Hurricane Irene Conspiracy - This hurricaine being used as an excuse to clear certain areas
has anyone thought that there might be something behind all the misinformation going around about Hurricane Irene!? I've been scouring the internet back and forth for the past two days and have found so many anomalies with the meteorological data going around.
First off, I think the Hurricane has been overhyped by the major media outlets & government to a point where I don't know what to believe anymore. All the headlines i've seen are nothing short of Apocalyptic in nature. Similar to the fiasco that went on several days ago with the tiny earthquake that we experienced here.
And a lot of these news articles that were being headlined and featured for hours weren't being updated. I was reading articles posted on Yahoo's front page with satellite imagery that wasn't updated since late yesterday!
I've even seen several smaller meteorological sites that are showing wind speeds directly under the storm that would barely be considered even a Tropical Storm. Example:stevengoddard.wordpress.com...
Some interesting wind data:
stevengoddard.wordpress.com...
Some very interesting insight Dr. Simon Atkins, CEO of [AFC] Advanced Forecasting Corporation that, so far, has come true:
www.gplus.com...
And some other interesting articles with some similar speculation:
drudgereport.com...
Now besides the fact that, in my honest opinion, this storm has been hyped to a ridiculous point, there is something that I noticed that's happening in several states.
I've noticed that, besides all the Hurricane, Tornado, & Landslide warnings that have been issued in many of the states along the East Coast, there has also been a considerable amount of Mandatory Evacuations & Curfews imposed on many citizens. I just find it extremely interesting that, with a overhyped Hurricane like Irene which is barely a Category 1 Storm at this point, that so much attention has been focus on removing people and having them clear largely populated areas.
I mean, we've had several hurricanes come up the east coast before, just like this one, & predictably they've resulted in the same outcome as this one has turned out. They usually die out once they get half-way up to the New England area.
Now, i'm no meteorological expert here, but I just feel like between the misinformation going around and all the evacuations that there is alot of BS going on around here.
They HAVE to be hiding something! I've seen worse storms with less coverage than this one (example: Joplin) and whats with all the curfews and mandatory evacuations!?
I mean c'mon, even Obama was apparently "taking charge at a hurricane command centre", This guy hardly ever does any public works and now all of the sudden hes the hero of a small storm that definitely doesn't need the president to be working on.
You would have to be brain-dead not to think that there's something else going on here.
The question still remains though, WHAT are they hiding?
At first I was thinking that it could be something to cover up news stories like Libya or QE3, but that doesn't make much sense now because of all the political people that are involved, If it was something as simple as that then it would just be up to the MSM.
Now I'm going more along the lines of either a cry-wolf scenario where they could use this to more enforce curfews and mandatory evacuations by making this false flag and then letting out a virus or some other disastrous event in the area where the people didn't leave.
Or they could be clearing out the area in order to prepare something for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Something is REALLY fishy here..
Im not sure but this little gem of a news report is showing sattelite imagry that I believe isnt even Irene! The width and mass of the cyclone/hurricane they show on that link looks more like Ophelia. Nothing I've seen anywhere on Irene to date ever showed its mass this large. The image is at 57 seconds into the report. I am no meteorologist, might be wrong..but it seemed sus.
Goes 13 and the noaa feed shows its only this size. Unless it vamped UP to a super storm over night?
I have to agree that Hurricane Irene is being played out as if its something really big and monstrous when it barely registers as a tropical storm.
The fact that all the politicians are acting in unison as if they are all on the same sheet of music makes me very suspicious of what they are trying to distract us from.
I had to ask myself what could they be using such a storm to distract us from and well, I think I have an idea that I will share with everyone for the sake of discussion as to why such media and government hype and major evacuations and curfews are being used to sell Irene as if it was the disaster of the century.
To help with other considerations, I am going to discuss two items that have caught my attention that would necessitate a distraction and use of the media to ensure no one covers such an allegation. Here are the two items I wish to share.
1. There is gathering evidence that the recent east coast earthquake in Virgina and in Colorado was actually nuclear bombs or nuclear devices that were detonated on purpose.
This nuclear detonation determination has been made by scientist that studied the seismic data and concluded that typical but yet specific earthquake waves were missing from such an earthquake. They decided to study the data further and came to a startling conclusion.
Apparently after studying the wave patterns it was concluded that it was a nuclear device that shows its own specific wave pattern within the seismic data that was studied. It is this evidence by scientific types using seismic data that could very well undermine the NWO plans and so a major distraction was needed.
This is why Hurricane Irene, appears to have been created and steered into position as the exact answer to having to talk or report on or about nuclear bombs being used to cause earthquakes or perhaps even more secrets of an ongoing war within the CIA and the Military that the public is not aware of.
2. Second item Is an article put out by the Russians in some European media outlet that the Military underground tunnel system was attacked for reasons that still appear to be developing but which the rest of the world is apparently aware of. It is as interesting as the seismic data finding.
Take a look at the links I am going to provide and consider what is going on in the world of conspiracies that seldom gets mentioned, let alone studied for its actual fact of truth.
Take a look and decide for yourself, but for me, I am going to remain open minded and remind myself that while I have seen a lot, this just doesn't surprise me like it use to.
Anyway, enjoy the links and consider the possibility. Only then will Hurricane Irene make sense as to why they hyped it and sold it through politicians, and through government sources.
I am going to provide the link so you can read the articles on your own and decide if perhaps this could be the real reason Hurricane Irene is center stage when it barely registers as a tropical storm.
Here is a video about two nukes in Colorado and W.Virgina meant to destroy military tunnel complex.www.youtube.com...
Video link to Virginia nuke seismic data discussing nuclear device caused east coast earthquake.
www.youtube.com...
BBS Radio internet link showing seismic data of nuclear explosion in Virginia.
www.bbsradio.com...
Thanks for considering these conspiratorial thoughts as to why Hurricane Irene is being used as a major distraction. Keep an open mind and consider what this means in the bigger scheme of things because when no real weather damage is experienced ask yourself how could these politicians and government experts not know that Hurricane Irene is barely a tropical storm? I mean really.
IRENE:Wall St, for whom the bell tolls
First off, I think the Hurricane has been overhyped by the major media outlets & government to a point where I don't know what to believe anymore. All the headlines i've seen are nothing short of Apocalyptic in nature. Similar to the fiasco that went on several days ago with the tiny earthquake that we experienced here.
And a lot of these news articles that were being headlined and featured for hours weren't being updated. I was reading articles posted on Yahoo's front page with satellite imagery that wasn't updated since late yesterday!
I've even seen several smaller meteorological sites that are showing wind speeds directly under the storm that would barely be considered even a Tropical Storm. Example:stevengoddard.wordpress.com...
Some interesting wind data:
stevengoddard.wordpress.com...
Some very interesting insight Dr. Simon Atkins, CEO of [AFC] Advanced Forecasting Corporation that, so far, has come true:
www.gplus.com...
And some other interesting articles with some similar speculation:
drudgereport.com...
Now besides the fact that, in my honest opinion, this storm has been hyped to a ridiculous point, there is something that I noticed that's happening in several states.
I've noticed that, besides all the Hurricane, Tornado, & Landslide warnings that have been issued in many of the states along the East Coast, there has also been a considerable amount of Mandatory Evacuations & Curfews imposed on many citizens. I just find it extremely interesting that, with a overhyped Hurricane like Irene which is barely a Category 1 Storm at this point, that so much attention has been focus on removing people and having them clear largely populated areas.
I mean, we've had several hurricanes come up the east coast before, just like this one, & predictably they've resulted in the same outcome as this one has turned out. They usually die out once they get half-way up to the New England area.
Now, i'm no meteorological expert here, but I just feel like between the misinformation going around and all the evacuations that there is alot of BS going on around here.
They HAVE to be hiding something! I've seen worse storms with less coverage than this one (example: Joplin) and whats with all the curfews and mandatory evacuations!?
I mean c'mon, even Obama was apparently "taking charge at a hurricane command centre", This guy hardly ever does any public works and now all of the sudden hes the hero of a small storm that definitely doesn't need the president to be working on.
You would have to be brain-dead not to think that there's something else going on here.
The question still remains though, WHAT are they hiding?
At first I was thinking that it could be something to cover up news stories like Libya or QE3, but that doesn't make much sense now because of all the political people that are involved, If it was something as simple as that then it would just be up to the MSM.
Now I'm going more along the lines of either a cry-wolf scenario where they could use this to more enforce curfews and mandatory evacuations by making this false flag and then letting out a virus or some other disastrous event in the area where the people didn't leave.
Or they could be clearing out the area in order to prepare something for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Something is REALLY fishy here..
Im not sure but this little gem of a news report is showing sattelite imagry that I believe isnt even Irene! The width and mass of the cyclone/hurricane they show on that link looks more like Ophelia. Nothing I've seen anywhere on Irene to date ever showed its mass this large. The image is at 57 seconds into the report. I am no meteorologist, might be wrong..but it seemed sus.
Goes 13 and the noaa feed shows its only this size. Unless it vamped UP to a super storm over night?
I have to agree that Hurricane Irene is being played out as if its something really big and monstrous when it barely registers as a tropical storm.
The fact that all the politicians are acting in unison as if they are all on the same sheet of music makes me very suspicious of what they are trying to distract us from.
I had to ask myself what could they be using such a storm to distract us from and well, I think I have an idea that I will share with everyone for the sake of discussion as to why such media and government hype and major evacuations and curfews are being used to sell Irene as if it was the disaster of the century.
To help with other considerations, I am going to discuss two items that have caught my attention that would necessitate a distraction and use of the media to ensure no one covers such an allegation. Here are the two items I wish to share.
1. There is gathering evidence that the recent east coast earthquake in Virgina and in Colorado was actually nuclear bombs or nuclear devices that were detonated on purpose.
This nuclear detonation determination has been made by scientist that studied the seismic data and concluded that typical but yet specific earthquake waves were missing from such an earthquake. They decided to study the data further and came to a startling conclusion.
Apparently after studying the wave patterns it was concluded that it was a nuclear device that shows its own specific wave pattern within the seismic data that was studied. It is this evidence by scientific types using seismic data that could very well undermine the NWO plans and so a major distraction was needed.
This is why Hurricane Irene, appears to have been created and steered into position as the exact answer to having to talk or report on or about nuclear bombs being used to cause earthquakes or perhaps even more secrets of an ongoing war within the CIA and the Military that the public is not aware of.
2. Second item Is an article put out by the Russians in some European media outlet that the Military underground tunnel system was attacked for reasons that still appear to be developing but which the rest of the world is apparently aware of. It is as interesting as the seismic data finding.
Take a look at the links I am going to provide and consider what is going on in the world of conspiracies that seldom gets mentioned, let alone studied for its actual fact of truth.
Take a look and decide for yourself, but for me, I am going to remain open minded and remind myself that while I have seen a lot, this just doesn't surprise me like it use to.
Anyway, enjoy the links and consider the possibility. Only then will Hurricane Irene make sense as to why they hyped it and sold it through politicians, and through government sources.
