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Is anybody else keeping up with Hurricane Katrina? I've been glued to CNN all morning. It's HUGE! Winds are between 150-180mph. It could be the worst in U.S. history since 1935. If it stays on course, New Orleans could take a devastating hit and be under 12-15ft of water. The Mayor has mandated that everyone evacuate the city. It's supposed to hit early Monday morning. This will have an impact on everyone in the U.S. as well. A third of all domestic oil comes thru the port of New Orleans.

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Damn, that is not good. I feel bad for whoever this effects =/ I cant watch much CNN. Maybe I will just take a peak at the TV because maybe I dont know how bad it is !!

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Yep, I feel for everyone there. Generally they have evacuation centers at the football stadiums but for this huge hurricane they don't even want people to go there. It's only a last resort center. If you know New Orleans, it's basically in a valley with the Mississippi river on one side and Lake Pontchartrain on the other side. The entire city would be under water. I remember back in 1992 I think it was when Andrew hit Florida and how bad that was. This would be worse than Andrew!

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That's a nice .gif showing the path and how far inland this thing will go.

N.O. is 6ft. UNDER sea level. They're raising scenario questions like, "Is this it for New Orleans?"

They are calling this a 1 in 500 year historic event. No city is a good city for something like this to hit, but N.O. is definately not a good city for this to happen.

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It will be really bad. I saw something on one of those Discovery/TLC channels about this really happenning and how bad it could be. New Orleans is nothing but a "bowl" in the ground. Every time it rains they have to pump the drainage water out of the city because it sits so low.

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Hey 1Viscious- you probably saw the same program i did. It was a few months back or so. It was a Movie/documentary thing. This is so weird because what is happening today and what is coming into New Orleans is exactly what was portrayed in the movie. Because of the way the city is, they've dreaded this moment for years.

PS- Didn't gas go upto $6-7/gallon in the movie because the port was destroyed?

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I don't remember the gas issue, all I remember is that it will be a bad situation. :(

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Yeah lets hope there is no loss of life in this one. The Hurricane is a big issue but the storm surge is an entire issue of its own. Could surge to 20ft!

I'll be up all night watching this when it hits. Too bad i gotta work in the morning.

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Is your car on high ground?

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Too late for that, at least 7 dead in Florida already.

On another note, work is going to be a living hell for me since I work at an alarm company.

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Jana agrees with ya CVD. have fun ;)

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Storm surge is predicted to be 28 feet when I read the news earlier today.

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YOu know, when we get a foot of snow someone down there will make a post on a car forum saying how bad we have it at that point. ;)

I saw on the tv yesterday some of those 8 lane highways (4 lanes each way) where both open for traffic headed NORTH!

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High ground in Florida inside my garage. ;)

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Jakey must have forgot that you moved Mike! I bet you are happy about that now!!

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Yes and no, my house in Baton Rouge is sold and we were supposed to close tomorrow, Monday the 29th. :eek: I hope there is no damage to it or I'm screwed like Allan in the movie "Deliverance", suuueeeee!!! :p

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How far is Baton Rouge from N.O.? And is it east or west of it? You realize they are talking total devastation, right? This is due to N.O. being surrounded by water.

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.


I have a hard time worrying about it, weathercasters are notoriously overdramatic

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Well i hope for the citizens of LA, MS and other surrounding states that it's overdramatic. I don't possibly see how though. This thing is at 160mph and gusting to 190mph right now. It's 105miles wide on EACH side of the eye. It's not gonna disappear. It's only moving at about 12mph north. The damage will be huge. Other than Andrew in 1992, I wasn't even alive when a Hurricane was at this magnitude.

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Baton Rouge is about 1 hr NW of New Orleans.

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Nah, just thought the White Whale was still back in Louisiana.

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I think this is going to be pretty devastating. I will have to turn on CNN when I get to work tomorrow morning.

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They are saying it is very slightly losing strength, lets hope it happens fast enough.

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Hurricanes generally lose strength as they go over land because they depend on the warm water below to build/maintain their power. Sounds like this was downgraded to Cat4 just before it hit land this morning. So far it's on the high end of Cat4.

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This is gonna be a bad one. All we can do is hope for the best for those families that will lose their homes.

