Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
If you don't tell the press 150 times the don't even get 10% of what is said.
Water doesn't move instantly.
Born in OK, spent the night of my 4th grade play (forth grade I was in OK) in a storm cellar, and moved to NO 2 weeks before Betsy.
I don't think I believed in environmental safety ever...
All in all, it'll be one heck of a mess, but not nearly the doomsday scenario the media was so clearly salivating over the prospect of.
I am in Breaux Bridge. Lots of limbs down, no real flooding to speak of. Some slight wind damage in places, but overall we got off lucky. Hope that helps!
I don't know, but it does the same to wife. Maybe the thought of losing a wall and having dirty dishes exposed is more than ya'll can take.
I have my suspicions on who's the ultimate controller....
Thanks for the link.
doggone it.... the radar.weather.gov site seems to be loaded down now... too many people know about the internet nowadays... can somebody make them go away and let those of us who have been using it for ten years have it back to ourselves again? we were here first!
Hear anything from Lafayette? New Iberia?
Presser with FEMA director on. New man on the job taking usual "who's to blame" questions from media, e.g. poor people stuck out on the highway without gas. Show's he's not stuck on stupid by saying working well with state and local officals on making decisions on getting relief now. In response to questions on comparision of Rita to Katrina and why response so much better now, says will review all aspects of the response following the end of the disaster. Lots of time then. Situation still on going with rain and flooding, focused on that. Stupid MSM reporters continue pressing...
LOL, great picture!
Try Googling with
flood control simmesport atchafalaya "old river" -site:com
also
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?050912fr_archive01
http://etd02.lnx390.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-1106103-132359/unrestricted/01Text.pdf
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/tpnoseries02.html
http://nola.live.advance.net/washingaway/corps_1.html
Funny, that's kind of what my husband said about me! Guess it's a girl thing...... ;)
susie
As of a few minutes ago unable to reach Fort Polk, LA website. Any word from anybody about Fort Polk status yet?
The river is higher than the city. It would. It'd be like pouring water from a pitcher. And there's no end of water to see...and it would be tearing up everything in its wake. Lots of current, lots of pressure behind it. Impossible to empty. The lake is lower than the river. It wouldn't equalize.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092400511_pf.html
Rita Hits Near Civil War Battleground
By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Saturday, September 24, 2005; 10:12 AM
-- Hurricane Rita came ashore Saturday just east of Sabine Pass, Texas, home to a Civil War battleground and a town that was nearly destroyed by a hurricane over a century ago.
In 1886, a hurricane destroyed much of the town of Sabine Pass, killing 86 people. Major storms hit again in 1900 and 1915.
Sabine Pass was annexed by Port Arthur in 1978, and about 1,500 people lived in the community in the early 1980s.
The Sabine Pass Battleground State Park & Historic Site commemorates a battle in 1863, when the U.S. Navy tried to invade Confederate Texas. The Navy wanted access to the rail center of Houston, but was stopped by Lt. Dick Dowling of the Confederate Army and 46 of his men, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Web site.
Sabine Pass also is the birthplace of J.P. Richardson Jr., "The Big Bopper," who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in 1959. Two years earlier, he recorded his most famous song, "Chantilly Lace."
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On the Net:
The Sabine Pass Battleground State Park:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/sabine_pass_battleground
I've been online 11 years! I get first dibs!!!!!
Well I'm happy for you that you were satisfied. I live in George County, and I was not happy with FEMA response because they got here three weeks late. the mayor of Stateline Ms, had to call a local radio station in Mobile a week after the hurricane hit because they needed water and generators for elderly in the community who needed electricity for med. equipment. Everyone has their own opinion on how things went down. Do I need FEMA, no, but a lot of people do need help. And as I said, I din't like the fact that he did a fly by in his airpane days later, I think he could have and should responded sooner.
If this guy is correct that is a huge problem. I've been assuming that many of the levees that protect the city are based on sea level assuming the Lake gets only so much higher (driven by storm surge).
If the River is allowed to backflow through the Industrial Canal then they have a real ongoing problem. Especially if the River comes up from Rita. MR GO is a relieve valve, I suppose. Time to go to the maps. My connection to the Maptech topo and chart server is down. Do you know levee heights besides the River ones?
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