.

The owner of the business asks that everyone at the dinner table says what they're grateful for in their lives... some said hurricanes, I simply said "I'm grateful for change".

You see, I know what they didn't, we'll be leaving this area in a few months, for other reasons and not because of hurricanes. I think it's kind of odd because people around here are already talking about next summers hurricanes, and I'm just not seeing it.

BTW, what are y'all doin' up there in the northern states? We're freezing our patooties off down here! Brrrrr!

Tropical Storm Bonnie never actually made it to hurricane status.

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Thanks for the update...I had heard Hurricane bonnie this, and Hurricane bonnie that, so I figured it was one, (although a pretty mild one).   But that explains why it seems to have dropped off the face of the earth!    It was just a tropical storm.    It's still amazing though....4 hurricanes, 1 tropical storm, and grazed by another tropical storm. (Alex)   What a year....