I am going to provide the link so you can read the articles on your own and decide if perhaps this could be the real reason Hurricane Irene is center stage when it barely registers as a tropical storm.
Here is a video about two nukes in Colorado and W.Virgina meant to destroy military tunnel complex.www.youtube.com...
Video link to Virginia nuke seismic data discussing nuclear device caused east coast earthquake.
www.youtube.com...
BBS Radio internet link showing seismic data of nuclear explosion in Virginia.
www.bbsradio.com...
Thanks for considering these conspiratorial thoughts as to why Hurricane Irene is being used as a major distraction. Keep an open mind and consider what this means in the bigger scheme of things because when no real weather damage is experienced ask yourself how could these politicians and government experts not know that Hurricane Irene is barely a tropical storm? I mean really.
IRENE:Wall St, for whom the bell tolls
Something is bothering me,we are all aware of both the economic melt down and the approaching Cyclone Irene.Can these seemingly unconnected events amalgamate together?
I think many will agree the economy is tanking.I have a strange feeling that the players may take advantage of the Cyclone as a cover.NY is being evacuated as I type this.The officials claim that the lower levels of NY may go underwater by upto twenty feet including Wall Street,and the banking and business district's.
With the area evacuated,what a great time to strip the area of assets and destroy evidence of foul play.Great cover for destroying documents and records that one day may be required for evidence as well as destroying the inferstructure.Quite convieniant don't you think?
The path of the Cyclone is quite unpredicable in reality.It could change coarse and miss entirely! Still if they wanted to destroy the economic hub of the country,they could release dam water up state somewhere to merge with the tide to make the objective.There has already been questionable dam failings and releases during floods across the country this year.You only need to look a the deveststation of the floods in Brisbane Australia to see what poorly timed dam releases during a cyclone can do.Strangely enough Brisbane geography is very similar.
What damage will the littoral destruction of Wall Street have on the economy? What impact will all the insurance claims across the east coast have on the economy?
Either scenario will be devastating.The latter is a given reality.
One way or another this cyclone is going to have a serious impact on the economy,that can't be escaped!
So is the bell going to toll on Wall St this week littorly or fuguratively? Can you imagine the economic damage if Wall Street is not there to open next week? I am sure if they wanted too the could run business from another location from back up systems.But how long would it take and what world wide panic would it cause?
One way or another buckle up as things are going to go from bad to worse.
Another senario,would be to place devices around the area under the cover of the evacuaction.Prepairing for the 9/11 anniversary?
So let us see if there shall be some grining little hyena ringing the bell Monday shall we?
To all of those in the path of Irene be safe and God bless!
It is important to check this link: Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)
Source
When you click the first link to MIMIC's coverage of Hurricane Irene you can see this "tuning fork" interference on a MASSIVE scale being directed at the eye of Irene. My guess is that it is coming from the HAARP array in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Have we caught them red-handed here? Or is this just a "simple imaging glitch" being played out through multiple hurricanes during separate occasions?
What direction location would that tuning fork come from?
s806.photobucket.com...
I believe it's heading straight for New York, it's massive and being fed!
Sonic Booms were recorded over eastern Long Island yesterday- the military said it was jets - News 12 covered the story This is an attack.
Watch the two typhoons headed to China.
Just weeks ago 2 big typhoons were headed to China. Just as the first one got close to their coast....it stopped, turned 90* and headed North to Korea. The one right behind it....turned around 180* and went straight back into the big Pacific.
Now 2 more are headed to China. Watch them:www.goes.noaa.gov...
National Geographic: Hurricane Irene "Looking Bad" for
U.S.—Moon May Make It Worse
I've noticed a lot of people on these Irene threads actually downplaying the seriousness of Irene so how about something from a source that is not known for fear mongering but rather research and facts.
National Geographic:news.nationalgeographic.com...
From Space:
And this from Patch.com
monroe.patch.com...
* The storm impacts our area Saturday night into Sunday
* Be prepared for at least 5 to 10 inches of rain, causing flooding
* Strong, sustained winds of 40 to 70 MPH are expected
* Flooding is likely and wind damage may cause power outages
Inland Towns Are Not Safe From Hurricane Irene:
monroe.patch.com...
This is the first time i`ve seen a cloud with a shadow behind it.
Here's an example (though not perhaps as good as the one in the video)
It's all down to the position of the sun
THE EMERGENCY ALERT THAT CAME TOO LATE
I think many will agree the economy is tanking.I have a strange feeling that the players may take advantage of the Cyclone as a cover.NY is being evacuated as I type this.The officials claim that the lower levels of NY may go underwater by upto twenty feet including Wall Street,and the banking and business district's.
With the area evacuated,what a great time to strip the area of assets and destroy evidence of foul play.Great cover for destroying documents and records that one day may be required for evidence as well as destroying the inferstructure.Quite convieniant don't you think?
The path of the Cyclone is quite unpredicable in reality.It could change coarse and miss entirely! Still if they wanted to destroy the economic hub of the country,they could release dam water up state somewhere to merge with the tide to make the objective.There has already been questionable dam failings and releases during floods across the country this year.You only need to look a the deveststation of the floods in Brisbane Australia to see what poorly timed dam releases during a cyclone can do.Strangely enough Brisbane geography is very similar.
What damage will the littoral destruction of Wall Street have on the economy? What impact will all the insurance claims across the east coast have on the economy?
Either scenario will be devastating.The latter is a given reality.
One way or another this cyclone is going to have a serious impact on the economy,that can't be escaped!
So is the bell going to toll on Wall St this week littorly or fuguratively? Can you imagine the economic damage if Wall Street is not there to open next week? I am sure if they wanted too the could run business from another location from back up systems.But how long would it take and what world wide panic would it cause?
One way or another buckle up as things are going to go from bad to worse.
Another senario,would be to place devices around the area under the cover of the evacuaction.Prepairing for the 9/11 anniversary?
So let us see if there shall be some grining little hyena ringing the bell Monday shall we?
To all of those in the path of Irene be safe and God bless!
It is important to check this link: Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)
In 1997 US Secretary of Defense William Cohen made the following statement, "Others (terrorists) are engaging even in an eco type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves….So, there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our (counterterrorism) efforts."
Source
The Satellite image loops of the storm tracks indicate some anomalous and erratic behavior in the path and intensity of the hurricanes. Satellite images of hurricane Ophelia are especially intriguing to say the least. They show Ophelia well organized as a strong category 1 storm off the southeast coast of the US. Over very warm late season open water, the US Weather Service predicted a category 4 storm within 24 to 48 hours and the westerly path of the storm track had it headed for landfall along the mid Atlantic coast.
Instead, in less than 12 hours the storm had changes course and dissipated completely. The radar image shows something very strange occurring to the storm. As the storm tracks west towards the US east coast, the satellite precipitation image reveals two extremely heavy, nearly parallel bands of precipitation emanating, in waves from the east, directly toward the eye of the storm. As these heavy bands of precipitation intensify over hurricane Ophelia, the storm begins to change course, dissipate and is quickly extinguished. The effect is quite dramatic and not at all natural looking. The fact is, intensely heavy bands of cool rainfall falling on the eye of a well organized hurricane, through which the warm waters of the ocean below rise to provide energy and circulation to the hurricane, would have the effect of interfering with that energy flow and for all practical purposes starving the storm of its' fuel.
When you click the first link to MIMIC's coverage of Hurricane Irene you can see this "tuning fork" interference on a MASSIVE scale being directed at the eye of Irene. My guess is that it is coming from the HAARP array in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Have we caught them red-handed here? Or is this just a "simple imaging glitch" being played out through multiple hurricanes during separate occasions?
edit on 8/26/2011 by goochball because: (no reason given)
What direction location would that tuning fork come from?
s806.photobucket.com...
edit on 26-8-2011 by BriGuyTM90 because: (no reason given)
edit on 26-8-2011 by BriGuyTM90 because: (no reason given)
I believe it's heading straight for New York, it's massive and being fed!
Sonic Booms were recorded over eastern Long Island yesterday- the military said it was jets - News 12 covered the story This is an attack.
Watch the two typhoons headed to China.
Just weeks ago 2 big typhoons were headed to China. Just as the first one got close to their coast....it stopped, turned 90* and headed North to Korea. The one right behind it....turned around 180* and went straight back into the big Pacific.
Now 2 more are headed to China. Watch them:www.goes.noaa.gov...
Gun Rights Suspended under A State of Emergency in North Carolina
I smell another Katrina coming on. I remember watching everything unfold in New orleans. Cops/military going door to door disarming by force every registered gun owner. I wonder how many died because they were disarmed and could not defend themselves.www.examiner.com...
U.S.—Moon May Make It Worse
I've noticed a lot of people on these Irene threads actually downplaying the seriousness of Irene so how about something from a source that is not known for fear mongering but rather research and facts.
National Geographic:news.nationalgeographic.com...
The exact times, places, and intensities of Hurricane Irene's predicted U.S. landfalls are still ripe for revision, but according to meteorologist Keith Blackwell, at least one thing is certain: "It's looking bad." And the moon is at least partly to blame for that cloudy outlook.
By Friday morning, Irene will likely be a Category 4 hurricane—a storm with wind speeds between 131 and 155 miles (211 and 249 kilometers) an hour—according to the National Hurricane Center.
From Space:
And this from Patch.com
monroe.patch.com...
* The storm impacts our area Saturday night into Sunday
* Be prepared for at least 5 to 10 inches of rain, causing flooding
* Strong, sustained winds of 40 to 70 MPH are expected
* Flooding is likely and wind damage may cause power outages
Inland Towns Are Not Safe From Hurricane Irene:
monroe.patch.com...
Satellite images show Irene's length almost equal to that of the eastern seaboard, with hurricane force winds extending outward some 90 miles from her center. Storm-force winds currently reach out more than 290 miles from her eye and current estimates are that she'll drop six to 12 inches of rain wherever she tracks.
Freaky cloud with shadow
This is the first time i`ve seen a cloud with a shadow behind it.
Here's an example (though not perhaps as good as the one in the video)
It's all down to the position of the sun
Did Irene Just Divide in TWO?
Check this out:
It appears as if a new eye has developed and is getting its own surrounding mass of swirl, to the northeast of the the original eye.
Here's animation from Intellicast
Guess we have to wait and see huh?www.intellicast.com...
Well, well......ain't weather manipulation a bitch? It's not nice to fool with mother nature.....
Woa... That hurricane was already OUT OF PLACE, and now it's become double!
My best conservative guess: pole shift.
With the poles moving so fast, I suppose that's the kind of weird stuff that can be seen.
It's headed straight for New York City, it is being fed and it's growing!
My instincts tell me 1 thing: "Damn, that's a BIG storm!" It's still kicking up the winds, at 110 mph (sustained) and that's the key, IMHO....it's NOT dying! 5 MPH hardly makes a difference. Another thing that caught my attention..was someone who posted a pic...with the projected path...and what states would receive the most damage...and i couldn't help but think.....why would they show a graph, and label something "CATASTROPHIC". The graph showed the NY/NJ metro area, and it was 'EXTREME'; 1 level from 'catastrophic'. I mean, couldn't they have used...Very Extreme instead of 'catastropic'.
