Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (252431)	9/22/2005 3:07:54 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571927

>>>> And hopefully they will actually start distributing the stuff in less than a week. Exactly as was done with Katrina. As to stuff that was prepositioned, it has been explained on numerous TV news stories that many of the prepositioned assets were not used because they were not the particular items that were needed. The bottom line is that, as some people were saying, over and over, state and local authorities are responsible for the evactuation and first response.

To: combjelly who wrote (252431)	9/22/2005 3:29:42 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571927

This guy is really good.... and there are some GREAT hi-res shots of Rita if you scroll down... wunderground.com

To: combjelly who wrote (252431)	9/22/2005 3:40:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571927

Rita downgraded to Category 4 Reuters Sep 22, 2005 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Rita weakened to a Category 4 storm with winds at 150 miles per hour but remained an extremely dangerous storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday afternoon. It forecast the storm would hit near the Houston area, the heart of the U.S. oil industry, as a dangerous hurricane of at least Category 3 intensity early Saturday. All of the major weather models forecast the storm should strike between the Houston area and the Texas-Louisiana border. continued................ abcnews.go.com