Sunday, August 29, 2021

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44 comments:

anonymous said...

Ida pressure dropped 11 millibars over the last hour.......winds now reported at 150 mph......sure hope that eye wall stays out of NOLA!!!!!!! Pray for those who did not leave!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10166031831855647&id=890775646

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Hurricane Ida intensified into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane as it made its way towards the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Sunday.

With top sustained winds of 145 mph, Ida was located about 100 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River river, the NHC said in an advisory.

"Everybody in the path of Ida should be prepared for very heavy rainfall, very strong winds, life-threatening storm surge along the coast and isolated tornados as well," National Weather Service meteorologist Jennifer McNatt told NBC News Sunday.

Warning that "additional strengthening is forecast," she said Idawas now a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed

The worst in 350 years

Myballs said...

State dept says 350 Americans left to gey out. Most are calling bullshit. It is thousands this admin will abandon. And no one will be held accountable.

Commonsense said...


As of the 4 am CDT advisory:

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...140 MPH...220 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...946 MB...27.94 INCHES

As anyone who follows Hurricanes knows, any minimum pressure under 1000 millibars is a bad storm.

But it's not worse in 350 years. In 1969 we had Hurricane Camille who made landfall as a category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 200mph. The storm and it's surge flatten the five story Richloe Arpartments killing over 200 people who took refuge in it.

anonymous said...

But it's not worse in 350 years.

Actually cramps.....it is the worse to hit La in a 170 years.....Not an endearing record by any means!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CNN)Hurricane Ida became a Category 4 storm early Sunday morning, rapidly intensifying to sustained winds of 150 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

That's just 7 mph from making Ida a Category 5 storm. It was 60 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, NHC forecasters said in a 7 a.m. ET update, as the storm continued its march toward Louisiana and the Gulf Coast at 15 mph.

The hurricane has quickly increased in intensity since striking Cuba on Friday, threatening to be an "extremely dangerous major hurricane" when it makes its projected landfall along the Louisiana coast Sunday afternoon.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I have been there before and it's heartbreaking..

Hospitals in New Orleans are bracing for public health emergencies on two fronts as Hurricane Ida threatens to strike at the same time as Louisiana is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases.

New Orleans is in the midst of a “severe outbreak” with a seven-day average of 220 new infections, according to the city’s Covid-19 dashboard. Across the state, more than 3,400 new cases were confirmed as of Friday, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. At least 2,684 people are hospitalized in Louisiana with Covid-19.

Last month, Louisiana hit the biggest single-day increase of Covid-19 hospitalizations since the pandemic's start with 6,800 new cases in a single day, the second-highest single-day case count since Jan. 6, 2021.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The National Guard has been deployed.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

And on top this is terrible news

“Covid-19 hospitalizations nationwide crossed above 100,000 this week for the second time in the pandemic, overwhelming caregiver capacity in several states,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Keeping ahead of demand is harder now than during earlier surges, according to doctors, nurses and hospital executives. Patients with other illnesses returned to hospitals this year, leaving fewer open beds as Covid-19 cases soared. The demand is most acute in ICUs, which care for the most-critical patients and need highly trained medical staff. Hospitals are short-staffed and unable to recruit enough nurses and respiratory therapists, who are exhausted as the pandemic wears on.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Ida was upgraded to Category 4 early Sunday, with 145-mile-an-hour winds, as it moved over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane could bring storm surges as high as 15 feet above ground along parts of the Gulf Coast and as much as 20 inches of rain in some areas of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Forecasters expect Ida to make landfall Sunday evening.

“We are facing a dangerous storm that needs to be taken seriously,” Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said at a news conference Saturday. He warned that residents who stay should expect extended power loss, street flooding and potentially significant wind damage.

Officials said the Louisiana National Guard had prepared personnel and equipment such as high-water vehicles and boats to help with storm response. Electric utilities were mobilizing more than 10,000 workers across the state to address power outages, they said.

The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas in Louisiana, and along the Gulf Coast from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Pearl River at the Louisiana-Mississippi border.

