Hurricane Gustav

[Ralph L. Fullenwider]

When one becomes complacent and takes on the attitude of "It won't happen
to me," A serious re think is needed.

We live in the tornado alley, and the twister that turned into a CAT 5 and
took a swathe of one mile wide through OKC actually started just south of
our home in Lawton, at the time, about 10 miles. It jumped our home (who
knows why) and set back down about 5 miles North and then did it's worst.
Had we known it was going to happen, you bet we would have ran, not walked
to a place that was not there. Thing is there was no time for any sort of
notice at all, it was just there out of the blue. Those who have notice
needs to remember that the weather adversaries are not made for the heck of
it. As to the media, well they sell air time or papers don't they?! A baby
rattler is just as deadly as the grownup version, pay heed.

Safe travels,

Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
Duncan, Oklahoma

At 06:41 PM 9/3/2008 +0000, you wrote:
>I agree that the media makes everything into major events, but given
>the fact that it was a category 4 when it crossed Cuba and was huge in
>area when it hit the Gulf, the media should have ignored it? Wolf cry
>and prudence are two different things. The families of the people
>that died probably don't think it was a false alarm.
>
>The fact that the Gulf Coast dodged a big one doesn't make it a false
>alarm or non-event, not when coastal areas outside of NOLA got hit
>hard and hundreds of thousands are without electricity and will be for
>many days. It could have just as easily been a cat 4 or 5 when it hit
>land. Looked like even one more foot of storm surge on those levees
>might have written an entirely different story.
>
>People that left for the holiday weekend were prudent.
>
>Mike Bulriss
>1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
>San Antonio, TX
>