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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Interstate 10 impassable
The Biloxi River is flowing over the bridge on Interstate 10
WWL: Water 8-10' deep near Jackson Barracks, which appears to be at about 0' elevation. That's the area called Arabi, which is just SE of the industrial canal. In its own levee system, surrounded by the Miss. River to the south, Industrial Canal to the west, and Intercoastal Waterway to the north. Flooding here will NOT affect downtown New Orleans, which is in a separate levee bowl.
Cantore is reporting on TWC. The water is going down. He sounds pretty mellow (tired?).
"One of the Mississippi River levees was breached, haven't heard that any Lake P levees were breached (yet). Did I miss something."
I believe I read on one of the 123456234523 graphics on FOX that the Mississippi levee was breached and not too long after that, another alert that the Lake Pontsomethingorotherwithatrain (too tired to spell) levee was breached but after the intial alerts, I haven't seen anything else said about the Mississippi levee.
I grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and went through Betsy and Camille and others. Besides the ubiquitous heat and humidity you just mentioned the some of the other reasons I agree with you and now live in Wasilla. BTW just talked to my folks in BR and they have some wind but not much rain. They are without power as predicted. Sounds like the French Quarter might get a much needed street cleaning but not the predicted apocalypse. Never liked the smell there, stale beer and vomit.
If you saw the freeway a parking lot would you want to be trapped in your car or taking your chances in a tall building back in the city?
MSM doesn't mention A LOT of pertinent info!
"I like that can I quote you!"
Be my guest, I am sure that others have said it much more eloquently, however. And I wouldn't even rank them - they all deserve a life sentence without parole or the chair.
Semper Easily Amused
Yikes. But as far as we know right now, there have been no widespread topping or failures on the levees holding Lake Ponchartrain back from New Orleans and Jefferson Parish?
}:-)4
I fear there will be many of us here who are going to have many, many relatives and friends left homeless - or at least displaced for a long while. I'm trying to stay thankful that they got out with their lives, but for them and us, this is far from over.
Yeah, I was thinking "shoot on sight" might not be a bad policy, at least for the obvious cases.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011113.html
The SPR will be filled in a deliberate and cost-effective manner. This will be done principally through royalty-in-kind transfers to be implemented by the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve
On August 17, 2005, the SPR reached its goal of 700 million barrels (111,000,000 m³), or about 96% of its now-increased 727 million barrel capacity. Approximately 60% of the crude oil in the reserve is the less desirable sour (high sulfur content) variety. The oil delivered to the reserve is "royalty-in-kind" oil—royalties owed to the U.S. government by operators who acquire leases on the federally-owned Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. These royalties were previously collected as cash, but in 1998 the government began testing the effectiveness of collecting royalties "in kind" - or in other words, acquiring the crude oil itself. This mechanism was adopted when refilling the SPR began, and once refilling is completed, future royalties will be paid into the Federal treasury.
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We should all thank our lucky stars that Bush was elected instead of Kerry, who would undoubtedly have bowed to political pressure to drain the SPR in an effort to keep gasoline prices below $2.00 per gallon, which would have left us shockingly vulnerable to this hurricaine's disruption of oil supplies.
"In the time we've been talking, the water has risen, I'd say, another 3 inches. It's up to the top of my boots. The water keeps rising."
Those guys are in trouble.
Cantore was just on the phone on TWC. Says they are now ok on the 2nd-5th floors.
I just heard about the report from Jim Cantore's producer...it seems that those saying NO dodged a bullet and that the storm was over hyped may have spoken too soon. I'm praying for everyone in this storm's path. I think we're going to see some real ugly pictures tomorrow. I think people are going to be stunned.
Fox reporting it is crossing the wires that Biloxi and Mobile have been hit very hard.....very hard.
Gee, I didn't even think about the
manhole covers! Snakes are what I
think of.
Yet, I see people all the time...
wading through HIGH water!
I thought they put the soap on to soothe people!
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