Sunday, August 31, 2008
Which gives the bigger bounce, the repug convention with hurricane or without? We shall see. Weather disasters always trump politics in the news. I'm grateful this didn't happen last week. It reminds us that Bush is doing now what he should have done three years ago. It also reminds us that Bush couldn't have done this three years ago given the condition of FEMA. Neither McCain, from Arizona, nor Obama, from Illinois, have key roles in federal hurricane response. Their jobs are to be properly concerned & stay out of the way. Even if Gustav declines in ferocity, it is projected to stall over Louisiana & East Texas, a whole other problem of torrential rain & inland flooding.
Us East Coasters have wary eyes on Tropical Storm Hanna, which has an entire week to fritter out into nothing or take a ride up the coast or along the Appalachians. North Carolina, Virginia, & Jersey are as vulnerable to tropical depression river flooding from the west as to storms from the ocean.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Us East Coasters have wary eyes on Tropical Storm Hanna, which has an entire week to fritter out into nothing or take a ride up the coast or along the Appalachians. North Carolina, Virginia, & Jersey are as vulnerable to tropical depression river flooding from the west as to storms from the ocean.
