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[kyburg]

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 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.

He's a fekking waste of space and air. I can't wait until this press conference when he's going to declare war on Louisiana for harboring Hurricanes of Mass Destruction, and starting Operation Don't Rain On My Parade.