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Long Island NY is covering this as it usually does. Apparently it'll turn into a Tropical Storm by the time it get's to us. The rest of NY and the other states around it are getting Flash Flood Watches.
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Hurricane Ida is projected to become a Cat 4 making landfall around New Orleans on Sunday. Here we go folks! This is not a drill!
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Anniversary of Katrina...fucking eyeroll.
I was a senior in high school when Katrina hit, and since then I haven't had a hurricane season pass where every newscaster wants to make every tropical storm Katrina 2: Back to the Hood. New Orleans learned nothing from Katrina, and Louisiana as a whole has still not learned that it needs to stop developing shitty apartments and shopping districts in areas where rainwater drains. All the flooding that's been happening the last few years is because the water has nowhere to drain anymore, and what natural canals we do have are quickly overwhelmed. Our infrastructure hasn't been updated or even maintained. Everyone forgot about how the levees failed due to years of neglect and instead focused on helping all the wet black folks. Everyone forgot how their simpering mayor failed to issue an evacuation until the last second, and continued to fail her way through the entire crisis. Everyone forgot that Hurricane Katrina didn't fuck up New Orleans; our government fucked up New Orleans.
The only thing about this storm that impacted other people who were not from New Orleans were the floods of 504 refugees that were bussed into their cities and towns. Who repaid the kindness of the citizens that took them in with elevated crime and claiming benefits since 2005 because they "were affected by Katrina." A decade later people are still "affected."
I'll be surprised if Ida actually becomes a Cat 4 that slams into New Orleans. But on the off chance this is finally the Katrina sequel, then finish what Katrina started and sink the fucking city. You get what you fucking deserve, New Orleans....
I was a senior in high school when Katrina hit, and since then I haven't had a hurricane season pass where every newscaster wants to make every tropical storm Katrina 2: Back to the Hood. New Orleans learned nothing from Katrina, and Louisiana as a whole has still not learned that it needs to stop developing shitty apartments and shopping districts in areas where rainwater drains. All the flooding that's been happening the last few years is because the water has nowhere to drain anymore, and what natural canals we do have are quickly overwhelmed. Our infrastructure hasn't been updated or even maintained. Everyone forgot about how the levees failed due to years of neglect and instead focused on helping all the wet black folks. Everyone forgot how their simpering mayor failed to issue an evacuation until the last second, and continued to fail her way through the entire crisis. Everyone forgot that Hurricane Katrina didn't fuck up New Orleans; our government fucked up New Orleans.
The only thing about this storm that impacted other people who were not from New Orleans were the floods of 504 refugees that were bussed into their cities and towns. Who repaid the kindness of the citizens that took them in with elevated crime and claiming benefits since 2005 because they "were affected by Katrina." A decade later people are still "affected."
I'll be surprised if Ida actually becomes a Cat 4 that slams into New Orleans. But on the off chance this is finally the Katrina sequel, then finish what Katrina started and sink the fucking city. You get what you fucking deserve, New Orleans....
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They (the people in charge) didn't learn from Hurricanes Besty and Camille, I highly doubt Katrina would be/is any different sadly.
Part of the issue is that they are losing the bayou, which used to provide protection to New Orleans from Hurricanes (most of the storm's energy would be spent in the bayou), and there seems to be no real effort in trying to protect/restore the bayou.
Edit: Even if there were lessons learned from Katrina it hasn't been long enough for those lessens to take effect. Before Katrina there was a 40+ years long project on improving the Levees that if completeted (it wasn't there was political bullshit that delayed and delayed the project) would have most likely not save New Orleans as the original end of the project was suppose to go until 2005, so it could have still been in middle of the improvements at that point.
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The reaction to Katrina was imo, giving people an early taste of our modern Woke Clown World.
I never understood why people seemed to want to blame Bush personally for it, as if he willed the storm into existence and I never understood why it was so heavily racialized as if black people were the only ones affected.
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/ida-aims-to-hit-louisiana-on-hurricane-katrina-anniversary
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Ida aims to hit Louisiana on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday and threatened to slam into Louisiana with devastating force over the weekend, prompting evacuations in New Orleans and across the coastal region.
Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical storm to a hurricane with top winds of 80 mph (128 kph) as it crossed western Cuba. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would strengthen into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 140 mph (225 kph) before making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast late Sunday.
“This will be a life-altering storm for those who aren’t prepared,” National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Schott said during a Friday news conference with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.
The governor urged residents to quickly prepare, saying: “By nightfall tomorrow night, you need to be where you intend to be to ride out the storm.”
In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for voluntary evacuations. With the storm intensifying so much over a short period of time, she said it wasn’t possible to order a mandatory evacuation which generally calls for using both lanes of highway traffic to evacuate people from the city.
“The city cannot order a mandatory evacuation because we don’t have the time.” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
City officials said residents need to be prepared for prolonged power outages, and asked elderly residents to consider evacuating. Collin Arnold, the city’s emergency management director, said the city could be under high winds for about ten hours. Earlier Friday, Cantrell called for a mandatory evacuation for residents outside the city’s levee protections — a relatively small sliver of the city’s population.
Other areas across the coastal region were under a mix of voluntary and mandatory evacuations. The storm is expected to make landfall on the exact date Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast exactly 16 years earlier. Capt. Ross Eichorn, a fishing guide on the coast about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, said he fears warm Gulf waters will “make a monster” out of Ida.
“With a direct hit, ain’t no telling what’s going to be left — if anything,” Eichorn said. He added: “Anybody that isn’t concerned has got something wrong with them.”
A hurricane warning was issued for most of the Louisiana coast from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Pearl River. A tropical storm warning was extended to the Mississippi-Alabama line.
Officials decided against evacuating New Orleans hospitals. There’s little room for their patients elsewhere, with hospitals from Texas to Florida already reeling from a spike in coronavirus patients, said Dr. Jennifer Avengo, the city’s health director.
At the state’s largest hospital system, Ochsner Health System, officials ordered 10 days worth of fuel, food, drugs and other supplies and have backup fuel contracts for its generators. One positive was that the number of COVID-19 patients had dropped from 988 to 836 over the past week — a 15% decline.
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for Louisiana ahead of the storm. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said FEMA plans to send nearly 150 medical personnel and almost 50 ambulances to the Gulf Coast to assist strained hospitals.
Ida made its first landfall Friday afternoon on Cuba’s southern Isle of Youth. The Cuban government issued a hurricane warning for its westernmost provinces, where forecasters said as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain could fall in places, possibly unleashing deadly flash floods and mudslides.
An even greater danger will then begin over the Gulf, where forecasts were aligned in predicting Ida will strengthen very quickly into a major hurricane before landfall in the Mississippi River delta late Sunday, the hurricane center said.
If that forecast holds true, Ida would hit 16 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm with 125 mph (201 kph) winds near the riverside community of Buras, just down the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
Katrina is blamed for an estimated 1,800 deaths from the central Louisiana coast to around the Mississippi-Alabama state line. A massive storm surge scoured the shores and wiped houses off the map. In New Orleans, failures of federal levees led to catastrophic flooding. Water covered 80% of the city and many homes were swamped to the rooftops. Some victims drowned in their attics. The Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center became scenes of sweltering misery as tens of thousands were stranded without power or running water.
Memories of Katrina still haunt many who scrambled to prepare for Ida on Friday, lining up for groceries, gas and ice, as well as sandbags that the city was offering.
Traffic snarled at entrances to a New Orleans Costco, where dozens of cars were backed up at the gas pumps and shoppers wheeled out carts stacked with cases of bottled water and other essentials.
Retired police officer Wondell Smith, who worked on the police force when Katrina hit, said he and his family were planning to stay, but were also getting ready to head farther inland if the forecasts worsened. He loaded water, bread and sandwich meat into his SUV.
“I know what that looks like,” Smith said, referring to the potential devastation. “This is my first time being home in 34 years of service,” he added. “And I want to be prepared.”
Saturday’s preseason NFL game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Saints at the Superdome was first moved up seven hours to avoid the weather, and then canceled altogether.
The hurricane center predicted the peak storm surge could reach 10 feet to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 meters) along the Louisiana coast, with a possible surge of 7 to 11 feet (2.1 to 3.4 meters) in the New Orleans area. The storm’s track put New Orleans on the eastern side — often called the dirty side — which generally sees much more significant effects than the western side.
