Re: Hurricane Tomas On Track To Hit Haiti
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Edison Kiela
Oct 30, 2010, 9:03:56 AM10/30/10
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Here is a photo of the track of Hurricane Tomas.
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Edison Kiela <ediso...@gmail.com> wrote:
To All,
I haven't seen any posting on this yet, but it looks like Haiti is in
the path of Hurricane Tomas and as such I thought someone out to raise
the red and black flags.
According to the GFDL Model (the most accurate model for predicting
hurricanes) Tomas will make a hard right turn to the north on
Wednesday morning sending the Cat 3 storm directly over Haiti
Wednesday afternoon.
http://www.stormpulse.com/
115 MPH winds are expected with gusts over 130 MPH.
Hopefully 4 or 5 days will be enough to make proper evacuation plans
for the Haitians.
If someone on the ground in Haiti is reading this...maybe you could
take some before and after photos of the T-shelters for
documentational purposes. We all need to understand which shelters
can withstand a hurricane and which ones fail.
I wish everyone the best and to take precautions to be safe.
Edison
Edison Kiela
Oct 30, 2010, 8:49:44 AM10/30/10
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alan scouten
Oct 30, 2010, 1:03:40 PM10/30/10
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Yes, this has been my deepest premonition and Haitian's nightmare for the past eight months. At the moment the "Emergency Shelters" are dissolving, and the "Temporary Shelters" are just being evaluated "on the ground", we face "re-rescuing" even without a new Event. And as aid groups are hearing, "we gave at the office" and "don't expect more from US on the next go-around." (Holbrooke)
Some of us told the truth before the quake and immediately after, and were ignored. POOR HOUSES FOR POOR PEOPLE are a choice, not an inevitability. A few days ago, I was driving to a job site, and in an open field, saw the perfect P-Shelter. One that would protect its inhabitants from this coming storm and any earthquake.
Who were its inhabitants??? Chickens!
(It was a mobile chicken-house that moved from field to field, allowing them to range-free)
A chicken is protected for the eggs it lays? What value do we, man(un)kind place on a Haitian neighbor's life? Guess we will find out in a few more daze.
Alan Scouten
http://www.shelterusnow.com
Some of us told the truth before the quake and immediately after, and were ignored. POOR HOUSES FOR POOR PEOPLE are a choice, not an inevitability. A few days ago, I was driving to a job site, and in an open field, saw the perfect P-Shelter. One that would protect its inhabitants from this coming storm and any earthquake.
Who were its inhabitants??? Chickens!
(It was a mobile chicken-house that moved from field to field, allowing them to range-free)
A chicken is protected for the eggs it lays? What value do we, man(un)kind place on a Haitian neighbor's life? Guess we will find out in a few more daze.
Alan Scouten
http://www.shelterusnow.com
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Edison Kiela <ediso...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ivan Olsen
Oct 30, 2010, 1:55:26 PM10/30/10
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ALSO
May all the GODS kick the Haitian Government and the NGO's in the ass and get them moving
in a constructive direction.
ivan
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Edison Kiela
Oct 31, 2010, 12:25:56 AM10/31/10
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5 Years after Katerina in New Orleans...10 months after the earthquake
in Haiti...why is it that the IASC, NGOs, the Government, still do not
understand the priority of properly sheltering people in shelters
which will not blow away and /or cause move damage with their flying
debris field?
Hurricane Tomas will inflict massive damage in Haiti...not so much
because of the wind and rain, but because the bureaucrats stalled land
acquisition progress and/or refused to look at other viable options to
properly house the Haitians, which will now allow the hurricane to rip
everything to shreds. This next disaster announced by Tomas can never
be called a new natural disaster, rather it is a man-made disaster
building itself up for the last 10 months.
Many of us have wrote to say these leaders are on the wrong track.
Yet our warnings have fallen on deaf ears. Many of us in America and
around the world have donated money and supplies thinking it would be
handled correctly and expeditiously, and on Friday when the Hurricane
Tomas hopefully leaves, we will see how well these bureaucrats planned
for this eventuality and successfully used the donation money.
If they were correct in their planning and execution strategies and
people and shelters survived...then God bless them and I will return
to my burrow inside my pipe home. But if they were wrong, and people
died because their shelters did not survive... then their heads must
roll!...figuratively, of course...and new leaders, scientists,
engineers, architects, contractors, economists, etc. must be brought
in right away to begin anew the rebuilding of a greater, stronger,
safer, and more prosperous Haiti.
We owe this to humanity during our lifetime.
Edison
On Oct 30, 1:55 pm, Ivan Olsen <ya...@att.net> wrote:
> ALSOhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/30/1899662/hurricane-tomas-bearing...
in Haiti...why is it that the IASC, NGOs, the Government, still do not
understand the priority of properly sheltering people in shelters
which will not blow away and /or cause move damage with their flying
debris field?
Hurricane Tomas will inflict massive damage in Haiti...not so much
because of the wind and rain, but because the bureaucrats stalled land
acquisition progress and/or refused to look at other viable options to
properly house the Haitians, which will now allow the hurricane to rip
everything to shreds. This next disaster announced by Tomas can never
be called a new natural disaster, rather it is a man-made disaster
building itself up for the last 10 months.
