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The wind's picking up here now, even though she's been downgraded to CAT III. This is the latest NOAA photo.

Frankly, all this coverage of watching New Orleans flood again is making me, and I'm sure lot of other people, even more convinced that the rebuilding of New Orleans cannot happen in anything close to the same way it was before.


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Water gushing into NO 9th Ward

The current NOLA radar loop at
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/lix_N0Z_lp.shtml

Well, here's a photo of what's going on with the levee:

Looks like it's well on the way to becoming a breach.

2,494 posted on 09/23/2005 11:50:02 AM EDT by dirtboy

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301 posted on 09/23/2005 2:18:06 PM EDT by GRRRRR

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Current Lake Charles, LA radar loop:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r0/si.klch.shtml

landfall near Johnsons Bayou, LA:

If you want to follow developments here in Alexandria, KALB Newschannel 5 now has streaming video that you might want to watch as Rita moves north of Lake Charles:

http://www.kalb.com/

I've been bouncing around the local blogs and kept hitting that one as it was still updating. Plus, BIG plus, it's conservative.

http://texasrainmaker.blogspot.com/

The only flood gages giving a reading in the Lake Charles/Beaumont/Port Arthur area since 1:30AM CDT are in Jefferson County, TX.

Water at the Hillebrandt Bayou nr Lovell Lake, TX flood gage has risen about 0.35 feet since 12 Midnight CDT (as of 3AM); the flood gage at Pine Island Bayou abv BI Pump Plant, Beaumont, TX shows water levels declining (as of 2:30AM).

Lovell Lake is at the star on this map (not on the Sabine Pass):

one more thing. Check this out-Not GOOD:

2,036 posted on 09/24/2005 4:32:46 AM EDT by Revel

What that says to me, is that it's past time to start drilling off the coast of FL. -- and CA and AK, WY, UT, and develop tar sands in Utah, abandon the Clinton land grab of the Utah Kaipirowitz plateau (the largest deposit of clean burn coal in the US) - also known as Grand Staircase - locked up for Indonesian campaign favors.

Did someone say energy policy? National security?

Take a look at the first chart:

http://hurricane.methaz.org/hurapak/AAL182005_gomex_oil.html

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High winds in Houston, very little rain. Galveston situation not too bad...considering.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topfront/3367735

For the archives -

Last at-sea vortex data message, eye fix 5 minutes before landfall and wind fix 10 minutes before landfall

Map of estimated landfall area (courtesy conservative in nyc)

3 am CDT 9/24 position update that fixes landfall time as 2:30 am CDT in Louisiana between Sabine Pass and Johnsons Bayou

First post-landfall vortex data report, eye fix 25 minutes after landfall

2,046 posted on 09/24/2005 4:39:11 AM EDT by steveegg

-- a feeder band here in Indiana, look:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kind.shtml

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