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- OfNumbers, on 09/07/2008, -10/+42Buried as inaccurate. I grew up in Florida, trust me: a category 4 will not level them -at all-. Period.
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -7/+28It's God punishing Florida for the 2000 election.
- disrupter, on 09/08/2008, -0/+21LOL CATS
- emkaysmith, on 09/08/2008, -1/+17"Bust"? I live just south of Baton Rouge, and while N.O. dodged the bullet this time, *we* sure as hell didn't. We had the worst damage since Andrew. The wind from the east was so strong, it buckled in my metal garage door and I lost all the windows on the east side of the house, not to mention a dozen hundred-year-old trees. Baton Rouge lost thousands of trees. The power is *still* out in nearly 400,000 homes in south-central Louisiana. "Bust," my ass. Oh, and while the National Guard has been great, FEMA is an almost complete no-show again. And the media, while congratulating N.O., has totally ignored Baton Rouge.
- thegamingguy, on 09/07/2008, -4/+18It seems like these things are coming non-stop. I hope this is another "bust" like Gustav, as they pointed out.
- inactive, on 09/08/2008, -4/+18You're right. It would take a Category 37 to make Florida much more ***** up than it is already.
- ryan83189, on 09/08/2008, -0/+14It could be worse, we could be dealing with a cat 5e, much faster.
- cmost, on 09/08/2008, -1/+14I'm getting a little tired of reading articles like this that treat coastal cities like Miami or New Orleans as hapless victims whenever these major storms threaten to wipe them off the map. I'm sorry, but whose bright idea was it to develop and build up a metropolis along the coastline of a state that sticks right out into the Atlantic; like a sitting duck for hurricanes. Even worse, who continues to develop a huge mega city BELOW sea level, like New Orleans. The biggest mistake our government made was rebuilding New Orleans after Katrina three years ago...oh wait...they still haven't rebuilt it yet! People continue to rebuild bigger and more expensive homes each time one is wiped off the face of the Earth. At some point the government and insurance companies need to say "you're on your own dumbass!"
- vap0r, on 09/08/2008, -1/+14I live in Baton Rouge LA and I can tell you, Gustav was NOT a "bust". It is, without a doubt, one of the top 2 worst storms to hit this area. Nearly half of the affected area (which is huge) is still without power. I'm sick of the national media making a non-issue out of Gustav just because New Orleans didn't flood. Here's the scoop: New Orleans was 98% evacuated. That's why nobody died. We've had very few deaths directly because of Gustav, but we've had MASSIVE damage to our power infrastructure, and it will be up to 21 days before we're operating at 100%. Unfortunately, according to most projections I've seen on local news channels, Ike will most likely hit us just as bad if not worse before our repairs are even finished.
If you believe in a god, pray for Louisiana. - richmomz, on 09/07/2008, -0/+12No, 70 Billion, with a "B".
- dood, on 09/07/2008, -0/+10god works in mysterious ways
- paradisetonight, on 09/07/2008, -5/+13i thought a cat caused 70 billion dollars of damage (holy *****)
- brandita, on 09/07/2008, -0/+7A second home in Florida never looked so attractive... Can I interest you in some hurricane insurance?
- iammzac, on 09/07/2008, -2/+9Just take a week off Iraq and we'll "have" the money
- fabkebab, on 09/08/2008, -0/+7Look on the bright side- Presumably this would have been 120M last year, before property prices crashed in Florida
- Lith25, on 09/07/2008, -1/+8Because they like where they live. If you lived somewhere that you loved and where tornadoes came, eathquakes happened or devastaing blizzards blew in would you move? You really have to be in that situation to understand.
- Subriot, on 09/08/2008, -0/+7South Florida is one of the most exotic places in America, considering hurricanes only come for a few months during hurricane season, that's not a good enough reason to stop living there. It's just like asking why Californians live in California even when there are earthquakes.