If the storm makes landfall in Louisiana on Sunday, it will arrive exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. President Bush was photographed flying around the storm.

Traffic leaving the city on Interstate 10 over Lake Pontchartrain was bumper-to-bumper on Saturday as people evacuated. Supermarket parking lots were jammed. Stores selling ice were running out of supplies.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-orleans-prepares-for-hurricane-ida-11630159086?st=q3lkesxx8rgr2iu&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Commonsense said...

We've only kept official weather records for the last 100 years or so.

The existent of other hurricanes can only be derive from the historic record such as church registries, ship's logs, colony records, dairies and personal journals or in the examination of sediment.

One notable hurricane was the great hurricane of 1780. It was estimated as a category 4 storm (some would say 5) that ripped though the Caribbean and up what was later the Eastern United States. The storm killed 22,000 people, destroyed most homes and runes crops which led to starvation across the Caribbean.

Commonsense said...

Actually cramps.....it is the worse to hit La in a 170 years..

Worse than Katrina? We'll see but I don't think you'll get the death toll or property damage you got with Katrina. (Providing the levies hold.)

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Hill reports

Florida starts turning on DeSantis

By MATT DIXON

 

08/27/2021 04:10 PM EDT

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been untouchable for the past year as he commanded the Republican culture wars to become heir apparent to Donald Trump. The latest coronavirus surge is starting to change that.

Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. And cruise lines are resisting DeSantis’ vaccine passport ban. Even his recent poll numbers are slipping.

It’s new terrain for a Republican governor who defied dire expectation during the first wave of Covid-19 but has continued his hands-off approach as the more contagious Delta variant infects large swaths of Florida’s unvaccinated population.

The most recent defeat came Friday when Leon County Circuit Court Judge John Cooper ruled DeSantis can’t punish school districts for passing mask mandates, as his administration had threatened after instituting emergency rules aimed at banning mask mandates in schools. The DeSantis administration has said those districts are breaking the law, an assertion directly refuted in a blistering ruling from Cooper read from the bench during a nearly two hour hearing.

The multi-front Covid-19 battle is becoming inextricably linked to DeSantis’ 2022 re-election bid, and more broadly his future White House aspirations. The governor remains popular with conservatives across the country and in Florida, but his steadfast refusal to implement Covid-related restrictions amid hundreds of virus-related deaths in the state and rising infection numbers has the potential to threaten his electability.

“There’s no question it’s impacting him politically,” said a Republican consultant who has previously worked with DeSantis and requested anonymity to speak freely. “You can tout all the freedom and anti-lockdown that you want. There’s no political strategy for sick kids and tired parents.”

A Quinnipiac University poll released this month had DeSantis’ approval rating dipping below 50 percent, with 47 percent approving of his job performance, and 45 percent disapproving. Those numbers dropped to 44-51 when asked about his handling of public schools. The Quinnipiac poll follows other public polling that shows a similar erosion to DeSantis’ approval rating. A St. Pete Polls survey earlier this month showed 43 percent approved of the job he was doing while 48 percent did not.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

South Court Auditorium
Eisenhower Executive Office Building

1:44 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody.  Can you all hear me?

ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL:  We can, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT:  Well —

ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL:  Can you hear me?

THE PRESIDENT:  I can hear you clearly.

Let me begin by thanking you all, every one of you, for the incredible work you’re doing.  You know, and I want to thank you for joining me on this call today.  And I know so many of you have been working flat out, nights and weekends, for a long time now.

Hurricane Ida is coming fast on the heels of a tragic flooding in Tennessee, Tropical Storm Henri, and you’ve all been part of the COVID-19 response for so many months now.  You’ve been overwhelmed, but you don’t show it.  You’ve been incredible.  Thank you.

You know, Ida is turning into a very, very dangerous storm; I need not tell you.  I just got another briefing from the Hurricane Center and, as you know, it’s now heading straight for — right toward Louisiana.

This weekend is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  And it’s a stark reminder that we have to do everything we can to prepare the people in the region and make sure we’re ready to respond.