“Being east of this storm’s track is not ideal,” said Arnold.
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Ida aims to hit Louisiana on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday and threatened to slam into Louisiana with devastating force over the weekend, prompting evacuations in New Orleans and across the coastal region.
Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical storm to a hurricane with top winds of 80 mph (128 kph) as it crossed western Cuba. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would strengthen into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 140 mph (225 kph) before making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast late Sunday.
“This will be a life-altering storm for those who aren’t prepared,” National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Schott said during a Friday news conference with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.
The governor urged residents to quickly prepare, saying: “By nightfall tomorrow night, you need to be where you intend to be to ride out the storm.”
In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for voluntary evacuations. With the storm intensifying so much over a short period of time, she said it wasn’t possible to order a mandatory evacuation which generally calls for using both lanes of highway traffic to evacuate people from the city.
“The city cannot order a mandatory evacuation because we don’t have the time.” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
City officials said residents need to be prepared for prolonged power outages, and asked elderly residents to consider evacuating. Collin Arnold, the city’s emergency management director, said the city could be under high winds for about ten hours. Earlier Friday, Cantrell called for a mandatory evacuation for residents outside the city’s levee protections — a relatively small sliver of the city’s population.
Other areas across the coastal region were under a mix of voluntary and mandatory evacuations. The storm is expected to make landfall on the exact date Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast exactly 16 years earlier. Capt. Ross Eichorn, a fishing guide on the coast about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, said he fears warm Gulf waters will “make a monster” out of Ida.
“With a direct hit, ain’t no telling what’s going to be left — if anything,” Eichorn said. He added: “Anybody that isn’t concerned has got something wrong with them.”
A hurricane warning was issued for most of the Louisiana coast from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Pearl River. A tropical storm warning was extended to the Mississippi-Alabama line.
Officials decided against evacuating New Orleans hospitals. There’s little room for their patients elsewhere, with hospitals from Texas to Florida already reeling from a spike in coronavirus patients, said Dr. Jennifer Avengo, the city’s health director.
At the state’s largest hospital system, Ochsner Health System, officials ordered 10 days worth of fuel, food, drugs and other supplies and have backup fuel contracts for its generators. One positive was that the number of COVID-19 patients had dropped from 988 to 836 over the past week — a 15% decline.
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for Louisiana ahead of the storm. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said FEMA plans to send nearly 150 medical personnel and almost 50 ambulances to the Gulf Coast to assist strained hospitals.
Ida made its first landfall Friday afternoon on Cuba’s southern Isle of Youth. The Cuban government issued a hurricane warning for its westernmost provinces, where forecasters said as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain could fall in places, possibly unleashing deadly flash floods and mudslides.
An even greater danger will then begin over the Gulf, where forecasts were aligned in predicting Ida will strengthen very quickly into a major hurricane before landfall in the Mississippi River delta late Sunday, the hurricane center said.
If that forecast holds true, Ida would hit 16 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm with 125 mph (201 kph) winds near the riverside community of Buras, just down the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
Katrina is blamed for an estimated 1,800 deaths from the central Louisiana coast to around the Mississippi-Alabama state line. A massive storm surge scoured the shores and wiped houses off the map. In New Orleans, failures of federal levees led to catastrophic flooding. Water covered 80% of the city and many homes were swamped to the rooftops. Some victims drowned in their attics. The Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center became scenes of sweltering misery as tens of thousands were stranded without power or running water.
Memories of Katrina still haunt many who scrambled to prepare for Ida on Friday, lining up for groceries, gas and ice, as well as sandbags that the city was offering.
Traffic snarled at entrances to a New Orleans Costco, where dozens of cars were backed up at the gas pumps and shoppers wheeled out carts stacked with cases of bottled water and other essentials.
Retired police officer Wondell Smith, who worked on the police force when Katrina hit, said he and his family were planning to stay, but were also getting ready to head farther inland if the forecasts worsened. He loaded water, bread and sandwich meat into his SUV.
“I know what that looks like,” Smith said, referring to the potential devastation. “This is my first time being home in 34 years of service,” he added. “And I want to be prepared.”
