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I'm doing my bit for the economy by doing my Christmas shopping now.

I R DORK.

Well, yeah.

My local Louisiana connection, Ragin' Cajun Cafe, should have some news on local efforts - that's where lunch is today, methinks.

Talking to Jim this morning, I posed the following scenario - say, what would happen here if the water rose as high as it did in New Orleans?

Roughly, we said the hurricane brought 25 ft. Then the broken levees added another 25ft - or so.

Torrance - 84 ft above sea level.
Manhattan Beach - 100 ft. (I don't buy that entirely - some of it is distinctly AT sea level or only a few feet above. Like most coastal cities.)
Bellflower (where Jim works) - 71 ft.

I was saying you'd have to go significantly inland to get much higher. The elevation at Mom's house in Hemet is above 1,200 ft - Ontario? 988 ft.

If something like this showed up in our backyard, we'd be just as screwed. And I can count the number of freeways on one hand you could use to beat feet out of here. Ask

betnoir about traveling the one out of her neighborhood at most times of the day. It resembles a parking lot due to the harbor traffic.

I didn't have to tell the boss anything. He's got a cousin down there who has lost everything except a week's worth of clothes and the car she drove out.

If that doesn't sicken you,

throwingstardna has the posts of the day on what a fekking waste of carbon Bush has been through the whole mess.

Opportunist. Asshole.

And there, for the grace of God, go I.

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If a storm struck here like Katrina all you'd find of my place is a slab. There is a three story building across the street but that would have not been tall enough. I live at 3 feet above sea level at mean high tide. On those really high tides, I'm at sea level, or just a foot from the top of the sea wall. Am I going to move, no. Would I leave if told to evacuate, yes. It is many miles to what could be called high ground, and it would be chaos. I took a critical look after the tsunami and realized that I'd be toast then, as I'm only two blocks of level land to the ocean. I know why some lived along the Mississippi Coast, the same reason I live where I do. We take our chances for the lifestyle or location, but I know in times of disaster I'd loose it all.

BTW, why isn't there aid from other countries? Seems that Dubya don't want to accept aid from the United Nations. It might be embarrassing to accept aid from an organization you're trying to destroy.

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