We'll see but at first Katrina didn't get the hype it deserved. I recall people thinking maybe they dodged a bullet. But then it became clear all the rising water and flooding was creating a catastrophe.

And if you wan't to make it purely economic, well don't go there. Southeastern Louisiana generates tons of money for people across the political, idealogical and social areas of society as well as educates millions of people. The cost of resettling all of Southeast Louisiana and bearing the brunt of what comes is far greater than phasing out oil in the gulf and remediating the damage.

**** living anywhere near the coast man.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DEVASTATING: here&#39;s a look at the flooding happening in Laplace<br>Courtesy of Gene Franques <a href="https://t.co/hWPqdekh8u">pic.twitter.com/hWPqdekh8u</a></p>&mdash; wdsu (@wdsu) <a href="https://twitter.com/wdsu/status/1432168850985046025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LMAO LMAO LMAO

liberal fear mongering at it's finest

Any sharknados:rolleyes:

Your so full of shit I can smell you over here

Cool story bruh.

wE hAvE tO gEt OfF FoSsIl FuEls

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I can't embed because of the stupid language filter, trying to post the "backside eyewall" video.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Backside eyewall in Houma. Violent wind gusts, strongest I’ve ever seen. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ida</a> <a href="https://t.co/Swrj1T9PDo">pic.twitter.com/Swrj1T9PDo</a></p>&mdash; Jim Tang (@wxmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/wxmann/status/1432179546367963142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

"disable smilies in post"

Aha! Thanks dude.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Right now we are in a hotel in laplace bc st charles did a mandatory evacuation and well we arent doing good. The hotel has a back up generator but its flooding really bad. <a href="https://t.co/3aIZNsXHhE">pic.twitter.com/3aIZNsXHhE</a></p>&mdash; Timboi (@longpig_tim) <a href="https://twitter.com/longpig_tim/status/1432156474898276356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

OK Al Gore!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here&#39;s an incredible view from the cockpit, as Hurricane Hunters fly through the rough eye wall of Hurricane Ida, and enter the relatively calm conditions within the eye of the hurricane. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIda</a> <a href="https://t.co/82LS6h6dG7">pic.twitter.com/82LS6h6dG7</a></p>&mdash; WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/1432146051075563523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's crazy.

Spent a lot of time in Houma. There a “ditch” that runs through the whole length of town. That thing flooded both sides of the road in a normal rain shower. I can’t imagine the flooding on top of the wind damage.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a result of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ida</a>’s catastrophic intensity, major transmission lines that deliver power to NOLA are currently out of service. We know of one downed transmission line that spans the MS River. The destroyed tower withstood <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Katrina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Katrina</a>. Stay informed ➡️ <a href="https://t.co/wt1ZVlZSer">https://t.co/wt1ZVlZSer</a>. <a href="https://t.co/D2F4FKdVfN">pic.twitter.com/D2F4FKdVfN</a></p>&mdash; Entergy New Orleans (@EntergyNOLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/EntergyNOLA/status/1432383927545630720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">the community of Braithwaite innundated by water after a levee was overtopped in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hurricaneida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hurricaneida</a> Some residents had to be rescued. <a href="https://t.co/SReqFhWODG">pic.twitter.com/SReqFhWODG</a></p>&mdash; WXChasing (Brandon Clement) (@bclemms) <a href="https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1432371081285885957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is when the true misery begins for people who survived the actual hurricane okay in terms of no personal or property damage... having to survive without A/C in August in New Orleans.

When does the looting start?

Wednesday around 1037am.

Things are wild down here. We will be without power in the New Orleans area for 3-5 weeks. Commerce that goes up and down the river will have major stalling. There is only travel out, no travel in. It’s just a shame, but for all the blame that people want to level at the energy provider Entergy, they are only playing the hand that is dealt to them.

Prayers and help for the area are much appreciated.

When did it ever stop?

The person randomly shouting **** made me watch it twice.

For real?


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What is up with the weather channel dudes? ���� They can hardly stand, yet 2 dudes are strolling down the street virtually unfazed? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ida</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cantore?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cantore</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goodloe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#goodloe</a> <a href="https://t.co/lerICuWpfJ">pic.twitter.com/lerICuWpfJ</a></p>&mdash; Some of u need to pass a test b4 u can tweet ��*♂️ (@KenGrisham) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenGrisham/status/1432071848351735814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Cantore has been exposed so many times he should be arrested for public nudity

I've reached an age where I turn on the weather channel in the morning before work. I generally don't have issues with anyone on the show except the vegan blonde chick that constantly says things that make me realize she was trying to sleep her way to the top, but she didn't know the top for her was the weather channel morning show.

But they do exaggerate weather conditions to the point where I know that I need to drop down the intensity level a few notches from what they say.

Who dis

I'm way past sick of that guy's attention whoring. Yeah, it's a ****ing hurricane; we know it's windy and destructive. But he could stand somewhere we could all here him on the off chance that he says something important.

At this point, every time I see him pulling that crap I hope he gets blasted by a chunk of debris like the guy in 2012.

