Lovely Rita, Meter Maid!
I'm going to make a few predictions about Hurricane Rita. These predictions don't all reflect my personal views...they are just predictions.
1) Based on the loop I keep seeing on CNN, this storm looks massive, and looks set to wreak some serious havoc on Texas. (As an aside, it's amazing that people can watch the 3 second loop of a storm repeatedly).
2) Because of the lessons learned from Katrina, very few people will die, as the entire Texas coast will most likely be evacuated.
Ok...the two predictions above don't take a rocket scientist to make...below are the true predictions...
3) Many people will question why the responses to the two hurricanes were different, and why the results were different. Many will conclude that, because the second one threatened Texas, GWBII's home state, and because the affected people were largely white, rather than of minority descent, the response and planning were different.
I'm not passing judgment (the storm has not even hit yet), but I have a gut feeling that we're going to see a bunch of politicians and op-eds making this point in the coming weeks.
1) Based on the loop I keep seeing on CNN, this storm looks massive, and looks set to wreak some serious havoc on Texas. (As an aside, it's amazing that people can watch the 3 second loop of a storm repeatedly).
2) Because of the lessons learned from Katrina, very few people will die, as the entire Texas coast will most likely be evacuated.
Ok...the two predictions above don't take a rocket scientist to make...below are the true predictions...
3) Many people will question why the responses to the two hurricanes were different, and why the results were different. Many will conclude that, because the second one threatened Texas, GWBII's home state, and because the affected people were largely white, rather than of minority descent, the response and planning were different.
I'm not passing judgment (the storm has not even hit yet), but I have a gut feeling that we're going to see a bunch of politicians and op-eds making this point in the coming weeks.
posted by mattguiney at 7:53 AM
1 Comments:
It's just too hard to separate out the variables.
I mean they have so much forewarning this time.
One thing I do know for sure -- if the local, state and federal politicians fuck up like they did with Katrina, they have no goddamn excuses this time.
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