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New day New word ! "SCARE-TACTICS" I hyphenated it so it would work.You have to say it kinda fast and let it roll together. Thanks to all the local news teams, look at the shear insanity you people have caused our fair city. It is absolutely impossible to predict a hurricane, You can put up 200 "models" of where it might hit, and you will probably get one right. Now we have a roll reversal of Katrina, all the "aftermath" came BEFORE this damn storm even hit. we have 350,000 people stuck on the damn freeways passing out from heat exaustion and stranded motorists having heartattacks over what the hell they are gonna do now. I think poor Bill White has done as best he can except working with TXDOT to open all the freeways a little earlier for everyone. Sorry, I'm rambling, I'll stop.

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New day New word ! "SCARE-TACTICS" I hyphenated it so it would work.You have to say it kindly fast and let it roll together. Thanks to all the local news teams, look at the shear insanity you people have caused our fair city. It is absolutely impossible to predict a hurricane, You can put up 200 "models" of where it might hit, and you will probably get one right. Now we have a roll reversal of Katrina, all the "aftermath" came BEFORE this damn storm even hit. we have 350,000 people stuck on the damn freeways passing out from heat exaustion and stranded motorists having heartattacks over what the hell they are gonna do now. I think poor Bill White has done as best he can except working with TXDOT to open all the freeways a little earlier for everyone. Sorry, I'm rambling, I'll stop.

Is it TXDOT? I thought I just heard him on the radio saying that the decision was made by him and Judge Eckels.

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TxDot owns those roads, not the city of Houston,your state tax dollars pay for them. Mayor has to get together with TxDot and have to get a plan to close off exit ramps and entrance ramps, then they have to move the concrete barriers, and get the state troopers involved. TxDot, has to take time to evaluate the "situation" and then decide whether they can spend the money and time to do it. It is a very large effort. It just should have been considered alot earlier than 25 hours into the evacuation IMO.

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Can you imagine "Safe Clear" for ALL those cars/trucks/SUV's/18 wheelers?

OMG!

yea, heard scare-tatics one or two times and don't you love the word "Wobbling"

so where is Radar? (isn't he the weather dog) c'mon show the nation our cute adopted (gagging sound) dog who can predict how hot it is!

I want the latest toy: Radar in his "dopplar 2000 yellow rainjacket stuffed dog"

when is that getting sold at the nearest dept store?

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I'm unclear as to how, exactly, one 'hunkers'. It sounds like it might cause cramps after a while.

Do people hunker in polite society? Can one be arrested for Public Hunkering? And is it ever OK to hunker up?

When you really want to hunker, but haven't hunkered yet it's called hankering for a hunka hunker.

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hunker down

phrasal verb US

1 to sit down on your heels:

- We hunkered down round the campfire, toasting marshmallows.

2 to make yourself comfortable in a place or situation, or to prepare to stay in a place or position for a long time, usually in order to achieve something or for protection:

- The press have hunkered down for the night outside the palace, waiting for news of the royal birth.

hunker down:

in Spanish | in French | in Italian |

in context | images

Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

hunker_down

A verb

1 hunker_down

hold stubbornly to a position; "The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"

Category Tree:

insist; take_a_firm_stand

â•šstand_pat; stand_firm; hold_firm; stand_fast

â•šhunker_down

2 squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch_up, hunker, hunker_down

sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

Category Tree:

sit; sit_down

â•šsquat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch_up, hunker, hunker_down

3 hunker_down

hun

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New day New word ! "SCARE-TACTICS" I hyphenated it so it would work.You have to say it kinda fast and let it roll together. Thanks to all the local news teams, look at the shear insanity you people have caused our fair city. It is absolutely impossible to predict a hurricane, You can put up 200 "models" of where it might hit, and you will probably get one right. Now we have a roll reversal of Katrina, all the "aftermath" came BEFORE this damn storm even hit. we have 350,000 people stuck on the damn freeways passing out from heat exaustion and stranded motorists having heartattacks over what the hell they are gonna do now. I think poor Bill White has done as best he can except working with TXDOT to open all the freeways a little earlier for everyone. Sorry, I'm rambling, I'll stop.

If I remember correctly, at its most threatening there was only like a 10% chance of a direct hit on Houston. I forget which weather site I saw that on, but I remember reading it and being surprised that the odds were that low. Obviously with 10% odds *some* people should evacuate, but not quite *so* many. And for this I think i will blame the media. Even when the news dudes admitted that Rita most likely would take a sharp eastward turn they still liked pointing out that if it followed its path in a straight line it looked like it would hit Houston (accentuated with lines and arrows they helpfully drew on the screen for you, pointing straight at downtown).

