Nation Grips for, Escapes Disaster on First Day of Hurricane Season
NEW ORLEANS (Disassociated Press) June 2,
2006 – All across the United States, the country, still reeling in the aftermath
of hurricane Katrina less than one year ago, has battoned down the hatches in
preparation for this year’s hurricane season, which the government has declared
officially opened yesterday.
“We’re ready,” said Al
Hambra, of Cheyenne, Wyoming. “We haven’t forgotten the lessons of Katrina.”
Late last summer, hurricane Katrina, one of the strongest hurricanes in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, made landfall along the Gulf Coast of the United States, causing wide devastation along that coast, most especially in the city of New Orleans.
In other parts of the nation, the citizenry seemed to be in preparation. “Ay-uh, we’re ready to evacuate at the first sign of trouble,” said Al Gorithm, Mayor of New Old Oak Bend Hollow, New Hampshire (‘The Live Free or Die’ State). “We just don’t want to face a gargantuan category five gulf hurricane at this juncture.” In addition to the potential threat of a catastrophic hurricane, New Hampshire currently faces massive fall out from flooding caused by record heavy spring rainfall.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman also claims his city is well prepared. “We have an evacuation plan to sequester everyone in the city on the top floors of the highest casinos in town, far above any potential hurricane flooding,” claimed the Mayor. “And, or course, we have portable table games at the ready for the refugees, as well.”
The nation has apparently escaped Day 1 of the 2006 hurricane season untarnished. There are 182 days left until the hurricane season officially ends on November 30th this autumn.
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