R_P wrote:

Joe is preparing the Nukes as we speak. 

 kurtster wrote:
It was obvious that was your point latest conspiracy. 16 years ago they were tough on your boy, but they're giving Joe a break!

Since everyone is playing along with this, my inference was that while there is accurate information regarding the real dangers of this 5th strongest ever  hurricane to make landfall in the USA, there is an obvious lack of the usual sky is falling panic on display on the good old TVoid.  I've looked at all the major channels, except the Weather channel.  Yep, there's a big one coming and little more.  Perhaps it is being downplayed in order to keep the heat off of Joe. No reason to worry, right ?  We'll all soon get to see how Joe responds to a likely historic natural disaster.  Piece of cake for the most experienced and prepared POTUS ever.

 islander wrote:
It's mighty dark out there...

 kurtster wrote:

Not that this is a surprise to any of us, but you need better news sources. Here's a bullet list from Reuters:

• Ida could be worst direct hit in 170 years, governor says
• More than 122,000 homes, businesses without power
• Storm surge, flooding rains to reach inland communities

16 years ago today Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans killing roughly 1800.

Today, Hurricane Ida, presently a Cat 4 storm is minutes away from landfall in Louisiana with the potential of being a Cat 5.

Curiously there seems to be very little alarm over Ida on display on the usual media outlets.

1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.

1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.

1961 – Motown released “Please Mr. Postman,” by the Marvelettes. Later in the year it went on to become the 1st Motown single to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart

1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.

1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.

1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.