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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on August 28, 2021, 06:29:39 PM
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They are saying that Hurricane Ida is the most powerful hurricane to hit the Louisiana coast since 1850. Looks like with everything else going on, it hasn't gotten a lot of news coverage. If the predictions are accurate, it will be interesting to see what happens in NOLA this time around. Supposedly the new levees are able to take a storm of this magnitude.
Godspeed to our Louisiana members!
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It does look like another big hit. I know the rule is Democrat Mayor/Republican President = President's fault. So Dem Mayor and Dem president? I'm guessing it's the fault of Covid or maybe Trump did it somehow.
PS I'm assuming that this storm will be serious, and more to the point the response will be as troublesome as it was in Katrina because of the damage. I'm prepared to give credit to the Biden administration if they manage to come out looking good on this one. We'll see.
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Well, at least a lot of New Orleans is still uninhabitable since Katrina so the homelessness and such should be less. ;)
bob
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. . . I know the rule is Democrat Mayor/Republican President = President's fault. So Dem Mayor and Dem president? I'm guessing it's the fault of Covid or maybe Trump did it somehow. . . .
Let's see - build a city below sea level on a coast prone to hurricanes, divert levee money to casinos, fill the city with Democrats . . . who else but a Republican could hatch a plan that evil?
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Trump must of found Bush's hurricane control device and just like Bush did with Katrina is steering Ida toward black communities.
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Definitely trump’s fault of course, as is everything else
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Oh no it's climate change.
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Are there parking lots full of empty school buses?
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We are way up on the Arkansas/Texas corner of Louisiana and don't anticipate a whole lot of damage. Now the cost, on the other hand, is screwed.
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Why does Joe Biden hate brown people?
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They are saying that Hurricane Ida is the most powerful hurricane to hit the Louisiana coast since 1850. Looks like with everything else going on, it hasn't gotten a lot of news coverage. If the predictions are accurate, it will be interesting to see what happens in NOLA this time around. Supposedly the new levees are able to take a storm of this magnitude.
Godspeed to our Louisiana members!
Wasn't Katrina a Cat 5 hurricane before it made landfall?
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Wasn't Katrina a Cat 5 hurricane before it made landfall?
IIRC it was for a short period of time out in the gulf but had degraded to a 3 when it made landfall.
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Are there parking lots full of empty school buses?
FEMA had a metric boatload of house trailers that they never used after Katrina. They should be all set after this one.
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I just saw that 100% of New Orleans is without power.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/29/breaking-the-entire-city-of-new-orleans-has-no-power/
Also, why did the dumbass OP put this in politics? Moving it to Roundtable.
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Also, why did the dumbass OP put this in politics?
Don't be too hard on him, he meant well.
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Also, why did the dumbass OP put this in politics? Moving it to Roundtable.
Don't be so hard on him, he is getting feeble in retirement. In fact I heard he had to get a battery operated grease gun! ;)
bob
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I found this interesting compared to Katrina: People are tweeting their addresses asking for rescue. This looks to be just as serious as Katrina was, so I wonder if social media and the current interwebz has kept people from doing the stadium walk. The first iPhone wasn't released until two years after Katrina. For this hurricane, everybody has smart phones, and it appears this has changed how people react.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/29/major-flooding-right-now-in-laplace-la-with-people-trapped-in-their-homes/
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During Katrina I remember reading regular blog posts from a guy who was riding it out in a datacenter in New Orleans.
Pretty sure this is the one I read:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050905195504/http://mgno.com/
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https://twitter.com/hurricanetrack/status/1432139018498609153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Update: all of New Orleans is without power. All 8 transmission lines have been lost. This is affecting the city's ability to pump stormwater out and their ability to pump sewage.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/29/breaking-the-entire-city-of-new-orleans-has-no-power/
Delightful.
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Before Ida:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9_1YGDXsAgAfU5?format=jpg&name=medium)
After Ida:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9_1YGGXEAUFnRF?format=jpg&name=large)
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Update: all of New Orleans is without power. All 8 transmission lines have been lost. This is affecting the city's ability to pump stormwater out and their ability to pump sewage.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/29/breaking-the-entire-city-of-new-orleans-has-no-power/
Delightful.
Eeewwwww
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That one building that Ida knocked down?
In the pre-Ida photo it looks like there's no roof on the building -- it's just 4 walls.
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That one building that Ida knocked down?
In the pre-Ida photo it looks like there's no roof on the building -- it's just 4 walls.
At least the Holiday Inn Express is still standing.
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Crickets
Did really not much happened or is the MSM largely ignoring it because a D is in the WH this time?
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I think that's pretty much it. The big difference is the levees held this time after being rebuilt post Katrina. But a week after Ida they still have most of New Orleans without power, many homes without running water, and still have flooded homes. That's what I would expect in an area that's below sea level and in the path of a major hurricane, but the media only expects that when Democrats are in charge.
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Our crews that went down plan to be there until at least the end of the month.
There are so any big stories right now MSM might start finding it hard to ignore them.
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Our crews that went down plan to be there until at least the end of the month.
There are so any big stories right now MSM might start finding it hard to ignore them.
Yeah, like how Texas is now worse than the Taliban. ;/