LIFE THREATENING INUNDATION LIKELY!
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS ... AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES ... WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES MAY FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE SWAMPED ... SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES CLOSER TO THE COAST. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE ... WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES ... DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.
--National Weather Service Warning, 7:31 AM CDT, 12 September 2008
(
Associated Press)
Again we turn our eyes to the South. This week,
Hurricane Ike ripped across storm-battered Haiti, the Bahamas, and Cuba. There was horror and despair in Haiti.
Hédi Annabi, UN Special Envoy to Haiti, described what she witnessed in Gonaïves, the nation's fourth largest city, "What I saw in this city today is close to hell on earth." While collecting clothes in the rumble of her home,
Edith Pierre, a mother of six, concluded, "Now I have nothing." Hurricane Ike also brought hope for those of us who dream of a world without oppressive nation states. Patrick Élie, a presidential adviser, safe and dry in the capital, reflected, "These storms have pointed out the weakness of the Haitian state." If that's the case, let more hurricanes batter the Caribbean, let more hurricanes batter the U.S., until all the nation states of the Americas are destroyed!
Every nation state is concerned with maintaining its own questionable integrity to perpetuate its fragile existence. The United States will use this season's hurricanes to leverage more influence over the tiny Caribbean nations to its South. It will offer money and advisers to "help" its southern neighbors. "Help" comes with strings enforced by
economic hit men wearing pinstriped suits. Some Caribbean nations will accept the United States' "help" and its strings. Other nations will accept U.S. "help" but attempt to evade the strings. Still, some nations,
like Cuba, will reject the "help" altogether. The offering, accepting, or rejecting of U.S. "help" has nothing to do with the people affected by hurricanes. It has everything to do with providing various nation states with the moral integrity they need to exist and to prevent people from seeing the truth: the nation state they live in, and no nation state on Earth, gives a damn about them!