Saturday’s preseason NFL game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Saints at the Superdome was first moved up seven hours to avoid the weather, and then canceled altogether.
The hurricane center predicted the peak storm surge could reach 10 feet to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 meters) along the Louisiana coast, with a possible surge of 7 to 11 feet (2.1 to 3.4 meters) in the New Orleans area. The storm’s track put New Orleans on the eastern side — often called the dirty side — which generally sees much more significant effects than the western side.
“Being east of this storm’s track is not ideal,” said Arnold.
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Lol why arent they evacuating new orleans?
What the fuck these people are stupid. Watch we are gonna wake up tommorrow to a category 5 and they will have them do mandatory evacs with 6 hours till landfall like katrina instead of now.
Models indicate this maybe worse than Katrina
Oh my god the stupid. As a florida resident and survivor of many hurricanes you cant ride out a category 4 or 5. Trees fall everywhere, no power, your living room floods or maybe worse depending on your sea level. Its weeks before you can get in your car and drive anywhere meaningful because the roads are flooded and blocked with trees and yes gangs of looters are out looking for things
What the fuck these people are stupid. Watch we are gonna wake up tommorrow to a category 5 and they will have them do mandatory evacs with 6 hours till landfall like katrina instead of now.
Models indicate this maybe worse than Katrina
Oh my god the stupid. As a florida resident and survivor of many hurricanes you cant ride out a category 4 or 5. Trees fall everywhere, no power, your living room floods or maybe worse depending on your sea level. Its weeks before you can get in your car and drive anywhere meaningful because the roads are flooded and blocked with trees and yes gangs of looters are out looking for things
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Also If the city thinks 7 billion dollars worth of levee upgrades in 2008 will save them thats folly and they are in for a huge suprise.
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And if Ida will hit New Orleans badly like Katrina, let's see if Biden will get some blame as well.
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Also if anyone wants to see those "Upgraded " Flood walls they spent billions on in the 2008 stimulus package
Hop on google earth and have a look. Pretty much just a 3 foot high metal fence
Possible major happening afoot
Im sure they are superb quality even tho ive spotted several seriously sunken sections. Maybe those are strategically sank. I wonder what Louisiana politician has cash stuffed in his deep freezer for this project
Hop on google earth and have a look. Pretty much just a 3 foot high metal fence
Possible major happening afoot
Im sure they are superb quality even tho ive spotted several seriously sunken sections. Maybe those are strategically sank. I wonder what Louisiana politician has cash stuffed in his deep freezer for this project
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Major happening indeed. There'll be a very big SHTF moment.
Btw, did they finised to demolish what's left of the Hard Rock Casino Hotel?
Btw, did they finised to demolish what's left of the Hard Rock Casino Hotel?
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/residents-warned-as-louisiana-braces-for-hurricane-ida
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Residents warned as Louisiana braces for Hurricane Ida
Weather forecasters warned residents along Louisiana’s coast to rush preparations Saturday in anticipation of an intensifying Hurricane Ida, which is expected to bring winds as high as 140 mph (225 kph) when it slams ashore Sunday.
Authorities called a combination of voluntary and mandatory evacuations for cities and communities across the region. In New Orleans the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation for areas outside the city’s levee system and a voluntary evacuation for residents inside the levee system. But since the storm quickly escalated in intensity, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said it was not possible to order a mandatory evacuation for the entire city, which would require using all lanes of some highways to leave the city.
“If you plan to evacuate, do so now,” said a mid-morning advisory from the city.
Traffic was heavy on westbound routes out of town early Saturday and gas stations were busy.
The storm is expected to make landfall on the exact date Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast 16 years earlier. But whereas Katrina was a Category 3 when it made landfall southwest of New Orleans, Ida is expected to reach an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 140 mph (225 kph) before making landfall likely west of New Orleans late Sunday.
“Today is it,” Jamie Rhome, acting deputy director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, said Saturday. “If you’re in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, you really, really have to get going because today is it in terms of protecting life and property.”
Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical storm to a hurricane with top winds of 80 mph (128 kph) as it crossed western Cuba.
