LOL! That nails it’ let’s put the coffin in the trench.

When did Wizbang become part of the Gay Left?

But I am a fiscal conservative, an anti-tax classic liberal economist and someone who thinks people like you and your worldview make America unsafe and dangerous for our children… plus, unlike you, I can comprehend the written word of others.

Rather than spew and vent the nonsense handed out on the radical fringe porch of the Democrat Plantation, stop and think for yourself for just once, keogh. You’ll be amazed at how different reality is from the spin you’ve been given in DailyDoses… DailyKos, DailyShow. LOL. Get serious, keogh. The debate issues are too important to be reduced to your rants.

but to the GayLeft it didn’t hit NO… it wasn’t even a Cat 3 when it made landfall… it was a Cat 1 when it hit NO (sic).

What? Have all you guys been tuned into Anderson Cooper’s tin foil hat this week? I can’t tell: are you being a fool on purpose or just a tool by default?

It’s amazing how the spin nonsense out of DailyKos can have such staying power among those who need to believe it is true. Need it to be true.

For starters, many of us here on GP certainly aren’t righties. I for one am a fairly extreme social liberal, and, after being a 15+ year Democrat, am currently a registered Independent.

For another, you blabber on and on about your preconceptions without referring to or quoting specific individuals’ specific comments. Thus - you are blabbering to your own mirror, nothing more.

Those are the reasons I have learned to (normally) not even read you, most of the time.

Katrina did not hit New Orleans. It moved east, just brushing New Orleans. But the strong backside winds “pushed” Lake Pontchartrain into the flood control canals and over some levees.

Actually, Katrina did indeed hit NOLA. It is true that the eye of the storm went east of NOLA, but NOLA was hit by the full brunt of the western part of the storm. With a hurricane, the eastern part of the storm is mostly rain, with a lot of wind. But the western part has far less rain, but substantially more wind. That is one of the things that is often forgotten about a hurricane.* And, quite frankly, the wind can do a lot more damage than the rainfall.

I don’t know for sure, but with NOLA it is likely that it was the wind, acting on the waters of Lake Ponchartrain, that caused the levees to break and flood the city. Note where the wind would have been coming from: the east and the northeast, exactly the directions that would have been optimal to cause the lake’s waters to break the levees.

*Actually, here in Europe, we have hurricanes. Hurricanes are classified, not by the amount of rainfall that they provide, but by the speed of the wind. They are almost classified like tornadoes (note to Matty: Wirbelstuerme). There aren’t a lot of them, but they do happen.

An American city. Mostly gone. Say it again: An American city. Mostly gone.

Americans who live below sea level must be prepared to face the consequences.

Katrina did not hit New Orleans. It moved east, just brushing New Orleans. But the strong backside winds “pushed” Lake Pontchartrain into the flood control canals and over some levees.

AND - Re-read Bruce’s post. It almost doesn’t matter what cat it was. The levees were going to break when hit by a cat 3, 4 or 5. The levees did the damage (not the storm) in N.O.

You can try to play your semantic, NRO games with me, but it WAS a Cat 3 when it hit
Obviously I know what I am talking about. Learn to listen to people who know more.
You might not make a fool out yourself.

No need for a big debate, just follow the links.

Someone better tell the national weather service bureau and hurricane center that you think it wasn’t even a Cat 3 when it hit NO.

The experts say you’re wrong on it “not even being a Cat 3″ –it was declared a Cat 5 exactly 24 hours before making landfall and four hours later Nagin ordered a mandatory evac… but don’t take the buses… unless they’re union-member Regional Transit Authority buses. Of course, by then, the looting had already started with some of the corrupt police leading the party.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:F_y2v-cOrNgJ:www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/homeland/katrinatimeline.pdf+katrina+cat+5+landfall&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

Of course it dropped to a Cat 4 –as do all hurricanes– when it made landfall but it then had a Cat 5 surge.

You are being intellectually dishonest to say it wasn’t a Cat 5… and you’re just flat out wrong to write it wasn’t even a Cat 3.

Katrina was a class 5 while it was still at sea, but slowed down some as it approached.

It was still a mean, nasty, brutal hurricane, but it wasn’t a cat 5.