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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 13, 2020 21:20:06 GMT -5
If the spaghetti models hold true, this may be a bigger flooding and surge issue in Gulfport, MS than it will be to Louisiana - but that's if (and only if) the New Orleans levees, flood walls, and pumps perform as expected. Otherwise, it's Hurricane Katrina time all over again. As of now, I'm on the western edge of the wind cone, but we're still 24 to 36 hours out from landfall.
Hunkered down, but willing to evacuate if it seems prudent.
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Post by garbulky on Sept 13, 2020 21:53:04 GMT -5
Am I watching a re-run? Didn't this episode already run on the show"2020: Sure Why Not" . I thought it was time for flying snakes or something.
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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 13, 2020 22:10:45 GMT -5
If the eye gets over lake Ponchatrain, we may get some flying snakes!
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Post by garbulky on Sept 13, 2020 22:12:34 GMT -5
If the eye gets over lake Ponchatrain, we may get some flying snakes! Like these?  |
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Post by dougport on Sept 13, 2020 22:26:21 GMT -5
If the eye gets over lake Ponchatrain, we may get some flying snakes! You take Sally and I'll take Sue There ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'round my brain |
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Post by novisnick on Sept 13, 2020 22:40:38 GMT -5
Katrina was no joke but Laura shamed her as far as destruction goes! We don’t want a rerun of either Thank You!
Today started by servicing the generators as is normal after a storm or extended use. 10 day’s qualifies as extended use in my book. Sure hope nobody needs to run generators over another storm, especially this soon as we haven’t recovered from Laura yet.
I am super glad that New Orleans and Baton Rouge were spared, I hope they’re missed by this storm as well. I don’t belthat New Orleans has fully recovered from Katrina 🙏🙏🙏
Greatful that we didn’t get the devastation that points west and south received but we still got hit pretty well for being so far inland.
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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 14, 2020 0:01:15 GMT -5
Even if not this particular time...New Orleans is doomed. A coastal city along a warm, shallow sea where much of the elevation is below mean sea level on a normal day is doomed to flood (again and again), even without global warming. Why? Because the entire coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico is built on alluvial soil that sinks a little bit every single year. Before the Army Corps of Engineers built the Mississippi River levee system, the annual spring floods would replenish the coastline with fresh silt and mud brought from the entire continent. But with the levee system, now the replacement alluvium falls off the continental shelf out in the Gulf. The smart thing to do would be to depopulate New Orleans (and most other cities along the Gulf coast), keeping only the necessary and profitable enterprises (elevated oil pumping platforms and the New Orleans tourist area). EVERYTHING and EVERYONE else should move inland. But of course, that'll never happen. Instead, we'll have to put up with New Orleans (and Mobile, and Galveston, and Pensacola, etc.) flooding again and again. In other words, the taxpayers are eventually going to get tired of rebuilding coastal cities. |
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Post by dcg44s on Sept 14, 2020 7:09:30 GMT -5
Boom,you and everyone else stay safe.
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Post by novisnick on Sept 14, 2020 8:39:04 GMT -5
Even if not this particular time...New Orleans is doomed. A coastal city along a warm, shallow sea where much of the elevation is below mean sea level on a normal day is doomed to flood (again and again), even without global warming. Why? Because the entire coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico is built on alluvial soil that sinks a little bit every single year. Before the Army Corps of Engineers built the Mississippi River levee system, the annual spring floods would replenish the coastline with fresh silt and mud brought from the entire continent. But with the levee system, now the replacement alluvium falls off the continental shelf out in the Gulf. The smart thing to do would be to depopulate New Orleans (and most other cities along the Gulf coast), keeping only the necessary and profitable enterprises (elevated oil pumping platforms and the New Orleans tourist area). EVERYTHING and EVERYONE else should move inland. But of course, that'll never happen. Instead, we'll have to put up with New Orleans (and Mobile, and Galveston, and Pensacola, etc.) flooding again and again. In other words, the taxpayers are eventually going to get tired of rebuilding coastal cities. Amen! They should have never allowed the rebuilding of such a population center. I do agree with the tax base being kept up but taxpayers getting stuck with the tab over and over again is ridiculous. |
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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 15, 2020 7:00:47 GMT -5
Well, the thing's still dilly-dallying around in the Gulf, but at least it's not intensifying.
AND FINALLY - At about 5am on Wednesday, it looks like Sally is finally coming ashore just east of Mobile bay. Condolences to those in the direct path and to the east.Stay safe!
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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 17, 2020 10:11:39 GMT -5
AMF Sally - The Queen is dead - Long live the Queen - What's next? One in the Gulf & five in the Atlantic...
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