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OT: Hurricane Ida hitting Gulf on Katrina's 16th anniversary

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On August 29th 2005 Katrina hit New Orleans as a Cat 3 (was 5 at sea).

Ida is now a Cat 4 expected to make landfall in New Orleans area Sunday.

Those in its path stay safe, it looks scary!

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Have friends and family in the city. The latest track is concerning. One is in the city proper, the others on the north side of the lake. It looks bad.

A fellow Northeastern U parent lives in NOLA, her son has move in day today like my daughter. They got on a plane to Charlotte then Boston an hour before the airport closed yesterday. Her husband drove their daughter to Texas to evacuate, took ten hours instead of the usual five.
 
Last night it was 105mph. It's 150 mph right now less than 12 hours later.
 
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I'm 285 miles North East of New Orleans and the wind is picking up a little bit already. I hope that the ones foolishly staying behind make it through the storm.
 
On the Alabama/Florida line. Had a nasty squall last night around 11-12 pm. Otherwise 20-25 mph winds and off and on rain, sometimes heavy. Tons of cars with Mississippi and Louisiana tags heading east yesterday on I-10 and all the hotels along the interstate are filled up with evacuees.

Everyone we know with kids in college in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama had their kids come home Friday afternoon.

The bayous of Louisiana are going to get destroyed. New Orleans, Slidell, Covington and Baton Rouge better watch out too. Once it gets north of Louisiana the winds should get below 110 which most stuff built in past 20 years can handle. As more and more people are learning it's the rain, flooding and tidal surges which are the primary killers and cause the majority of property damage.

Most of coastal Louisiana is 10-20 inches of rain above normal for the year. While the ground is porous, there still isn't much room for runoff.
 
Chin Diesel said:
On the Alabama/Florida line. Had a nasty squall last night around 11-12 pm. Otherwise 20-25 mph winds and off and on rain, sometimes heavy. Tons of cars with Mississippi and Louisiana tags heading east yesterday on I-10 and all the hotels along the interstate are filled up with evacuees.

Everyone we know with kids in college in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama had their kids come home Friday afternoon.

The bayous of Louisiana are going to get destroyed. New Orleans, Slidell, Covington and Baton Rouge better watch out too. Once it gets north of Louisiana the winds should get below 110 which most stuff built in past 20 years can handle. As more and more people are learning it's the rain, flooding and tidal surges which are the primary killers and cause the majority of property damage.

Most of coastal Louisiana is 10-20 inches of rain above normal for the year. While the ground is porous, there still isn't much room for runoff.
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I know that you are closer to the storm than I am...be safe
 
LOCATION...28.9N 90.1W
ABOUT 25 MI...40 KM SSW OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 60 MI...95 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150 MPH...240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...933 MB...27.55 INCHES

Hurricane Ida Update Statement (noaa.gov)
 
u get into the 920s, and were talking top 5 alltime for US low pressure events.
Factbox-The most intense hurricanes to hit the United States (msn.com)
looks like reuters read the same thing we did (above post). imagine that.

'Gasoline is the largest single volume refined product sold in the United States accounting for almost half of national oil consumption. US gasoline futures jumped more than 5% to near $2.3 a gallon, approaching levels not seen since October 2014...'
and that was last week. you know what they do really well down in the gulf for us? make gasoline.
hey warshington! ur planning ability really, really, rots. thanks fer nuthin.
 
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Dove said:
We shall overcome. We always do.


on another note...why are prisoners being relocated? They're in jail to suffer for their crimes, no?
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No they're in prison to be reformed so they can re-enter society
 
Dove said:
We shall overcome. We always do.


on another note...why are prisoners being relocated? They're in jail to suffer for their crimes, no?
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Not all prisoners are criminals, or rightfully convicted.
 
'The force of the storm was so strong that the Mississippi River was flowing in reverse, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Some 22 barges docked on the river in Destrehan, a town in St. Bernard Parish, have broken loose, according to officials, posing a threat to the water intake and refinery infrastructure.'
'Louisiana utility officials said that ‘catastrophic transmission damage’ caused power to go out for all of New Orleans and Orleans Parish.'

the cat 4 winds lasted hours after landfall.
no emergency personnel will be sent out until daybreak.
10 to 20 inches of rain.

it's going to be a very long night for them folks. :(
 
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Oh BTW, as is somewhat common, the northeast may catch some leftover rain and winds from the storm.

