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Heard that:

Hurricane Katrina is heading through the area that produces 1/3 of the
U.S Oil
and Gas..
Most of the Rigs are old and decrepid.. Heard that many will collapse /
Go down in the Storm..

- So , because of the shortfall in production and such

Gas Prices will Soar.. Probably true for heating oil as well...

"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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On Sun 28 Aug 2005 07:23:11a, wrote in message
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Heard that:

Hurricane Katrina is heading through the area that produces 1/3 of the
U.S Oil
and Gas..
Most of the Rigs are old and decrepid.. Heard that many will collapse /
Go down in the Storm..

- So , because of the shortfall in production and such

Gas Prices will Soar.. Probably true for heating oil as well...



There have been far worse hurricanes in recent years that covered the same
area. Though there is always the potential for an off-shore platform to
suffer some kind of structural failure for a variety of reasons, there's
nothing to indicate this particular storm spells "doom" for any of them.

Storm winds already at 160 MPH (knots?), making it a category 5, and it is
expected to gain strength before it hits landfall. Some estimates are for
195 MPH winds.. worst storm to hit the Gulf coast since Camille (we left
Corpus Christi just before Camille leveled our whole neighborhood, which was
just two blocks from the beach)

wrote in message
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Heard that:

Hurricane Katrina is heading through the area that produces 1/3 of the
U.S Oil
and Gas..
Most of the Rigs are old and decrepid.. Heard that many will collapse /
Go down in the Storm..

- So , because of the shortfall in production and such

Gas Prices will Soar.. Probably true for heating oil as well...


Mother nature's way of making negative feedback. Kill the refineries,
lessen the greenhouse emissions, fewer hurricanes.

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:37:05 GMT, "FDR"
wrote:



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Heard that:

Hurricane Katrina is heading through the area that produces 1/3 of the
U.S Oil
and Gas..
Most of the Rigs are old and decrepid.. Heard that many will collapse /
Go down in the Storm..

- So , because of the shortfall in production and such

Gas Prices will Soar.. Probably true for heating oil as well...


Mother nature's way of making negative feedback. Kill the refineries,
lessen the greenhouse emissions, fewer hurricanes.

Mother Nature's feedback will be to kill the humans.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"-=jd=-" wrote in message
8...
On Sun 28 Aug 2005 07:23:11a, wrote in message
ups.com:



Heard that:

Hurricane Katrina is heading through the area that produces 1/3 of the
U.S Oil
and Gas..
Most of the Rigs are old and decrepid.. Heard that many will collapse /
Go down in the Storm..

- So , because of the shortfall in production and such

Gas Prices will Soar.. Probably true for heating oil as well...



There have been far worse hurricanes in recent years that covered the
same
area. Though there is always the potential for an off-shore platform to
suffer some kind of structural failure for a variety of reasons, there's
nothing to indicate this particular storm spells "doom" for any of them.

Storm winds already at 160 MPH (knots?), making it a category 5, and it is
expected to gain strength before it hits landfall. Some estimates are for
195 MPH winds.. worst storm to hit the Gulf coast since Camille (we left
Corpus Christi just before Camille leveled our whole neighborhood, which
was
just two blocks from the beach)



Corpus Christi? Camille hit Long Beach, Mississippi then tracked up to
Virginia.

-- Stinger

Stinger wrote:

Corpus Christi? Camille hit Long Beach, Mississippi then tracked up to
Virginia.





There seem to have been a large number of storms passing through Texas. It's
easy to get them mixed up.



http://power1043.com/common/hurrican...e_history.html




mike

"David" wrote in message
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Mother Nature's feedback will be to kill the humans.

And then Father Sol will burn up the earth.

"MnMikew" wrote in message
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"David" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:55:53 -0500, "MnMikew"
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Mother nature's way of making negative feedback. Kill the refineries,
lessen the greenhouse emissions, fewer hurricanes.

We need to get rid of those pesky volcanos to.

The volcanos used to be moderated by the rain forests. Carbon dioxide
sinking. Now that the rain forests have been turned into cattle
ranches we get no CO2 sink, plus added methane. Enjoy.

Didnt know there were rain forests by Mt. St. Helens.

Yep, sure are. The Northwest has a lot of rainforest (at least west of the
Blue Mountains) in Oregon and Washington. This includes the Olympic National
Forest area around Mt. St. Helens. Average of 184 days with rain in that
part of the country, and over 40" of rain annually (some areas much more,
some a little less).