You gotta lay off the ice, bra.

Damn that dihydrogen monoxide. It's lethal I tell ya! Lethal!

We prefer Fentanyl up here in Philly. Now that's a REAL drug.

/the link appears to be FARKed

Why does ice have to be so cold and cunning?

This only looks like a mistake. It is really just the media pressuring the weather service to come up with cooler names for hurricanes. It makes for a better headline:

"Hurricane Ice Kills 29"

Or...

"Hurricane Crusher Headed For West Texas"

See?

/Or someone wanted to leave early for the weekend and didn't pay attention while running the spellchecker.

i don't doubt it

I knew those Texans wouldn't take well to hockey.

Let 'em keep their high school football. No scary ice there. Move the North Stars back up north.

What an asshole.

Meth. It's a helluva drug.

/link not so cool

THIS IS NOT AN ADMISSION OF GUILT...

You try to ban the A.K.
I got ten of 'em stashed
With a case of hand grenades

Ike, Ike, baby!

Now I change my style up, my style up,bodies pile up

Didn't Ike Turner die from an OD?

I thought all the glaciers were melting? Take that, Al Gore!

Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony.

crazylegsbill: i don't doubt it

He told us he was hardcore

FTA FTW:

justanothertexan wrote:
its IKE you morons - Texas death toll from IKE reaches at least 29.
god - fire your editors you tards.
9/26/2008 5:34:32 PM

The "C" and "K" are not only on different rows, but at opposite ends of the keyboard. Did Mr. Magoo hunt&peck that headline?

Clearly related to global warming.

Maybe they meant Ischemic Carpophagous Echidnas.

Thank goodness AP posted a "copyright" on that story, wouldn't want anyone stealing that journalistic masterpiece...

Texas death toll from MICE reaches at least 29...

What,no Vonnegut references?
I'm disappointed.

Ice 9?

so that's why you can't find ice in Europe

I don't know why they're not being very forthcoming with the death numbers. It's pretty apparent that more than 69 people will be dead as a result of this storm, especially as pre-storm estimates were that 30% of the 11,000 residents on the Bolivar Peninsula (seen that picture with the single house standing?) stayed behind.

I really liked going to the beaches on Bolivar. Don't think I'll get to for a while though.

A mere fraction of the number of people executed under the Texas death penalty.

demonwolf04 I don't know why they're not being very forthcoming with the death numbers.

Sparing New Orlean-ians feelings.

/don't build in a bowl

from FTFA comments section:

(0)
justanothertexan wrote:
its IKE you morons - Texas death toll from IKE reaches at least 29.
god - fire your editors you tards

Gotta be a farker

Apparently all those poor souls were forced to eat the ice that had gone bad in their freezers when the power went out.


I blame FEMA for not getting them good ice sooner



\live adjacent to Houston
\\power out three days, little house damage
\\\incredibly lucky

carniemechanic: from FTFA comments section:

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justanothertexan wrote:
its IKE you morons - Texas death toll from IKE reaches at least 29.
god - fire your editors you tards

Gotta be a farker

Nah, if it were a Farker, he would have said "morans".

Ice wouldn't kill people, would she?

/not obscure

Story is sad. Headline is amusing. Musta been a tough decision for which tag to use.

In any case... 29 people may be sad. But that's nothing compared to Haiti. I don't even know what the final toll was there. But they are lucky they still have a farking island. (Not just from Ike.)

This looks like a job for Captain America!

demonwolf04

I don't know why they're not being very forthcoming with the death numbers. It's pretty apparent that more than 69 people will be dead as a result of this storm, especially as pre-storm estimates were that 30% of the 11,000 residents on the Bolivar Peninsula (seen that picture with the single house standing?) stayed behind.

I really liked going to the beaches on Bolivar. Don't think I'll get to for a while though.

