If the time is local the info is out of date now, maybe the sensor failed?
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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Thanks. I know my folks are safe, and next door grandfather. We've dodged that storm surge for so long, and finally got it. I don't even want to know what it's like at the Ft. Morgan house. Ivan had his way with that one, and we fixed it. But, we'll prolly have to wait a few days to even get on the island.
But of course, it isn't your home or relatives or friends in danger.
Reports of 40,000 homes flooded just in St. Bernard Parish alone, no assessment reports yet from Slidell, little from Gulfport and Biloxi, so that number could easily double. And no idea yet on (God forbid) deaths, but reports of persons calling 911 trapped by floodwaters in their attic. So pardon me if I'm not upset that you missed watching a speech on TV. If you email the White House, I'm sure they'll be glad to provide you a link or copy of the transcript, and it will be reported in online news sites within a few hours. In the meantime, where were anxious relatives and evacuees supposed to get the latest news (often the first reports) from the affected areas if the news channels were off covering a rambling speech?
That's all I'll waste arguing about it on the thread, back to the hurricane info.
A lot of people were probably moved. Many in nursing homes are very ill these days. The aquity gets higher all the time. We need more information. It may have not been anything to do with the storm.
Indeed & I'll be glad when the heat moves
out! Getting mighty tired of watering
the plants.
Looks like the storm weakened enough, and/or shifted enough, that things never got bad enough to breach/top the levees on Lake Ponchartrain. I think that was the key to the whole "doomsday scenario", having the lake emptied out to the south by the failure or topping of the levee(s) there. The graphic I saw on one of the earlier threads yesterday seemed to indicate the absolute worst-case was an eye passing just to the east of NO (closer than Katrina), and having the winds literally push water around the front 180 degrees of the storm from the sea, across the bayous, into Lake Ponchartrain, and then south over the levees into New Orleans.
And while central NO didn't get the "doomsday scenario", right now, there's a lot of places that did. This storm looks like it will eclipse Andrew as costliest US natural disaster ever.
}:-)4
"FOX made it sound like NO would have to be rebuilt on another site"
Sound like a good idea to me, bulldoze it all and bring enough fill to bring it up above sealevel.
If Buckner had'nt made that error at 1st, If Joel Finch wasn't put in during the 7th inning back in 1975.
What I'm saying is 'Next Time' people 'aint leaving.
Extraordinary parents like you raise them to be that way.
Good job.
I have a friend with law enforcement (game warden) in Mobile. He's on my beep-beep (Southern Link telephone). I've tried beeping him to see if he may have a report about Bay Front, but he must have his hands full and hasn't responded. If I hear anything, I'll let you know.
If the time is local the info is out of date now, maybe the sensor failed?
What were they thinking?
I'm starting to wonder about the accuracy of that report, since it hasn't seemed to be repeated since then. Usually something that dramatic gets wide media play once confirmed. Perhaps we'll have a better idea in a few hours.
Hoping for those winds to subside so the rescue teams can get moving.
After the Galviston hurricane, killed 8,000 in the early 1900's, they raised the entire island 13 feet. Seems to have worked.
You don't suppose old Shep scored some beads?
Quoting musicals is not a substitute for a reasoned argument.
SD
I've been trying to find out as well. The main site with all the relevant info on Levee height/district maps/hurricane info/repair, etc is currently down:
www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/response/amaps.asp
So is the Harrigan "Whoooooooaaaaaaahhhh!" going to rank up there with the Howard Dean "Yeeeaaaggghhhh!", forever enshrined in the castle "Aaaarrrgghh!"?
I just wonder what possessed him to wear that pink shirt yesterday...
I've been watching video from WGNO's streaming feed.
I saw a place by the cemeteries - a railroad overpass that was totally filled with water...must have been 17 ft deep...that means people on Metairie road are flooded bad.
The water at Veteran's Highway and I-10 is about 3 feet below the suspended traffic lights.
Oh my God. And that was filmed three or four hours ago.
I used to live near both of those places. There's a busstop by Oddfellow's rest which must have four or five feet of water there at least.
My friend Christine's house is flooded. Lord, I hope she got out of town in time.
Even if he didn't, he should consider himself to be VERY lucky...:-)
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