This is what bothers me, most.....people are loosing their sense of 'INSTINCTS'....our most IMPORTANT survival tool. Helloooooo out in la-la land.....but THIS IS SERIOUS!!!! Didn't that area just go through, quite a bit of rain and now this? Keep this in mind....if the Hudson River goes, so goes NYC!!! Buh-Bye Wall Street. Oh wait, now that i think about it......this CAN'T BE good. Is this building 7 that's about to fall, for no 'reason'.
"Quick, get rid of the evidence....before we're exposed!!!!"
Another thing, that's pretty worrisome, is the fact that the people over on the east coast, are pretty much, unprepared. Now, they decide to make a run for the stores. I told them, you better run for the hills. The Poconos is a nice place to be, right about now!
What IF this was an ENEMY attack....in retaliation, for the Japan disaster???? Is it POSSIBLE???
And, for all you people that think you know EVERYTHING, about everything....i seriously doubt it. Scientists do this stuff for a living, and they're CLUELESS. Everything we 'think' we know...is all a HYPOTHESIS - an EDUCATED GUESS! So please...if you would...stop acting like our lives, which have been formed by 'educated guesses' is concrete evidence. 9-11 defied the laws of physics...remember?
ETA: She's gonna hit NYC, over the weekend? Didn't what's his face, just bail out Bank of America? Stocks have been shakey, Gold has skyrocketed, wars are starting like crazy...CME's have been pounding the earth (which has to affect our psyche), and now this??? IDK.....jus' sayin'......when we LEAST expect it.Stocks recover after Bernanke predicts... Could this be the scream before destruction? You know the one that yells.."peace and safety"..."all is well". Or, am i just 'fear-mongering'. lol:
All we know for sure is that a hurricane is coming and it seems to be split in to two. Those are the only facts. This may be the start of something very bad though....Also...I don't know how this relates but these were the clouds over Illinois the day the quake hit out east
But lots of rain, a earthquake, then a hurricane...strange.
It appears as if a new eye has developed and is getting its own surrounding mass of swirl, to the northeast of the the original eye.
Here's animation from Intellicast
Guess we have to wait and see huh?www.intellicast.com...
Well, well......ain't weather manipulation a bitch? It's not nice to fool with mother nature.....
I like how basically every radar of this area conveniently blacks out shortly before the split....
Also note the gain in intensity, and eye disappearing.
like so...
Also note the gain in intensity, and eye disappearing.
like so...
Woa... That hurricane was already OUT OF PLACE, and now it's become double!
My best conservative guess: pole shift.
With the poles moving so fast, I suppose that's the kind of weird stuff that can be seen.
It's headed straight for New York City, it is being fed and it's growing!
My instincts tell me 1 thing: "Damn, that's a BIG storm!" It's still kicking up the winds, at 110 mph (sustained) and that's the key, IMHO....it's NOT dying! 5 MPH hardly makes a difference. Another thing that caught my attention..was someone who posted a pic...with the projected path...and what states would receive the most damage...and i couldn't help but think.....why would they show a graph, and label something "CATASTROPHIC". The graph showed the NY/NJ metro area, and it was 'EXTREME'; 1 level from 'catastrophic'. I mean, couldn't they have used...Very Extreme instead of 'catastropic'.
This is what bothers me, most.....people are loosing their sense of 'INSTINCTS'....our most IMPORTANT survival tool. Helloooooo out in la-la land.....but THIS IS SERIOUS!!!! Didn't that area just go through, quite a bit of rain and now this? Keep this in mind....if the Hudson River goes, so goes NYC!!! Buh-Bye Wall Street. Oh wait, now that i think about it......this CAN'T BE good. Is this building 7 that's about to fall, for no 'reason'.
"Quick, get rid of the evidence....before we're exposed!!!!"Another thing, that's pretty worrisome, is the fact that the people over on the east coast, are pretty much, unprepared. Now, they decide to make a run for the stores. I told them, you better run for the hills. The Poconos is a nice place to be, right about now!
What IF this was an ENEMY attack....in retaliation, for the Japan disaster???? Is it POSSIBLE???
And, for all you people that think you know EVERYTHING, about everything....i seriously doubt it. Scientists do this stuff for a living, and they're CLUELESS. Everything we 'think' we know...is all a HYPOTHESIS - an EDUCATED GUESS! So please...if you would...stop acting like our lives, which have been formed by 'educated guesses' is concrete evidence. 9-11 defied the laws of physics...remember?
ETA: She's gonna hit NYC, over the weekend? Didn't what's his face, just bail out Bank of America? Stocks have been shakey, Gold has skyrocketed, wars are starting like crazy...CME's have been pounding the earth (which has to affect our psyche), and now this??? IDK.....jus' sayin'......when we LEAST expect it.Stocks recover after Bernanke predicts... Could this be the scream before destruction? You know the one that yells.."peace and safety"..."all is well". Or, am i just 'fear-mongering'. lol:
All we know for sure is that a hurricane is coming and it seems to be split in to two. Those are the only facts. This may be the start of something very bad though....Also...I don't know how this relates but these were the clouds over Illinois the day the quake hit out east
But lots of rain, a earthquake, then a hurricane...strange.
Hurricane EYERENE, Alien and or Government OP
Highly speculative at this point, but:
Could be the aliens told the US to clear out the eastern sea board area and we are seeing why.
I wondered why the media and the authorities seemed to be overly obsessed with hurricane EYERENE, now we may know why.
The Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, not a guy to care much for people, was adamant that folks should evacuate in certain areas because he cared so much for their safety, as well the mayor of New York, Bloomberg (who BTW bungled managing the last big snow storm ) seemed also to be overly cautious and practically begging people to abandon many areas of New York . . . . And in-fact this was the first time ever that they shut down the entire metropolitan area transit system, INCLUDING ALL OF THE AIRPORTS!
Bottom line, these guys seemed TO ANXIOUS to move a lot of people out of the area
and I am very suspicious about this whole EYERENE thing, and now we have this ATS post of this strange formation of lights in the sky. Though I might add that the picture hasn’t been vetted yet.
Is this an example of two politicians, not known for giving much of a dam about ordinary Americans, being overly cautious, or is something else going on?
Like an ALI—YEN Operation?
Of course this is all highly speculative, but from the start I have had a strange feeling about the hurricane EYERENE.
Consider also another related incident lately, that is the EARTQUAKE that just so happened to go along about the same route as EYERENE!
So here you have an EARTHQUAKE happening one week and the next week a hurricane traveling along the same route right after it!
What are the odds of an earthquake and hurricane going roughly the same route in the same week?
The earthquake started in Virginia on the 23rd and was felt all up and down the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Canada
OR
Do you want to know what they are hiding?
Take the time to listen to this professional about his theory on Fukushima and current and previous ongoings in the Nuclear Power industry. His credentials check out. He is legit. Watch the Vid, Then read.
Fukushima needed to vent. Venting the radioactive steam caused the use of HAARP to intervene to stop the radiation from rising. It caused the EQ and the perfect cover-up for the shutting down of their reactors.
Washington / Virginia EQ. RIGHT NEXT TO A POWER PLANT. I saw this thread. I wondered if the steam being vented was really something that started before the EQ, and again HAARP was used to stop it from rising and igniting the 'Nitrogensphere' (Which I think has been mistranslated for another word) and it caused another EQ. The North Anna Reactor was also shut down.
Now Hurricane Irene is set to shut even more down. Are they evacuating these people because of the Hurricane or maybe potential radiation?
This link confirms more reactors set to shut down due to Hurricane
And finally. Here is an interactive link to see just how many worldwide and in the US are shut down.
The hurricane is man made. The media are making it seem far worse and fear-mongering people to focus on this when the real reason is because of bad Uranium.
And who approved the Uranium. The IEA supposedly. No doubt an NWO/Illuminati subsidiary. Entire Northern Hemisphere. 6.228 Billion people of the Entire worlds 6.92 Billion leaving just 692 Million. Very close to that magical 500 Million.
How well they pull our strings.
There is no such thing as co-incidence in politics. How quickly we forget the
weirdness of the earthquake only last week, and then this hurricane non-event,
following a similar course and hyped to the maximum.
What's good is bad in this world. Haven't we learned anything in 10 years?
Ask yourself what could they (take it that they are nefarious) have gotten up to in an
almost deserted city, and assume the worst.
I would caution of some false flag event in or around 9/11/11. blamed on whoever
As seen in a recent survey here,
a large % believe in the existence of intelligent alien lifeforms. There are uncountable
no.s of reported abductions and sightings, and god knows how many classified documents
and how much hidden knowledge there is. Intraterrestials could be a substantial reality.
I believe that they did 9/11 with a certain and immediate goal/ endgame in mind.
Otherwise the risks they took are crazy. They are almost found out as it is.
11/11/11 has a universal appeal to it. (Britian and the US are one again((at least in terms
of date ordering systems, and we all know how prominent a role numbers seem to play with
these groups)). Britain is the brains of all this and the US, still legally the Queens colony,
is the brawn, The world is in choas for contrived reasons, and everything is connected.
We Brush this off at our peril. We did before, and we all seen what happened last time that started.
Wow and weird it was august
Formed August 16, 1992
Dissipated August 28, 1992
Maybe the very first harp run at Hurricanes. www.youtube.com...
Illuminati Hurricane cards.
This would be the return play on the Illuminati card marked earthquake disaster plu flood...or something like that, which fit the japan one so well...are we in the middle of some huge power of the quadrillionairs game?
it does seem rather mysterious to have evacuated large cities in the event of a hurricane which has been downgraded since evacuation initiated. Especially cities with sites like Ground Zero.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if something huge happened in the next month or so, and given the case of the scenario, I wouldn't be too far away from blaming the governments somehow. I wouldn't go blaming aliens just yet.
I do believe they are hiding a lot more than most people think, I'm just not so sure what as of yet.
There is more than meets the eye. I do find it curious that an earthquake and a hurricane ran along the same path in short timeframe, considering surrounding circumstances such as MS sensationalizing and manditory evac from a brandnew NY zone A. If there is a connection between the two natural disasters then there could be a connection between them and the 37th Parallel. I spec that the name Irene is meant to imply EYEene and is a plainview secret message or "Revelation of Method" from a subversive society that is a co-op made up of alien and government. Guess what`s located on the 37th Parallel? Four Corners.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread746036/pg1
Could be the aliens told the US to clear out the eastern sea board area and we are seeing why.
I wondered why the media and the authorities seemed to be overly obsessed with hurricane EYERENE, now we may know why.
The Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, not a guy to care much for people, was adamant that folks should evacuate in certain areas because he cared so much for their safety, as well the mayor of New York, Bloomberg (who BTW bungled managing the last big snow storm ) seemed also to be overly cautious and practically begging people to abandon many areas of New York . . . . And in-fact this was the first time ever that they shut down the entire metropolitan area transit system, INCLUDING ALL OF THE AIRPORTS!
