the doomsday scenarios are all based on a storm coming from the ese. this one will be coming from the south...there is quite a bit of distance from the marshy southern coast of la and new orleans....will it be bad...obviously....but book your mardi gras plans.
I'm not booking anymore vacations. Still wondering if I'm going to Destin area around the 6th. We're booked in Bilo×i for the 5th...LOL, LOL...LOL. It could be worse..
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agree it has to come from ese to push the water up into NO and the lake which will cause the walls to break--due south not so bad,but it can track to the east the wobble back//these things do strange things
That's just not true. That's just the easiest one to visualize. A storm coming from the southwest is every bit as devastating.
And the swamps south of New Orleans won't cool the jets of any hurricane to any significant extent.
If I lived in New Orleans, I'd be gathering the important papers and heading west. The city might get lucky again, but it only has to get unlucky once.
No, the doomsday scenario for NO also could happen with a hurricane coming in from the SW. The winds from such would initially push Gulf water north then west into Lake P, then as the center passed start pushing all that trapped water south and over the levees. Also could take place with an approach from the south or SE if the center was close to or just east of NO, for the same reasons.
Luckily the window of area the center has to pass through for this to take place is rather narrow(but obviously grows larger with intensity), but that should not be read as a reason not to evacuate. It is still Russian roulette at this point.