It's now officially stationary (according to the 1am position estimate), with the center still sitting over those lovely warm gulf waters. Wonderful.:|If you watch the storm, it's almost like it's sentient. It doesn't want to go inland; it wants to stay in the water. It's been zigging and zagging, nearly matching the shoreline. The center is still south of NO, and it's not going anywhere.
A little disappointed it is only a Cat 1 and not a 3 or 4, as long as no one innocent dies.
Hope the loss of innocent lives isn't high.
I dose off for ~3 hrs and storm seems to have been stationary for most of that time. My alarm clock is blinking so we lost power at some point but have it now. According to Entergy's map, a lot of people around me especially south of me on the west bank are out. News station is reporting a structure fire in Gretna on Franklin St - maybe a business. Being reported that water is overtopping the levee in/around Braithwaite.
90% of grand isle might be flooded, could be complete destruction on the island. Seems the storm has stalled over it for many hours. Sad for the few people who live, next time they should rebuild in a safer location.
i'm curious why you didn't leave like the rest?
I don't live in Braithwaite. I live north west of there. Few people where i live evacuated. We haven't flooded in past 12 yrs I've lived here. I've stayed for every hurricane except Katrina. Having grown up in the deep south, hurricanes are part of life not unlike earthquakes in California.
It's just sitting and spinning over Houma
i'm curious why you didn't leave like the rest?
An infinite number of times. There are some people that are just flat-out okay with being rescued, because it means no one was able to loot their house beforehand.Search and rescue underway. How many times does this need to happen before they start putting some teeth into "mandatory" evacuation??!
An infinite number of times, there are some people that are just flat-out okay with being rescued, because it means no one was able to loot their house beforehand.
Many of those are in areas where they were recently bragging, "it's never flooded here. Even during Katrina, it didn't flood here."So even after Katrina, we still have people that would not leave and now on their rooftops and begging for rescue?
When will these folks ever learn? I think the rescue teams need to charge a fee to rescue them.
<shaking head in disbelief>
A lot of the people they are evacuating are located in places that did not flood during Katrina. LaPlace didn't flood during Katrina and had no evacuation orders for Isaac. Changes in the levee system (post Katrina) around New Orleans and wind direction has pushed Lake Pontchartrain into areas that it hasn't gone before.
I wonder where all the water goes that is pumped out of New Orleans with their new worlds largest pump? Are they now flooding other areas that didn't flood in the past with the water from New Orleans? If there pumping it into the lake, river or ocean all these bodies of water are rising during the storm so it's not like the water is going to flow away from the area. Its only going to rise outside the levee system.
Right out to sea.That's what I was thinking. Where is all that water going?