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“These folks weren’t here, because our governor (Jack Markell in a baseball cap)..said ‘either stay home, or if you live along the coast, go someplace else…’ And a lot of other places, Florida, the Carolina’s, the Gulf Coast, governors say that all the time, and people stay right there, stay hunkered down, and say ‘we’ll ride this one out’ In the state of Delaware, almost everybody, not everybody but almost everybody, listened to what this guy had to say….. Some of the unspoken heroes out there, are the ones who heeded the governors and lieutenant governors request, to stay out of harms way, and leave the coast, and go somewhere where you could be safe…: Senator Tom Carper.
One factor as to why Floridians, Carolinians, and Gulf Coasters do not heed their governors is that they know better… They have a lot more hurricanes than do we….
After Irene, evacuations may become an issue here too…
Irene was a hyped up storm. Creating a lot of firsts.. First NYC shutdown. First time SEPTA closed. First time in 25 years Philadelphia created a state of emergency. First time Delaware City and Old New Castle were under mandatory evacuation.
And what happened? One tornado in Lewes. 45 mile an hour gusts, and a lot of rain… What happened in Isabel back in 2003? One tornado, 45 mile and hour gusts, and a lot of rain. What happened during Floyd back in 99… No tornado, 45 mile and hour gusts, and a lot of rain…….
Obviously begging the comparison… If we hyped Irene, why didn’t we hype the previous three that impacted Delaware in the same capacity?
My theory? … The threat of a killer hurricane was used by the administration, it was used by every local official, governor on down, and it was used by every member of the media to boost their advertising revenue…
Yes, these ARE desperate times. And everyone needing to look good, latched onto Irene as the vehicle to get them up to that spot where they wanted to go…
And so, had a lot of hype, which didn’t go unnoticed overseas….
The Daily Telegraph…..
The surf may have told a story but so too did the sight behind the reporter of people chatting and ambling along the sea front and just goofing around. There was a man in a t-shirt, a woman waving her arms and then walking backwards. Then someone on a bicycle glided past.
Across the screen, the “Breaking News: Irene Batters Long Island” caption was replaced by stern advice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): “Stay inside, stay safe.”
All this Sunday morning, despite the fact that we knew on Friday, that this storm was a dud…..
So we knew……..
But carried the charade right up to Sunday morning, even up to New York, that this was a killer storm, the storm of a century, a storm requiring unprecedented actions on behalf of government to combat it’s power, even up to the point of performing a farce for the camera, while in the background was a man in a t-shirt, a woman waving her arms and then walking backwards. Then someone on a bicycle glided past.“
Loss of Delawareans: Floyd.. 2, Isabella.. 0, and Ivan 0… Unfortunately 2 lost their lives in this storm… Our hearts go out to their families…..
So when Senator Tom Carper wonders aloud why other states people don’t heed their governors advice, it just might be because they have experience… Experience with the failed credibility of government officials….
Remember it is not that we didn’t know that this Hurricane was going to be a dud… We did. It is that we did know it, and continued the farce anyways… right up to the point of acting like one is bravely facing Hurricanes ferocious onslaught, will people lazily goof off in the camera shot’s background …
The next time they tell me to evacuate…. well, I’m not going to believe them either…… I’ll wear a tee shirt, walk backwards, and ride my bike on the boardwalk….
After seeing such a blatant attempt at fabricating a crises, can anyone believe CNN anymore?
You all felt it on the East Coast, shaking windows and hanging lights; moving top floors a few inches in each direction….
The USGS provides some rather interesting data. Originally listed as being <.1 kilometer, that correlates to 316.8 ft. The data has sensed been revised to stand at this writing, at 6 km, or 3 miles and 1281.6 yds,,, Only once before did this area experience a quake.
A quick satellite look at the epicenter shows an area crisscrossed with drilling roads and well sites.
What is at stake is the natural gas buried under the Marcellus Shale. This shale is impermeable and trapped the methane gas decomposing underneath. Most old wells went down to the shale level and stopped. Since 2009, new technology uses wastewater and high pressure to fracture that shale layer. Once fractured, the gas can escape upwards…..
Now, imagine filling up an old bathtub with sand… then going to sleep on it…. It would be quite comfortable… Now suppose your significant other brings in a garden hose, turns it on and leaves it. At first the water goes into the sand. Eventually the water gets too much, that the sand/water mix can no longer hold up your weight, and you go splat, to the bottom of the tub.
That is what happens to whole layers of rock when this process is applied. All the layers of rock on top, suddenly drop several feet. Whoomp…
This whoomp covered the whole east coast….
