New Orleans may be soggy toast

[epobirs]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040914/ap_on_re_us/vulnerable_new_orleans_1

Scary situation developing. I wouldn't want to live there but I've enjoyed my visits and wouldn't want to see the place effetively destroyed.

[Tricky]

They are expecting the eye of Hurricane Ivan to pass east of New Orleans. Ivan was a cat 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph.

[Wshakspear]

"We have reports of heavy rain, large hail...and...am i reading that right?...beads...people are being showered with beads..."

[sblymnlcrymnl]

"We have reports of heavy rain, large hail...and...am i reading that right?...beads...people are being showered with beads..."

:rofl:

[guyver2077]

damn good luck. us here in miami got lucky that thing went west

[SneakyPenguin]

"We have reports of heavy rain, large hail...and...am i reading that right?...beads...people are being showered with beads..."

:rofl:

That, coupled with the old ding-a-ling post, has made Wshakspear one of the funniest pople on the site IMO.

[WhipSmartBanky]

Sorry, but thank God it's not here. Again.

Jeanne may fuck us up but good, though. Again.

[zman73]

I live outside of Mobile... which right now is in the projected path of the eye... will finish boarding up in the morning... and ride this out.. I live in a high area... Ill have to remove some of the planks bordering my pool fence to relieve any pressure

If I were my boss... Id freak... he has a pier he had to prepare... my workplace is only a few miles from the Mobile ports in an area prone to flooding

Got plenty of drinks and water... and food... it is just me and my wife and our 12 dogs (7 from recent dachshund litter)... gonna ride this sucker out and hope for the best for everyone involved :wink:

[Trakan]

Holy shit zman73, you have alot of dogs! even without the 7 puppies, that's 5 dogs!

[sblymnlcrymnl]

Good luck to all in the area

[bluenatas09]

My father works for a Oil company in New Orleans doing telecommunications and has to work up there for the next 3 days. And the suprise? I have to go too for I can watch my sister and what not...and well, he doesn't think that staying where we are right now is really any safer. Nice article..now I just hope the whole city doesn't submerge:) Thanks for the luck...

[ExtctnLvl]

i live in pensacola, this sucks i might lose everything before i get a chance to sell my house :(

[zman73]

Holy shit zman73, you have alot of dogs! even without the 7 puppies, that's 5 dogs!

They are dachshunds... three we rescued... we have 5.. might keep one from the litter (the girl dapple puppy... especially if it is longhaired) ... good thing we have a nice sized yard for them to run around in... my boy Salvador... now I am worried about him... he freaks out over a small thunderstorm

I did make sure I put some THICK ASS plywood over the window to my gaming room... yes I did on the other windows too... :lol:

[Wshakspear]

"We have reports of heavy rain, large hail...and...am i reading that right?...beads...people are being showered with beads..."

:rofl:

That, coupled with the old ding-a-ling post, has made Wshakspear one of the funniest pople on the site IMO.

ding?a?ling?
huh?

my brain has apparently been erased.

...

[KingDox]

my geology prof went off one time on how New Orleans is built in such a crappy place and the mississippi river or some other force of nature is going to wipe it out some day.

[epobirs]

my geology prof went off one time on how New Orleans is built in such a crappy place and the mississippi river or some other force of nature is going to wipe it out some day.

If not for heroic measures in engineering the place would have been wiped out over a century ago. The Mississipi likes to see the world and doesn't care who it inconveniences in the process. I once saw a time-lapse animation of the river's course over the centuries in which it has been observed. Without the US Army Core of Engineers there wouldn't any permanent human habitation within 50 miles of either bank.

[sying]

Sorry, but thank God it's not here. Again.

Jeanne may shaq-fu us up but good, though. Again.

Charlie shaq fued my TRU sale, Francis Shaq Fued my fence (to' up from the flo up) and Ivan is shaq fuing up my Kmart GOOB sale. Im begining to hate Jacksonville. :evil:

[zman73]

This is going to be some major crap... the first real signs will arrive around 8 tomorrow night, winds around the 50's and 60's in varying degrees for hours on end it will seem like... according to the sites I just looked at... my area will see a peak sustained wind speed of about 77 MPH around 2 PM thrusday... it will tail off after that.... by 8 it will be back down to 20 mph

I intend on finishing all my preps by noon... then sitting around playing a few games until this thing hits... I cant stand seeing the same thing over and over... besides I know my wife will follow it minute by minute

[pimp tyranny]

louisiana, who needs it

[twiztidjester]

louisiana, who needs it

Me that is where i keep my stuff like my videogames and my house.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

louisiana, who needs it

Me that is where i keep my stuff like my videogames and my house.

:lol:

[epobirs]

louisiana, who needs it

Hey, we paid Napoleon good money for that real estate.

