Friday - September 23, 2005

Who Cares?

_{Michael Ramirez, California—The Los Angeles Times}

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/23/2005 at 03:34 AM   
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   Thursday - September 22, 2005

Public Service Announcement

Alright, people! Listen Up! Let’s get it right this time!

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): 1-800-621-FEMA (1-800-621-3362)

TEXAS:

Texas Division of Emergency Management
5805 N. Lamar
Austin, Texas 78752
(512) 424-2138
(512) 424-2444 or 7160 FAX http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/

KHOU Houston Storm Updates & Phone Numbers: http://www.khou.com/

Brazoria County, TX:

If you need a ride out of Brazoria County and need information info:
Lake Jackson Intermediate School—(979) 415 2700
Clute Intermediate School—(979) 265 2082
Freeport Intermediate School—(979) 265 3953

Galveston County, TX:

Information on Galveston evacuation: (409) 797-3710
To get a cage to take on the bus (and only if you are riding the bus): (409) 763-8477
To register to ride the bus: (409) 797-3510
If you need an ambulance to evacuate: (409) 938-2424
Spanish evacuation help line: (713) 881-3100
TDD help line: (713) 881-3099
Brazos animal shelter that only accepts healthy pets: (979) 775-5755

LOUISIANA:

Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness
7667 Independence Blvd.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
(225) 925-7500
(225) 925-7501 FAX
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov

State Police Road Closure Hotline: 1-800-469-4828
Red Cross- 1(866)-GET-INFO (438-4636)
Special Needs Shelter Information
Triage Phone Numbers:
Alexandria: 800-841-5778
Shreveport: 800-841-5776
Baton Rouge: 800-349-1372
Monroe: 866-280-7287
Houma/Thibodaux: 800-228-9409
Slidell/Hammond:  985-871-1300
Lafayette: 800-901-3210
Lake Charles: 866-280-2711

Louisiana Hotel Information 1-800-99-GUMBO
Emergency Shelter Information Points:
Tourist Welcome Center, US 65 & 84, 1401 Carter St. (US 84), Vidalia, LA
Tourist Welcome Center, TA Truck Stop, Tallulah Exit (Hwy 65 & I 20)
Paragon Casino, 711 Paragon Place, Marksville LA
Sammy’s Truck Stop, I-49, Exit 53, 3601 LA 115W, Bunkie, LA
Med Express Office, 7525 US 71, Alexandria, LA
P.E. Gym, LSU- Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, LA
Pickering High School, 180 Lebleu Rd., Leesville, LA
Mowad Civic Center, 5th & 10th St., 1 Block off US 165, Oakdale, LA

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 04:27 PM   
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Judge Roberts: Now On To The Full Senate

Roberts Nomination Sent to Full Senate
WASHINGTON (AP)

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved John Roberts’ nomination as the next Supreme Court chief justice, virtually assuring his confirmation by the Senate next week. The official tally of 13-5 was anticlimatic, with the committee’s 10 majority Republicans lined up solidly behind the conservative judge’s nomination to the full Senate weeks in advance. But the decision by three Democrats to join Republican efforts to make Roberts the nation’s 109th Supreme Court justice outlined the division in the minority caucus over whether Democrats can, or should, mount even symbolic opposition to Roberts to send President Bush a message on his next Supreme Court nomination.

Five Democrats — Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Charles Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois — opposed Roberts in the final vote, and many of the arguments merged with senators’ worries about the upcoming replacement for the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor. Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told reporters after the vote he thinks Bush may name a replacement for O’Connor within days of the final vote on Roberts. White House spokesman Scott McClellan commended the committee “for moving forward in a civil and dignified way,” noting the White House hopes this sets an example for considering Bush’s second nomination to the court. Liberal groups that had opposed Roberts expressed disappointment with the committee vote, with Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, singling out Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.

He said the Wisconsin Democrat was the only member of his party on the committee who voted in favor of both John Ashcroft to become Bush’s first attorney general and now Roberts. Neas said that Feingold’s vote was a “tremendous mistake and a tremendous disappointment.” But Leonard Leo of the conservative Federalist Society said the fact that only three of eight committee Democrats supported Roberts was evidence of partisanship. “We’re supposed to think the Democrats are being magnanimous? Give me a break,” Leo said.

