Twas the days before Katrina

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Twas the days before Katrina

#1 Postby MSRobi911 » Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:48 pm

Twas the days before Katrina and all through the south,
The winds started blowing from Katrina's big mouth.
Children were scared and the grown ups too,
As the waters rose and the strong winds blew.
We wandered outside after the storm,
We saw our beautiful city all tattered and torn.
Not many days after, over here and over there,
Little white trailers appeared everywhere.
Help started coming from far and from near,
It looked like Santa and his nine reindeer.
Now Katrina is gone and Christmas is here,
So Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy New Year.

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Merry Christmas everyone!
Mary
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#2 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:48 pm

Merry Christmas, Mary!
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#3 Postby beachbum_al » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:47 pm

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Wait it is still day here.
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#4 Postby southerngale » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:08 pm

Merry Christmas, Flygirl! :)
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#5 Postby f5 » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:58 pm

the only good news about Katrina is that her mouth wasn't carrying 175 mph sustained winds at landfall as bad as she was imagine the damage if the winds were 175 mph sustained with gust well over 200 mph
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#6 Postby KatDaddy » Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:41 pm

Merry Christmas eveyone!!

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#7 Postby LaPlaceFF » Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:51 pm

What is with this "Night before Katrina" stuff?
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:20 pm

What do you mean LaPlace?
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#9 Postby LaPlaceFF » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:40 am

This night before Katrina poem......I guess Im tired of hearing about Katrina
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#10 Postby CajunMama » Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:23 am

Unfortunately we're going to be hearing about Katrina the rest of our lives. She was a wicked wicked woman.
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#11 Postby HurryKane » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:53 am

CajunMama wrote:Unfortunately we're going to be hearing about Katrina the rest of our lives. She was a wicked wicked woman.


True dat.

Although I would hesitate to use the word "woman" in describing her. Hussy, or something I can't write here, would fit much better.
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#12 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:05 pm

HurryKane wrote:
CajunMama wrote:Unfortunately we're going to be hearing about Katrina the rest of our lives. She was a wicked wicked woman.


True dat.

Although I would hesitate to use the word "woman" in describing her. Hussy, or something I can't write here, would fit much better.


AMEN TO THAT!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#13 Postby MSRobi911 » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:47 pm

LaPlaceFF wrote:This night before Katrina poem......I guess Im tired of hearing about Katrina


You know, I'm tired of hearing about it too, but everytime I look out the door I see what Katrina left us here in South Mississippi, nothing but total devistation. Every night when I go to sleep I keep hoping I will wake up the next morning in my house and find out it had all been a very bad dream, but unfortunately that has not happened, I still have only a slab and no clothes that haven't been given to me so I know its real.

Mary
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#14 Postby Houstonia » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:30 pm

LaPlaceFF wrote:This night before Katrina poem......I guess Im tired of hearing about Katrina


Well, we ARE in the Hurricane Recovery and Aftermath forum. I suspect that there will be lots and lots regarding Katrina as well as Rita and other storms here.

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#15 Postby Dionne » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:24 am

f5 wrote:the only good news about Katrina is that her mouth wasn't carrying 175 mph sustained winds at landfall as bad as she was imagine the damage if the winds were 175 mph sustained with gust well over 200 mph


We don't know the actual windspeed. The instrumentation failed when it went under water from the storm surge. And it really doesn't matter. The storm surge developed while Katrina was a Cat 5. The surge remained intact while the pressure was rising and the wind subsiding at landfall. What we found particularly noteworthy were the big blows......while the sustained winds were kicking along you could hear in the distance the strongest winds as they approached. Our strongest winds came out of the northeast. We vastly underestimated our own safety. Next time around we will be part of those folks that evacuate before the storm.....NOT after.
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