Late Saturday morning, Ida was centered 435 miles (710 kilometers) southeast of Houma, a city on Louisiana’s coast. It was traveling northwest at 16 mph (26 kph), forecasters said. It’s maximum sustained winds were 85 mph (140kph). The wind speed in the late morning forecast had not picked up from an earlier advisory from the National Hurricane Center, but forecasters still expected it to reach Category 4 strength before making landfall on the central Louisiana coast.
In New Orleans, city officials said residents need to be prepared for prolonged power outages, and asked elderly residents to consider evacuating. Collin Arnold, the city’s emergency management director, said the city could be under high winds for about 10 hours. Earlier Friday, Cantrell called for a mandatory evacuation for residents outside the city’s levee protections — a relatively small sliver of the city’s population.
Ida would be the latest test of New Orleans’ aging street drainage system. In a statement Friday, the city outlined steps it was taking to ensure that pumps were working and power sources to those pumps were ready. But the amount of rain could be enough to overwhelm even a fully functional system.
“We want to be clear, that with the amount of rain now forecasted, approximately 10 inches over the course of the event, it is likely that we will experience flooding,” the city said in a late Friday statement.
Some ordinarily bustling businesses were closed Saturday. One popular breakfast spot was locked up tight with sandbags against the door to guard against flash floods.
With the storm’s forward speed slowing down and the intensity picking up, the storm surge may overtop some levees that protect parts of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River, said Heath Jones, emergency manager of the Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District. However, he said they are designed to be overtopped and have protections in place to prevent more damage. There does not appear to be any danger of storm surge coming over the levees that protect the city’s east bank, which makes up most of the city, he said.
Across the region, residents filled sandbags, got gasoline for cars and generators and stocked up on food. Capt. Ross Eichorn, a fishing guide on the coast about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, said he fears warm Gulf waters will “make a monster” out of Ida.
“With a direct hit, ain’t no telling what’s going to be left — if anything,” Eichorn said.
A hurricane warning was issued for most of the Louisiana coast from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Pearl River, including metropolitan New Orleans. A tropical storm warning was extended to the Alabama-Florida line.
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for Louisiana ahead of the storm.
Additionally, the hurricane center said a new tropical depression formed early Saturday. It was centered 800 miles (1,285 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands. It was expected to remain over the open Atlantic Ocean and posed no hazards to land.
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Residents warned as Louisiana braces for Hurricane Ida
Weather forecasters warned residents along Louisiana’s coast to rush preparations Saturday in anticipation of an intensifying Hurricane Ida, which is expected to bring winds as high as 140 mph (225 kph) when it slams ashore Sunday.
Authorities called a combination of voluntary and mandatory evacuations for cities and communities across the region. In New Orleans the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation for areas outside the city’s levee system and a voluntary evacuation for residents inside the levee system. But since the storm quickly escalated in intensity, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said it was not possible to order a mandatory evacuation for the entire city, which would require using all lanes of some highways to leave the city.
“If you plan to evacuate, do so now,” said a mid-morning advisory from the city.
Traffic was heavy on westbound routes out of town early Saturday and gas stations were busy.
The storm is expected to make landfall on the exact date Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast 16 years earlier. But whereas Katrina was a Category 3 when it made landfall southwest of New Orleans, Ida is expected to reach an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 140 mph (225 kph) before making landfall likely west of New Orleans late Sunday.
“Today is it,” Jamie Rhome, acting deputy director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, said Saturday. “If you’re in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, you really, really have to get going because today is it in terms of protecting life and property.”
Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical storm to a hurricane with top winds of 80 mph (128 kph) as it crossed western Cuba.
Late Saturday morning, Ida was centered 435 miles (710 kilometers) southeast of Houma, a city on Louisiana’s coast. It was traveling northwest at 16 mph (26 kph), forecasters said. It’s maximum sustained winds were 85 mph (140kph). The wind speed in the late morning forecast had not picked up from an earlier advisory from the National Hurricane Center, but forecasters still expected it to reach Category 4 strength before making landfall on the central Louisiana coast.