Roberts’ confirmation as the 109th Supreme Court justice is all but assured because most of the Senate’s 55 Republicans are supporting him and Democrats have decided not to filibuster his nomination. But Democrats who oppose his nomination said they can’t take the risk that Roberts will prove a conservative ideologue on the court. Feinstein told a packed Judiciary Committee hearing room that her vote was decided after Roberts refused to fully answer questions from her and other Democrats in his confirmation hearing last week.

“I knew as little about what Judge Roberts really thought about issues after the hearings as I did before the hearing. This makes it very hard for me,” said Feinstein, an abortion rights supporter. “I cannot in good conscience cast a ‘yea’ vote,” she said. “I will cast a ‘no’ vote.” Biden said his vote was a close call, but Roberts “does not appear to share the same expansive view of fundamental rights of previous nominees I have supported. I’m unwilling to take the constitutional risk at this moment in the court’s history.”

Feingold and Sen. Herb Kohl, both Wisconsin Democrats, and the committee’s top Democrat, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, decided to support making the conservative judge the nation’s 17th chief justice. “I will vote my hopes today and not my fears,” Kohl said. Kohl said Roberts made it clear to him that he will be a modest judge, not an activist, and will approach arguments with an open mind. “I take him at his word that he will steer the court to serve as an appropriate check on potential abuses of presidential power,” Leahy told the committee and former Sen. Fred Thompson — Roberts’ escort through the confirmation process — who watched from the crowd. Those statements likely are directed at the president, who is expected to soon make public his choice to replace O’Connor, who has been a swing vote on issues including affirmative action, abortion, discrimination and death penalty cases.

Replacing her could give the president a chance to swing the court to the right on many issues. Widely mentioned candidates include federal appellate judges Janice Rogers Brown, Edith Brown Clement, Edith Hollan Jones, Emilio Garza, Alice Batchelder, Karen Williams, J. Michael Luttig, J. Harvie Wilkinson, Michael McConnell and Samuel Alito. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson, lawyer Miguel Estrada and Maura Corrigan, a member of the Michigan Supreme Court, are also considered possibilities. “We’re already talking about the next nominee in code,” noted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “Sen. Kohl, who voted yes, is talking about the balance of the court with O’Connor. Sen. Feingold is mentioning that he may not be receptive to Justice Brown. I can understand it. That’s the way this situation is in 2005.”

Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Max Baucus of Montana have announced their support for Roberts. Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record) of Louisiana has indicated she is leaning toward voting for the nominee. Sen. Kent Conrad (news, bio, voting record) of North Dakota is viewed as a possible vote for him, as well. Senate Democrats opposing Roberts so far include Democratic leader Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer of California, John Kerry of Massachusetts and New Jersey Sens. Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 03:20 PM   
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Most Ridiculous News Of The Day

Occasionally, I have to put on my double-layer, titanium-reinforced tin foil hat and check out the site that is even crazier than Democratic Undergound. I do this to keep you informed about the latest invasions from outer space and other news you really need to know. Yes, I’m talking about ... The National Enquirer! The latest edition has the shocking news that President Bush has fallen off the wagon and is a drunk again after all these years. It seems the pressure of Katrina finally got to him ....

BUSH’S BOOZE CRISIS
(NATL ENQUIRER)

Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe. Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster. His worried wife yelled at him: “Stop, George.”

Following the shocking incident, disclosed here for the first time, Laura privately warned her husband against “falling off the wagon” and vowed to travel with him more often so that she can keep an eye on Dubya, the sources add. “When the levees broke in New Orleans, it apparently made him reach for a shot,” said one insider. “He poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and shouted: “Stop George!”

“Laura gave him an ultimatum before, ‘It’s Jim Beam or me.’ She doesn’t want to replay that nightmare — especially now when it’s such tough going for her husband.” Bush is under the worst pressure of his two terms in office and his popularity is near an all-time low. The handling of the Katrina crisis and troop losses in Iraq have fueled public discontent and pushed Bush back to drink.

A Washington source said: “The sad fact is that he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught him — but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the capital. He’s been in a pressure cooker for months. “The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has deeply affected him. He takes every soldier’s life personally. It has left him emotionally drained.

The result is he’s taking drinks here and there, likely in private, to cope. “And now with the worst domestic crisis in his administration over Katrina, you pray his drinking doesn’t go out of control.” Another source said: “I’m only surprised to hear that he hadn’t taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was at his wit’s end. I’ve known him for years. He’s been a good ol’ Texas boy forever. George had a drinking problem for years that most professionals would say needed therapy. He doesn’t believe in it [therapy], he never got it. He drank his way through his youth, through college and well into his thirties. Everyone’s drinking around him.”