Bottom line, these guys seemed TO ANXIOUS to move a lot of people out of the area
and I am very suspicious about this whole EYERENE thing, and now we have this ATS post of this strange formation of lights in the sky. Though I might add that the picture hasn’t been vetted yet.
Is this an example of two politicians, not known for giving much of a dam about ordinary Americans, being overly cautious, or is something else going on?
Like an ALI—YEN Operation?
Of course this is all highly speculative, but from the start I have had a strange feeling about the hurricane EYERENE.
Consider also another related incident lately, that is the EARTQUAKE that just so happened to go along about the same route as EYERENE!
So here you have an EARTHQUAKE happening one week and the next week a hurricane traveling along the same route right after it!
What are the odds of an earthquake and hurricane going roughly the same route in the same week?
The earthquake started in Virginia on the 23rd and was felt all up and down the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Canada
OR
Do you want to know what they are hiding?
Take the time to listen to this professional about his theory on Fukushima and current and previous ongoings in the Nuclear Power industry. His credentials check out. He is legit. Watch the Vid, Then read.
Fukushima needed to vent. Venting the radioactive steam caused the use of HAARP to intervene to stop the radiation from rising. It caused the EQ and the perfect cover-up for the shutting down of their reactors.
Washington / Virginia EQ. RIGHT NEXT TO A POWER PLANT. I saw this thread. I wondered if the steam being vented was really something that started before the EQ, and again HAARP was used to stop it from rising and igniting the 'Nitrogensphere' (Which I think has been mistranslated for another word) and it caused another EQ. The North Anna Reactor was also shut down.
Now Hurricane Irene is set to shut even more down. Are they evacuating these people because of the Hurricane or maybe potential radiation?
This link confirms more reactors set to shut down due to Hurricane
And finally. Here is an interactive link to see just how many worldwide and in the US are shut down.
The hurricane is man made. The media are making it seem far worse and fear-mongering people to focus on this when the real reason is because of bad Uranium.
And who approved the Uranium. The IEA supposedly. No doubt an NWO/Illuminati subsidiary. Entire Northern Hemisphere. 6.228 Billion people of the Entire worlds 6.92 Billion leaving just 692 Million. Very close to that magical 500 Million.
How well they pull our strings.
There is no such thing as co-incidence in politics. How quickly we forget the
weirdness of the earthquake only last week, and then this hurricane non-event,
following a similar course and hyped to the maximum.
What's good is bad in this world. Haven't we learned anything in 10 years?
Ask yourself what could they (take it that they are nefarious) have gotten up to in an
almost deserted city, and assume the worst.
I would caution of some false flag event in or around 9/11/11. blamed on whoever
As seen in a recent survey here,
a large % believe in the existence of intelligent alien lifeforms. There are uncountable
no.s of reported abductions and sightings, and god knows how many classified documents
and how much hidden knowledge there is. Intraterrestials could be a substantial reality.
I believe that they did 9/11 with a certain and immediate goal/ endgame in mind.
Otherwise the risks they took are crazy. They are almost found out as it is.
11/11/11 has a universal appeal to it. (Britian and the US are one again((at least in terms
of date ordering systems, and we all know how prominent a role numbers seem to play with
these groups)). Britain is the brains of all this and the US, still legally the Queens colony,
is the brawn, The world is in choas for contrived reasons, and everything is connected.
We Brush this off at our peril. We did before, and we all seen what happened last time that started.
Wow and weird it was august
Formed August 16, 1992
Dissipated August 28, 1992
Maybe the very first harp run at Hurricanes. www.youtube.com...
Illuminati Hurricane cards.
This would be the return play on the Illuminati card marked earthquake disaster plu flood...or something like that, which fit the japan one so well...are we in the middle of some huge power of the quadrillionairs game?
it does seem rather mysterious to have evacuated large cities in the event of a hurricane which has been downgraded since evacuation initiated. Especially cities with sites like Ground Zero.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if something huge happened in the next month or so, and given the case of the scenario, I wouldn't be too far away from blaming the governments somehow. I wouldn't go blaming aliens just yet.
I do believe they are hiding a lot more than most people think, I'm just not so sure what as of yet.
There is more than meets the eye. I do find it curious that an earthquake and a hurricane ran along the same path in short timeframe, considering surrounding circumstances such as MS sensationalizing and manditory evac from a brandnew NY zone A. If there is a connection between the two natural disasters then there could be a connection between them and the 37th Parallel. I spec that the name Irene is meant to imply EYEene and is a plainview secret message or "Revelation of Method" from a subversive society that is a co-op made up of alien and government. Guess what`s located on the 37th Parallel? Four Corners.
In 1863 Congress created Arizona territory from the Western part of New Mexico territory. The boundary was defined as a line running due south from the southwestern corner of Colorado territory which had been created in 1861. This was an unusual act for Congress, which almost always defined the boundaries of new territory as lines of lattitude or longitude, or following a river. By defining the boundary as starting at the corner of another Congress ensured the eventual creation of four states meeting at a point . . . .en.m.wikipedia.org... A pyramid has four corners and comes to a point. And perhaps so does a certain cocky hiearchy. If you ask me, the ramifications are out of this world.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread746036/pg1
Deadly SilencesThe Hurricane Andrew Cover-up
The authorities grossly understated the death toll from hurricane Andrew, the worst natural disaster in US history, and left thousands of survivors to die in a zone contaminated by radiation.
The largest natural disaster ever recorded in the history of the United States was hurricane Andrew, which struck South Dade County, Florida, as midnight turned the clock into August 24, 1992. Contrary to what the American news media broadcast across the United States and throughout Europe, the first outer wall of the hurricane unexpectedly slammed into South Dade, packing 214+ mph winds which quickly escalated to 350+ mph. Most of the 414,151 residents living in the danger zone were asleep when the outer wall struck. Thousands of them lost their lives, for no one in South Dade had been evacuated or even advised to evacuate. Instead, residents had been repeatedly informed by local news media that South Dade should expect to experience "50 mph winds".By 11.00 am the following morning, 8,230 mobile homes along with 9,140 apartments had vanished off the face of the Earth. The Hiroshima-like horror was beyond catastrophic. Entire families perished in ways too horrifying to describe. The stench of death had already begun to saturate miles and miles of the massive devastation; the hot humid air was reeking with foul, rotting flesh.
How do I know? Because I was in the midst of it all.
Never will I forget the frantic, last-minute "emergency alert" broadcast that was aired on television just before all hell broke loose. My son and I had the TV on, hoping to catch an updated report on the hurricane, when the screen suddenly went blank with a loud warning signal. Before we knew it, a panic-stricken voice began the announcement:
We interrupt this program to bring you an emergency alert from the National Broadcast Emergency Center. This is an emergency alert! I repeat, this is an emergency alert! The outer winds of hurricane Andrew have just reached the Florida coast. Hurricane Andrew has unexpectedly shifted five degrees south. I repeat, Hurricane Andrew has shifted five degrees south. Andrew is expected to strike South Dade within minutes. I repeat, Andrew is expected to strike South Dade within minutes. All South Dade residents should take immediate cover! I repeat, all South Dade residents should take immediate cover! This is an emergency alert!
Our tiny pre-fab apartment, which was nothing more than a glorified mobile home, had been constructed to withstand maximum wind speeds of 90 mph. The blood-curdling announcement gripped us both. Paralysed by sheer terror, our bulging eyes stayed glued to the television as the voice continued.
All South Dade residents are advised to stay put! Do not attempt to leave the area!
Within seconds, we actually heard hurricane Andrew bearing down on us, slamming into us with all the force of a speeding locomotive. The horrendous wall of winds crashed against our tiny apartment like an exploding bomb! Glasses flew off the kitchen counter, shattering onto the quaking floor. Hanging pictures plunged straight down the walls towards the ground. The huge hanging mirror crashed on top of the television set, spraying the living room with shattered glass. The entire apartment resembled a rickety old train, shaking fiercely out of control while rumbling down a railroad track. The screeching winds quickly transformed into the piercing, monotone hum of a jet engine, sounding as if it had sucked us inside! It was so deafening, all other noises ceased to exist. It felt like a monstrous earthquake-and-tornado hitting at the same time!
Before either one of us could react, the metal front door of our apartment began to peel steadily downward towards the floor, like a piece of wet, limp paper. Then the voracious jaws of Andrew attacked for the final kill. A mega-giant, two-storey-tall, solid concrete transformer pole with electrical cables attached, torpedoed right through our living room wall and roof, exploding the entire building on impact! And that was just the beginningÉ
ATROCITIES IN THE AFTERMATH
There isn't a person on the face of this Earth who will ever convince me that hurricane Andrew was a "hurricane" by any sense of the definition. Just ask any survivor of Andrew what the six-and-a-half-hour siege was like and the answer will always be the same. "We didn't have any prior warning. We heard hurricane Andrew suddenly bearing down on us like a speeding locomotive." This is the same description given by survivors of monstrous F-5 tornadoes (packing winds of 350+ mph)--the only difference being that tornadoes strike for just seconds, whereas hurricane Andrew struck and stayed for hours on end.
The injuries of those who survived were mind-boggling. I had a broken jaw with eight teeth knocked out. Huge shards of glass impaled my body so deeply, they were impossible to remove without the aid of a scalpel. My head injuries were so severe that they permanently affected my eyesight.
But I was only one amongst thousands of severely injured victims who struggled to survive the aftermath. For ten long days we were roped off from the outside world by United States military forces, leaving us stranded with no food, no water, no medical supplies, no shelter. Suffering from severe shell-shock, we waited and waited for rescue teams to arrive, but that just never happened. None of the injured in the roped-off areas was ever rescued from the devastation. It was the worst gut-wrenching betrayal I have ever experienced. I saw grown men lying on the ground in the foetal position, moaning and groaning pathetically as they tried to hug and rock themselves. My son was amongst them.
Don't get me wrong. United States military forces were indeed present in the roped-off areas within hours of Andrew ending. But they were not there to help survivors. The National Guard along with the Coast Guard, the Army, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), Metro Dade Police, state police and local police removed dead bodies and body parts as quickly as possible during those first ten days of the aftermath. Horrified survivors watched as both uniformed and civilian- clothed men searched the rubble and filled body bags, which they then stacked in military vehicles or huge refrigerator trucks normally used to transport food, only to drive off and leave the stranded injured to fend for themselves.
Not until I managed to escape the aftermath did I discover that the "thermo-king" sections of these same refrigerator trucks, jam-packed with wall-to-wall body bags, ended up being stored at Card Sound Navy Base, located in an isolated area just above the Florida Keys. The inside temperature was kept cool by portable generators until the bodies were either incinerated or just plain dumped into huge open grave pits.
Those working on the body pick-up operation were forced to take what is known as the Oath of Sworn Secrecy, which is strictly enforced by the government. Many of them plunged into shock, once exposed to the ghastly devastation and countless mutilated bodies.
