Upsidedownland revisited

Katrina
Wednesday, 21 September 2005

UPDATE: The answer is YES. He just did. See the additional update, below.

Genuinely curious now.

As Rita takes aim on the Texas gulf coast, will Bush soon declare an emergency in Austin, hundreds of miles inland?

I'll be watching the White House press release site to see.

I'm still trying to understand this.

Incidentally, the emergency declaration for the Florida Keys -- identically worded to the pre-landfall Katrina declaration, effective August 26th -- was not for Tampa or Orlando, but for the area around the actual, um, Florida Keys.

Go figure.If you don't know what started this whole line of thought, click here.

And for the love of god, please read the whole thing before jumping to conclusions, sending angry letters, or pointing to August 29th documents. You'll save yourself a lot of time.

Finally, although I shouldn't have to say something so obvious: of course I am hoping the storm will dissipate.

I wish no one ill and take no joy in asking this.But this is a sincere question. Let's watch and see how they handle the declarations in a slightly less incomprehensible fashion this time.

UPDATE: Mere hours after I posted this, the White House declared the entire state of Texas part of the hurricane Rita emergency. The entire state.

Amarillo, almost 600 miles inland from the impending landfall -- farther inland than the southern tip of Illinois was from Katrina -- has now been declared as a federal hurricane emergency. Rural Dallam County is almost as far inland as Topeka freaking Kansas.

What the bloody hell is going on here?

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