Another source said: “A family member told me they fear George is ‘falling apart.’ The First Lady has been assigned the job of gatekeeper.” Bush’s history of drinking dates back to his youth. Speaking of his time as a young man in the National Guard, he has said: “One thing I remember, and I’m most proud of, is my drinking and partying. Those were the days my friends. Those were the good old days!” Age 26 in 1972, he reportedly rounded off a night’s boozing with his 16-year-old brother Marvin by challenging his father to a fight.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 09:23 AM   
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Profiling?

_{“Over The Hedge” by Michael Fry & T. Lewis}

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 04:45 AM   
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Stupid Democrat Tricks

Democrats in Congress are smelling blood over high gasoline prices. They’re about to start hammering President Bush for failing to keep gas prices down. Their plan is to go after the oil companies and slap penalties on them for so-called “windfall profits”. They claim (see below) that oil companies are “profiting handsomely to the tune of $7 billion a month”. What they don’t tell you is the federal government is making $10 billion per month off of gas taxes. Yep, you read that right.

The Feds charge 18.7 cents per gallon and your state charges another 14-30 cents per gallon, depending on where you live. For example: if you live in Colorado (that would be you, OldCatMan), you pay 18.7 cents to Washington, 18 cents to Denver plus a 6% state sales tax and 1.25% county, plus additional local sales taxes and 1.2 cents per gallon state UST fee. If you removed all the taxes from that $3.00 per gallon gas you just bought, you’d be paying only about $2.00 per gallon or less. In New York, in addition to the 18.7 cents for the Feds, you’re paying 31.9 cents per gallon to the state, 8.3 cents to your county and 6.7 cents per gallon in sales tax. All so Hillary can live in a million-dollar mansion. Get the picture?

The truly sensible (and honest) thing for the Democrats in Congress to offer us in this mess would be to cut gas taxes in half temporarily.

Read that sentence again.

I can’t believe I actually wrote that. Dang! I crack myself up sometimes. I actually used “Democrats”, “Congress”, “cut taxes”, “honest” and “sensible” in the same sentence. It must be a defective keyboard ....

Congress Watch: Democrats Seek Mileage From Gas Prices
WASHINGTON (US NEWS)

With President Bush’s approval ratings straining under the weight of the troubles in Iraq and his administration’s initially stuttering response to Hurricane Katrina, Democrats smell blood and have embarked on a campaign to link the high price of gasoline to Republican inaction or ineptness. It’s a reprise of the old political imperative of “kick ‘em when they’re down.”

Lamenting the recent spikes in the cost of gasoline and the potential of more-costly home heating oil this winter, Democrats have introduced legislation in the House and the Senate they say will reduce prices and stop what they regard as price gouging by oil companies. In one piece of proposed legislation, the government will take money from oil companies and return it to consumers.

“We have introduced legislation dealing with the recapture of what we consider to be windfall or excess profits by the oil industry,” North Dakota Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan said Tuesday. “The major integrated oil companies are profiting handsomely to the tune of $7 billion a month extra excess windfall profits, and . . . we believe some of that should be recaptured and returned as a rebate to the consumers in this country.”

A second bill, sponsored by Washington State Democrat Maria Cantwell, would make price gouging a federal offense, punishable by heavy fines. House Democrats will this week introduced similar legislation on the other side of the Capitol. “It’s a huge problem and we need to do something about it,” says Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

With only 35 percent of Americans telling pollsters that they approve of Bush’s handling of the economy, Democrats sense an opening and have attempted to blame the GOP for not doing enough to deal with the price hikes. “What’s the response of the president? What’s the response of the Congress?” Dorgan asks. “We’ll just sleep through it all; things’ll be just fine in the morning. They’re not going to be just fine for folks in my part of the country, coming into winter when they’re told they have to pay a 70 percent increase in natural gas prices. That’s a disaster. And we need to do something about it.”

High gas prices always lead to high-stakes politics, and there is no mistaking the politics here. With Republicans in control of the White House and both houses of the legislature, Democrats calculate that an angry voter backlash because of high gas prices will hurt the GOP and could affect the 2006 midterms, which are a mere 13 months away.

“The people have a right to be furious about this in this country,” says Dorgan. “They want to know who’s on their side, who’s willing to stand for them.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 03:49 AM   
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Sale!

