"Miracle" Hurricane Sweeps Slave States
Things Below Sea Level Get Wet.Evacuation Forces Looters To Abandon Booty.
In Four Days You Could Have Walked To Texas.
Stolen Guns Make Better Murder Weapons.
Wet Things Burning.
Louisiana Refugees Loot Texas.
Let's review:
Sept, 1900: 12,000 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Galveston, TX
Sept, 1909: 350 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Louisiana
Sept, 1915: 275 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, New Orleans, LA
Sept, 1915: 270 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Galveston, TX
Sept, 1919: 700 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Corpus Christi, TX
Sept, 1928: 1,836 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Lake Okeechobee, FL
Sept, 1935: 423 killed in cat. 5 hurricane, Florida Keys
Sept, 1938: 600 killed in cat. 3 hurricane, New England
Sept, 1944: 394 killed in cat. 3 hurricane, Northeastern US
June, 1957: 390 killed in cat. 4 hurricane, Louisiana, Texas
Are we seeing a pattern emerging here? Lessons:
It is gravely idiotic to remain in the path of a category 3+ hurricane,
and (this is scary) 90% of the deadliest storms arrive in September. Translation: if you still live in the South, it's time to move.
(I hear Nebraska is nice)
Suffering is suffering--gruesome--it's all so gruesome. Horror.
posted by Aethlos at 8:08 PM
1 Comments:
One of Jefferson Davis' homes in Mississippi was totally destroyed. Poetic justice for the state that calls Martin Luther King Day "Robert E. Lee's birthday." However, some people couldn't leave New Orleans and it was a matter of money or fate -- nowhere to go. The city was one of the few blue strongholds in the state. When I want to sharpen my Union edge I think of this blog's headline: "Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry: Communist." Imagine the whole Tarheel
State rising up angry -- it'll do you good.
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