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I'm unclear as to how, exactly, one 'hunkers'. It sounds like it might cause cramps after a while.

Do people hunker in polite society? Can one be arrested for Public Hunkering? And is it ever OK to hunker up?

If one has "spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle," one most likely would want to avoid hunkering DOWN. Unless one ENJOYS that sort of thing. lol

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If I remember correctly, at its most threatening there was only like a 10% chance of a direct hit on Houston. I forget which weather site I saw that on, but I remember reading it and being surprised that the odds were that low. Obviously with 10% odds *some* people should evacuate, but not quite *so* many. And for this I think i will blame the media. Even when the news dudes admitted that Rita most likely would take a sharp eastward turn they still liked pointing out that if it followed its path in a straight line it looked like it would hit Houston (accentuated with lines and arrows they helpfully drew on the screen for you, pointing straight at downtown).

Yes, but those strike probability numbers are always that low until right before the storm hits. I've never seen a strike probability number above about 15% more than 12 hours before landfall. Even at the time Galveston had a 10% chance, the numbers were about the same for Matagorda Bay, Freeport, Port Arthur/Sabine Pass, Cameron Parish, and almost all the way to Morgan City. You're reading way too much into that number. A 10% strike probability 72 hours out is really saying that there's a 10% chance of the center of the storm coming ashore at a single given point on the coast. When you're dealing with a category four storm (or even a large three, as this one was at landfall) that's several hundred miles wide, you can't wait until that number becomes a 20% chance, or 50% or even 70%. You have to take action immediately when dealing with a metro area the size of Houston/Galveston. This storm could have just as easily come ashore west of where it did; even if it had been just 30-40 miles west of where it hit Houston would be in a lot worse shape than it is now.

A 10% hurricane strike probability number is not at all like the weatherman saying there's a 10% chance of a rain shower tomorrow afternoon. It's an entirely different animal when you're dealing with a storm the size of Rita, and about 200 miles of coastline that's all got a strike probability around 10%.

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The remnants of Rita have brought severe weather to Mississippi and Alabama today. Earlier this afternoon I had to take shelter (I did not "hunker" down, up, left, right, or in any other direction) in the bathroom of my hotel room as a severe storm with a rotation in it passed over. It was quite unsettling hearing the civil defense sirens all going off and the TV coming on and reporting that a storm that had rotation was coming right for my neighborhood. Fortunately no tornado touched down.

It is going to feel sooooo great to be back in Houston in my own bed tomorrow! This trip has really drug on.

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My favorite:

"Cone of Uncertainty"

HAHAHAhahaha.

I gotta figure out where else I can use that one!

Maybe next time a buddy of yours picks up a questionable girl at the bar. You can ask him if she may have a "Cone of Uncertainty." in her pants.

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I kept thinking of the "cone of silence" on the old "Get Smart" show whenever they said that.

hehe! That crossed my mind, too.

Another 'word of the day': folks.

When did people, or motorists, or evacuees, or citizens all become 'folks'?

There's only one person to blame for this, of course. He Who Knows Only One-Syllable Words.

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I really don't see how you can find fault with the word "folk"

From MW:

Main Entry: folk

1. a group of kindred tribes forming a nation

2. the great proportion of the members of a people that determines the group character and that tends to preserve its characteristic form of civilization and its customs, arts and crafts, legends, traditions, and superstitions from generation to generation

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Perhaps Brownie was in a "Cone of Uncertainty" when he "miss-spoke"-as he put it in today's hearings-about just finding out about dying people in the NO convention center.

Therefore, in honor of Brownie, I nominate "miss-spoke" as today's "Word of the Day".

B)

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Another 'word of the day': folks.

When did people, or motorists, or evacuees, or citizens all become 'folks'?

There's only one person to blame for this, of course. He Who Knows Only One-Syllable Words.

It is very country sounding. I will never forget W's first public statement on the morning of 9-11 when he said "We're going to find the folks that did this." Sounds like something straight out of an old western after the town outlaws have stolen someone's horse.

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OK, Bush bashing again...

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English folc; akin to Old High German folc people

Maybe we should have Websters remove the word from the dictionary since you don't like it.

Should "country sounding" (whatever in the world that means) words be removed from our lexicon?

We might as well remove all the Yiddish gibberish while we are at it.

Oy vey!

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