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.
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