The horrors were way beyond human comprehension. I can vouch for this, as I accidentally stepped on the severed hand of a young child when I initially crawled out of the debris, only to witness shortly thereafter two dead teenagers and the decapitated body of a baby girl.
Fighting mental shock became such a big problem for the body pick-up teams that a special group of psychiatrists had to be brought in to help them cope with it. I believe this in itself is the reason why many who worked on the body collection didn't comprehend the tragic consequences this would inevitably lead to in the future.
The survivors of hurricane Andrew and the rest of the American people were betrayed by their own government. But the betrayal also extended to foreign nationals. At the time Andrew struck, South Dade was inhabited by a large population of Mexican illegal immigrants. The United States Department of Immigration was fully aware of their presence but quietly turned its back on the situation, knowing full well that South Dade farmers couldn't afford to harvest their crops without the help of the Mexican illegals. The heavily populated migrant camps were situated at the edge of the Florida Everglades. The people who lived there vanished without a trace during that fated night. Many bodies were found way out in the Everglades.
When I lectured at the Clearwater Convention in Florida in 1999, a man in the audience stood up and introduced himself as Chief Petty Officer Roy Howard. He proceeded to address the audience with this exact statement, which is now a matter of public record:
Just for your information, I was called up to active duty after hurricane Andrew went through South Dade County. I spent nine weeks down there. Now I will certify for the benefit of our audience here that the death figures that were officially published are totally inaccurate. According to the information which I received from my own sources within the National Guard, the figure I was quoted when I was down there was 5,280-something. And they were quietly disposed of in incinerators that were hurriedly put together by both the National Guard and FEMA...
As the Chief Petty Officer stated, "5,280-something" bodies were confiscated by the United States National Guard. In addition to this, the Coast Guard independently confiscated "1,500 bodies" from the lakes and surrounding waters. Neither one of these figures embraces the number of dead bodies confiscated by other branches of federal and state government directly involved in the body pick-up operation. This leaves the number of dead confiscated by various US authorities in South Dade still unknown.
The total number who died during hurricane Andrew is obviously staggering, yet whenever the "official death toll" is mentioned in the media, a figure of anywhere between 15 and 59 is quoted. The population of the 21 communities annihilated by Andrew's eye-wall had been officially recorded by the Dade County Census Bureau as 415,151 before Andrew struck.
Bodies of human beings confiscated and disposed-of like rubbish, as if their lives had no more worth or meaning than a piece of discarded litter--it's horrifying to be suddenly confronted by the same kind of atrocities as perpetrated by the Nazis. Once again repeating history, a master-minded cover-up was dutifully carried out by armed military forces, right smack in the midst of horrendous human suffering.
To complete this historical comparison, in the same way that many residents who lived near Nazi concentration camps were unaware or in denial of the atrocities close by, so too were many residents who were located just outside the catastrophic devastation left behind by Andrew's eye-wall.
GOVERNMENT BETRAYAL
So what actually did take place when Andrew survivors tried to get help from those collecting dead bodies in the aftermath? Well, I for one can give a first-hand account.
About the third day into the aftermath, a long line of police cars cautiously drove into my area during the late afternoon. We had not had contact with any other people from outside the devastation up until this point. There were approximately 12 to 15 police cars comprising this caravan, each marked from different locations throughout the state. Each car was driven by a man dressed in a dark police uniform and had three other plain-clothed men riding as passengers, making a total of four men in each vehicle.
Someone from our group spotted the caravan and ran to get me, knowing that I had been badly injured and urgently needed emergency medical help. My twenty-five-year-old son and one other adult male survivor helped escort me to the caravan. We hurried towards the lead car. It stopped moving when we approached the driver's side. The officer sitting behind the wheel rolled down the window. For a few moments he rudely ignored us, at one point giving us an impatient look of disgust.
This is the exact conversation and course of events that took place.
"Please, sir, I need medical help," I begged, barely able to speak.
The officer sitting behind the wheel sighed heavily. He turned his head away from me and gazed out his windshield. The other three men in the car quietly looked at me.
"Sir, please, I need to get to a hospital...," I begged frantically.
The officer took his time about reaching over to turn off the engine. With another sigh, he slowly opened the door and climbed out. He then proceeded to close the door and stood there with his legs spread astride.
"Lady, do me a favour," he answered. "Find yourself a piece of paper and a pencil. Write down your name and social security number next to the telephone number of your nearest living relative. Tuck the piece of paper in your pocket so tomorrow, when I find your body, I'll know who to contact."
"No! No!" I cried out. "You don't understand. I need to get to a hospital. I've been badly injured."
"No! You're the one who doesn't understand," he hissed back.
With that, he reached over to his holster and took out his gun. He grabbed me, forcing me up against the side of the car, and proceeded to put the barrel of the gun against my temple. I heard the hammer cock.
From the position he had pushed me into, I could see directly into the car. The man sitting in the front passenger seat looked away from me immediately, glancing down at the floor. The two passengers in the back seat turned their heads quickly, staring out the window on the opposite side of the car.
My son and the other survivor watched as the officer had pulled back the hammer on the gun. So shocked out of their minds by what they were witnessing, neither one could move!
"You don't belong here!" the officer growled, pressing the barrel into the side of my head. "Now you get the hell outta here before I blow away your ass!"
He shoved my face into the car window and then released me. Someone grabbed me from behind and whirled me around so fast, I didn't have time to think! Before I knew it, I was being thrown over a shoulder. My rescuer took off running as fast as he could! I caught a brief glimpse of my son running next to me. With one gigantic leap, he and the survivor who carried me, dove behind a pile of debris. All three of us crashed on top of each other in one tangled-up heap.
"I'll shoot your damn asses!" the officer's voice rang out.
When hurricane Andrew slammed into South Dade, the State Attorney of Florida was none other than Janet Reno. Her office was located at the Dade County Court House in the City of Miami. The President of the United States was President George H.W. Bush, and the Vice-President was Dan Quayle. Bill Clinton was running for President, and Al Gore for Vice-President. Senator Bob Graham held office, and the late Lawton Chiles was Governor of Florida. His successor turned out to be Jeb Bush, still the Governor of Florida and, ironically enough, the son of former President Bush whose other son, George W. Bush, the then Governor of Texas, has since become the "self-selected" President of the United States...
Curious how the United States Government evacuated Homestead Air Force Base just before hurricane Andrew struck, yet never released the information to the civilians of South Dade.
"This is worse than anything we saw in Saudi," said Master Sgt Lester Richardson (who had spent six months in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm) one week into the aftermath. "These people need a miracleÉ"
The survivors did need "a miracle", but what we got instead didn't resemble anything near it.
MEDIA UNDERSTATEMENT
While we remained roped off from the outside world by Metro Dade Police and the military, the news media reported grossly understated information from the first day onward.
On August 24, 1992, the morning hurricane Andrew ended, the Miami Herald broke with:Andrew Hits Hardest in South Dade. Five thousand people were left homeless by the storm, Metro Dade Police Director announced. They'll be moved into shelters in North Dade.
Over subsequent days, the Miami Herald read as follows:
August 25, 1992:Destruction at Dawn. Among worst hit in the Country Walk area of South Dade, few homes escaped at least minor damage and many were utterly destroyed. 10 killed in Dade.
August 27, 1992:The Toll Rises. 22 dead as the search continues. 63,000 homes destroyed. 175,000 homeless. 1 million without power.
August 28, 1992: WE NEED HELP. Relief effort collapsing due to United States inaction, Metro charges. Aid us now or more will die, Feds told. As Dade County's hurricane relief effort neared collapse Thursday, more than 1,500 airborne US soldiers were ordered into the county to cope with what is now being called the worst natural disaster in United States history. The move came after a day of bitter sniping among agencies that share responsibility for the relief effort.
United States aid official Wallace Stickler stated: "Andrew has caused more destruction and affected more people than any disaster America has ever had."
Dade County's Emergency Director pleaded for federal help, one angry voice among many that spoke in dire terms of needs unmet. Frustrated to the point of tears, Kate Hale said that the relief project was on the brink of collapse, a victim of incompetence and political games:
"Where the hell is the cavalry on this one? We need food! We need water! We need people! If we do not get more food into the south end [South Dade] in a very short period of time, we are going to have more casualties!
"We have a catastrophic disaster. We are hours away from more casualties. We are essentially the walking wounded. We have appealed through the State to the Federal Government. We've had a lot of people down here for press conferences. But Dade County is on its own. Dade County is being caught in the middle of something and we are being victimized.
"Quit playing like a bunch of kids and get us aid! Sort out your political games afterward!"
On the same day Hale made the desperate plea, Miami Herald staff writers Martin Merzer and Tom Fiedler wrote:The question echoed through the debris Thursday: If we can do it for Bangladesh, for the Philippines, for the Kurds of northern Iraq, why in God's name can't we deliver basic necessities of life to the ravaged population of our own Gold Coast?"
The short answer: because no single person or agency is in charge.
The result: a planeload of food and equipment is still a rarity. Instead of delivering goods, helicopter pilots shuttle government officials who just sit idle. Metro police turn away individuals trying to bring in food or water to a barren South Dade.
On August 29, 1992, six days into the aftermath, the Miami Herald reported:
Problems Plague Red Cross. The man on the phone wanted to donate 100 electric generators, extension cords and enough tools to build a small subdivision. But the operator who took his call at the Red Cross Command Center in Miami had no idea what to do with the offer.
"We get a call, we take a message, we give it to somebody who signs it to somebody else," said the operator, Melitta de Liefd. "We have no idea what happens to it. The whole place is being run by senior citizens and college kids."
Welcome to Red Cross headquarters--where the brains of Dade County rescue effort have been knocked almost unconscious most of the week.
Callers offering services and supplies are put on hold. Others can't get through at all. The hurt and suffering plead for help over ham radio.
On August 29, 1992, one week after hurricane Andrew struck, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported 250,000 people homeless in South Dade.
A NUCLEAR INCIDENT
Of course, the rather "insignificant" incident resulting from Andrew's winds bombarding the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant was not aired by the news media either nationally or abroad.
Tom Dubocq reported in the Miami Herald of September 5, 1992:
Demolition crews toppled a 400-foot smokestack at Turkey Point [Nuclear] Power Plant [owned by Florida Power and Light Company], Friday [September 4]. The stack, which had a gaping 200-foot crack, was dropped without a hitch, a Florida Power and Light [FPL] spokesman said. The other smokestack at the plant will be salvaged. Turkey Point will be shut down for several months while repairs are made. The cost will exceed $90 million, according to an initial damage reportÉ
When Turkey Point was built in the 1960s, its main structures were designed to withstand 235 mph winds. Hurricane Andrew was clocked at 164 mph at the plant. FPL officials don't know why the smokestack didn't hold up...
