Geoff Schultz wrote:

So what are we supposed to learn from this? That some stupid idiot almost
lost his life because he refused to obey the evacuation orders? I'm glad
that he survived and the boats were fine, but there were emergency personel
who could have lost their lives trying to protect someone who didn't obey
orders. Sorry if I'm not impressed that he made it to work.

Was Tallahassee under evacuation orders? I had the impression that
just the lower Keys and the panhandle were at risk.


grandma Rosalie

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:01:57 GMT, Rosalie B. wrote:

Geoff Schultz wrote:

So what are we supposed to learn from this? That some stupid idiot almost
lost his life because he refused to obey the evacuation orders? I'm glad
that he survived and the boats were fine, but there were emergency personel
who could have lost their lives trying to protect someone who didn't obey
orders. Sorry if I'm not impressed that he made it to work.

Was Tallahassee under evacuation orders? I had the impression that
just the lower Keys and the panhandle were at risk.


grandma Rosalie


Sign the Kyoto protocol on global warming - or its going to get worse

Nonsense. I am a Florida native and remember the early 60s when we
seemed to have many Hurricanes. My parents also Fl natives say the
same. Looking at tracks of all tropical storms and hurricanes since
1851 shows no inscrease in storms. We have simply had a 30 yr window
of few storms that has ended. People just forgot what normalcy was.

Tallahassee, St. Marks or Shell Pt did not have evacuation orders.
Tallahassee is simply too far inland and the storm was not expectd to
really impact St. Marks or Shell Pt.

History really should be a guide here. Both St. Marks and Shell Pt sit
at the tip of broad shallow south opening Apalachee Bay, a perfect
scenario for extreme storm surge. The earliest recorded storm surge
was int he mid 1500s when the Spanish fort at St. Marks was destroyed
by a 20' surge. In the early 1800s, Port Leon just downriver from St.
Marks was destroyed by a storm surge. In the mid 1800s, numerous
deaths were caused at the St. marks light when people took refuge in
the lighthousekeepers house and in the stairwell of the lighthouse.
People less than 20' up in the stairwell drowned.
I have heard that there are indications of a 28' surge on very old
trees some time in the past. I once read of indications in inland
dunes of a 30' surge just to the west hundreds of years ago.

wrote in
ups.com:

Nonsense.

I agree.

Just like 2-stroke outboards......If you listen to the greenies, every lake
in the country should be about knee-deep in motor oil by now. We've been
pouring it in since the 2-stroke outboard was invented in the early part of
the last century.....

All the energy ever produced by humans is but a speck on the ocean when
compared with the radiation of the nearest star that provides the heat to
fuel life on this planet. Man just likes to THINK he is in control. He is
not.

If we're REALLY serious about doing something about pollution, hell that's
easy! Didn't any of you notice how CLEAN AND CLEAR the air over America
got the week AFTER 9/11/2001 when the goddamned jet planes were all
GROUNDED and not churning out billions of tons of crap, 24/7 over your
house?! Oh, wait, that can't be right. Only pollution from INDIVIDUALS
causes pollution....not big corporations like Delta, United, etc....sorry.

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