[trq]

Man, they don't do nuthin' smalltime in ’Nawlins: "You got flooded? We got double-flooded, toxic chemicals in the water, and ... oh yeah ... fire-ants."

[epobirs]

And when the female scuba divers swim down Bourbon St. there will still be guys on the balcony offering beads and shouting, "Show us your tits!"

[evilpenguin9000]

I've always heard having a Hurricane on Bourbon Street was awesome...oh well.

[zman73]

I've always heard having a Hurricane on Bourbon Street was awesome...oh well.

It is... just get it from a "name" bar like Pat O Brian's... those are great...

On the other hand... I remember after a saints game... picking up a hurrican from a street dealer on Bourbon... it was the only drink I had that day.... made me sick as a dog... vomited at a Burger King during the trip home...

and regarding N.O. and the upcoming Hurricane...
That poor place has gone through floods, fires, all sorts of disasters... hope it pulls through without too much damage... geez... the place is BELOW SEA LEVEL... hell... if I pull though this ok I will never get mad at all the hills I drive up to get to my neighborhood 8)

[twiztidjester]

I've always heard having a Hurricane on Bourbon Street was awesome...oh well.

It is... just get it from a "name" bar like Pat O Brian's... those are great...

On the other hand... I remember after a saints game... picking up a hurrican from a street dealer on Bourbon... it was the only drink I had that day.... made me sick as a dog... vomited at a Burger King during the trip home...

and regarding N.O. and the upcoming Hurricane...
That poor place has gone through floods, fires, all sorts of disasters... hope it pulls through without too much damage... geez... the place is BELOW SEA LEVEL... hell... if I pull though this ok I will never get mad at all the hills I drive up to get to my neighborhood 8)

MMMM im gonna miss Pat O Brian's Hurricanes

[Zenithian Legend]

damn gotta mke it to mardi gras at least once

[epobirs]

I remember the first time I was in New Orleans. It was 1988 for the World Science Fiction Convention AKA Worldcon. The humidity was 100% and this raised the question of whether we were in imminent danger of drowning since we were technically under water. The weather info then expanded to include the fact that the temperature was 100 degrees. This relieved of the fear of drowning in favor of being boiled alive.

I've been back to NO four time since then, all at different times of year yet the weather always sucked. Just not nearly as bad as this week though.

[Scorch]

Holy fuck. They're saying that if it does upgrade to a category 5 or remains a strong category 4, that over 50,000 people could drown and the entire city could be left in ruins..

50,000 people.. that's 16x more than the number of people that died in the WTC attacks.. this is insane..

[zman73]

Latest news shows it still headed around my area... probably around the Miss/Ala state line... evacs were given by the Gov. for all areas below interstate 10, luckily were live a good ways above that

Other than that... this is starting to really suck... 5 in the morning and I cant sleep b/c I wanted to put together this miter saw I got this year :cry:

[epobirs]

It appears New Orleans will be spared a direct hit. This recent update has an interesting bit among the other bad news:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040916/D854F3PO0.html

Note this part: Rick Pfeifer, a salesman from Washougal, Wash., was stuck in New Orleans with no flights out and no cars to rent after arriving earlier this week for a National Safety Congress convention. His storm rations included as many chips, pretzels and bottled water as he could buy.

"I'm going to ride it out in the high-ground area of the city," he said wryly. "Fourth floor in a good hotel, with a good bar."

National Safety Congress. Wherever they plan to meet next year, I'm going to avoid.

[Wshakspear]

...Im watching the aftermath down there right now...and the guy they were interviewing was holding something in his hand: Beads. The winds from the storm have knocked the misguided beads from thier Mardi Gras home in the trees.

I hate when im being a smartass yet im right...

[Quackzilla]

The temperature in the Atlantic rose ~1 degree celcius.

Lets keep burning oil, people!

[epobirs]

It now appears Alabama will be the worst hit. The tracking as of 4 AM Thursday:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/061453W5.gif

Now that it's moved inland it should start losing strength but not nearly soon enough for those still in the path.

[epobirs]

Weird thought. I wonder if a ilovebees.com axon call has gone unanswered due to weather.

[epobirs]

View from ISS:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040915.html

Lileks nailed it when he referenced 'The Black Hole.'

[smalien1]

My dad told me a trucker from his dispatches said that coffins were floating around, New Orleans is famous for it's above-ground burials

[epobirs]

My dad told me a trucker from his dispatches said that coffins were floating around, New Orleans is famous for it's above-ground burials

We had a similar situation here in Southern California long ago. In 1978 and 1979 there were disastrously intense rainy seasons. At one point, a hill overlooking the 134 Freeway that was part of Forest Lawn Cemetary collapsed. This took several graves with it and tossed coffins out onto the freeway.