Hurricane Ida devastates Lousiana and the GUlf..

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It's bad, folks. The levees seem to be over all holding around New Orleans, but the sheer amount fo rainfall is causing flooding, and the winds are horrible and will do structure damagen.
Late news>French Quarter is flooding from sheer amount of rain.
And waht it's going to be like in the rural areas is going to be grim.
 
How many isf members in the affected area?

Anyone?

The news here reported its pretty bad off the Gulf, in addition to another hurricane moving up the Pacific coast of Mexico right now.

Be careful out there guys and gals.
 
Damn! Norlins had barely recovered from the 2005 flooding when we visited in 2015. So let's hope everything holds this time. Otherwise the Quarter will become accessible only via scuba.
 
When it looked like Grand Isle was going to take a direct hit (it later did), I looked at the town with Google street view. Almost all the buildings, including businesses, are built on stilts there, so it'll be interesting to see how much structural damage was done there. I expect it to take weeks for utilities to be restored there, regardless.

Port Fourchon nearby, which was hit even more directly, is a huge industrial port. I have no way to even guess how much damage those kinds of structures (cranes, dry-docks, storage buildings) will have taken.

The weird thing is how it's still a fully formed hurricane, six hours after landfall and tens of miles inland. The flat ground soaked with warm water is acting like an ocean as far as the storm is concerned.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Damn! Norlins had barely recovered from the 2005 flooding when we visited in 2015. So let's hope everything holds this time. Otherwise the Quarter will become accessible only via scuba.
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French Quarter is seeing some flooding from the sheer amount of rain.
This is a bad one it is indeed a perfect strom:Slow Moving,the Winds four hours after landfall are still 130MPH enough, and massive rains.
The levees seem to be holding around New Orleans, but the rural low level pariashes are going to be devastated.

Worreis the Hurricane might still be at full strenght when it moves inland and hits Baton Rouge. It's a very, very, bad one.
And on the 16th anniversary of Katrina to the dayl...
 
Entire city of New Orleans is now without power, except for a few emergency generators for hospitals, etc.
 
I live in central Louisiana. I did spend the night in Shreveport, but the storm jinked a little early and spared any of this area from the effects, so I'm back home now.
 
Except that a mass loss of left is not involved.Louisina officials are saying are far as destruction goes, this is near a worst case scenairo.
After seeing the news footage this morning, I beleive them.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Reports that local hospitals could not evacuate as all nearby hospitals are already swamped with covid patients. I'm assuming a total power failure at a hospital is going to mean a lot of intubated covid patients will die. Let's hope those generators hold up.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ida-hospitals-5f68dc3f11842ad3b2effbc5d202ffb4
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Problem is that emergency generators are only meant to run for maybe 24hours, beyond that they are being asked to do things they were not built to do.
 
Skeptical Greg said:
Will there ever come a time when most people decide this might not be a good place to build a home/business, whatever?

If Katrina didn't do it, what would?
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By that logic we should abandon most of California, since almost all the major population areas are in earthquake territory.
 
dudalb said:
Problem is that emergency generators are only meant to run for maybe 24hours, beyond that they are being asked to do things they were not built to do.
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I don't know if that's true. The commercial generators that a hospital would install probably run on natural gas, and aren't much like what you would roll out of Home Depot.
 
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