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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
No. Oil rigs shutin at the sea floor. The oil rig might be ripped away, but it should not be spilling oil.
However, interrupting oil production (if enough production is affected) can affect prices.
Water coming in 2nd floor of Beau Rivage - Reporter says this is confirmed. 15-16 ft. above ground.
I guess that would explain all the severe damage reports from the NWS? The media isn't hyping what is being reported by emergency management.
Damage is extensive.
This storm is still as strong as Charley was at landfall. And it's much, much, MUCH larger. Folks are having to climb to their roofs in NO. And you think this storm has been hyped? You have NO IDEA how bad things might be on the ground right now. It took them a day to figure out that Andrew trashed Homestead.
You too, huh... Sounded like a kid playing in the rain. After seeing this, I'm not so sure he went into journalism for the work as much as the thrills. He is nuts. Only after nearly getting crushed and/or impaled by flying roof did he decide that it might be a good idea to get to cover. (He is probably still sticking his head around the corner of the building now and then.)
Why am I suspicious of your claims? Hmmmm Aug 29,2005 signup.
Any one have confirmation on the FOX report that the Mississipi levee broke in the French Quarter?
Sounds like the central park where soccer is played
Section 9 French Quarter levee breeched. FOX
Beau Rivage flooding up to second floor
I'm listening to Fox in the background. Somebody just said flooding is getting serious in the French Quarter. Has Shep been on, if so I missed him.
No no, this storm is very dangerous, no doubt.
Thanks. It just seemed like a westward shift. Not that it matters with this MOAS.
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He said "SugarBowl".
It's too "drama queen" for me. A more interesting approach would be to set up electronically controlled remotes in various sites. Some interacting, some not. Several in the dome, some on the beach, on the lake, at the levee... Some in police cars etc. Just to have people standing in the wind is boring and stupid. And please, it's not more dramatic if there's rain on the lens. Wipe it off. We know it's raining.
Still don't see why Mississippi River silt has anything whatsoever to do with New Orleans possibly flooding. The "fouled up" silt deposition is why the coastal swamps shoreline are creeping north, not why New Orleans is below sea level. Of course, fixing that silt distribution would be very easy---just cut two "east-west" channels well up the isthmus---one from the Missippi towards the east, and one from the Mississippi towards the west.
"Secondly, levees could breach in multiple places. Lake Pontchartrain AND the river...but that's not the point. Why is there a levee for Lake P.? Perhaps because of its elevation relative to the the developed areas? Why such a difference? Again, think of long-term policies, not just today."
Breaching of the Mississippi River levees by a hurricane is so unlikely as to approach zero, as the levees are higher compared to Ponchartrain. The reason New Orleans is below sea level is because the LAND IS SINKING, due to the huge weight of all the buildings (built on Jello), and the pumping out of groundwater. Again--nothing to do with river silt.
"(And I note that the river elevation is "high," and the lake elevation is the "normal.")"
I assume you mean that for your graphic, which probably represents the Mississippi level at "flood stage", which only occurs in early spring. The river level during hurricane season is obviously much lower.
Quit posting that idiocy. It ain't funny right now.
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