Having seen the helicopters landing by Rice stadium to deliver bodies as well as the ambulance convoys that aren't transporting out living bodies...the death toll is much, much closer to 500 for Galveston alone and, even then, only for the ones they've found.

I can't fathom why they aren't more forthcoming, either, because I know I'm not the only person who has seen more than 29 bodies in one sitting.

On October 2, 2002, I cruised through the Galveston/Bolivar area, headed east on my way to Florida.

Bolivar Island struck me as very pretty, but I also remember how close the houses were to the water; one other thing sticks out in my mind is the way the road abruptly ends where it turns north. There is a big barricade across the road where it used to hug the coast, but a hurricane washed it out some years ago.

The following day I was stuck in Orange Texas with a busted motorcycle but there was no way to fix it: Hurricane Lili was bearing up, and all the mechanics were nailing up plywood or headed for higher ground.

I sat in the hotel for five days, bored out of my mind and watching TV 15 hours a day; reporters were standing in the middle of Bourbon Street with ten-foot sections of PVC pipe, to illustrate where the water would come to if the levee broke.

Talk about deja vu!

Last week I saw some aerial photos of the MacDonald's in Galveston where I stopped for coffee before riding the Bolivar Ferry. The building is still standing, but the parking lot is about half washed away.

That parking lot was 300 feet inland, and 18 feet off the ground.

CORRECTION: I should have said, "---18 feet above sea level."

My bad.

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Chillin'!

My guess is somebody used the spellcheck and then didn't do a human proofread.

I also thought it might have been Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And yeah, there have been rumors of massive body counts that haven't seen any news agency. Makes you wonder if there's some sort of cover-up going on, and if so, why?

The Houston Comical also contains a headline today which references "Auguts Wilson." All this time I've been spelling it wrong. You know, July, Auguts, September...

Somebody's sleeping on the job over at the Comical today. Hey, the articles are filled with misinformation, why should we expect the headlines to reflect any accuracy? Par for the course.

OnA_Fan: dave.csonka.net

/Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
//Buffalo x 8
///Craig Muni reference!

"Twenty nine inches! Holy dogshiat! I didn't know they stacked ice that high in Texas!"

/will milkandcookies.com replace this rather small hotlinked image with a goat see? The world awaits with bated, vaguely garlic-scented breath.

This Is Necessary: demonwolf04

I don't know why they're not being very forthcoming with the death numbers. It's pretty apparent that more than 69 people will be dead as a result of this storm, especially as pre-storm estimates were that 30% of the 11,000 residents on the Bolivar Peninsula (seen that picture with the single house standing?) stayed behind.

I really liked going to the beaches on Bolivar. Don't think I'll get to for a while though.

Having seen the helicopters landing by Rice stadium to deliver bodies as well as the ambulance convoys that aren't transporting out living bodies...the death toll is much, much closer to 500 for Galveston alone and, even then, only for the ones they've found.

I can't fathom why they aren't more forthcoming, either, because I know I'm not the only person who has seen more than 29 bodies in one sitting.

Why would you waste a helicopter on a corpse? It's not like they're in a hurry anymore.

This text is now purple: This Is Necessary:



Why would you waste a helicopter on a corpse? It's not like they're in a hurry anymore.

Uh...disease, odor, the fact that they attract predators? Helicopters have access to areas where land vehicles can't go; furthermore, there are laws about who can move a corpse, the qualifications they must have in order to do so, and the safety equipment they must use. Our tax dollars pay for the medical personnel and the equipment inside those choppers, as well as for the choppers themselves. I don't see victim recovery as any sort of "waste."

Please don't forget that that these are real people, with real families and real loved ones. You're perfectly free to be as crass and callous as you want, but it doesn't change the fact that each and every one of those corpses was a friend and neighbor to someone.

I guess if it were your mother, you'd prefer they strap her to the hood of a truck and drive two hours in the hot Texas sun to the nearest usable morgue? Just because someone is dead doesn't mean their body deserves to be treated without dignity.