Administrator Griswell [sic] — Criswell, you and I have spoken extensively about this.  We were together yesterday and we spoke to the governors of Louisiana, of Alabama, and Mississippi to ask what they need from us before the storm arrived.

And I’ve already signed an emergency declaration for Louisiana to make sure we’re ready for the surge response capa- — capability to deal with whatever comes our — their way — our way, but it’s — it’s their way.

You know, we’ve deployed 500 FEMA emergency response personnel in Texas and Louisiana, in addition to 2,000 FEMA personnel already supporting our COVID response in the region.  And we’ve pre-positioned food, water, generators, and other supplies in the area.  Power restoration and mobile communication support teams are also en route.

We’ve also closely coordinated with the electric utilities to restore power as soon as possible and to support your response and recovery efforts.

And above all, I’m urging the people of the area to pay attention and be prepared.  I want to say it again: Pay attention and be prepared.

Have supplies for your household on hand.  Follow the guidance from local authorities.  And if you have to move to shelter, make sure you wear a mask and try to keep some distance because we’re still facing the highly contagious Delta variant as well.

Administration Criswell — Administrator Criswell, you’re, you know — I’m going to turn this over to you in a moment here to give an update on the latest steps we’re taking.  And I want you to know what more can — I need to know everything you think we need to be able to do.  If you haven’t gotten the authority for it, tell me now.  We’ll get it done.  It’s like — most importantly, I just want to say to all of you: Thank you, thank you, thank you. 

Everything you’re doing to prepare for this dangerous storm is — is going to mitigate the impact of potential nas- — natural disasters, results that are going to be visited on so many people in the region.  The work you’re doing is vital, and you all know it.

So, Administrator Criswell, let’s you and I have a conversation.  Tell me what you need and what’s going on.

1:48 P.M. EDT

Commonsense said...

Hurricane Ida became a Category 4 storm early Sunday morning, rapidly intensifying to sustained winds of 150 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Actually if it follows the pattern of most Gulf Hurricanes it will lose strength and intensity as it approaches landfall.

Two reasons for this.

1. The center of the Hurricane is leaving the "hot spot" in the Gulf of Mexico and entering cooler waters.
2. The northeast quadrant (strongest quadrant of the storm.) Arrives ahead of the center and start interacting with land thereby losing intensity. Of course the bad news is the northeast quadrant is the quadrant that pushes the storm surge onto land.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Hospitalizations Approach Peak as Delta Variant Spreads
August 29, 2021 at 8:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

“Covid-19 hospitalizations nationwide crossed above 100,000 this week for the second time in the pandemic, overwhelming caregiver capacity in several states,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Keeping ahead of demand is harder now than during earlier surges, according to doctors, nurses and hospital executives. Patients with other illnesses returned to hospitals this year, leaving fewer open beds as Covid-19 cases soared. The demand is most acute in ICUs, which care for the most-critical patients and need highly trained medical staff. Hospitals are short-staffed and unable to recruit enough nurses and respiratory therapists, who are exhausted as the pandemic wears on.”



Republicans Unite on a Midterm Message
August 29, 2021 at 7:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

Washington Post: “Republicans have been laying a foundation for a midterm argument rooted in casting Biden as a weak leader who has lost control of a swirl of crises, from the surge in migrants at the southern border to a rise in violent crime and now the situation in Afghanistan.”

TAEGAN GODDARD SAYS:
Whatever its merits, the message does unite the Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump sides of the party.

JAMESNEWLEAF SAYS
Notice that even these Republicans do not try to claim, as ChUNTRUTH does, that Biden has been a bigger failure than Trump at dealing with the virus.


Anti-Vax Radio Host Dies of Covid-19
August 28, 2021 at 11:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 192 Comments

Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach for 30 years, died after a three-week battle with COVID-19, the Dayton Beach News-Journal reports.

The Wrap notes Bernier had expressed anti-vaccine sentiment less than a week before his hospitalization.


