Hurricane Watch 2021

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How bad will the Atlantic hurricane season be in 2021?

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Kane Lives said:
Ah, that makes sense. As I recall correctly from past Katrina coverage, it wasn't the winds that fucked up NOLA; it was the extreme flooding that came after. I guess we'll be seeing a double-whammy this time.
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imagine taking the downfall from the storm + the right side of the storm trying to shove the gulf of mexico up your ass at the same time (because the winds are going counter clockwise, the right side wind is pushing from the gulf onto land vs the left side wind that is moving from the land out into the gulf)
 
SCSI's Hurricane Ida Storm Sperg -- Katrina 2 Scoops Edition

--> Last Updated 2:00AM Central Time <--

*** This post identifies as postfluid demiflux threadkin and will update throughout the course of the storm. ***

*** Take all infos with salt, and let me know if something listed gets confirmed bullshit or just wrong so I can correct it. ***​

"Nigga I Ain't Readin' All That Shit" 2:00AM Summary -- Ida is now a Cat1 storm, sustained 75mph winds/972mb Central Pressure ... Flash Flood Warnings for southern LA and southern MS ... Scattered tornadoes and flooding in southern MS ... Statement from the Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on rescue and recovery ...

Damage Highlights -- LA General -- New Orleans "catastrophic power failure" -- entire city without power -- more than 1 million people in LA as a state are without power ... New Orleans Sewage/Water is pretty fucked ... Catastrophic flooding in Venetian Isles (video) ... 22 Barges as well as the Chalmette ferry broke moorings and are loose on the Mississippi ... Roof torn from ABC news station office in New Orleans ...

Damage Highlights -- LaFouche Parrish & Jefferson Parrish -- Lady of the Sea General Hospital Roof Loss - 8:55PM Update The Hospital Is "Stable", also all roads in LaFourche Parrish are declared "impassible" ... Speaking of LaFourche, parts of it now don't have water ... LaPlace, LA (near Lake Ponchartrain) partially underwater ... Estimated 200 people trapped in flooded town of Jean Lafitte, LA after bridge failed -- "We've never seen water like this" ... People reported trapped in attics in badly flooded LaPlace (UNVERIFIED) ...

Levee Failure Watch -- Plaquemines Parrish (HWY 23 near Alliance) local govt warns of incoming floodwaters ... Jefferson Parrish -- levee near Jean Lafitte confirmed to be overtopped or failing by local law enforcement ...

View of Cat4 Ida at about 5AM CST on August 30th, 2021:

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Hurricane News Livestreams:

National Weather Service New Orleans News Livestream (NEW AS OF 7PM):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLesGj32Js

NBC (National):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9f3KlJtV-M

WBRZ2 (ABC) (Baton Rouge Local):

https://www.wbrz.com/wbrz-24hr-live-news

WWL-4 (CBS) (New Orleans Local) WWLTV Newsfeed: -- seems to be the most active NOLA newsfeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D7pQxnOIjI

WWL-4 (CBS) (New Orleans Local) WWLTV Map/Path/Model Feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7g0G-t8Hd8

HTV10 (Houma, LA Local):

https://www.htv10.tv/Livestream

Local Live Cams:

New Orleans -- TwisterChasers LiveCam (via Twitter): -- Mobile Car Cam!

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrVXXkQXKX?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1432146654581432320|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=http://storm2k.org/phpbb2/EmbedTweet.html1432146654581432320

Louisiana -- Global News Channel CamStream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHkxJgUW2Q

Louisiana -- Live Map With Severe Studios Stormchasers Feeds (Click to Pick):

https://www.severestudios.com/

Louisiana -- Individual Severe Studios Storm Chasers Direct Links:

https://www.severestudios.com/storm-chasers/chris.oneal.html

https://www.severestudios.com/storm-chasers/john.humphress.html

https://www.severestudios.com/storm-chasers/jokko.williams.html

New Orleans Metro -- WXChasing Stream: -- Mobile Car Cam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YtGZw30eo

Louisiana -- Thibodeaux -- Texas Storm Chasers Stream: -- Mobile Car Cam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mxkW8CtBU

Louisiana -- LUMCON (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) 4x Cam Hub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7imsoITE4Tg

https://lumcon.edu/weather-cams/

New Orleans -- 24 Traffic Cam Hub (includes views around Lake Charles):

https://bphillips09.github.io/traffiq/

New Orleans -- 24 Camera Twitch Stream (Hurricams):

https://www.twitch.tv/hurricams

New Orleans -- French Quarter Wedding Chapel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnWFKx485rA

New Orleans --Downtown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52jr0FkiAbc

New Orleans -- Cats Meow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXM_yHBV36k

Louisiana -- Just Weather Channel Multicam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUge8CGh_5k

Louisiana -- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Multicam:

https://www.thecauseway.us/traffic-cams/south-shore-cams/

Louisiana -- Golden Meadow, LA, Outside Protection Levee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRCWbKRxImU

Louisiana -- Traffic Cams/Traffic Maps/Alerts:

https://www.511la.org/

Mississippi -- Biloxi, MS Beachfront:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIA3m2Ai3hU


Twitters:

News Feeds:

National Weather Service -- New Orleans Office:

https://twitter.com/NWSNewOrleans

NWS New Orleans Office Update Bot (IEMBot LIX):

https://twitter.com/iembot_lix

National Weather Service Prediction Center:

https://twitter.com/NWSWPC

WWLTV New Orleans Local News Channel:

https://twitter.com/WWLTV?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

WLOX Mississippi Local News Channel:

https://twitter.com/WLOX

WXXV25 Mississippi Local News Channel:

https://twitter.com/WXXV25

Axios News Channel Twitter:

https://twitter.com/axios

Louisiana Parrish (County) Official Twitters: -- sporadic updates, but some good video/photos

St. Bernard

https://twitter.com/StBGov

Plaquemines

https://twitter.com/PlaqGov

Lafourche

https://twitter.com/LafourcheGov

St. Tammany

https://twitter.com/STPGOV

Individual Weathernerd Twitters:

https://twitter.com/HughKeeton -- Mississippi journo with plenty of video clips on the damage in his state

https://twitter.com/DavidBernardTV -- is hammering out flash flood and other emergency warning alerts like a machine

https://twitter.com/MrJamesCosgrove

https://twitter.com/JimCantore

https://twitter.com/splillo

https://twitter.com/pppapin

https://twitter.com/JakeCarstens

https://twitter.com/wxcory

https://twitter.com/MatthewCappucci

https://twitter.com/BenjaminSchott

https://twitter.com/NolaGraphicsGuy -- nice animated infographics

Actually Useful Individual Journalists (I know, I can't believe it either):

https://twitter.com/OfficialJoelF -- lots of storm damage vids/pics

https://twitter.com/PMurphyWWL

https://twitter.com/davidhammerWWL

https://twitter.com/CWatkinsWDSU

Non-Video News Bulletins:

NOLA.com Hurricane Coverage Center:

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/


Early Post-Mortem on NOLA Massive Power Outage:

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/...al&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

WWLTV Rollup News Bulletin (5:30AM CST):

https://www.wwltv.com/article/weath...iana/289-b224c9a5-661a-4175-b2bb-4260353e5ddc

News bulletin from 12:30AM:

https://www.axios.com/hurricane-ida...ans-50a7a936-c423-4ce2-9920-2d939cc237da.html

Other Useful Stuff:

Ventusky Map:

https://www.ventusky.com/27.917;-89.167

NOAA's Hurricane Ida Center:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Ida

Weather Underground Ida Tracker:

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2021/hurricane-ida

Aerial Recon Flight Tracker (the guys who willingly fly into hurricanes - now has flight sensor data from 5AM run!):

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/

Power Outage Live Tracker:

https://poweroutage.us/area/state/louisiana

Notable Past Infos:

First arrival of the storm surge -- water levels rose 4 feet in 6 minutes.

Mississippi River confirmed to have flowed backwards at one point during the storm, pushed upstream by the incoming storm surge. Extremely rare phenomenon, documented previously during Katrina and Camille.

Visuals:

Linking to other posts archiving infographs and videos to minimize lag in this post.

WD-40's Twitter video rip collection 1

WD-40's Twitter video rip collection 2

Bins's Texas Storm Chasers clips

Bin's Lady of the Sea Damage report

Bin's /pol/ rip catching a building's roof fucking right off

Oliveoil's air recon video from within the storm

Jump clips a flooded car from WXChasers and Gaystoner finds out there's at least no dead bodies inside, while The Golden Neckbeard maps it out

SCSI has fun with sideways rain

SCSI's archive of intense flooding in LaPlace, LA

SCSI's archives of a de-roofed ABC news station and noonday storm surge in Grand Isle

SCSI's roadside pelican in southern MS
 
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thx1138 said:
I don't think they learned anything since Katrina. This is going to be very very bad.
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Trust me they haven’t. The Army Corp of Engineers is still working on the improvements needed after Katrina.

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While a lot has been improved there are still places that have not been improved yet. All it takes is one hole and it all comes down.
 
Americans told to shelter in place in Afghanistan and not to escape to the airport.
Americans told to shelter in place in the Hurricane despite being 5 feet below sea level in a storm surge.
So. Who here is gonna shelter in place when told to do so in the next emergency?
 
SmokeyMcRunFast said:
Trust me they haven’t. The Army Corp of Engineers is still working on the improvements needed after Katrina.

Link / Archive

While a lot has been improved there are still places that have not been improved yet. All it takes is one hole and it all comes down.
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They did the levees and the locks, but the pumping stations are mostly shit. So whatever flooding there is will be hard to abate. The wind damage will be tremendous, regardless. Imagine giant glass panes being ripped off of sky scrapers and shot randomly around like massive throwing knives.

