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Senator Reid needs to brush up on his math skills and history.

Katrina - death toll 1,836 - monetary damage - $108 billion
Sandy - death toll 253 - monetary damage - $65.6 billion (approx)

[Source] ETA: They should be worried about getting help to those who need it, not circle jerking around and trying to use tragedies to make themselves ( Read more... )

Isaac's finally blown through my area. And I mean finally! At one point, it was moving a 10th of a mile in 3 hours which is why St. Tammany and Baton Rouge got pounded.

My area seriously lucked out since the storm landed and shifted in such a way that we were 15-20 miles outside of the strike zone. We got about 3" of rain and A LOT of wind with ( Read more... )

I officially delete August from my mind and this whole year. It's totally sucked. Hard. Ugh. I'll save you all the gory details and just stick with the purpose of this post -- Hurricane Isaac is going to "bless" Louisiana which is where I live ( Read more... )

Well...there goes the Labor Day weekend BBQ! Looks like we're getting our very own tropical storm this weekend.

Hooray. It's just what I always wanted! Thank you, Mother Nature for the enormous middle finger. (Note my sarcasm.) :P ( Read more... )

Early last week, Dad had surgery again. It was a minor thing, but he makes the *worst* patient ever. Everything they tell him NOT to do, he has to try doing, and, when he is behaving himself, he expects people to respond within seconds when he calls never mind the fact that people do need time to cook, clean, and go to the bathroom! He also ( Read more... )

For those of you tracking Hanna, Ike, and Josephine, I found a rather neat site that lets you track where storms are in relation to you as well as look up the tracks of previous storms.

You can find it at [Storm Pulse.Com]

We're okay. The house is okay. We were 'lucky' to get the weaker, left side of the eyewall of Gustav so all we got was about seven or eight hours of really heavy winds and rain.

Contrary to what the national news say Terrebonne, Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette parishes are the ones that got hammered the most not New ( Read more... )

The eye of Hurricane Gustav is forecasted to make landfall anywhere between 10-40 miles from my current location. Most lines, however, say 20 ( Read more... )

Apparently Hurricane Humberto decided it had a complex about its silent 'h' and thought soaking the crap out of Texas and Louisiana was a capital idea.

Aside from a lot of rain, wind, and the occasional power brown-out, it wasn't that bad here ( Read more... )

I okay.

( How Rita affected me. )