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To: energyplay who wrote (65958)	7/5/2005 2:27:21 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

energyplay Re: "New Orleans drive thru margarita take out" LMAO. I lived and worked in New Orleans years ago and it is a really crazy place. Locals called it the "Big E" (for easy) and said if you can't make it in New Orleans you can't make it anywhere. The reverse of New York. The pumps there will remove an inch of rain water per hour and anywhere inside the crescent the streets fill up pretty quick. If a big storm hits Pontchartrain just right the surge will fill the Quarter and the Garden district from the back side mabe pretty quickly. But if you could make it as far as Airline Highway there is some higher ground there fairly close to downtown. The problem is that lots of people would just stay there and drown, lots of intown people there have never been outside of the city and have no desire what so ever to leave. Some gals who had an apartment where I lived said they had tried to "escape" the big E several times but never got any further than the Slidell bridge. Slagle

To: energyplay who wrote (65958)	7/5/2005 2:48:01 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

The other, more subtle issue is that the predictiablity of a storms path varies from time to time - some wander all over, and some are locked in like a bowling ball rolling in gutter. Yah, we have satellites, chaos theory modelling algorithms and mega teraflop computing power guessing the weather and we still can't get it right - but something as chaotic as the markets that have even less science and physics behind them than weather patterns are gonna be harder to predict no - but all these guru's tell me we can with just looking at a few things - what BS.