One hundred million dollars worth of damage resulted from the nuclear power plant's smokestack having been cracked wide open. The plant is situated approximately 15 miles northeast of where I lived. How well I recall the leaflets circulated several months before Andrew struck, advising all residents within a "thirty-five mile radius" of Turkey Point nuclear plant to be aware of the potential hazards involved if an event such as a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe happened. Such a grim reminder of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Could it be more than coincidence that within 24 hours of hurricane Andrew ending, all 12 survivors in my little group, including our animals, broke out in big, raw, oozing sores which itched and burned at the same time? We suffered horrible headaches which made us so nauseous we had the dry heaves, and our stomachs cramped badly from sudden onsets of diarrhoea. These symptoms lasted well over three months. Within a relatively short period of time, each one of our surviving animals died from cancer.
HURRICANE BUREAU'S FAILURE TO WARN
Speaking of coincidence, I often wonder what kind of a coincidence it is that the National Hurricane Bureau is responsible for reporting to the US Department of Commerce--especially considering that during 1992 South Florida did $31 billion worth of trade in tourism.
Hurricane Andrew had barely left Florida, heading for Louisiana, when the Division of Tourism placed a $47,000 advertisement inUSA Today, reading "Florida, we're still open"."Most people have very short memories. We're all sort of banking on that," said Donal Dermody, Director of the Nova University Center for Hospitality Management.
Kind of puts a big damper on belief in the human race: hide the truth, ignore the suffering, do it for a dollar!
What upsets me most is the incident that happened during the late afternoon hours just prior to Andrew striking. I had just walked out to the garbage dumpsters, located by the parking lot, to throw away some garbage. I turned to head back to the apartment when the horn of an oncoming car began blasting away. I looked up to see a familiar resident, whom I had spoken to on many different occasions, heading directly towards me. This particular individual worked at Metrozoo. Being affiliated with wild animals, he frequently stopped by to ask me questions about the behaviour of certain species. He sped right up to me and then slammed on the brakes.
"Come here!" he whispered excitedly.
I leaned down close to him. "What's the matter?"
"Listen!" he paused to look around nervously. "You've got to get the hell outta here now!"
"Why?" I asked, puzzled by his behaviour.
"I haven't got time to explain," he whispered. "But I just came from the National Hurricane Bureau in the Gables. Gotta friend of mine who works over there; bigwig--know what I mean?"
"Yeah..." I nodded.
"Well, this isn't for public information, if you get my drift," he went on rapidly. "But the National Hurricane Bureau has known all along that hurricane Andrew is going to slam into South Dade! They're telling the public it's going to come in at Palm Beach because they want Miami Beach evacuated, and there aren't enough shelters for South Dade residents to evacuate to. They don't wanna cause panic. So they're keeping quiet. We're all a bunch of god-damn sitting ducks! You got to get the hell outta here! This is a killer hurricane! Nobody's ever seen anything like this before!"
"Holy shit!" I exclaimed, shocked out of my mind. "You mean Andrew's coming over South Dade?"
"Damn straight! That's exactly what I mean! They figure the eye of the storm is coming right in over us! Those fellas at the National Hurricane Bureau have known it all along! I'm gettin' the hell outta here now! Shit, man, this thing is a killer hurricane! Listen, I gotta run! Get your son and get the hell out now! You ain't gonna have a shot in hell once it hits!"
I ran into the apartment and called my son at work, begging him to come home so we could get out. I had no reason to disbelieve anything I had just heard. I knew my neighbour well enough to know he wouldn't fabricate anything like this. So I related the entire conversation to my son, Eric. He was stunned! Eric said he would leave work within a few minutes, but as the minutes ticked on they dragged into hours.
Another immediate course of action I took after hearing the terrifying warning from my neighbour was to phone the local CBS television station located in Miami. I called three separate times. Each time, my call went directly into the local news broadcast room of meteorologist Bryan Norcross. Although I never spoke to Norcross directly, I did manage to speak to three separate individuals working in the broadcast room.
I specifically stated: "I live in South Dade, adjacent to Metrozoo and within walking distance of Country Walk, in a pre-fab apartment that is constructed to withstand up to 90 mph winds. Should I evacuate?"
All three individuals advised and reassured me that I was situated in a safe area. There definitely wasn't need for me to take any evacuation measures.
Meanwhile, one work catastrophe after another seemed to crash down on my son, until finally it was just too late for us to evacuate. By the time he got home it was almost midnight. Within minutes of his arrival, Andrew slammed into us with full force.
ONGOING TRAGEDIES FROM THE COVER-UPS
It's not easy dealing with the anguish I feel because of all the perpetrated lies. So much suffering resulted. It took three-and-a-half weeks before my son and I managed to escape the devastation on our own. Homeless and penniless, with no insurance to cover our losses, we slowly made our way north towards Broward County, our only possessions being the clothes on our backs and a demolished van. The long, agonising journey turned out to be another nightmare from hell.
Over 4,000 people were officially listed as "Missing" in Andrew when we parted South Dade. I had lost 23 pounds during those wretched weeks of being trapped in the devastation and still had not received any medical attention. Little did I realise it would take another three weeks before a doctor would even agree to see me without any money or identification. By then, six weeks had passed since I had been injured. Most of my teeth had turned a putrid grey colour because the nerves had died as a result of fierce blows to my head, complicated by my broken jaw. The final heartbreak came when doctors discovered the optic nerve in both my eyes had begun to die off--which meant, because of the head injuries, I was going blind.
This may sound strange but, regardless, it is the truth. Today, in the year 2001, there still remain three ongoing tragedies created by hurricane Andrew cover-ups--tragedies which remain unbearable for the survivors to live with.
The first tragedy is the horrifying fact that the bodies of our loved ones were intentionally confiscated from us by our own government and then so inhumanely disposed of. Without graves, or some kind of memorial erected in their memory, we have no hope of reaching closure.
The second tragedy is the impact the cover-ups had in downplaying, dismissing and ignoring our horrendous suffering.
And the third tragedy is the great number of Andrew survivors who were inevitably forced to join the ranks of approximately 10 million other homeless Americans struggling to stay alive on the streets. With 10 million Americans homeless, and another 32 million Americans going to sleep hungry each night, the United States Government can't truthfully claim to be a government for all the people.
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly thought the world learned a lesson from the Nuremberg trials in Germany: "Evil can only be defined as absence of empathy..."
SIMILARITIES IN TURKEY
On June 20, 2000, I flew to Istanbul, Turkey, where I lectured at a major international conference. While visiting there, I was asked if there was anything I specifically wished to do or see. My simple answer came very naturally.
"Yes, I would like to visit the areas that were devastated by the earthquakes last August and November and spend time with the survivors."
The following day my simple wish was granted. I was graciously escorted by a medical doctor who had unselfishly devoted many hours of practice in the devastated regions. When he informed me that 20,000+ died in August 1999 during the Izmit earthquake and that another 20,000+ died in November during the Bolu earthquake, I was stunned. This was not what the news media had reported.
"Are you saying that between the two earthquakes last year, over 40,000 people died?" I asked.
His eyes filled with tears. "Yes," he nodded sadly. "Over 40,000 people perished, between the two disasters."
The horrendous destruction I saw matched every word he stated. I walked over areas where the earth had opened up, swallowing entire buildings before closing back up again, like a giant white shark gulping down its prey. I understood when weeping survivors squeezed my hand tightly, too overcome by grief to explain how they never found the bodies of their loved ones. Long pauses of silence took over when tears replaced words.
The poverty I witnessed was too startling to escape my poorly sighted eyes. Pathetic cardboard-type huts, covered by plastic sheets, greeted me everywhere I went. Then there were the bleak rows of government-funded temporary housing which lacked simple basic needs like indoor private showers.
I often wonder, now that I've returned back home, how those Turkish survivors weathered the 115° temperatures of July, since their temporary housing lacked proper insulation and air-conditioning. As the month of August began to unfold, torrential rains bombarded the country, bringing a new kind of disaster: flash flooding. How many lives were lost to this disaster?
The most pathetic survivors of all are children. Like many of the children who survived hurricane Andrew, many Turkish children whom I saw who could no longer smile or play. Shell-shock has very pronounced effects on the young; often, they stop communicating altogether.
One little girl in particular caught my attention. Her arm had been badly injured, twisted into a permanent position of deformity. She stood very still, holding her hair in her good hand, never moving or showing any signs of emotion.
"She needs medical attention," I said to the doctor.
"Yes," he agreed, "a lot of the young survivors desperately need medical attention."
His answer puzzled me. "But I thought financial aid was donated from foreign countries."
"Yes," he nodded, "but most of the money ended up in the pockets of government officials. It never reached the survivors."
How well I knew what that meant. How well indeed.
After pausing, he added, "When the earthquakes struck, one foreign country offered to construct a hospital at the devastated site. But because of political differences, our government refused the offer."
I left the Turkish people, wondering: what kind of future is man creating for himself? Only one thought came to mind: "Evil can only be defined as absence of empathy..."
http://www.karenlyster.com/andrew.html
Never will I forget the frantic, last-minute "emergency alert" broadcast that was aired on television just before all hell broke loose. My son and I had the TV on, hoping to catch an updated report on the hurricane, when the screen suddenly went blank with a loud warning signal. Before we knew it, a panic-stricken voice began the announcement:
We interrupt this program to bring you an emergency alert from the National Broadcast Emergency Center. This is an emergency alert! I repeat, this is an emergency alert! The outer winds of hurricane Andrew have just reached the Florida coast. Hurricane Andrew has unexpectedly shifted five degrees south. I repeat, Hurricane Andrew has shifted five degrees south. Andrew is expected to strike South Dade within minutes. I repeat, Andrew is expected to strike South Dade within minutes. All South Dade residents should take immediate cover! I repeat, all South Dade residents should take immediate cover! This is an emergency alert!
Our tiny pre-fab apartment, which was nothing more than a glorified mobile home, had been constructed to withstand maximum wind speeds of 90 mph. The blood-curdling announcement gripped us both. Paralysed by sheer terror, our bulging eyes stayed glued to the television as the voice continued.
All South Dade residents are advised to stay put! Do not attempt to leave the area!
Within seconds, we actually heard hurricane Andrew bearing down on us, slamming into us with all the force of a speeding locomotive. The horrendous wall of winds crashed against our tiny apartment like an exploding bomb! Glasses flew off the kitchen counter, shattering onto the quaking floor. Hanging pictures plunged straight down the walls towards the ground. The huge hanging mirror crashed on top of the television set, spraying the living room with shattered glass. The entire apartment resembled a rickety old train, shaking fiercely out of control while rumbling down a railroad track. The screeching winds quickly transformed into the piercing, monotone hum of a jet engine, sounding as if it had sucked us inside! It was so deafening, all other noises ceased to exist. It felt like a monstrous earthquake-and-tornado hitting at the same time!
