conan
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Will hit on Katrina 16th anniversary.
I guess now is question is…will Biden admin blow up the dikes etc as Bush in back in 06.
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Camp
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He will say Trump energy policy and cheaper fuel costs caused gulf waters to warm and storm to be more destructive.
It was a lagging statistic like covid deaths.
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it’s a big one. so of course it will be used to convince the mushbrained that climate change has descended upon us all
that’s what has priority among democrats and lefty-wits
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The federal government chose to rebuild a city on sinking, below-sea-level land in a region that is prone to cat-5 hurricanes.
What could go wrong?
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It’ll be passing over my area later on tonight.
Already seeing the cloud movement speed up.
LA got hit hard this morning. 157 mph winds. One of my friends is a nurse in New Orleans so she rode it out. It had weakened by the time it passed over the city but it wasn’t pretty. And the rainfall is nuts like it always is.
I figure the main damage where I live will be from falling trees. The winds will be a ton weaker than they were this morning but it’ll be enough to knock down the dead trees. Which will kill the power. There will be some flooding around the creeks and rivers too, but probably nothing too terrible considering how low the water level has been this summer.
Till then I’m going to enjoy the temperature. It feels good outside for once this August.
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WuWei
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I’ll put in a word for you.
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WuWei
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That thing is huge on radar.
rp5x5
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Anyone else read “Tin Roof Blowdown?” by Burke. Looks like New Iberia is right in the path.
Do you know why New Orleans is there? It’s because we can’t send ocean freighters up the Mississippi river. So they off load in NOLA. New Orleans is a necessity.
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Yes, perhaps the port needs to be there. How many people actually work in the port?
The federal government spent $15 billion on levies to protect the city, but it looks like the levees in the southern part of the area may not be high enough to prevent severe flooding from Ida.
Many. But then you need schools for their kids, gas stations, Stores, entertainment, banks, gyms homes and everything that goes with it. But to your point. Do they need that many people? Probably not. People are there to make money. But there is certainly risk involved.
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With Katrina, the initial reports after the hurricane were that everything was pretty much okay except for some reports of isolated flooding. The problem was that one leak can create a massive flood since most of the area is in a couple of bowls that are below sea level. Flooding is not isolated to one small area.
The same thing could happen again.
It could. This one might even pack a little more punch than K. We’ll see. The one thing we know is that the Biden administration can handle any challenge thrown their way. They got this!
The eye is/was only fifty miles wide, like half that of Katrina, producing a lower storm surge even with a more powerful storm.
The storm appears to be stalling out just south of New Orleans.
Not a good sign.
Some official in New Orleans said they could handle 20 inches of rain over a 48 hour period but that the same in 24 hours could be very bad. They don’t need that thing stalling.
I hear they’ve got truckloads of paper towels ready to go.
amadeus
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Well, got out of New Orleans yesterday to Houston. On to San Antonio. Logged on to Hannity from our hotel in Houston, but then got bumped off as the site didn’t “like” my IP address. In a new hotel in San Antonio, and so far the forum is OK with my IP address.
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amadeus
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Not sure we’ve ever had a cat-5. Federal government actually, finally, did a great job helping to rebuild the levees. The problem this time was not the government, but the failure of private enterprise.
