[jeffers]

So what's going on here?

We have relatively minor damage, both wind and surge at the point of landfall.

We have significant structural damage at Lufkin and Nacogdoches, Texas, 150 miles inland, and the wind tearing up a dam nearby.

We have a surge that keeps on growing several hours after the storm, apparantly deeper at a range of 150 to 200 miles east of landfall than it was at Lake Charles, only 50 miles from landfall.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this information?

Must be "early reports".

They're always wrong.

Same goes for the pictures of the waders at Laffite.

Bad camera angle.

[SE Mom]

Something is amiss...

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'm sorry, but your speculation is way off, you are jumping to very wrong conclusions. Take off the tinfoil, there is no conspiracy.

You claim to have 2 sources that storm surge in NOLA is 20'. Since almost all the tops of the levee walls are below 20', that would have meant massive overtopping of every levee bowl. In actuality, Lake Pontchartrain is at an 8' surge, nowhere close to 20'. Normal level for Lake P. is sea level, but the Miss. River is normally higher than that by NOLA, hence the locks at the west end of the industrial canal.

Take off the tinfoil, there is no conspiracy. You've just built a logical house of cards based on false information/conclusions.

[Sunnyflorida]

Water and wind do funny things. I live in Punta Gorda and we have wind tides. Normal moon tides are about 2 feet or so.

http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/tideshow.cgi?site=Punta+Gorda%2C+Charlotte+Harbor%2C+Florida

But in the summer I get water over my dock all the time. In the winter from my dock to the water is up to six feet. Now how can that be?

Ans: The wind. In the summer or prevailing wind is NE in the winter our prevailing wind is SW. Check out the map.

http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm?lat=26.6931269618&lon=-82.0786440052&scale=1200000&zoom=100&type=0&height=498&width=498&icon=0&searchscope=dom&scriptfile=http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm&bpid=MAP0204021051&latlontype=DMS

That little bit of open water from Punta Gorda to Boca Grande Pass is enough to push out six feet on a 15 knot breeze if it is steady for a few days. Amazing.