louisiana Hurricane Ida

[sunday]

Evacuation orders for New Orleans. Keep safe guys.

https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/27/where-should-you-go-if-youre-told-evacuate/

[Tim the Tank Nut]

it is coming soon to a coast near by...

I wonder if the evac orders will be followed?

[DB]

7 hours ago, Tim the Tank Nut said:

it is coming soon to a coast near by...

I wonder if the evac orders will be followed?

if the numbers follow certain other government recommendations, then about 52% will move, the rest will take their chances with their own natural immunity.

All dark joking aside, I wish no ill on anyone in the affected areas.

[Adam Peter]

Is it really Katrina-like? Here the news say so, but not in details.

[Ivanhoe]

18 hours ago, Tim the Tank Nut said:

I wonder if the evac orders will be followed?

New Orleans itself has issued a voluntary evac recommendation, not a mandatory evac order.

The city gov't got caught with its pants down, so this is the mayor's technique to avoid blame.

No way to know yet how bad it will be. Probably nowhere near as bad as Katrina, but since there is a Dem mayor, governor, and POTUS, there won't be much press coverage of whatever transpires.

As for vaccine hesitancy, NOLA is a hotbed of vaccine hesitancy. It is also deep blue and mostly black.

 

 

[DB]

Similar vaccine numbers to London, actually.

More relevantly, minimal hospital evacuations because inland hospitals are rammed already because of, well, you know, that disease which isn't very serious, we should just let those people die.

[DKTanker]

 

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[Stargrunt6]

6 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

 

St. Rose is not from from where I live, still in the GNO area.

So far, reports back home report intermittent power outages and wind damage. 

 

I'm 2 hrs north in Mississippi with my parents.  They have let me take up a bunk on their rv.   So far, we are safe as houses, only raining, no tornadoes 

[sunday]

Nice to know that, Mark.

Ida's eyewall is really scary.

 

[Stargrunt6]

Flooding in my AO.  Not sure about what's going on with my house or my brother's.   His inlaws got some flooding. 

[sunday]

1 minute ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Flooding in my AO.  Not sure about what's going on with my house or my brother's.   His inlaws got some flooding. 

Hope she moves quicker than Katrina and deals less damage.

[Stargrunt6]

Me too, but last I heard she's traveling at about 10kts.  

[lucklucky]

Some live cams

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_1f66066a-08b4-11ec-9398-67156bab7680.html

[Ivanhoe]

On 8/29/2021 at 7:47 PM, Stargrunt6 said:

I'm 2 hrs north in Mississippi with my parents.  They have let me take up a bunk on their rv.   So far, we are safe as houses, only raining, no tornadoes 

I had some thoughts about that. I'll check in with you in a couple of weeks.

[Stargrunt6]

14 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

I had some thoughts about that. I'll check in with you in a couple of weeks.

Thanks man.

 

We're a heading back.  Uncle has the connect to let us back in.   

[sunday]

Nice to see you are ok.

[Stargrunt6]

I'm back home. Powerlines down on some parts of the highway. Had to drive through empty parking lots to get around them.  All power is out.  Stop signs have been placed at some intersections.  Gonna stay in with my parents in their rv.  Getting used to cold water showers.   

[Stuart Galbraith]

Stay safe SG6.

[sunday]

8 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

I'm back home. Powerlines down on some parts of the highway. Had to drive through empty parking lots to get around them.  All power is out.  Stop signs have been placed at some intersections.  Gonna stay in with my parents in their rv.  Getting used to cold water showers.   

Great!

Having running water is good, and the hot weather there will made cold showers less of a trial.

[DB]

Numerous deaths in the NE US due to rainfall induced floods. 

I don't think it's usual for a hurricane that takes land in Louisiana to have such an impact over 1000 miles away - they're usually completely spent before they've travelled so far, I believe.

[sunday]

22 minutes ago, DB said:

Numerous deaths in the NE US due to rainfall induced floods. 

I don't think it's usual for a hurricane that takes land in Louisiana to have such an impact over 1000 miles away - they're usually completely spent before they've travelled so far, I believe.

It is not, however, it was the third tropical storm in three weeks to hit the NE, so the soil was saturated with water, and there is also they called the "brown ocean effect". Looks like one of the few uses of wikipedia is as data aggregator for hurricane-related information. 

But I am not an expert on the matter.

Edited September 3, 2021 by sunday

[DKTanker]

1 hour ago, DB said:

Numerous deaths in the NE US due to rainfall induced floods. 

I don't think it's usual for a hurricane that takes land in Louisiana to have such an impact over 1000 miles away - they're usually completely spent before they've travelled so far, I believe.

But it is still just a low pressure zone, and in this case it slammed into another storm front causing both to nearly stall over NJ and NY.  So really it wasn't the remnants of the hurricane creating the problem, but the atmospheric low which created the hurricane in the first place.

[Ivanhoe]

https://time.com/6094221/hurricane-ida-engineering-protection/
 

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So the engineers tasked with designing and building the city’s new defenses fudged the numbers so that their work would actually protect New Orleans from the inevitable. After all, no one knew when Congress would get around to funding New Orleans protective measures again, and Corps engineers had a unique opportunity to win the resources needed to do their job properly.

The engineers didn’t lie; instead, they just were exceedingly “conservative” in all their approximations, says Resio. Certain variables were factored in twice. Those accounting for potential ocean waves, for example, were added in twice, meaning that the resulting levee was built with an extra few feet of clearance. If they had gone with a strictly “rule-based” 100-year flood system, it would not have accounted for the likelihood of climate change, says Resio. But instead, the engineers designed and built a system—which included the $1.1 billion West Closure Complex and the 1.8-mille long Lake Borgne Surge Barrier—that might be considered more like 200-year flood protection, Resio says.