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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
People ask me all the time if I want to sell my J-24 sitting in front of my house. I don't race her anymore but I think I'll keep her as my personal refuge of last resort. She is a very very good boat.
You're supposed to ping Laz when you ask questions like that.
this is unbelieveable!
Another possibility, and this is just a WAG, is that the Bonne Carret (sp?) spillway is open between the river and the SW side of the lake, perhaps keeping the lake above sea level at the point where the 17th St. canal intersects? That spillway area had lots of water driven into it by the wind, and could likely been at a higher level than the lake and last to drain. So if they opened the spillway as a relief valve for the river, it still might stay high.
Also, the levees on the west side next to the spillway are only 10' and 11', so perhaps that is an overtop point that hasn't been reported? The 17th st. overtopping didn't get reported until 14+ hours after it first occured yesterday morning, though perhaps because the breach didn't take place until after dark.
Unrelated thought, am wondering if another nuisance is sunburn now for those guards and prisoners evac'd from the prison and sitting out there in the sun.
So much for being happy to be in PA eh? lol. Good thing I live on a big hill.
Long as they are not Russian troops!
His advance team hit the ground yesterday and are preparing for his touring of the area.
That was the saddest interview that I have seen yet.
MS Gulf Coast info and a video
http://www.wlbt.com/
"Where is the President"
"Still on vacation?"
"Why giving a speech on WWII in San Diego"
"With his poll numbers you'd think he'd react quicker"
Honestly it was just jaw dropping. I think even Wolfie was stunned by the whole thing.
Trucks...
About 300 Public Health personnel are on standby. This may get really ugly. (er...uglier)
"To: jeffers
We have had buckets here just east of indianapolis. And I mean buckets...the sump started up with regular pumping several hours ago and it is going to be hefting water all night..that is for sure.
It has been dark...so windy leaves are all over the ground...and if this is Katrina after days onland...and a thousand miles from the gulf...MY GOSH...WHAT WAS THIS STORM LIKE UP CLOSE AT A
CAT 4?"
I'm NW of Indy and my pong usually goes up 6 inches per inch of rain received. It hasn't gone up even an inch yet. Most all the rain missed here.
The county count for flood warnings has risen to 14 now.
Indeed. But the river is obviously higher than the gulf, and has a very powerful current to go with it. Far worse for NO if the river breaks through.
I do too, but Neil Cavuto's interview with some pinhead chairman of some oddball organization called "No Tax Dollars to New Orleans" or some such nonsense was spouting off a bunch of selfish claptrap. There was probably just a smidgen I agreed with, but on the whole, he was "way out there".
It really did seem like Wolf was taken aback by what POS Cafferty said.
I think it's the best way to make something out of a bad situation and keep the people calm and out of the way while they survey what is really going on here... they can't keep 70,000 or more people in the superdome for long with 120 restrooms.
The Great Lakes & The Atlantic? This storm sure is a widespread!
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