Before either one of us could react, the metal front door of our apartment began to peel steadily downward towards the floor, like a piece of wet, limp paper. Then the voracious jaws of Andrew attacked for the final kill. A mega-giant, two-storey-tall, solid concrete transformer pole with electrical cables attached, torpedoed right through our living room wall and roof, exploding the entire building on impact! And that was just the beginningÉ
ATROCITIES IN THE AFTERMATH
There isn't a person on the face of this Earth who will ever convince me that hurricane Andrew was a "hurricane" by any sense of the definition. Just ask any survivor of Andrew what the six-and-a-half-hour siege was like and the answer will always be the same. "We didn't have any prior warning. We heard hurricane Andrew suddenly bearing down on us like a speeding locomotive." This is the same description given by survivors of monstrous F-5 tornadoes (packing winds of 350+ mph)--the only difference being that tornadoes strike for just seconds, whereas hurricane Andrew struck and stayed for hours on end.
The injuries of those who survived were mind-boggling. I had a broken jaw with eight teeth knocked out. Huge shards of glass impaled my body so deeply, they were impossible to remove without the aid of a scalpel. My head injuries were so severe that they permanently affected my eyesight.
But I was only one amongst thousands of severely injured victims who struggled to survive the aftermath. For ten long days we were roped off from the outside world by United States military forces, leaving us stranded with no food, no water, no medical supplies, no shelter. Suffering from severe shell-shock, we waited and waited for rescue teams to arrive, but that just never happened. None of the injured in the roped-off areas was ever rescued from the devastation. It was the worst gut-wrenching betrayal I have ever experienced. I saw grown men lying on the ground in the foetal position, moaning and groaning pathetically as they tried to hug and rock themselves. My son was amongst them.
Don't get me wrong. United States military forces were indeed present in the roped-off areas within hours of Andrew ending. But they were not there to help survivors. The National Guard along with the Coast Guard, the Army, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), Metro Dade Police, state police and local police removed dead bodies and body parts as quickly as possible during those first ten days of the aftermath. Horrified survivors watched as both uniformed and civilian- clothed men searched the rubble and filled body bags, which they then stacked in military vehicles or huge refrigerator trucks normally used to transport food, only to drive off and leave the stranded injured to fend for themselves.
Not until I managed to escape the aftermath did I discover that the "thermo-king" sections of these same refrigerator trucks, jam-packed with wall-to-wall body bags, ended up being stored at Card Sound Navy Base, located in an isolated area just above the Florida Keys. The inside temperature was kept cool by portable generators until the bodies were either incinerated or just plain dumped into huge open grave pits.
Those working on the body pick-up operation were forced to take what is known as the Oath of Sworn Secrecy, which is strictly enforced by the government. Many of them plunged into shock, once exposed to the ghastly devastation and countless mutilated bodies.
The horrors were way beyond human comprehension. I can vouch for this, as I accidentally stepped on the severed hand of a young child when I initially crawled out of the debris, only to witness shortly thereafter two dead teenagers and the decapitated body of a baby girl.
Fighting mental shock became such a big problem for the body pick-up teams that a special group of psychiatrists had to be brought in to help them cope with it. I believe this in itself is the reason why many who worked on the body collection didn't comprehend the tragic consequences this would inevitably lead to in the future.
The survivors of hurricane Andrew and the rest of the American people were betrayed by their own government. But the betrayal also extended to foreign nationals. At the time Andrew struck, South Dade was inhabited by a large population of Mexican illegal immigrants. The United States Department of Immigration was fully aware of their presence but quietly turned its back on the situation, knowing full well that South Dade farmers couldn't afford to harvest their crops without the help of the Mexican illegals. The heavily populated migrant camps were situated at the edge of the Florida Everglades. The people who lived there vanished without a trace during that fated night. Many bodies were found way out in the Everglades.
When I lectured at the Clearwater Convention in Florida in 1999, a man in the audience stood up and introduced himself as Chief Petty Officer Roy Howard. He proceeded to address the audience with this exact statement, which is now a matter of public record:
Just for your information, I was called up to active duty after hurricane Andrew went through South Dade County. I spent nine weeks down there. Now I will certify for the benefit of our audience here that the death figures that were officially published are totally inaccurate. According to the information which I received from my own sources within the National Guard, the figure I was quoted when I was down there was 5,280-something. And they were quietly disposed of in incinerators that were hurriedly put together by both the National Guard and FEMA...
As the Chief Petty Officer stated, "5,280-something" bodies were confiscated by the United States National Guard. In addition to this, the Coast Guard independently confiscated "1,500 bodies" from the lakes and surrounding waters. Neither one of these figures embraces the number of dead bodies confiscated by other branches of federal and state government directly involved in the body pick-up operation. This leaves the number of dead confiscated by various US authorities in South Dade still unknown.
The total number who died during hurricane Andrew is obviously staggering, yet whenever the "official death toll" is mentioned in the media, a figure of anywhere between 15 and 59 is quoted. The population of the 21 communities annihilated by Andrew's eye-wall had been officially recorded by the Dade County Census Bureau as 415,151 before Andrew struck.
Bodies of human beings confiscated and disposed-of like rubbish, as if their lives had no more worth or meaning than a piece of discarded litter--it's horrifying to be suddenly confronted by the same kind of atrocities as perpetrated by the Nazis. Once again repeating history, a master-minded cover-up was dutifully carried out by armed military forces, right smack in the midst of horrendous human suffering.
To complete this historical comparison, in the same way that many residents who lived near Nazi concentration camps were unaware or in denial of the atrocities close by, so too were many residents who were located just outside the catastrophic devastation left behind by Andrew's eye-wall.
GOVERNMENT BETRAYAL
So what actually did take place when Andrew survivors tried to get help from those collecting dead bodies in the aftermath? Well, I for one can give a first-hand account.
About the third day into the aftermath, a long line of police cars cautiously drove into my area during the late afternoon. We had not had contact with any other people from outside the devastation up until this point. There were approximately 12 to 15 police cars comprising this caravan, each marked from different locations throughout the state. Each car was driven by a man dressed in a dark police uniform and had three other plain-clothed men riding as passengers, making a total of four men in each vehicle.
Someone from our group spotted the caravan and ran to get me, knowing that I had been badly injured and urgently needed emergency medical help. My twenty-five-year-old son and one other adult male survivor helped escort me to the caravan. We hurried towards the lead car. It stopped moving when we approached the driver's side. The officer sitting behind the wheel rolled down the window. For a few moments he rudely ignored us, at one point giving us an impatient look of disgust.
This is the exact conversation and course of events that took place.
"Please, sir, I need medical help," I begged, barely able to speak.
The officer sitting behind the wheel sighed heavily. He turned his head away from me and gazed out his windshield. The other three men in the car quietly looked at me.
"Sir, please, I need to get to a hospital...," I begged frantically.
The officer took his time about reaching over to turn off the engine. With another sigh, he slowly opened the door and climbed out. He then proceeded to close the door and stood there with his legs spread astride.
"Lady, do me a favour," he answered. "Find yourself a piece of paper and a pencil. Write down your name and social security number next to the telephone number of your nearest living relative. Tuck the piece of paper in your pocket so tomorrow, when I find your body, I'll know who to contact."
"No! No!" I cried out. "You don't understand. I need to get to a hospital. I've been badly injured."
"No! You're the one who doesn't understand," he hissed back.
With that, he reached over to his holster and took out his gun. He grabbed me, forcing me up against the side of the car, and proceeded to put the barrel of the gun against my temple. I heard the hammer cock.
From the position he had pushed me into, I could see directly into the car. The man sitting in the front passenger seat looked away from me immediately, glancing down at the floor. The two passengers in the back seat turned their heads quickly, staring out the window on the opposite side of the car.
My son and the other survivor watched as the officer had pulled back the hammer on the gun. So shocked out of their minds by what they were witnessing, neither one could move!
"You don't belong here!" the officer growled, pressing the barrel into the side of my head. "Now you get the hell outta here before I blow away your ass!"
He shoved my face into the car window and then released me. Someone grabbed me from behind and whirled me around so fast, I didn't have time to think! Before I knew it, I was being thrown over a shoulder. My rescuer took off running as fast as he could! I caught a brief glimpse of my son running next to me. With one gigantic leap, he and the survivor who carried me, dove behind a pile of debris. All three of us crashed on top of each other in one tangled-up heap.
"I'll shoot your damn asses!" the officer's voice rang out.
When hurricane Andrew slammed into South Dade, the State Attorney of Florida was none other than Janet Reno. Her office was located at the Dade County Court House in the City of Miami. The President of the United States was President George H.W. Bush, and the Vice-President was Dan Quayle. Bill Clinton was running for President, and Al Gore for Vice-President. Senator Bob Graham held office, and the late Lawton Chiles was Governor of Florida. His successor turned out to be Jeb Bush, still the Governor of Florida and, ironically enough, the son of former President Bush whose other son, George W. Bush, the then Governor of Texas, has since become the "self-selected" President of the United States...
Curious how the United States Government evacuated Homestead Air Force Base just before hurricane Andrew struck, yet never released the information to the civilians of South Dade.
"This is worse than anything we saw in Saudi," said Master Sgt Lester Richardson (who had spent six months in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm) one week into the aftermath. "These people need a miracleÉ"
The survivors did need "a miracle", but what we got instead didn't resemble anything near it.
MEDIA UNDERSTATEMENT
While we remained roped off from the outside world by Metro Dade Police and the military, the news media reported grossly understated information from the first day onward.
On August 24, 1992, the morning hurricane Andrew ended, the Miami Herald broke with:Andrew Hits Hardest in South Dade. Five thousand people were left homeless by the storm, Metro Dade Police Director announced. They'll be moved into shelters in North Dade.
Over subsequent days, the Miami Herald read as follows:
August 25, 1992:Destruction at Dawn. Among worst hit in the Country Walk area of South Dade, few homes escaped at least minor damage and many were utterly destroyed. 10 killed in Dade.
August 27, 1992:The Toll Rises. 22 dead as the search continues. 63,000 homes destroyed. 175,000 homeless. 1 million without power.
August 28, 1992: WE NEED HELP. Relief effort collapsing due to United States inaction, Metro charges. Aid us now or more will die, Feds told. As Dade County's hurricane relief effort neared collapse Thursday, more than 1,500 airborne US soldiers were ordered into the county to cope with what is now being called the worst natural disaster in United States history. The move came after a day of bitter sniping among agencies that share responsibility for the relief effort.
United States aid official Wallace Stickler stated: "Andrew has caused more destruction and affected more people than any disaster America has ever had."
Dade County's Emergency Director pleaded for federal help, one angry voice among many that spoke in dire terms of needs unmet. Frustrated to the point of tears, Kate Hale said that the relief project was on the brink of collapse, a victim of incompetence and political games:
"Where the hell is the cavalry on this one? We need food! We need water! We need people! If we do not get more food into the south end [South Dade] in a very short period of time, we are going to have more casualties!
"We have a catastrophic disaster. We are hours away from more casualties. We are essentially the walking wounded. We have appealed through the State to the Federal Government. We've had a lot of people down here for press conferences. But Dade County is on its own. Dade County is being caught in the middle of something and we are being victimized.
"Quit playing like a bunch of kids and get us aid! Sort out your political games afterward!"
On the same day Hale made the desperate plea, Miami Herald staff writers Martin Merzer and Tom Fiedler wrote:The question echoed through the debris Thursday: If we can do it for Bangladesh, for the Philippines, for the Kurds of northern Iraq, why in God's name can't we deliver basic necessities of life to the ravaged population of our own Gold Coast?"