_{Randy Bish, Pittsburgh, PA—the Tribune-Review}

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 03:20 AM   
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Dumbass Of The Day (So Far)

John Wayne Bobbitt in New Domestic Dispute
LAS VEGAS, Nv. (AP)

A man whose domestic troubles gained notoriety when his then-wife cut off his penis in an argument 12 years ago has been arrested and charged with battery on his current wife. John Wayne Bobbitt, 38, filed for divorce Monday following his arrest last weekend on a domestic battery charge involving Joanna Ferrell, Bobbitt’s lawyer said Wednesday.

It was at least the third arrest for Bobbitt in Las Vegas involving Ferrell. He posted $10,132 bond and was freed Tuesday from jail, police said. Bobbitt was arrested Saturday morning after he was accused of chasing Ferrell, 40, and pushing her to the ground outside his moving company job in an industrial section of Las Vegas.

Bobbitt’s lawyer, Barry Levinson, said Bobbitt was falsely charged after an argument about money. Bobbitt filed for divorce under the name John W. Ferrell, which Levinson said Bobbitt has been using. Bobbitt’s penis was surgically reattached after the 1993 attack. His then-wife, Lorena, was found innocent by reason of insanity after arguing that Bobbitt had abused her.

Bobbitt was acquitted of a domestic violence charge after an August 2004 incident involving Joanna Ferrell. She filed for divorce but the two reconciled. Bobbitt was convicted in February 2003 of battery involving Ferrell. The conviction prompted a judge to revoke probation and sentence Bobbitt to prison for his role in a 1999 theft at a store in northern Nevada.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 03:03 AM   
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Katrina Corruption Watch #4

Donations Found at Louisiana Official’s Home
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)

Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday. Officers searched Cedric Floyd’s home because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in the suburb of Kenner, was in charge of distributing the goods.

Police plan to seek a charge of committing an illegal act as a public official against Floyd, and more charges against other city workers are possible, police Capt. Steve Caraway said. The donations filled a large pickup truck four times. “It was an awful lot of stuff,” Caraway said.

The donated materials must be processed as evidence but eventually will be distributed to victims. “We have lots of families that are begging for these supplies,” said Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office assisted in the investigation. Attempts to reach Floyd were unsuccessful at home numbers listed under his name in Kenner. His office number went unanswered after business hours.

Philip Ramon, chief of staff to Kenner Mayor Philip Capitano, has said city officials were investigating the alleged pilfering but added that many employees were themselves hurricane victims.

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Red Sky At Morning

I’ve made note here before that my vast (and really unwanted) experience with hurricanes, which comes from living on the Gulf Coast most of my life, has always taught me that the surest sign of a really bad one is how fast the barometer drops below 1000 mb and heads down toward 900 mb. Unfortunately, I have no frame of reference for what happens when the mercury drops below 900 mb. Much less this fast. Rita just passed through the Florida Keys yesterday as a Category 2 hurricane and suddenly went ape-shit. Inside the eye the bottom dropped out of the barometer and is currently (3:00am ET) at 898 mb and still falling. Maximum sustained winds are already at 175 mph with gusts up to 220 mph. On the Saffir-Simpson scale, that makes Rita a really, really bad Category 5 hurricane.

I have my own hurricane rating system. It’s called The Pucker Factor. I rank the storms by how tightly my sphincter contracts when I think about what is coming. Right now my butt is chewing a hole in my chair. I’d say that’s a “Pucker Factor” of +8 or higher. For reference, I’ve only recorded this high a reading once in my life .. on a camping trip to the Great Smokey Mountains in 1985 when our camp was invaded by a large brown bear in the dead of night. What makes it worse is that I’m currently living in St. Louis and I’m still getting a high reading. This bodes ill.

My advice to anyone on the Texas coast is .... get in your car and drive West at high speed - don’t slow down until you hit Albuquerque. Just do it! Now!

One final note: if anybody out there even mentions “global warming” over the next seventy-two hours, I will personally take a #14 ClueBat to your headbone and beat some sense into your damaged brain. The Texas coast is a nicely curved smooth arc for a very good reason. Unlike Norway (which never gets hurricanes and has all kinds of rough jiggly bits sticking in and out along its coast), the Gulf Coast has been worn smooth in nice little arcs by tens of thousands of years of repeated attacks from hurricanes. It ain’t nothing new. Get over it!

