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Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
"Moose" is always excellent. I like him very much, he's really one of the best!
Yes. I didn't hear anything about food, though. Babies will need formula, diapers....people will need prescriptions...what a nightmare.
I have never see such a well formed hurricane eye as this one.
What CNN said early this afternoon was that there were no more rental cars or flights out available.
Again, that could have been taken care of - if they'd started yesterday and/or actually had a real, viable PLAN. Hire charter buses to take them to Houston, put them on Amtrak, get a national guard troop transport plane - any number of options that could have and should have been included in the much-vaunted plan that doesn't seem to have included very many contingencies at all.
Oops thanks.
If the winds blow hard enough on the Superdome structure and create extremely LOW PRESSURE zones, like wings on a plane create low pressure on the wing and cause it to lift UP, then the SuperDome structure will also create LIFT into the low pressure zone as the internal air pressure (under the wing-roof-walls) reacts to the lift...poof, one dome opens up like a JiffyPop!!
it depends on what longitude its at when it makes the turn.
Nagin: superdome open as last resort; 25-30,000 there; still nervous, not opening up other shelters; next phase 6 PM curfew---this will be last pick-up; curfew means lockdown no police, fire, ems services, except some police; will be pounded 14 hours; expect devestation, collapsed buildings,national guard, lots of boats in streets, most buildings expect to survive 165 mph, few 200 mpn, very naive to not expect casualties, so much water will topple levees; parts of city may be uninhabitable for a while; two weeks to drain city, pumps inoperable when submerged, max output of pumps 1 to 1.5 inches per hour; electricity maybe 6 weeks to get back, maybe a whole lot quicker for water;not really concerned about toxic water--pumps to be flushed just before storm; "its gonna be a mess;" white house called Pres ready to move in and help; pipelines if shut will cause big jump in oil prices to over $70; "God bless us;" people calm, no violence; people need axes to bust through roofs to avoid flooding;need to be above 2nd floor. 128 posted on 08/28/2005 5:53:04 PM EDT by Founding Father
Agreed!
Yep.... like they should be shot or something for wanting to see the waves...
We've stayed at the beautiful Royal Sonesta Hotel in NO and there's no way anyone should be in the French Quarter. Has Shep lost his mind?
Shep is just another Ole Miss snob ie Trent Lott!!!!!!!!!
"I guess the best we can hope for now is for it to pass west of NO far enough to avoid the eye. Looks too
far gone to curve east enough to avoid pushing the lake into the city and over the levees. "
Agreed. The course it is on now is the best we could hope for. Close to half the storm would be over land for a couple hours or more, bleeding off energy, before the eyewall ever made it ashore.
The supercomp models have been wrong before. The future of New Orleans hangs on them being wrong now. The next update will tell much of the tale.
Possibly because it is made of reinforced concrete and is more or less flood proof.
must be
FReeper report: There are already sustained power outages in the Baton Rouge area.
I like Brian Wilson too. He's knowledgeable and has a good sense of humor.
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