Two years ago, a team fracking (fracturing the shale layer) in central WV, caused a tremor felt outside of Pittsburgh, PA… In the past year, West Virginia, a state that has never had seismic activity, is suddenly being shaken with 2.2 to 3.4 tremors…
This video gives you some insight into the problems that come with fracking. And this industry video shows the protections that are in place when frakking is involved. Take note of how the drill sites are set up.
Officials in WV, usually company operators themselves have dismissed any connection between the new technology being developed across their state, and all the new earthquakes that have come out of nowhere during the same time.
The same occurrence took place in Arkansas. Fracking and novel earthquakes. And not just on this continent, but a 3 mile deep well drilled near Basil, Switzerland caused a 3.4 earthquake in that geologically tame region, so the well was shut down. (Unlike WV, neither Switzerland or Arkansas receive 75% of their income from energy) Out of Memphis, Steve Horton, an earthquake specialist at the University of Memphis and hydrologic technician with the U.S. Geological Survey notes: “Ninety percent of these earthquakes that have happened since 2009 have been within 6 kilometers of these salt water disposal wells,”
Likewise, ever since the West Virginia Oil and Gas Commission forced the disposal companies to cut back on their injection rate and pressure, the professor said, the earthquakes there seem to have dissipated. (Recently WV put emergency rules in place that require operators to file water management plans when using saltwater for fracking. The emergency rules require operators to file water management plans when using more than 210,000 gallons, citing the source and anticipated volume of withdrawals, as well as measures to protect aquatic life. The companies also must list their “anticipated additives” and say how they plan to dispose of wastewater.
Arkansas went one step further. They place a moratorium on fracking to see if there was a correlation between the two. The data was implicating, but not totally conclusive. In ten days preceeding the moratorium, Arkansas experienced 100 quakes with it’s largest quake in 35 years at 4.7. In the following six months, 60 quakes occurred and only one was over a 3. Most were between 1.2 and 2.8. After shocks.
Just two Virginia counties away, permits to frack have already been sought in Rockingham County by a Carrizo Marcellus, LLC, a Texas company.
And as any driller in Central Virginia knows, there is a wide belt of phyllite bedrock that extends across central Virginia through eastern Albemarle and western Louisa counties. This is a very soft rock that does not have the ability to hold open fractures under the confining pressures that exist beneath the surface. As a result, groundwater is scarce, and successful wells are difficult to construct.
Compare this map with this satellite photo and see how the area of phyllite bedrock matches the area that is too poor a quality to farm and remains forested for that reason….
Courtesy of caggiotech.com
Below is a Google Map shot where the green arrow pinpoints the coordinates of the August 23rd epicenter, 5 miles south of Mineral, VA.
Next is a shot of the homestead on whose property the quake was centered (remember originally it was only 300 feet below the surface.)
Seeing some interesting uncharacteristic activity, here is the closeup of that picture above. Use the zoom function or your own computer to let you zoom in closer.
These structures are different from any other buildings in the area. There also are a lot of heavy equipment on the property.
And notice the surrounding soil is a different color.
Looking northeast of the green arrow on the top of the three images, one sees, across the expanse of forest, what looks like a new road, bright white the ends in a circle.
On that circle are several pieces of equipment. Remember the video that depicts the white covering of a well site, as well as berm appearing on the north side? It looks eerily similar.
At the end of the circle, one can see tracks continuing over the area, quite possibly to wildcat drill sites. And what is peculiar, is that the road shows up brilliantly on the satellite, but on the map version of Google Maps, it does not… (Maps are updated faster than the satellite photos.) Whereas the driveway into the previous owners property is mapped out,this one is not.
It’s all rather interesting, and needs further proof. To arrive whether it is definitely a possibility of having a man-made quake scare the crap out of the entire east coast, but as they say in a courtroom, there is the preponderance of evidence that it is so…..
Review:
Quakes happened across the world in stable areas far from faults, once fracking is done.
As soon as fracking is done with less pressure, or discontinued, the quakes stop. Despite the practice occurring in several different geographical and geological areas.
Satellite photos show drilling activity near the epicenter of the August 23rd quake.
Surprisingly, no permit was filed with the Department of Virgina Mining Bureau, or Louisa County for this activity.
Every driller knows that Louisa County, is permeated with a very soft shale that shatters extremely easily.
And unbeknown to most of you, another quake occurred almost simultaneously, in southern Colorado near the New Mexican Border, at very similar latitude in an area also crisscrossed by mining roads and drilling activity…. A 5.8 at 1:46 EDT… Ours was a 5.8 at 1:51….
You will soon be hearing the opposition flinging this number… blaming Obama for $3 million a minute being added to our deficit….