This is basically why Bush refused to rebuild New Orleans. This hit was inevitable, and there will be another and another until it's toast. The heat of the water in the Gulf of Mexico is going to be giving every hurricane that passes through a quad damage powerup for the foreseeable future.
 
Reporterward said:
Americans told to shelter in place in Afghanistan and not to escape to the airport.
Americans told to shelter in place in the Hurricane despite being 5 feet below sea level in a storm surge.
So. Who here is gonna shelter in place when told to do so in the next emergency?
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At this point, "Shelter in place" is better read as "Get the FUCK out".
 
Fun Fact: One lesser known eerie thing about Hurricane Katrina is that the New Orleans' 6 Flags Park was completely devastated by it and essentially left to rot. The place was entirely flooded, and there were rumors of alligators, large snakes, and other dangerous wildlife swimming around in the utterly swamped rides and attractions.

Despite there being talks of finally tearing the place down, nothing was ever done with the park, and to this day, the sign still says "Closed For Storm".
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Bunny Tracks said:
Fun Fact: One lesser known eerie thing about Hurricane Katrina is that the New Orleans' 6 Flags park was completely devastated by it and essentially left to rot. The place was entirely flooded, and there were rumors of alligators, large snakes, and other dangerous wildlife swimming around in the utterly swamped rides and attractions.

Despite there being talks of finally tearing the place down, nothing was ever done with the park, and to this day, the sign still says "Closed For Storm".
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I'm pretty sure I've watched some YouTube videos about this – possibly Defunctland, or some channel that does urban exploration. But yeah, it is rather unsettling. I might be wrong, but I think the abandoned Six Flags is a hotbed for crime, too, especially drug deals.
 
pwnest injun said:
They did the levees and the locks, but the pumping stations are mostly shit. So whatever flooding there is will be hard to abate. The wind damage will be tremendous, regardless. Imagine giant glass panes being ripped off of sky scrapers and shot randomly around like massive throwing knives.

This is basically why Bush refused to rebuild New Orleans. This hit was inevitable, and there will be another and another until it's toast. The heat of the water in the Gulf of Mexico is going to be giving every hurricane that passes through a quad damage powerup for the foreseeable future.
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It is too bad considering it's a city with a lot of beautiful old buildings with a rich history and culture.

Someone should build a "New New Orleans" somewhere dryer.
 
SmokeyMcRunFast said:
Trust me they haven’t. The Army Corp of Engineers is still working on the improvements needed after Katrina.

Link / Archive

While a lot has been improved there are still places that have not been improved yet. All it takes is one hole and it all comes down.
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Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but why is the Army the one building infrastructure for a civilian town? Does New Orleans not have budgets/engineers of its own to do such things?
 
Kane Lives said:
Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but why is the Army the one building infrastructure for a civilian town? Does New Orleans not have budgets/engineers of its own to do such things?
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The Army Corps of Engineers maintain the Ohio River and Mississippi River lock and dam systems to maintain the levels for shipping. The Mississippi River empties into the gulf at New Orleans. I'm guessing the levi system is integral to the lock and dam system.
 
Bunny Tracks said:
Fun Fact: One lesser known eerie thing about Hurricane Katrina is that the New Orleans' 6 Flags Park was completely devastated by it and essentially left to rot. The place was entirely flooded, and there were rumors of alligators, large snakes, and other dangerous wildlife swimming around in the utterly swamped rides and attractions.

Despite there being talks of finally tearing the place down, nothing was ever done with the park, and to this day, the sign still says "Closed For Storm".
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Sometimes if you procrastinate long enough, what you were supposed to take down becomes relevant again. Like Christmas lights.
 
Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
I'm pretty sure I've watched some YouTube videos about this – possibly Defunctland, or some channel that does urban exploration. But yeah, it is rather unsettling. I might be wrong, but I think the abandoned Six Flags is a hotbed for crime, too, especially drug deals.
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So it's the carnival grounds from the killing joke?
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Mr. Skeltal said:
Call the new city "New Orleans" and rename the flooded ruins of New Orleans the "New Orleans Historic District". Complete 1:1 reconstruction of the French Quarter is necessary.
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Does that include the Hard Rock Casino Hotel as well?

I can hear Ida singing "Here I am! Rockin like an hurricane" now.
 
Kane Lives said:
Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but why is the Army the one building infrastructure for a civilian town? Does New Orleans not have budgets/engineers of its own to do such things?
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All major flood control and navigable waterways in the US are maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers. It is technically part of the US Army but except for senior leadership entirely civilian based. This includes the everything from sea walls in the northeast to dredging the rivers for boats. It goes back to the 1800s when one of the major thing taught in military schools was a forerunner of civil engineering.
 
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