LMAO


I've never understood why the news insists on being on location for things.. random news guy will be outside a company's HQ, live at 10pm and 5 hours after everyone else has left, then mention the company didn't respond to email requests.

Then you have these idiots who want to stand outside in a hurricane while telling everyone else they should have evacuated days ago.

Looked it up.... Stephanie Abrams. She says stupid shit like purposefully saying "Naw lens" but then when she's talking normal is your typical white girl "New Orleans".

I'm not going to lie. I have an irrational hatred of her.

;)

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Figured that's who it was

LMAO I bet I have told that story wrong 100x, yea the Red Sea. The Suez Canal was definitely a trip.

Another good reason I shouldn't have gone in the Navy.

There was a situation this morning on MSNBC (and race baiters like Rex Chumpman jumped on it), while on location in Gulfport, MS some man charged at the reporter and crew. The comments on Twitter were “his horse meds are kicking in.” And “Mississippi is racist, and this further proves it.”

All the while I’m like, while those could be logical explanations, this person also just went through a Cat 3 hurricane, so this guy probably isn’t mentally in the same place as commenters who are 1,000 miles away. This person just went through some crazy ish, and while he needs to be taken into police control (so that this can be sorted out), I need to know what the back story is here. There are houses along the Gulfport area, did the film crew do something to this guy’s property? I’m just not ready to jump to conclusions and condemn this man, but then, that’s probably why I will never make it as a Twitter star.

I remember when Fox News would send out Geraldo in a yellow rain suit looking like ****ing Super Mario LMAO

Weather Underground doesn't want user stations anymore it seems like. I used to watch neighborhood stations on the sprayer all the time. Sometimes the wind in the north part of the county is different than the south.

Now, if I don't have the station ID memorized I can't get it. It sucks.

Yeah, Cabelas put a store in Gonzales LA that I had to go audit. I'd never been down there, cool. So these ****s from retail convinced me to go the 35 miles South to New Orleans by telling me they were going to get in to one of Emril's restaurants. I didn't have that kind of money, but I was down. Turns out they didn't and we went to Bourbon Street and I wanted to eat a bullet.

That's not the story, we came in from the North and whatever, I was surprised at how flat it is and how many cows there were. Felt like a more green/tree covered Western Kansas, then we got on a bridge over Lake Pontchartrain. Woah. This is a big lake. Then we went DOWN into New Orleans, and I've seen a map, I know what's on the other side.

Coming from the Great American Desert (according to Steven H Long), it was ****ing terrifying. Even if I wanted to let loose and get drunk, I'm not sure I could. It would always be in my head.

I kinda thought butterface. Then I drew a strange comparison, Chelsea Clinton. Dunno.

Why don't they make the building codes for the houses to be on stilts?

All the houses on Florida's east coast are required to be raised. They are quite strict.

I can’t speak for other places, but in New Orleans most houses have been raised since Katrina. As a matter of fact, insurance companies won’t touch you if you have been in a flooded area and haven’t raised your home. There are entire regions outside of the levee protection and flood walls that are uninsured because they either aren’t raised, or are in such a bad spot insurers won’t touch them. So yes, many homes that experienced flooding in the last have been raised.

Regarding some of the buildings and older properties that have been destroyed (theres a picture circulating of an old building that Louis Armstrong used to work at that toppled over), those buildings can’t be raised. They should, but the historical district doesn’t want them altered from their natural state. They are asking for problems by enforcing that, but it is what it is, and I’m not crying over it. We love our history in New Orleans. From our culture to our historical sites, we want to preserve them as much as possible, sadly, in that process stupid stuff like the aforementioned happens and things fall apart. Cest la vie.

I kind of figured that was the case. It is hard to raise a 150 yro historical building. I am assuming most of the flood pictures are either in historical districts or poor areas of the city.

I am glad to hear that they making new structures raised. Of course we won't see those pictures because there is no damage and doesn't "make" the photo op.

Yeah, nobody writes stories about houses that aren’t on fire.

The one thing I will tell you though is that (similar to all the developing going on here in Houston), with all the development of levees and flood walls, that water has to go somewhere, and since we are protecting areas that were constantly being flooded the water is going to new areas. So you have areas now flooding that hadn’t flooded before. It’s a real mess.

The people who originally settled New Orleans settled in the French Quarter because that was the only place that wasn’t swamp area (New Orleans is predominantly built on swamp). Look up any map of New Orleans pre 1800, and put it up next to a map of places that flooded during Katrina, and you will see that only the areas developed post 1800 are the ones that flooded. It’s pretty wild.
The issue now is what to do about electricity. I’m not sure what you have in your area (monopoly or open competition), but here in New Orleans the Company (Entergy) is a regulated monopoly, and their transformers went down, so now the city has to a) rebuild or fix transformers and b) price out the value of putting lines underground (it’s not cheap). So those costs will roll downhill, and if citizens wants sustainable power (outside of AE) they will have to pony up the cash. We have powerlines underground in the French Quarter, but elsewhere it’s too expensive to justify the cost.