"Tropical Storm Lee, building off Louisiana, could drench South" September 03, 2011|By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - A large storm system churning in the Gulf of Mexico grew yesterday into Tropical Storm Lee, beginning a Labor Day weekend assault that could bring up to 20 inches of rain to some spots from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
The storm was expected to make landfall on the central Louisiana coast late today and turn east toward New Orleans, where it would provide the biggest test of rebuilt levees since Hurricane Gustav struck on Labor Day 2008.
Residents who have survived killer hurricanes such as Betsy, Camille, and Katrina did not expect Lee to live up to that legacy.
“It’s a lot of rain. It’s nothing, nothing to Katrina,’’ said Malcolm James, 59, a federal investigator in New Orleans who lost his home after levees broke during Katrina in August 2005 and had to be airlifted by helicopter.
“This is mild,’’ he said. “Things could be worse.’’
Lee comes less than a week after Hurricane Irene killed more than 40 people from North Carolina to Maine and knocked out power to millions. It was too soon to tell if Hurricane Katia, out in the Atlantic, could endanger the United States....
Lee’s biggest impact has been in the Gulf of Mexico oil fields. About half the Gulf’s oil production has been cut as rigs were evacuated, though oil prices were down sharply yesterday on sour economic news....
Related: New evidence of a massive oil slick near Deepwater Horizon site
Somehow that escapes the Globe's attention.
Oil sheen in Gulf prompts inquiry
Oh, I'm sorry. They did give it the one day wonder treatment. The oil must have magically disappeared again.
And the BIG WORRY?
Merchants, however, worried the storm would dampen the Southern Decadence festival, an annual gay lifestyle fixture that rings cash registers on Labor Day weekend....
Un-f***ing -believable. Talk about pushing an agenda.
The water-logged Lee was tantalizingly close to Texas but hopes dimmed for relief from the state’s worst drought since the 1950s as the storm’s forecast track shifted east. Forecasters said it could bring drenching rains to Mississippi and Alabama early next week.
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Related: Rain-packed Tropical Storm Lee forms off Louisiana
"TEXAS WILDFIRE -- An air tanker dropped fire retardant on a hot spot in an area destroyed by a wildfire in Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, yesterday. Texas and Oklahoma are in the grip of a record-setting drought, and a summer of soaring temperatures and little rain has meant the wildfire season, which usually ends in spring, did not end this year (Boston Globe September 1 2011)."
Related: A Drought of Disaster Stories
Messing With Texas
Texas is Hot
Oh, NO END in SIGHT to the DROUGHT, huh?
"Nature’s extremes worse than usual in US this year" by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press / September 4, 2011
WASHINGTON - Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.
Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizzard. And now, unusual hurricane-triggered flooding in Vermont.
If what is falling from the sky is not enough, the ground shook in places that normally seem stable: Colorado and the entire East Coast. On Friday, a strong quake triggered brief tsunami warnings in Alaska. Arizona and New Mexico have broken records for wildfires....
Last year, the world seemed to go wild with natural disasters in the deadliest year in a generation. But 2010 was bad globally, and the United States was mostly spared.
This year, while there have been devastating events elsewhere, such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Australia’s flooding, and a drought in Africa, it is the United States’ turn to get smacked. Repeatedly....
What is happening, experts say, is mostly chance or bad luck. But there is something more to it, many say. Man-made global warming increases the odds of a bad roll of the dice....
They STILL REPEAT that AGENDA-PUSHING LIE even after CLIMATEGATE, huh?
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Related: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Alarmists Got it Wrong, Humans Not Responsible for Climate Change
That's my newspaper: AGENDA-PUSHING ALARMISTS that LIE!!!!
"Sluggish Lee drenches much of Gulf Coast; Tropical storm sets slow pace as it reaches land" by Mary Foster Associated Press / September 4, 2011
JEAN LAFITTE, La. - Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in Louisiana and Mississippi yesterday and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water was lapping at the front doors of some homes.
The sluggish storm stalled just offshore for several hours before resuming its slow march northward late in the afternoon. Landfall was expected sometime yesterday, and the storm threatened to dump more than a foot of rain across the Gulf Coast and into the Southeast in coming days. No injuries were reported, but there were scattered instances of water entering low-lying homes and businesses in Louisiana....
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Ever think God is trying to tell us something, American?
