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  • HornOnTheBayou
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    I forgot OU was going to New Orleans. That would explain why the storm is being sucked in that direction. I hope forecasters are taking that into account when they plot those paths.

  • South Austin
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My Rita story is that my mom lived in Lumberton when it hit. She tried to evacuate but 69 was a clusterfuck and it took her 6 hours to make it 30 miles up to Warren/Woodville where my grandparents lived. She only had a small Saturn coupe and had to bring a coworker with her and her 2 large dogs. She ended up leaving 2 cats behind because she had nowhere to put them. One lived, one disappeared. Sorry @Nicole44, sometimes people don't have options. 

Anyways her place in Lumberton got some flooding damage and 2 bigass pine trees on the roof, along with her fence being destroyed. My sister and I drove from Austin through some backroads to get to her since they had major roads blocked and wouldn't let people in. We spent the weekend clearing the trees and brush and getting her food from the National Guard who was giving shit out (MRE's and beanie weenies, but more importantly ice and water). She was ok with staying instead of coming back to Austin with us. She spent 2 weeks without power and it was like 95+ every day. She said she actually got used to it ... and she's from Canada. 

She got the fuck out a few years later and moved to Dallas. 

Recording some 150mph winds…a Cat 5 is 157mph…this things is in beast mode as it enters the coast.

Headed straight for Port Fourchon, furnishes 16% of US oil supply

Edited by Neonmoon

Oldest son lives a few blocks north of St. Charles cross Street at Jackson. He decided to stay.  According to maps and locals they got about 2-3' of water for Katrina.

More concerned about level of preparedness.  Not sure he is ready for 3 weeks without power.

I was in Kinder LA on Friday, the guy at the gas station said he had sold 14000 gallons of gas in 12 hours.  No doubt, it will be rough week for those who stay.

21 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

Still plenty of people driving around. There were people on Bourbon St just a couple minutes ago.

This was Rita. Folks lost their mind early, but morning before the roads were clear. Still plenty of time for folks to drive out of town. 

A reminder... here are the descriptions of a Cat 4 and Cat 5 from NHC:

4 (major) 130-156 mps

Catastrophic damage will occur: Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.


5 (major)  157 mph or higher
 Catastrophic damage will occur: A high percentage of framed homes will be destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

Things have a way of not being as bad as forecast in many cases, but in this case, if NOLA is in the narrow 20-mile path near or at the eye, unlike Katrina, where teh surge was bad but the winds not quite as devastating, this one could easily flatten (i.e. wipe out completely) entire subdivisions.

Might be the worst storm to ever hit U.S. in terms of damage/destruction.  Hope not of course.

59 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Godspeed to any and all in the path of Ida.  

Have family in the bayou (Cut Off/Galliano/Golden Meadow) and it's insane how many people I've heard are staying.  

Just now, Message Board User said:

Have family in the bayou (Cut Off/Galliano/Golden Meadow) and it's insane how many people I've heard are staying.  

We operate out of Fourchon and have operations folks that live off LA1 in the Galliano/Larose and some in Houma. A few stayed, a few with young kids came to Houston. 

That link isn’t loading for me :( 

 

edit… it did finally :) 

Edited by Johnny Chimpo

FYI, for those interested.  The CBS affiliate in New Orleans WWL TV Channel 4 is live-streaming on Youtube:

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

That link isn’t loading for me :( 

 

edit… it did finally :) 

 

Yeah takes a little while, but it's still up if a little grainy.

The water is already noticeably higher than it was just 30 minutes ago.  

29 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

I think that’s wrong - western side looks better. Regardless, too late for anything to lessen impact at this point. Deal is done. 

Just now, DaggerHorns said:

Can someone tell me what this means?

I’m dumb. Thank you.

Lower the pressure, higher wind speeds, stronger the storm 

1 minute ago, DaggerHorns said:

Can someone tell me what this means?

I’m dumb. Thank you.

The lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane.  Millibars (not wind speed) determines intensity.  So a deep drop in pressure means rapid intensification.  

Looking like it is presently following the same path as Hurricane Betsy.

Edited by ShaggyBevo RIP

7 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

Can someone tell me what this means?

I’m dumb. Thank you.

No storm ever gotten this strong and continuing to intensify this close to shore.

Can someone tell me what this means?
I’m dumb. Thank you.
Can someone tell me what this means?
I’m dumb. Thank you.

Hurricanes in the gulf do not typically continue to intensify so close to land as Ida has. Many storms in the gulf actually lose steam before landfall. Ex: Rita was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded when it was way out in the gulf, landfall as a Cat 2 or 3. Katrina, as bad as it was, also weakened prior to landfall.

Ida has continued to strengthen up to the final hours before landfall.

I got home from New Orleans last night at 11.  I was on the last Southwest flight out last night.  I had to go to town to for a funeral.  I had prep my grandmothers house for the hurricane since she had passed away.  She lived in a flood zone on the West Bank in New Orleans.  Yesterday at 3 pm her neighborhood was ghost town.  I didn't see a single person.  Also every gas station was out of gas.  I turned in our car to Avis on empty.  Also I went to costco on Friday afternoon in NOLA.  What was crazy was Costco inside wasn't busy but the line to get gas was literally 3 blocks long.  A lot of the pallets inside costco were almost empty too.  I'm hoping my family in New Orleans do alright.  In Lakeview (where most of my family lives), the pumps are broken so the neighborhood is definitely going to experience flooding.    

Edited by Tex48

Good to hear a report of a neighborhood being a ghost town, hopefully it really is and not just a bunch of people no longer coming out of houses.

Just now, GreenspointTexas said:

Lsu football team in Houston all this week

Wonder if our Saturday opponent moved as well?  

Good question.  It looks like they have cancelled classes for tomorrow.  Lafayette is 55 miles west of Baton Rouge but it looks like that could make a big difference in this case.

This guy put together a list of streamers, web cams, news stations

 

22 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

The lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane.  Millibars (not wind speed) determines intensity.  So a deep drop in pressure means rapid intensification.  

They’re related though. The pressure differential is what causes the winds to rush from higher pressure areas surrounding a Low pressure center, and the coriolis effect causes the rightward deflection of that inward rushing air in the northern hemisphere. So Lows rotate counterclockwise and Highs rotate clockwise in this hemisphere. Lower pressure also usually implies the opportunity for stronger storms as air can rise easier convectively as opposed to sinking air of a high pressure area quashing thunderstorms.

A millibar is a metric measure denoting a unit of pressure per square cm if memory serves. Inches of mercury denotes the height of a column of mercury equal to a column of the atmosphere of same circumference from sea level to the it’s top at 59F/15C. 29.92” or 1013.2 MB is considered standard pressure. I’m sure a real meteorologist just cringed at all that, but it’s a quick an dirty explanation for the OP you replied to.

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