silver_beetle wrote:True. A friend of mine said repeatedly - at least ten years before Katrina - that it was only a matter of time before New Orleans would be hit and the decision made whether or not to abandon it. The real tragedy was that so many people didn't have the resources to re-locate.
flying_purple_monkfish wrote:Not too bad here in yorkshire. Least not where I am. We're at the top of a very steep hill so we should be fine. Leeds has had some flooding though, as has my hometown of Kingston in Surrey. It's all a bit scary.though, apparently NZ has had cyclones. Well, that's it guys.. the end is nigh etc etc. Man, insurance is going to take a massive hit, as is agriculture. With this sort of constant rain and wetness so many crops are going to just rot in the fields. I fully expect fruit and veg prices to skyrocket if this continues.
Deadlord39 wrote:Don't make the mistake of thinking that what "scientists" are predicting is what will happen. A two degree rise in general temperature is WAAAAAAY too conservative, and is based on ancient data. No one factored in the Chinese and Indian industrial revolutions. The weather is going to be getting mighty weird and violent from hereon in.I've been watching global warming since 1984 with a keen and (lately) amused eye. I used to get insanely angry about mistreatment of the environment, but I came to the realization that even if we extinguish 99% of the life on the planet, something will survive. It may be microbial, and take a few billion years to evolve into anything substantial, but it will happen.Maybe this weekend I'll pick up an H3 Hummer, load the fucker up with leaded gas, and leave it running in the driveway with the air confitioning at full blast and the windows open. Then I'll change the oil, buy brand new tires to replace the new tires, and burn the old ones in my backyard, covered in the engine oil.
Deadlord39 wrote:I rethought the Hummer situation. Before I repaint and burn it, I want to strip the exhaust off and drive it for a few hours through every wetland I can find. Then, I'll just drive the bitch off a pier and into the ocean.
killjoy32 wrote:and while youre at it, as youve got loads of space, make sure you have a few barrels of used oil and some barrels of industrial waste as well. may as well go the whole hog while youre at it Al
Kingofpain89 wrote:Pretty sure the weather is going to change around North Texas now that we probably have a new hole in the ozone layer over Dallas after the industrial gas plant accident yesterday. Several hundred gas tanks filled with acetylene, propane, and hydrogen exploded yesterday morning just southwest of downtown Dallas. They said shrapnel from the blasts was seen falling over half a mile away.Amazing that only two people were injured.
Deadlord39 wrote:Two injured, 30,000 future skin cancer victims.
Badmike wrote:About par for Dallas...this is the same city that let people build an entire neighborhood around an old lead smelter plant from the 30s-60s, before saying "Oh, yeh, we just figured out why all the kids in that neighborhood seem to have birth defects", then paid out millions in compensation in the early 80s...and now seem poised to do it again with another industrial plant in a neighborhood----shooting out asbestos of all things...And you wonder why the Cowboys moved to Arlington (or maybe you didn't have to wonder.....!) Don't look at me, I live in the suburbs....http://business.verizon.net/News/default.aspx?id=4419191Mike B.
FormCritic wrote:Reading the article, Mike, I notice a woman angry, "that industrial plants operated in the middle of a neighborhood."About 10 years ago, many states adopted a "gun range protection act." Pretty much, it said that if you built a house next to a gun range, your right to complain about noise or safety was limited. Other provisions limited liability, stating that anyone entering a gun range was forfeiting certain expectations of safety. All in all, it was a very wise piece of legislation.I wonder which one was there first....the factories or the neighborhood.