Get the latest updates at The National Hurricane Center!

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/22/2005 at 02:03 AM   
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   Wednesday - September 21, 2005

Snugged Down and Waiting

Jim at Smoke on the Water just signed off.......for now. 

Thank you all, each and every one!  That is all I can do now, for it is time for me now to take leave of my beloved home, to trust her to the hand of God, and the to the will and the effort I have invested to keep her safe against the storm.

I shall drive away, unwillingly.  But drive I must, if only to not subject the pure love of my two cats to the hell that is due to descend upon these docks in but thirty-six hours time.

My course is uncharted, the waters strange and the waves of patterns yet to be learned.

But I will sail into this future determinedly.  It is the only future I have, it is the only course I can sail.

May God be with you, and the Sloop New Dawn

Posted by Drew458     on 09/21/2005 at 07:57 PM   
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The Police will protect you, right?

For any of you that think the police’s job is to protect you from harm better read this:

Woman Calls 911 Before She Is Killed

SUNRISE, Fla.—Police say an 18-year-old Broward County woman used her cell phone to call 911 for help Monday night, but by the time officers arrived[emphasis mine], she had been killed.

Sunrise police said when officer arrived at the apartment building at 5990 N.W. 19th St. just after midnight, Christine Myers was lying dead in a hallway.

Police arrested up 26-year-old Edward Mosie Howard on Tuesday.

Investigators said Myers and Howard knew each other, but investigators said they don’t know a motive for the killing.

Howard made his first court appearance Wednesday. He is being held without bond on murder and sexual assault charges. Police said he also has a no-bond hold for a probation violation.

Police have not said how Myers was killed.

Who’s responsible for your protection?  YOU ARE!

Posted by Drew458     on 09/21/2005 at 12:59 PM   
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Now She’s a “4”

Posted by Drew458     on 09/21/2005 at 10:29 AM   
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Another Monster Grows

Rita Strengthens to Category 3 Hurricane
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP)

Hurricane Rita strengthened into a Category 3 storm packing 120 mph winds as it churned into the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, deepening concerns that the storm could target Texas and already-battered Louisiana by week’s end. Forecasters warned that the storm could further intensify, sparking an order for mandatory evacuations in New Orleans and Galveston, Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged residents to heed calls for evacuation Wednesday.

“The lesson is that when the storm hits, the best place to be is to be out of the path of the storm,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “There’s plenty of (advance) notice about Rita.” Acting FEMA Director R. David Paulison said the agency has aircraft and buses available to evacuate residents of areas the hurricane might hit. Rescue teams and truckloads of ice, water and prepared meals were being sent to Texas and Florida. “I strongly urge Gulf coast residents to pay attention” to the storm, he said.

Stung by criticism of the government’s slow initial response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush signed an emergency declaration for Florida and spoke with Texas Gov. Rick Perry about planning for the storm’s landfall. Perry said Texans are taking the warnings seriously. “I think Texas is prepared as any state in the nation,” he told NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday. Rita created relatively few problems along the Florida Keys, where thousands of relieved residents who evacuated are expected to begin returning in earnest on Wednesday.

During daytime hours, several stretches of the Keys highway, U.S. 1, were barricaded because of water and debris; by nightfall, only one small problem area remained and the entire highway was passable, the Florida Highway Patrol said. There were reports of localized flooding, and some sections of the Lower Keys were still without power early Wednesday. But the storm’s raging eye did not hit land. “It was fairly nothing,” said Gary Wood, who owns a bar in Marathon, about 45 miles northeast of Key West. “It came through and had a good stiff wind, but that was about it.”

In Key Colony Beach, an oceanfront island off Marathon, Mayor Clyde Burnett said a restaurant and hotel were damaged by water and wind, but that widespread problems simply didn’t arrive as expected. Visitors ordered out of the Keys will be invited back Friday, and virtually all other voluntary evacuation orders in South Florida were lifted after Rita roared past. Now, all eyes following Rita are turning toward the Gulf—where the hurricane is causing new anxiety among Katrina victims in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

At 5 a.m. EDT, Rita’s eye was about 175 miles west of Key West. The storm was moving west at 14 mph—a track that kept the most destructive winds at sea and away from Key West. Maximum sustained winds increased to near 120 mph. “There’s still plenty of warm water that it needs to move over in the next couple days. The forecast is favorable for further intensification,” said Michelle Mainelli, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/21/2005 at 07:01 AM   
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