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Fox news just finished talking to a reporter who is hopping from roof top to roof top through downtown New Orleans. He said he is seeing water so high that U-Hauls are virtually covered. :eek:

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Watching Larry King Live tonight on CNN. They say it didn't hit New Orleans as bad as they anticipated BUT did anyone see the latest video releases??? It's worse than i thought it would be. Total Shock and Awe! Anywhere from $9 to 16 billion in damage and that doesn't even include home flood damage. As an estimate, they generally multiple the above numbers x2. This ranks as one of the costliest storms ever.

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New Orleans is still really hurting today. Levees keep breaking and the water keeps rising. Looks like half of the city is under water.

Can you imagine how many peoples homes are flooded. Damn.

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I was watching at lunch and Krya Phillips was being told by another reporter that someone in the Superdome jumped from the 2nd balcony and committed suicide. It's hot in there without a/c, people are uptight, the facilities are overflowing. This is by far worse than the World trade center incident. The only difference was one was terror inflicted and the other mother nature. If you haven't watched some of it, you can't imagine some of the stories. A man was holding on to his wife in the rushing currents and had all he could do to hold on anymore and the last thing she told him was to take care of their 2 boys and floated off to die.

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No way is this worse than the world trade center! These people had plenty of warning. If they were dumb enough not to get out, that is their own fault. At the very least they should have went to the stadium and been pretty safe. The only ones I can see is the elderly, sick or emergency workers. They don't have much of a choice. How many people do you think would have been in the WTC if they knew what was going to happen?

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80% of New Orleans is underwater. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 people evacuated the area around New Orleans alone. Their saving grace is they had PLENTY of warning that it was going to happen. How this is worse than the WTC disaster is beyond me.

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I'm not referring to people deaths, i'm referring to property damage. WTC was what over 3500 killed, Katrina at around 68 so far. I don't know what the going price on a couple of new trade centers but can it be over 40 billion if you include flood damages? That's NOT even to mention the economic impact! I can remember after 9-11 and living in Mpls, the cost of fuel dropped to .96 cents/ gallon. Look up in the upper left corner of this thread at the gas price, went from 2.79 to 2.96 in 2 days. You think it will stop there? Hell No. The impact of this doesn't just impact LA, Miss, it affects the entire U.S. That to me is also damage.

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I don't think we've seen the worst yet for New Orleans yet, those levees are getting weaker by the minute. The pump stations are still down, so the water will keep rising.

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I totally agree with you on that. Generally the water would recede within hours after the storm but the levels are actually rising and high if you check out some of the recent pics on CNN. If homes and businesses sustained a great deal of water for a long period of time, i would almost have to say that the whole structural integrity is gone and have to be demolished if it isn't already. It may not be raining and windy there but the damage is getting worse.

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Agreed. They just started more evacuations in areas of New Orleans because the water is rising in areas where the flooding was not bad to begin with.

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I just got done reading all of cnn on this, and I'd have to agree. The way the water is rising, it looks like most of New Orleans will be under water, and have to be demolished. :(.

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It was just a matter of time before the place sunk into the ocean anyway. I say rebuild it somewhere else!

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Ironic that you said that, The governor is commited to "rebuild at any cost" is just how he stated it. Isn't that stupid?!? Same shit with the Florida hurricane victims and insurance/ FEMA. I can see getting your house replaced/fixed ONCE and only ONCE but rebuilding in the same place that a hurricane is likely to come by is just plain idiotic! Us taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for that shit over and over again. Rebuild some other fucking place.

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On Monday when the hurricane was going through, I was doing a little research. I had found this page:
http://www.publichealth.hurricane.ls...y%20Areatf.htm

It has a lot of good information on how the levees work. I remember thinking of how far below sea level a lot of New Orleans is. And how if one of those levees broke, they would be hurting.

On Monday night, I thought they were going to be o.k., then sometime overnight is when the levees broke. That water is going to be there for weeks. It has no place to go.

Another thing that no one is talking about is all the heavy rain they are getting in the Ohio river valley. The Ohio river dumps into the Mississippi and we all know where all of that water goes. So in a couple of weeks when all that rain water gets down to New Orleans, the river level will rise a little bit. Probably won't be a huge deal, but weird none the less.

later,
Curt