THE FOLLOWING COULD ALMOST BE A SUNDAY FUNNY

Why Mississippians Are Not As Scared of Covid
August 28, 2021 at 11:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 170 Comments

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) told attendees at a Republican Party fundraiser that Mississippians “are a little less scared” of COVID-19 than other Americans because most share Christian beliefs, the Mississippi Free Press reports.

Said Reeves: “When you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of the thing.”

DON'T GET VACCINATED!
GOD MAY BE WANTING TO INVITE YOU TO ETERNAL LIFE!!!

Those evangelicals need a head examination.
Amd a heart examination.
And a theology examination.
And a biblical studies examination.


Judge Blocks Abbott’s Ban on Mask Mandates
August 28, 2021 at 1:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 184 Comments

A Texas judge has issued a temporary injunction order against Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his ban on mask mandates, the Austin American Statesman reports.

According to the judge, Abbott’s ban was unlawful and exceeded his authority of the Texas Constitution.

Pastor Fired for Promoting Vaccines
August 28, 2021 at 1:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 307 Comments

Pastor Daniel Darling, the spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit, was fired for promoting vaccines on the “Morning Joe” cable news show, Religion News Service reports.

Darling was told he could sign a statement admitting he had been insubordinate, and admit that his pro-vaccine statements were wrong, or be fired.

Yep. I repeat what I said about SOME evanglicals.

They need a head, heart, theology, and biblical studies examination. BADLY.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

FROM THIS MORNING:
Biden to Pull Diplomatic Staff from Afghanistan
August 29, 2021 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Washington Post: “President Biden is planning to withdraw the U.S. ambassador and all diplomatic staff in Afghanistan by Tuesday, and it is unclear when — or if — they might return to the country.”

“Despite the Taliban’s expressed interest in having the United States maintain a diplomatic mission in Kabul, the Biden administration has not made a final decision about what a future presence might look like.”


FROM LAST NIGHT:
Americans Told to Leave Kabul Airport
August 28, 2021 at 10:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

Hours after President Biden warned of a potential attack at the Kabul airport, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan alerted American citizens in the vicinity of the airport to evacuate because of “a specific, credible threat,” the Washington Post reports.


Biden Warns of Another Terrorist Attack
August 28, 2021 at 4:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 452 Comments

“President Biden warned Saturday that another terrorist attack at the Kabul airport sometime in the coming days was ‘highly likely,’ and he promised that the U.S. retaliatory strike for Thursday’s suicide attack would not be the last,” the New York Times reports.

“The warning was yet another sign of the chaotic and dangerous situation as the U.S. tried to pull the last remaining Americans and Afghans out of a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan before the Tuesday deadline.”


Americans Told to Leave Kabul Airport
August 28, 2021 at 10:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 86 Comments

Hours after President Biden warned of a potential attack at the Kabul airport, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan alerted American citizens in the vicinity of the airport to evacuate because of “a specific, credible threat,” the Washington Post reports.


AND THRGH ALL THIS REPUBLICANS DO NOT WISH BIDEN OR OUR NATION WELL.
THEY ARE TOO BUSY STILL TRYING TO MOLIFY THE FAILED TRUMPSTERS AND KEEP THEM IN THE PARTY.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

THROUGH

C.H. Truth said...

And on top this is terrible news

Biden is fuck up. He demanded that he had a sure fire plan to stop Covid in its tracks. Roger believed him!

Commonsense said...

Explosions in Kabul.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The sure fire plan to stop Covid in its tracks was VACCINATIONS.

Too many Republicans did not believe this, even though the vaccines were provided at warp speed by their hero Trump.

And when recently in Alabama Trump advised people to get vaccinated, he was BOOED.

I guess there were people there wanting God to take them into ETERNAL LIFE.

As for me, I'm focused on getting our nation back onto a track where it is OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.

Not just the of by and FOR the RICH.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Commonsese gleefully announces
Explosions in Kabul.

Why do Repuvblicans hate our nation?

Commonsense said...

Washington Post: “President Biden is planning to withdraw the U.S. ambassador and all diplomatic staff in Afghanistan by Tuesday, and it is unclear when — or if — they might return to the country.”