How does one respond to that? With the truth, of course…
Wow, That’s really good, especially when compared to the $20,203,057 a minute George W. Bush added to our deficit… Sure looks like we need more Democrats and fewer Republicans ….
(Remember the deficit was projected to be completely down to zero in the year 2008, had the Bush Tax Cuts never have been enacted……. ) Hence making him now responsible for the entire debt up to when Obama’s term began.
Today’s debt: $14,639,000,000,000.. Longhand, that is fourteen trillion, six hundred thirty-nine billion dollars…….
All caused by the Tea Party of course.
To pay that off in one year (with no interest), would cost us… would cost us…. would cost us… $463,881 every second…. (Oops, a million just passed by while reading this)…
But no one pays off a debt in one year… Instead, let’s take 30 years… Again, with no interest, per second we would need to pay… $15,463 dollars every second…. Now take a deep breath of a sigh of relief… Now only $100,000 went by in just those 6 extra seconds.
Considering that the US’s GDP is crunching forward at $411.374 dollars a second, those same six seconds generated $2,468,248 dollars in income… Therefore to pay back the entire debt we owe, over the next thirty years (with no interest) we would be paying… 16.6 percent of every dollar earned….
So obviously balancing our budget first is a capitol idea (pun: we certainly can’t do it when “they” are opposed)… Then over the next thirty years, we simply need to account and only spend 83.4% of every incoming dollar we are taking in.
In thirty years, we’ll be in the black… and you will be… uh, how old?
Hurricane Irene is scheduled to blow into North Carolina, sucker punch Richmond, then follow I 95 up the Eastern Seaboard….
When the storm is over, out come the cries for Federal Assistance to cope with damages. Of course, due to Richmond’s representative Eric Cantor, this time there will be a historically low amount of assistance dollars available to be dispensed among all those states needing help….
The proper way any administration should handle these incoming and overwhelming requests, would be to say: since Delaware has always understood the interfacing required between the Federal Government and states; they will get what we need. Richmond,on the other hand, has not. Perhaps they might like to give Eric Cantor a personal call and ask him and his supporters to assist them with their finances?
If prognosis based on computer models are correct, Delaware could have its first tropical depression of the year, be a one to remember…
All our other ones since 65, have been downgraded to tropical depression long before reaching our shores… Which means their winds are under 35 mph.
Currently Hurricane Irene is scheduled to drop in this weekend like a Mother-in-law, still packing hurricane winds over 75 mph. Best check the storm damage clause of your insurance policies today…..
Then watch how fast our friends in Sussex County, those very ones who want to dismantle the Federal Government, start complaining the current administration is not doing enough to help…. Guaranteed to happen…
Democrats Rule: Republicans Drool….
Let’s see….
Third Quarter 2006 — Bush/Cheney
Fourth Quarter 2006 — Bush/Cheney
First Quarter 2007 — Bush/Cheney
Second Quarter 2007 –Bush/ Cheney
Third Quarter 2007 — Bush/ Cheney
Fourth Quarter 2007 — Bush/Cheney
First Quarter 2008 — Bush/Cheney
Second Quarter 2008 — Bush/Cheney
Third Quarter 2008 — Bush/Cheney
Fourth Quarter 2008 — Bush/Cheney
First Quarter 2009 — Bush/Cheney
Second Quarter 2009 — Obama/Biden
Third Quarter 2009 — Obama/Biden
Fourth Quarter 2009 — Obama/Biden
First Quarter 2010 — Obama/Biden
Second Quarter 2010 — Obama/ Biden
Third Quarter 2010 — Obama/Biden
Fourth Quarter 2010 — Obama/Biden
First Quarter 2011 — Obama/ Biden
And the climb back begins………
Second Quarter 2011 — Obama/ Biden
So, where as under the Bush/Cheney doctrine it took 11 financial quarters of downward pressure to get us into this hole, it’s taken only 8 quarters to begin lifting us out….
I would call that a win for the Democratic leadership and a win for the economy.
Because usually when a team comes from way behind to win the game, one usually has to give the team the credit……
….Saw and lost on a Twitter Feed….
“At least Qaddafi can say he outlasted the plastic Burger King by one weekend….“
(The Burger King (reign 56 years)was retired Friday, making Qaddafi (reign 42 years) the longest-termed monarch these past two days: Saturday and Sunday.)
Ronald Reagan couldn’t stop him.
George H.W. Bush, couldn’t stop him.
Clinton tamed him.
George W Bush did nothing to remove him.
It fell to a Democrat to change the face of Libya forever……..
No surprise, it always does….
(Just a tongue in cheek “back at you” for all those Republicans who blamed Clinton for 9/11.)