In New Orleans, city officials said residents need to be prepared for prolonged power outages, and asked elderly residents to consider evacuating. Collin Arnold, the city’s emergency management director, said the city could be under high winds for about 10 hours. Earlier Friday, Cantrell called for a mandatory evacuation for residents outside the city’s levee protections — a relatively small sliver of the city’s population.
Ida would be the latest test of New Orleans’ aging street drainage system. In a statement Friday, the city outlined steps it was taking to ensure that pumps were working and power sources to those pumps were ready. But the amount of rain could be enough to overwhelm even a fully functional system.
“We want to be clear, that with the amount of rain now forecasted, approximately 10 inches over the course of the event, it is likely that we will experience flooding,” the city said in a late Friday statement.
Some ordinarily bustling businesses were closed Saturday. One popular breakfast spot was locked up tight with sandbags against the door to guard against flash floods.
With the storm’s forward speed slowing down and the intensity picking up, the storm surge may overtop some levees that protect parts of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River, said Heath Jones, emergency manager of the Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District. However, he said they are designed to be overtopped and have protections in place to prevent more damage. There does not appear to be any danger of storm surge coming over the levees that protect the city’s east bank, which makes up most of the city, he said.
Across the region, residents filled sandbags, got gasoline for cars and generators and stocked up on food. Capt. Ross Eichorn, a fishing guide on the coast about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, said he fears warm Gulf waters will “make a monster” out of Ida.
“With a direct hit, ain’t no telling what’s going to be left — if anything,” Eichorn said.
A hurricane warning was issued for most of the Louisiana coast from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Pearl River, including metropolitan New Orleans. A tropical storm warning was extended to the Alabama-Florida line.
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for Louisiana ahead of the storm.
Additionally, the hurricane center said a new tropical depression formed early Saturday. It was centered 800 miles (1,285 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands. It was expected to remain over the open Atlantic Ocean and posed no hazards to land.
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Cat 4 borderline 5 storm coming ashore in the worst place. If this pans out you could see 130mph winds easily pushing water from lake Ponchatrain over those sea-walls.
This storm isn't expected to weaken before landfall like many do because of an unusual pocket of Hotwater off the Mississippi delta. Any Eyewall replacement cycle prior to landfall would be highly preferable for NOLA...or a forecast to the west but so far its dead on and at a deadlier angle than Katrina's footsteps pathwise. The worst surge, wind and rain is always the Right front Quadrant.
NOLA actually dodged a bullet in 2005. It should of been much worse had the track been to the left of the city.
This was Katrina, which actually showed its weak side to NOLA
Cat 4 borderline 5 storm coming ashore in the worst place. If this pans out you could see 130mph winds easily pushing water from lake Ponchatrain over those sea-walls.
This storm isn't expected to weaken before landfall like many do because of an unusual pocket of Hotwater off the Mississippi delta. Any Eyewall replacement cycle prior to landfall would be highly preferable for NOLA...or a forecast to the west but so far its dead on and at a deadlier angle than Katrina's footsteps pathwise. The worst surge, wind and rain is always the Right front Quadrant.
NOLA actually dodged a bullet in 2005. It should of been much worse had the track been to the left of the city.
This was Katrina, which actually showed its weak side to NOLA
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New Orleans has NOT done mandatory evacuations the mayor called them costly and complex.
And most people are out and about not worrying, probably fatigued from Covid and there is little sign of boarding up and heading out.
I smell a major happening here so i am gonna bring yall updates on any intensity or path changes. The storm is set to make landfall Monday early AM so conditions will start going downhill probably tonight. Its been 15 years since these people were lashed by Hurricanes so many may have forgotten or its entirely possible that a majority of that particle generation left the area entirely.
As a Floridian i know they are going to be in some really deep shit in 24 hours. Hopefully not trapped in attics again
And most people are out and about not worrying, probably fatigued from Covid and there is little sign of boarding up and heading out.
I smell a major happening here so i am gonna bring yall updates on any intensity or path changes. The storm is set to make landfall Monday early AM so conditions will start going downhill probably tonight. Its been 15 years since these people were lashed by Hurricanes so many may have forgotten or its entirely possible that a majority of that particle generation left the area entirely.
As a Floridian i know they are going to be in some really deep shit in 24 hours. Hopefully not trapped in attics again