Many of us have wrote to say these leaders are on the wrong track.
Yet our warnings have fallen on deaf ears. Many of us in America and
around the world have donated money and supplies thinking it would be
handled correctly and expeditiously, and on Friday when the Hurricane
Tomas hopefully leaves, we will see how well these bureaucrats planned
for this eventuality and successfully used the donation money.
If they were correct in their planning and execution strategies and
people and shelters survived...then God bless them and I will return
to my burrow inside my pipe home. But if they were wrong, and people
died because their shelters did not survive... then their heads must
roll!...figuratively, of course...and new leaders, scientists,
engineers, architects, contractors, economists, etc. must be brought
in right away to begin anew the rebuilding of a greater, stronger,
safer, and more prosperous Haiti.
We owe this to humanity during our lifetime.
Edison
On Oct 30, 1:55 pm, Ivan Olsen <ya...@att.net> wrote:
> ALSOhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/30/1899662/hurricane-tomas-bearing...
Peter Burgess
Oct 31, 2010, 4:33:55 PM10/31/10
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Dear Colleagues
Most of the photographs that get taken move into a rather useless
space simply because they do not travel with clear about the place and
time they were taken. As soon as a picture has time and place ...
there can be some time series development of how the situation is
changing over time ... or not!
Peter Burgess
http://communityanalyticsca.blogspot.com/
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Edison Kiela
Oct 31, 2010, 9:21:51 PM10/31/10
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Hurricane Tomas will hit Haiti this week as a Cat 2.
Be prepared...stay safe and well.
Edison
On Oct 31, 4:33 pm, Peter Burgess <peterb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Most of the photographs that get taken move into a rather useless
> space simply because they do not travel with clear about the place and
> time they were taken. As soon as a picture has time and place ...
> there can be some time series development of how the situation is
> changing over time ... or not!
>
> Peter Burgesshttp://communityanalyticsca.blogspot.com/
> email: peterb...@gmail.com
Be prepared...stay safe and well.
Edison
On Oct 31, 4:33 pm, Peter Burgess <peterb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Most of the photographs that get taken move into a rather useless
> space simply because they do not travel with clear about the place and
> time they were taken. As soon as a picture has time and place ...
> there can be some time series development of how the situation is
> changing over time ... or not!
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> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Edison Kiela <edisonki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To All,
>
> > I haven't seen any posting on this yet, but it looks like Haiti is in
> > the path of Hurricane Tomas and as such I thought someone out to raise
> > the red and black flags.
>
> > According to the GFDL Model (the most accurate model for predicting
> > hurricanes) Tomas will make a hard right turn to the north on
> > Wednesday morning sending the Cat 3 storm directly over Haiti
> > Wednesday afternoon.
>
> >http://www.stormpulse.com/
>
> > 115 MPH winds are expected with gusts over 130 MPH.
>
> > Hopefully 4 or 5 days will be enough to make proper evacuation plans
> > for the Haitians.
>
> > If someone on the ground in Haiti is reading this...maybe you could
> > take some before and after photos of the T-shelters for
> > documentational purposes. We all need to understand which shelters
> > can withstand a hurricane and which ones fail.
>
> > I wish everyone the best and to take precautions to be safe.
>
> > Edison
>
> --
> ____________
> Peter Burgess
> Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Societywww.theburgessmethod.comwww.truevaluemetrics.comwww.tr-ac-net.org(being phased out!)
>
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> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Edison Kiela <edisonki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To All,
>
> > I haven't seen any posting on this yet, but it looks like Haiti is in
> > the path of Hurricane Tomas and as such I thought someone out to raise
> > the red and black flags.
>
> > According to the GFDL Model (the most accurate model for predicting
> > hurricanes) Tomas will make a hard right turn to the north on
> > Wednesday morning sending the Cat 3 storm directly over Haiti
> > Wednesday afternoon.
>
> >http://www.stormpulse.com/
>
> > 115 MPH winds are expected with gusts over 130 MPH.
>
> > Hopefully 4 or 5 days will be enough to make proper evacuation plans
> > for the Haitians.
>
> > If someone on the ground in Haiti is reading this...maybe you could
> > take some before and after photos of the T-shelters for
> > documentational purposes. We all need to understand which shelters
> > can withstand a hurricane and which ones fail.
>
> > I wish everyone the best and to take precautions to be safe.
>
> > Edison
>
> --
> ____________
> Peter Burgess
> email: peterb...@gmail.com
Edison Kiela
Oct 31, 2010, 7:26:48 PM10/31/10
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Dear Peter,
If anyone is still reading comments on this site, then maybe they will take some photos between now and next Saturday. We need documentation of what is really happening on the ground in Haiti. Otherwise, it can be steamrolled over and no one will be accountable.
Edison
Edison Kiela
Oct 31, 2010, 9:18:49 PM10/31/10
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Oct 31st 2010...9:15pm EST........Latest track of Hurricane Tomas.
It will hit Haiti as a Cat 2 hurricane later this week.
Please take note...be prepared.
Edison
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