Hurricane Rita

Boddie · #1 (**permalink**) 21-09-2005, 02:52 PM

Looks as if the USA is going to get battered again. The mayor of Houston is asking his people to evacuate and it looks pretty grim there already. What with the couple of hurricanes we have had in the UK also (albeit nothing in the scale of those in the US) it makes you wander if Bush will reconsider signing the Kyoto protocol. I really feel for those that have been affected, I have a friend in New Orleans who owns a bike shop. He evacuated - it says so on his website but the front page has not changed since Sunday 28th August. I would imagine his business is the least of his worries.

Fourwings · #2 (**permalink**) 21-09-2005, 09:58 PM

As a nation we British are frequently moaning about the weather, ok, so it may not be the best climate in the world, but what has happened in New Orleans & the surrounding area puts our own problems with our weather in stark perspective.

My thoughts are with those poor people out there, as Rita approaches it would seem that their ordeal is not yet over.

Just what will it take for Bush to see sense????????

Boddie · #3 (**permalink**) 22-09-2005, 09:37 AM

Just what will it take for Bush to see sense????????

On what exactly? The guy is mad

Fourwings · #4 (**permalink**) 22-09-2005, 10:46 AM

Personally I think the American administrations ethos of putting the nations economy, before the welfare of both its own people & the ecological state of the planet is utter lunacy!!

As for Bush, I think his handling of the crisis in the wake of hurricane Katrina has taken away the little respect that his own people had for him, his days are hopefully numbered, lets face it, the man can't even hit a golf ball straight!!

As you quite rightly say Boddie, the man is MAD, & the sooner he's gone the better!

Just makes me glad we live here in the UK.