What's the latest in Florida? (Page 9 of 9)

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.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

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.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Well, I know this no longer pertains to Florida, but to me it's still important to keep tabs on. But Katrina is now higher than a category 5, with winds at 160 mph, and gusts bringing it to 195 mph. and it's aimed for what they guess is going to be New Orleans. 

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&a … ne_katrina

Looking at those photos of all the people trying to get out of New Orleans on the 10 west just reminds me of what we went through in evacuating Florida for Frances.  Something like 2 million people on the road, every route was clogged.  It took us 14 hours to make the 88 miles from the Lake Okeechobee area, which is where the traffic ground to a halt, to Orlando.   No lie!  And even then, the only reason we managed to get out of the state was because Tom was synchronistically guided to turn on the radio and listen to a news program which mentioned a side route off the turnpike accessible in Orlando.  The side route ran parallel to the turnpike, all the way up into Georgia.

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.