The short answer: because no single person or agency is in charge.
The result: a planeload of food and equipment is still a rarity. Instead of delivering goods, helicopter pilots shuttle government officials who just sit idle. Metro police turn away individuals trying to bring in food or water to a barren South Dade.
On August 29, 1992, six days into the aftermath, the Miami Herald reported:
Problems Plague Red Cross. The man on the phone wanted to donate 100 electric generators, extension cords and enough tools to build a small subdivision. But the operator who took his call at the Red Cross Command Center in Miami had no idea what to do with the offer.
"We get a call, we take a message, we give it to somebody who signs it to somebody else," said the operator, Melitta de Liefd. "We have no idea what happens to it. The whole place is being run by senior citizens and college kids."
Welcome to Red Cross headquarters--where the brains of Dade County rescue effort have been knocked almost unconscious most of the week.
Callers offering services and supplies are put on hold. Others can't get through at all. The hurt and suffering plead for help over ham radio.
On August 29, 1992, one week after hurricane Andrew struck, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported 250,000 people homeless in South Dade.
A NUCLEAR INCIDENT
Of course, the rather "insignificant" incident resulting from Andrew's winds bombarding the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant was not aired by the news media either nationally or abroad.
Tom Dubocq reported in the Miami Herald of September 5, 1992:
Demolition crews toppled a 400-foot smokestack at Turkey Point [Nuclear] Power Plant [owned by Florida Power and Light Company], Friday [September 4]. The stack, which had a gaping 200-foot crack, was dropped without a hitch, a Florida Power and Light [FPL] spokesman said. The other smokestack at the plant will be salvaged. Turkey Point will be shut down for several months while repairs are made. The cost will exceed $90 million, according to an initial damage reportÉ
When Turkey Point was built in the 1960s, its main structures were designed to withstand 235 mph winds. Hurricane Andrew was clocked at 164 mph at the plant. FPL officials don't know why the smokestack didn't hold up...
One hundred million dollars worth of damage resulted from the nuclear power plant's smokestack having been cracked wide open. The plant is situated approximately 15 miles northeast of where I lived. How well I recall the leaflets circulated several months before Andrew struck, advising all residents within a "thirty-five mile radius" of Turkey Point nuclear plant to be aware of the potential hazards involved if an event such as a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe happened. Such a grim reminder of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Could it be more than coincidence that within 24 hours of hurricane Andrew ending, all 12 survivors in my little group, including our animals, broke out in big, raw, oozing sores which itched and burned at the same time? We suffered horrible headaches which made us so nauseous we had the dry heaves, and our stomachs cramped badly from sudden onsets of diarrhoea. These symptoms lasted well over three months. Within a relatively short period of time, each one of our surviving animals died from cancer.
HURRICANE BUREAU'S FAILURE TO WARN
Speaking of coincidence, I often wonder what kind of a coincidence it is that the National Hurricane Bureau is responsible for reporting to the US Department of Commerce--especially considering that during 1992 South Florida did $31 billion worth of trade in tourism.
Hurricane Andrew had barely left Florida, heading for Louisiana, when the Division of Tourism placed a $47,000 advertisement inUSA Today, reading "Florida, we're still open"."Most people have very short memories. We're all sort of banking on that," said Donal Dermody, Director of the Nova University Center for Hospitality Management.
Kind of puts a big damper on belief in the human race: hide the truth, ignore the suffering, do it for a dollar!
What upsets me most is the incident that happened during the late afternoon hours just prior to Andrew striking. I had just walked out to the garbage dumpsters, located by the parking lot, to throw away some garbage. I turned to head back to the apartment when the horn of an oncoming car began blasting away. I looked up to see a familiar resident, whom I had spoken to on many different occasions, heading directly towards me. This particular individual worked at Metrozoo. Being affiliated with wild animals, he frequently stopped by to ask me questions about the behaviour of certain species. He sped right up to me and then slammed on the brakes.
"Come here!" he whispered excitedly.
I leaned down close to him. "What's the matter?"
"Listen!" he paused to look around nervously. "You've got to get the hell outta here now!"
"Why?" I asked, puzzled by his behaviour.
"I haven't got time to explain," he whispered. "But I just came from the National Hurricane Bureau in the Gables. Gotta friend of mine who works over there; bigwig--know what I mean?"
"Yeah..." I nodded.
"Well, this isn't for public information, if you get my drift," he went on rapidly. "But the National Hurricane Bureau has known all along that hurricane Andrew is going to slam into South Dade! They're telling the public it's going to come in at Palm Beach because they want Miami Beach evacuated, and there aren't enough shelters for South Dade residents to evacuate to. They don't wanna cause panic. So they're keeping quiet. We're all a bunch of god-damn sitting ducks! You got to get the hell outta here! This is a killer hurricane! Nobody's ever seen anything like this before!"
"Holy shit!" I exclaimed, shocked out of my mind. "You mean Andrew's coming over South Dade?"
"Damn straight! That's exactly what I mean! They figure the eye of the storm is coming right in over us! Those fellas at the National Hurricane Bureau have known it all along! I'm gettin' the hell outta here now! Shit, man, this thing is a killer hurricane! Listen, I gotta run! Get your son and get the hell out now! You ain't gonna have a shot in hell once it hits!"
I ran into the apartment and called my son at work, begging him to come home so we could get out. I had no reason to disbelieve anything I had just heard. I knew my neighbour well enough to know he wouldn't fabricate anything like this. So I related the entire conversation to my son, Eric. He was stunned! Eric said he would leave work within a few minutes, but as the minutes ticked on they dragged into hours.
Another immediate course of action I took after hearing the terrifying warning from my neighbour was to phone the local CBS television station located in Miami. I called three separate times. Each time, my call went directly into the local news broadcast room of meteorologist Bryan Norcross. Although I never spoke to Norcross directly, I did manage to speak to three separate individuals working in the broadcast room.
I specifically stated: "I live in South Dade, adjacent to Metrozoo and within walking distance of Country Walk, in a pre-fab apartment that is constructed to withstand up to 90 mph winds. Should I evacuate?"
All three individuals advised and reassured me that I was situated in a safe area. There definitely wasn't need for me to take any evacuation measures.
Meanwhile, one work catastrophe after another seemed to crash down on my son, until finally it was just too late for us to evacuate. By the time he got home it was almost midnight. Within minutes of his arrival, Andrew slammed into us with full force.
ONGOING TRAGEDIES FROM THE COVER-UPS
It's not easy dealing with the anguish I feel because of all the perpetrated lies. So much suffering resulted. It took three-and-a-half weeks before my son and I managed to escape the devastation on our own. Homeless and penniless, with no insurance to cover our losses, we slowly made our way north towards Broward County, our only possessions being the clothes on our backs and a demolished van. The long, agonising journey turned out to be another nightmare from hell.
Over 4,000 people were officially listed as "Missing" in Andrew when we parted South Dade. I had lost 23 pounds during those wretched weeks of being trapped in the devastation and still had not received any medical attention. Little did I realise it would take another three weeks before a doctor would even agree to see me without any money or identification. By then, six weeks had passed since I had been injured. Most of my teeth had turned a putrid grey colour because the nerves had died as a result of fierce blows to my head, complicated by my broken jaw. The final heartbreak came when doctors discovered the optic nerve in both my eyes had begun to die off--which meant, because of the head injuries, I was going blind.
This may sound strange but, regardless, it is the truth. Today, in the year 2001, there still remain three ongoing tragedies created by hurricane Andrew cover-ups--tragedies which remain unbearable for the survivors to live with.
The first tragedy is the horrifying fact that the bodies of our loved ones were intentionally confiscated from us by our own government and then so inhumanely disposed of. Without graves, or some kind of memorial erected in their memory, we have no hope of reaching closure.
The second tragedy is the impact the cover-ups had in downplaying, dismissing and ignoring our horrendous suffering.
And the third tragedy is the great number of Andrew survivors who were inevitably forced to join the ranks of approximately 10 million other homeless Americans struggling to stay alive on the streets. With 10 million Americans homeless, and another 32 million Americans going to sleep hungry each night, the United States Government can't truthfully claim to be a government for all the people.
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly thought the world learned a lesson from the Nuremberg trials in Germany: "Evil can only be defined as absence of empathy..."
SIMILARITIES IN TURKEY
On June 20, 2000, I flew to Istanbul, Turkey, where I lectured at a major international conference. While visiting there, I was asked if there was anything I specifically wished to do or see. My simple answer came very naturally.
"Yes, I would like to visit the areas that were devastated by the earthquakes last August and November and spend time with the survivors."
The following day my simple wish was granted. I was graciously escorted by a medical doctor who had unselfishly devoted many hours of practice in the devastated regions. When he informed me that 20,000+ died in August 1999 during the Izmit earthquake and that another 20,000+ died in November during the Bolu earthquake, I was stunned. This was not what the news media had reported.
"Are you saying that between the two earthquakes last year, over 40,000 people died?" I asked.
His eyes filled with tears. "Yes," he nodded sadly. "Over 40,000 people perished, between the two disasters."
The horrendous destruction I saw matched every word he stated. I walked over areas where the earth had opened up, swallowing entire buildings before closing back up again, like a giant white shark gulping down its prey. I understood when weeping survivors squeezed my hand tightly, too overcome by grief to explain how they never found the bodies of their loved ones. Long pauses of silence took over when tears replaced words.
The poverty I witnessed was too startling to escape my poorly sighted eyes. Pathetic cardboard-type huts, covered by plastic sheets, greeted me everywhere I went. Then there were the bleak rows of government-funded temporary housing which lacked simple basic needs like indoor private showers.
I often wonder, now that I've returned back home, how those Turkish survivors weathered the 115° temperatures of July, since their temporary housing lacked proper insulation and air-conditioning. As the month of August began to unfold, torrential rains bombarded the country, bringing a new kind of disaster: flash flooding. How many lives were lost to this disaster?
The most pathetic survivors of all are children. Like many of the children who survived hurricane Andrew, many Turkish children whom I saw who could no longer smile or play. Shell-shock has very pronounced effects on the young; often, they stop communicating altogether.
One little girl in particular caught my attention. Her arm had been badly injured, twisted into a permanent position of deformity. She stood very still, holding her hair in her good hand, never moving or showing any signs of emotion.
"She needs medical attention," I said to the doctor.
"Yes," he agreed, "a lot of the young survivors desperately need medical attention."
His answer puzzled me. "But I thought financial aid was donated from foreign countries."
"Yes," he nodded, "but most of the money ended up in the pockets of government officials. It never reached the survivors."
How well I knew what that meant. How well indeed.
After pausing, he added, "When the earthquakes struck, one foreign country offered to construct a hospital at the devastated site. But because of political differences, our government refused the offer."
I left the Turkish people, wondering: what kind of future is man creating for himself? Only one thought came to mind: "Evil can only be defined as absence of empathy..."
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