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Looks like Gustav (Category 4 hurricane) is going to sweep through the Gulf of Mexico oil platforms just like Katerina.

That'll be good for a nice bump in oil prices.

by ATinNM on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 05:45:48 PM EST

Here for more details.

And a bit of hurricane eye-candy¹:

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by ATinNM on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 05:52:04 PM EST
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... leaves off ...


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 05:57:42 PM EST
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From that same link, I cited this which does not augur well for NOLA, given this!

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne
by maracatu on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 08:23:29 PM EST
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Nope.  It looks like this is going to hit pretty damned close to NOLA.  Let's hope it veers westward.  If this goes into New Orleans, or even deals a harsh blow sideswiping it, it's going to be ugly.  The housing stock (what's left of it) will be destroyed.  We probably can't count on the French Quarter escaping a second time, which means a major part of the city's economy is crushed.  Harrah's will get flooded, which will be another harsh blow, economically.

Downtown will be iffy.  The Warehouse District was in bad shape already, and it'll get worse.  The Ninth Ward and St Bernard's Parish will be obliterated.

The city's drainage and sewer systems are atrocious under the best of circumstances.  Worst of all, the fucking pumps don't even work properly, because they were apparently put it by Bush cronies

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 11:20:48 PM EST
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Yep.  Just makes ya more comfy ramming that offshore drilling bill through Congress, too, don't it?

This is a real beast of a storm.  Katrina was fairly compact.  Highly developed.  Kind of like Andrew back in '92.  This one is looking both highly developed and absolutely massive.

Very scary.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 11:11:52 PM EST
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