Sending out a Prayer to the folks in Louisiana....Hurricane Issac is no joke

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Sending out a Prayer to the folks in Louisiana....Hurricane Issac is no joke

getting pounded for 24-36 hours is gonna flood alot of homes and roads. I have never seen such a slow moving Hurricane like this one...6-8 MPH in movement....thats unreal.
 

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Oil prices slip as Hurricane Isaac mostly spares Gulf platforms

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Hurricane Isaac is seen churning in the Gulf of Mexico after making landfall on the Louisiana coast in this NASA handout satellite image taken on Aug. 28, 2012. Isaac did very little damage so far to Gulf oil facilities.


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Updated 11:09 a.m. EDT: Brent crude oil slipped towards $112 on Wednesday as Hurricane Isaac left U.S. Gulf Coast oil production largely untouched and as government figures showed an unexpected rise in U.S. crude inventories.
A declaration by major Western economies that they were ready to release oil reserves to curb high prices and prevent them damaging growth also helped dampen the market.
Brent crude for October fell more than $1 per barrel to a low of $111.50 before recovering to around $112.50 by 1450 GMT. U.S. crude was down $1 at $96.33.
U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose 3.78 million barrels to 364.52 million in the week to August 24, overturning analysts' forecasts of a draw of 1.5 million barrels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
Distillate stocks rose 873,000 barrels to 126.08 million, also confounding a forecast of a 0.1 million barrel draw.
The data partly confirmed a report by the American Petroleum Institute, which reported on Tuesday that U.S. crude stocks rose 5.5 million barrels last week.

"It is expected that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico will quickly return to normal," said Carsten Fritsch, an oil analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
U.S. energy companies shut many facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, as a precautionary measure. The U.S. Department of Energy estimated about 12 percent of oil refining capacity had come offline on the Gulf Coast.
But Isaac, which hit Louisiana, driving water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans, skirted major energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Worries about supply disruptions resulting from Isaac on Monday pushed Brent to a high of $115.50 per barrel, while NYMEX futures hit a peak of $97.72. Brent has risen around 7 percent so far this month while U.S. oil has gained 9 percent, its biggest monthly rise since October 2011.
Isaac has brought high winds and soaking rains to southern U.S. states, posing the first test for multi-billion-dollar flood defences put in place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast seven years ago.
Also putting a dampener on oil prices was a statement by finance ministers of the Group of Seven most industrialized nations (G7) on Tuesday that the West was ready to tap strategic oil reserves to dampen oil prices that could hit global growth.
"We stand ready to call upon the International Energy Agency to take appropriate action to ensure that the market is fully and timely supplied," the G7 said.
"The current rise in oil prices reflects geopolitical concerns and certain supply disruptions. We encourage oil-producing countries to increase their output to meet demand."
The White House has been considering a release of strategic reserves for some weeks but such a move would be controversial.
The head of the International Energy Agency has voiced strong opposition to any use of emergency oil stocks unless there is a supply shortage.
Clues as to whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is leaning towards more stimulus are expected from Chairman Ben Bernanke in a speech on Friday at an annual meeting at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bernanke has used the event in the last two years to indicate the Fed's policy intentions.
A poll of 61 economists gave a 45 percent chance of the Fed announcing a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, after its policy meeting on September 12-13.
Walter de Wet, commodities analyst at South Africa's Standard Bank, said oil should be one of the main beneficiaries of any additional QE: "Any indication of the U.S. Fed signaling this Friday (that) they will provide more monetary stimulus should keep the market supported."
 

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I still have electricity.

YEA!!!!!
 

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I still have electricity.

YEA!!!!!

glad to hear from u Choptalk & hope all is well...know ur goin thru Hell..

Off Topic...ur Saints don't look too bad...man Brees is a good QB
 

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glad to hear from u Choptalk & hope all is well...know ur goin thru Hell..

Off Topic...ur Saints don't look too bad...man Brees is a good QB

No im doing ok.
I was driving the roads about 30 mins ago.
Im on the West side of this storm right now.

By the time the eye gets to me the winds will be down to 50ish.

So far no damage or worries.

Yea Brees is good.

Texans not too bad either.
 

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Worst of it hitting us in Baton Rouge right now.....very little rain at all and if it wasnt for the wind, which really has done very little damage here so far id say this whole hurricane was a big Fluke.......
 

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Worst of it hitting us in Baton Rouge right now.....very little rain at all and if it wasnt for the wind, which really has done very little damage here so far id say this whole hurricane was a big Fluke.......

Cant wait to watch MSNBC tells us how Obama protected us from the harmful storm.
Surely your roof would have come flying off if GWB was still in office.
 

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12 of us were headed to N.O. tonight (thur) for a bachelor party weekend. Needless to say our flight was cancelled and we have rescheduled going Sat to Tue. I'm not sure this was the best choice. Will the city be back to partying by Sat? Will it be in poor taste to be indulging if the surrounding area is in badshape? I have to go along with the majority so it's kind of out of my control. Are we making a bad choice?
 

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Cant wait to watch MSNBC tells us how Obama protected us from the harmful storm.
Surely your roof would have come flying off if GWB was still in office.

lmafo
 

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12 of us were headed to N.O. tonight (thur) for a bachelor party weekend. Needless to say our flight was cancelled and we have rescheduled going Sat to Tue. I'm not sure this was the best choice. Will the city be back to partying by Sat? Will it be in poor taste to be indulging if the surrounding area is in badshape? I have to go along with the majority so it's kind of out of my control. Are we making a bad choice?

You'll be fine. They will be partying tonight. That never stops. Its not that much in the way of damage and they for sure want your money. Casinos here are opening tonight and id expect Harrahs New Orleans will prolly be up by tomorrow.
 

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