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Grand Isle is uninhabitable and may take 3-5 years to rebuild. Hard to imagine being stuck out there with no roads or people for that matter.

I'm headed to the Outer Banks in a week or so with similar land structure. It always amazes me how people are willing live so precariously.

Expecting a torrent of rain here tonight. I may complain about CT but if its not one of the safest states in the Country then I don't know what other state is.

In other news: Alligator kills man wading in Hurricane Ida floodwaters.



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Kitaman said:
Grand Isle is uninhabitable and may take 3-5 years to rebuild. Hard to imagine being stuck out there with no roads or people for that matter.

I'm headed to the Outer Banks in a week or so with similar land structure. It always amazes me how people are willing live so precariously.

Expecting a torrent of rain here tonight. I may complain about CT but if its not one of the safest states in the Country then I don't know what other state is.

In other news: Alligator kills man wading in Hurricane Ida floodwaters.



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We really need to reconsider living in hurricane/shoreline, desert, forest fire, and earthquake areas.
 
Meanwhile, Ida isn’t done yet. Unusually strong (for the east coast) tornado activity today from Annapolis thru Philly, Trenton up to the Brunswicks in NJ. Gonna be a rough night in CT.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Meanwhile, Ida isn’t done yet. Unusually strong (for the east coast) tornado activity today from Annapolis thru Philly, Trenton up to the Brunswicks in NJ. Gonna be a rough night in CT.
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Was through here (Pittsburgh) from late morning yesterday to mid-afternoon today. No wind to speak of, thankfully, as ground is absolutely soaked at this point. Tons of flooding here, 3"-4" in many areas. Ohio and Monogahela rivers expected to swell, likely covering Point State Park (at the confluence of the three rivers). Low areas around creeks less than mile from me were evacuated.

I'd imagine if you guys in CT get any sustained wind with this, it's going to take down tons of trees. Hopefully it's just rain. Be safe!
 
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Edward Sargent said:
We really need to reconsider living in hurricane/shoreline, desert, forest fire, and earthquake areas.
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So no east coast or west coast. Dubuque is going get awfully crowded, I guess.

(Oh wait Dubuque had an earthquake in 1967, is there some kind of statute of limitations?)
 
CL82 said:
So no east coast or west coast. Dubuque is going get awfully crowded, I guess.

(Oh wait Dubuque had an earthquake in 1967, is there some kind of statute of limitations?)
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I think you missed my point
 
9" of rain in NYC, Staten Island got 1 inch in 15 minutes. Could be an interesting night for us lowlanders. Rain's been steady with stronger bands but nothing torrential yet in Elmwood
 
Edward Sargent said:
We really need to reconsider living in hurricane/shoreline, desert, forest fire, and earthquake areas.
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storrsroars said:
Was through here (Pittsburgh) from late morning yesterday to mid-afternoon today. No wind to speak of, thankfully, as ground is absolutely soaked at this point. Tons of flooding here, 3"-4" in many areas. Ohio and Monogahela rivers expected to swell, likely covering Point State Park (at the confluence of the three rivers). Low areas around creeks less than mile from me were evacuated.

I'd imagine if you guys in CT get any sustained wind with this, it's going to take down tons of trees. Hopefully it's just rain. Be safe!
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That didn't age well.

Although I agree humans thinking building roads, bridges and buildings on barrier islands is stupid.
 
went for a walk before dinner. kinda eery vibe with scattered drops. just plain odd. i look over aboot fifty or so yards and see a coyote (wolf) youth, aboot 30-40 lbs, wandering out from the treeline. he looks my way and i bark ('take a hike, jack. im in no mood') at him. he wanders back into the forest.
now (one power outage already) it's nonstop raining buckets with lightning popping up se, s, and sw, with distant long low thunder rumbles.
very unusual.
GOES-East CONUS - Geostationary Lightning Mapper - NOAA / NESDIS / STAR

yeppers, weirdorama. wind blowing like a tropical storm. not good. that sw fairdale county/westchester area looks like ground zero for big water. keep a flashlight handy, regardless if ur generator is instant on.
 
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