Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VIII

www.freerepublic.com | September 24, 2005

[oceanagirl]

For those interested in NOLA flooding, it has been reported over on Storm2K by posters in the NO area that the Harvey Street Canal has been overtopped as of early this P.M. The levee or floodwall has not been breached, however. There may be further posts over there on this topic.

I don't know where the Harvey Street Canal is, and my AOL/Google had no matches with New Orleans.

[No Blue States]

lol,Your Welcome.. I nearly thought it was for now too when I 1st found that.
But it does give good reference on past floods, the dam had proven it can handle 110k cfs which is a serious deluge...and it list some low areas that might flood now.

[jeffers]

Thanks.

:-)

[trillabodilla]

It just makes me sick to see our wonderful people and culture degraded by the likes of these crooked politicians.

And, believe me, they are crooked from the top all the way down.

Can I move to Texas? Too bad, I don't know anybody over there!

[No Blue States]

You know about a lot of stuff!
Your right, the trinity basin swings NW and W to Dallas...most of the heavy rain is tending NE.

[Cboldt]

Harvey Canal is on the south side of the Mississippi River, and borders Harvey and Gretna (which lie to the east) aand Westwago (which lies to the west). This would be a new pehnomenon, and sounds as though it is Gulf surge, coming in from the south.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/images/nolalevees_jpg.jpg

[JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT]

WorldNetDaily has this article Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans

[janetjanet998]

harvey street canal is south of the city and south of the river i think..

[pollyg107]

Back again after spending 15 minutes in the tornado shelter (the closet under the stairs). My ears are still popping. Looks like a weak tornado passed right over us.

[laz]

Here:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Rita/BigPicture.jpg

Big picture view, based on collected anecdotal reports to date.

If that isn't spot on, I bet it's pretty close. That's a wider stretch of real estate than the Katrina surge across Mississippi and Alabama, isn't it?

[jeffers]

DeLorme has no match for Harvey Street either.

In any event, this means that every canal connected to Lake P. is also full up...not good news.

Keep i mind that early reports are often wrong...but in this case, i'd be more inclined to doubt the correct spelling than the report tiself.

[gpapa]

Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
Six-Hourly QPF Forecasts
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/6hrqpfall.html

Looks like Arkansas is going to get a lot of rain also.

[jeffers]

I lived in Dallas from 79 to 81.

Right behind the Chi-O house at SMU.

They sing naughty songs on Tuesday nights.

[laz]

Blanco wants the feds to pay for all of louisiana's teachers, cops, firefighters.

Blank-o wants the feds to pay for everything her little heart desires. She needs to be b*itch-slapped with some reality.

[jeffers]

Disregard the post this replies to, Cboldt found the correct answer.

[the Deejay]

any word from Port Arthur yet?

Took a very hard hit. Per Geraldo who is reporting from Port Arthur.

[Palladin]

Naughty songs...how quaint.

[BurbankKarl]

Dont think so....goodbye Louisiana...

[oceanagirl]

Thanks to everyone for the info on Harvey Street Canal. I can now locate it on my map, and it does not look good.

If I see anything more about it on Storm2K or elsewhere, I'll update.

[Cboldt]

The Harvey Canal isn't connecte to Lake Pontcartarin. It is south of the Mississippi River.

THe Harvey Canal has present construction of a flood gate, that is to be closed to reduce water level in the canal in the event of a hurricane storm surge.

This is the $120 million project that is decribed as being held up by Clinton in 1995. It wasn't held up by Clinton, or at least he left no traces of holding it up, and the project was passed in 1996 and funding for it signed into law by Clinton.