Live shots of Lake Charles LA now on wdsu.com . . . ocean-like waves over tree tops poking out . . . utterly terrifying looking . . . I don't know what's around this area, but if it's on the ground, it's under water . . . huge wave breaking, spray and white caps . . . like an ocean . . .
Lafite - lower Jefferson Parish - rescuers pulling hundreds from their homes, sea water pouring in . . .
wdsu
No good....that means 20 feet or more of surge + flooding...once again:
New graphics up, surge models for Beaumont, Lake Charles and Port Arthur.
Five images for each folder, normal sea level, sea level plus five feet surge, plus ten, plus fifteen and plus twenty.
The file names tell which is which once you're at the right folder.
Links:
Beaumont:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Rita/Beaumont/
Lake Charles:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Rita/Lake%20Charles/
Port Arthur:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Rita/Port%20Arthur/
Talk to USGS about the missing roads in Port Arthur, give them some for me, they cost me hair with that screwup.
I was going to do Orange too, but the same problem exists for that area too, no roads, no points of reference.
Lake Charles is quite far in from the coast. If the surge went in that far... Horrifying. Inevitable, though, I suppose, because most of that coast is swamp and the surge could travel in further.