They should leave after the last American leave.

Commonsense said...

There's nothing gleeful about it asshole. This is fallout from Biden's fuck up.

If Biden waited for winter, didn't close Bagram air base, get as many civilian out before the military, planned the withdrawal a little more carefully, there would have been no fiasco of a bug-out.

We would have withdrawn with some sort of success dignity. And not look like coward Biden is.

All this occurred because a senile old man was impatient.

Commonsense said...

According to the Taliban, the explosion was a rocket attack that fell short of the airport that killed a child in thr neighborhood.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Evangelical Christian Commonsense calls me an
a-hole.
Didn't Jesus say something about that sort of thing?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Updated Aug. 28, 2021, 10:57 AM PDT

By Alicia Victoria Lozano

Hospitals in New Orleans are bracing for public health emergencies on two fronts as Hurricane Ida threatens to strike at the same time as Louisiana is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases.

New Orleans is in the midst of a “severe outbreak” with a seven-day average of 220 new infections, according to the city’s Covid-19 dashboard. Across the state, more than 3,400 new cases were confirmed as of Friday, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. At least 2,684 people are hospitalized in Louisiana with Covid-19.

Last month, Louisiana hit the biggest single-day increase of Covid-19 hospitalizations since the pandemic's start with 6,800 new cases in a single day, the second-highest single-day case count since Jan. 6, 2021.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

According to the Taliban, the explosion was a rocket attack that fell short of the airport that killed a child in thr neighborhood.

Blame it on Biden.

Commonsense said...

Didn't Jesus say something about that sort of thing?

He condemned priest, Pharisees, and money changers. I don't know Aramaic but I imagine his language was salty.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It could reach a category five storm.

Winds over 157 mph are possible

Commonsense said...

Reports say the explosion was a US air strike aimed at protecting Kabul airport.

Commonsense said...

Yeah, now I'm gleeful.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have risen to 87degrees according to live coverage.

rrb said...



Biden is fuck up. He demanded that he had a sure fire plan to stop Covid in its tracks. Roger believed him!


The only thing Biden has "stopped in their tracks" is a dozen Marines and a Navy medic.


C.H. Truth said...

The sure fire plan to stop Covid in its tracks was VACCINATIONS.

Well that sure hasn't worked now, has it Reverend?

How many more people died on his watch yesterday?

rrb said...



Our heroes were returned to American soil and Dover AFB today.

Nobody from the Biden White House attended.


https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1431802734647267332

C.H. Truth said...

Why do Repuvblicans hate our nation?

Did we vote for the babbling drooling senile fool responsible for the deaths of these Americans?

rrb said...



The sure fire plan to stop Covid in its tracks was VACCINATIONS.


Well, except for the fact that the vaccinated are still catching Covid, and in some cases are being hospitalized and are dying, I'm sure that many thought that plan had promise when Biden's flunkies drew it up.

In hindsight it looks like that plan had a little too much 'Corn Pop' and not enough actual intelligence.

Biden has exhibited a high level of proficiency in killing Marines, yet little proficiency in "stopping Covid in its tracks."

We should probably reserve judgment until Psucky has 'circled back' with us on it though.

C.H. Truth said...

The explosion?

Some are saying that there was a rocket that "fell into a neighborhood" and caused unknown damage and casualties, others are saying it was a targeted US airstrike against ISIS-K.

Perhaps there is more than one explosion?

I find it hard to believe that US would be blowing up rockets within Kabul right now.

rrb said...



Why do Repuvblicans hate our nation?


Ask the child molesters over at the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association.

According to the alky they're "real republicans."

rrb said...



I find it hard to believe that US would be blowing up rockets within Kabul right now.

Well, according to the left, white supremacy has found a home in the US Marine Corps and is flourishing, so it was probably a case of a Marine going rogue.

anonymous said...


Well, except for the fact that the vaccinated are still catching Covid,

WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE WITH 94% EFFICACY......SURE BEATS THE SPREADING AT 95% ....Even dumb fuck like you can see the advantage, but I doubt you will understand!!!!!