Not over until the fat lady sings. She has not even cleared her throat in New Orleans yet. All that water that has fallen north of New Orleans and is still falling, will eventually be putting pressure on the New Orleans levies. This is Katrina in slow motion. Deja vu, all over again.
Ah, that is very true.
My friend is there now thinking of come here to FL because he has been without power for some time now.
You know, the thing about Katrina was that it essentially missed New Orleans entirely.
If I am not mistaken, the highest recorded winds were around 85 near New Orleans East and the eastern edge of the lake.
So they experienced, for all pratical purposes, a category 1 at the time.
I think what made it so dangerous was the amount of water Katrina pushed into the the lake and then as it moved north and the winds switched to southerly, all that water was blown back against the levee system and it popped.
That scenario could easily be achieved again by a small storm, and God Help them if a major storm actually passes directly over them on the SE, to N, to NW track they then can sometimes take.