Numbers That Might Help
I have been trying to get a hold of ANYONE, to find out if one of my friends that lives in gulf coast Mississippi is alive or safe or what. I have had little luck as cell phone towers are down and all numbers seem to be busy, so if anyone know Jamie Martin from Pascagoula Mississippi, please leave me a message letting me know what you know about her. Below is a list of numbers that might help you find who you are looking for.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (601-352-9100); 24-hour emergency line, (800-222-MEMA or 800-222-6362)
red cross next of kin line 1-866-GET-INFO
FEMA 1-800-621-FEMA
Lets all hope for the best, but it seems this town was hit bad. Lets just hope they all left before the storm.
Global Warming, Hurricanes, and Red State Politics.
So I take a week off and all hell breaks loose. I was in Georgia and was able to feel the secondary effects of this very large and powerful storm. We got lots of rain and lots of lightning.
There have been many “dooms day” scenarios when it comes to global warming and hurricanes. One of them is the flooding of New Orleans. The scenario goes something like this; a massive hurricane comes ashore and breaks the levies surrounding New Orleans. The city of about half a million people is anywhere from 6-20 feet below sea level. The levies surround the city and keep it from being covered in seawater and Mississippi river water.
It seems that his horrific scenario has come to pass. The levies around this city are indeed broken and millions of gallons of water is now pouring into the city. The last I heard as many as 80,000 homes are underwater. As I am writing this, the water is still rising, and it has no place to go. The levies that protect the city are now keeping the water from draining away.
New Orleans is not nearly the only place hit by this massive storm. Large swaths of the south coast have been knocked over by Katrina. Small towns where people had little to begin with, are now left with nothing.
As a side note, oil is now over 70 (!!!) dollars a barrel. Because of the ass whooping Katrina gave to the oil platforms and pipelines in the gulf. So I ask this question again, why have the politicians from these southern states (all red states) not lobbied hard for our government to do something, ANYTHING, about global warming. Why haven’t we rebuilt the wetlands around New Orleans to buffer us from future storms? Why are these states still the ones that say global warming has nothing to do with storms or storm intensity? Only time will tell.
Vacation
I will be going on a little vacation today, that means The Sietch will be without updates for the next week. I will be back on tuesday. See you then. :)
Pollarding Trees With The Audubon Society
Just added Pollarding Trees With the Audubon Society to the Positive Change section of The Sietch. Comment on it here.
Rage Against This Machine
So it seems that Bush is once again trying to tie 9/11 to Iraq. Come on America WAKE UP, Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. We have been round and round this maypole before. Simply put Bush is starting to sound like a broken record. In my opinion the mid term elections are going to go poorly for republicans. They are going to loose several important house and senate seats and then the democrats are going to make Bush’s life hell. The Republican Party led by head treason officer Carl Rove has been so heavy handed with the minority party that we can only expect to see some severe partisan politics from congress.
This will only be magnified if Bush’s poll numbers continue to drop and people continue to wipe the dust caused by 9/11 out of their eyes. People are finally starting to realize that our country is being led by a bunch of Halliburton executives, not leaders. The price of gas, the bad air, the droughts, the hurricanes, maybe just maybe people are starting to understand that we are in the fight of our lives here (literally). If we don’t get some leaders in office that understand things like global warming, poverty as root causes of terrorism, and the importance of reallocating military spending to other more worthy needs, we will go extinct as a species. It’s that simple, we wise up or we die off.
The Beach 2.0
So I went back to the beach and took this tripod that I got for free as well. It helped a lot. The picture is much less choppy now and the colors are better because I played around with the white levels a bit. Check it out.
Vindication
So it seems that because one cop was taking a piss (literally). An innocent man was shot 8 times. Jean Charles de Menezes was also NOT wearing a padded coat, and was NOT running from the cops when it happened. Good to know that my life is in the hands of people who will chase me down tackle me and shoot me in the back of the head 8 times just because they failed to turn on the surveillance camera because they were taking a piss at the time. 
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Sunset
Today I went to the beach to watch the sunset. It was amazingly beautiful. Here is a picture I made from several shots I took. It didn’t turn out as good as I had hoped so tomorrow I am going to try again.
The Beach
The beach is a strange and mystical place on Cape Cod in the summer. I like to get up very early and go down to the local beach and wade out into the chill water and just sit. If you lean back and float and let your ears go under, you hear the gentle murmur of the waves. On busy days the chatter of hundreds of humans can be heard laughing and splashing. Like so many seagulls busy soaking up the sun. Read the rest of The Beach
Hey where did you go?
As you may have noticed the many daily areas of The Sietch that you love, the clean power news, the blog and others, were on a little vacation. That is because I have moved, and I didn’t have that sweet, sweet, Internet, or as we say around the office the “intarweb”. But we are back and going strong and all the feeds are up and running again. You may continue to get your daily Sietch fix again. Thanks for sticking with us.
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