- rubaaan, on 09/08/2008, -2/+8not really. anything built after hurricane andrew is built to different code that has to withstand hurricane force winds. and most windows that werent already to code probably broke and have been replaced after wilma TO code.
houses are pretty bulletproof here if they were built after andrew. - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -1/+7It's 70 Billion, and it's not nothing. That's 7 months of potential war mongering down the drain.
- tacojohn48, on 09/08/2008, -0/+5Why is it that we never hear about the damage in Cuba on tv? All these storms look like they should be destroying Cuba and we never get information about the damages or relief efforts.
- DeFex, on 09/08/2008, -1/+5im going to name my next cat "cat 7"
- zdiddy85, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4Ike is not going to be bad for Florida, dugg as inaccurate.
http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html ...
South Florida is expected to receive rain off the the north bands of Ike while it passes through Cuba. - AriaStar, on 09/07/2008, -6/+10Why do people still live there? Don't they know by now that this is going to keep happening?
- vols1990, on 09/07/2008, -2/+6Bush should've used more of that money teaching you how to read...
- crocev, on 09/07/2008, -2/+6I think the sub prime credit crisis has already done even more damage!! Particularly in Miami!!
So if this hurricane strikes it will only destroy what's left. - Thater, on 09/08/2008, -2/+5Did you read the article at all? Because you don't sound like you know what you're talking about, but I guess all those diggs probably make up for that.
- lava, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3Also grew up in Florida and agree. However, anyone with a condo in Miami Beach would have a ***** to clean up.
- MelvinSchlubman, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3In addition to "thumbs down" and "thumbs up", digg also needs a "WTF?!" button for comments like lulzitsaddgg's.
- charkol, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3We dont, we know how to take care of ourselves and our neighbors during hurricanes. We aren't like those guys in New Orleans.
- fxu1989, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3Cuba is going to get savagely raped... Hurricane Ike going from across it from coast to coast...
I would rather it passes by Miami instead of Cuba... those people will lose whatever little thing they have. - DaHuuuuuudge, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4I'm not going to that link. You obviously don't know how to promote traffic if you think spamming in Digg comments is a good idea.
- Bakedwafer, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4I'm tired of tax payers paying the bill so these morons can live near the coast.
- williamlee, on 09/07/2008, -0/+3Amen to that.
- williamlee, on 09/07/2008, -2/+4I tell you what. I'm happy Gus turned out to be a pansy but, Ike has a whole lot of people on edge. A lot of people can't afford another evacuation so quickly. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
- absurdist, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2You're yet another one who's never had an original thought in your life, aren't you.
- CoronaVegas, on 09/08/2008, -2/+4It is still kind of cold in Minnesota.
- thegamingguy, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2Exactly, it is encouraging though that the organized response was handled way better this go around in N.O.
- Hangly, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2over and over and over again
- ryansimbalist, on 09/08/2008, -3/+5I like cats.
- Syko3599, on 09/07/2008, -1/+3what the hell are you talking about?
- MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2I say it causes 15 billion in *improvement*...
- TPorter72, on 09/08/2008, -0/+21950's cars.
- gojcaj, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2I think this is outdated already. I heard Ike is now considered a Cat 3 and its going slightly miss Miami.
- jlhoben, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2Martial law sampler? Yea!!!
- emkaysmith, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2First hurricane I ever went through was Hazel, October 1954, when I was a kid in New York City with my mother and siblings, waiting to get on the boat to go to Germany (my father was a career army officer).
- DieselGrunge, on 09/08/2008, -1/+3Dugg fot cats.
- emkaysmith, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2As a geography project in high school (c.1960), I sat down with a U.S. map and a stack of reference books, and colored in all the areas of the country most prone to hurricanes, . . . and to tornadoes, . . . and to earthquakes, . . . and to serious blizzards, . . . and to serious drought, . . . and to regular seasonal floods. Anybody wanna guess how much of the map *wasn't* colored in?
- inactive, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2Source?
- illDecree, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2I love Florida! you never know when your going to wake up and everything you know is gone! hell, just two weeks ago, we went kayaking down my road! wtf??
lol - inactive, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2Declare war on hurricanism. A few missiles should stop that hurricane in it's track.
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