Posted on 08/07/2017 8:36:29 AM PDT by rktman
With some New Orleans neighborhoods seeing 8 to 10 inches of rain falling in just a few hours Saturday (Aug. 5), the rainfall overwhelmed the ability of the Sewerage & Water Board's 24 pump stations to keep up, though all were operating, city officials said Sunday. And they warned that additional thunderstorms could again overwhelm the city's pumping capacity on Sunday and Monday.
The biggest threat for additional heavy rain is likely Monday afternoon, based on a morning briefing by National Weather Service forecasters, said Aaron Miller, the city's director of homeland security and emergency preparedness, at a Sunday morning news conference at New Orleans City Hall.
"With current saturation levels of the ground and the water that we've seen over the last few days, any additional rain will result in quick runoff, so we want residents to be particularly aware during rains when they're out on the roads," Miller said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
School busses man, where are the school busses?
Leave it to DEMOCRATS to build a city below sea level and fill it with liberals....
AGW & Trump’s fault in 3...2...1...
Yellow Submarines
Oh, never mind. That's New Orleans.
N.O. is just the most prominent example of areas which repeatedly get disaster relief and other subsidies because people made bad choices and are not allowed to take responsibility for those choices.
September 8, 2005 - But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462.html
August 28, 2015 - The West Closure Complex is part of the $14.5 billion the Corps is spending on fortifications to protect some 900,000 people living in the toe-tip of Louisiana. That's almost as much as the cost of a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
"Flood protection" is a loaded term. The Army Corps of Engineers prefers to call it a "risk reduction system." The new system is designed to withstand a 100-year hurricane or a storm that has a 1 percent chance of occurring each year, and to significantly reduce flooding from a 500-year cyclone.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/28/432059261/billions-spent-on-flood-barriers-but-new-orleans-still-a-fishbowl
Too busy removing those hurtful Confederate statues to worry about a little rain.
Katrina was a disgrace on many levels. On top of the horror and misery it had become the gift to the left to use it as a club against Bush (never letting a crisis go to waste). Hurricane Sandy and the Christy/Obama love fest sealed Obungholes second term. The Left is praying to their Hell God that president Trump has a “Katrina” moment.
School busses man, where are the school busses?
You forgot.
Fill it with people who cannot read or write....46% of the residents of NO are illiterate.
Many of my Christian friends who went there to help after Katrina says their time was wasted filling out forms for free government stuff because the 'needy' couldn't.
Seriously,if you actually know the city personally, is the “warehouse district” of New Orleans affected by this flood? I have little knowledge of the city but a close young relative thinks moving to that part of New Orleans would be great, and she assures us that that part of New Orleans doesn’t flood.
Governor Blanco was getting her marching orders from the DNC the whole time to manufacture the crisis to blame it on Bush.
As the saying goes: half of Louisiana is under water; the other half is under indictment.
Looking at the map provided in the article, it looks like what we used to call the “warehouse” district didn’t see much if any issues. Been a long time since we were there and we don’t have any plans to go back. The only thing left(for us anyway) is the food and you can get that outside of NOLA.
I'm not sure about this flood, but much of the Warehouse District got some water in Katrina. Not a *lot* of water compared with the more central parts of the city, but enough to be a problem.
Think of the city as a bowl, with the deepest part in the center. The rims of the bowl are the shore of Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River levee to the south (more or less). If you're close to the "rim", flooding isn't as big a problem. The Warehouse District is near the river, but is large enough that parts of it will flood.
Truthfully, where rain flooding is the problem, there are cities at higher elevations with natural drainage (no or few pumps) that flood worse than New Orleans. In those areas, flood waters are like rushing rivers, sweeping away cars. In New Orleans, the water rises in the streets if the pumps can't keep up - but it's not white water.
That is some of the highest ground in the city. Flood risk there is not zero, but relatively minimal.
Pay no attention to the windbags on this thread. NOLA has problems but Saturday’s flood — six inches of rain in two hours, on soil already saturated — is simply an act of God, not a failure of city government. The Sewerage & Water Board could have taken some steps to improve drainage — they ought to be cleaning out catch basins which are frequently clogged and receive no maintenance to speak of — but it would cost a quick $10 billion to install the infrastructure necessary to handle the rainfall from freak weather events. As built, the system removes an inch of rain the first hour, plus an additional half inch every subsequent hour. A six-hour event totaling 3.5 inches is within their capability. Not too many taxpayers want to pay for a system able to move more water than that, which might see use once every 10 years. I feel for the people who were flooded, but old timers here mitigate their risks by learning how to read the weather and local terrain. Or else they don’t, and pay the price.
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