Hurricane Watch 2021

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How bad will the Atlantic hurricane season be in 2021?

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Rusty Crab said:
If it's just overtopped, wouldn't it stop when the water goes down? If the levees broke, it would just keep coming in even after receding.
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The ocean literally isn't gonna go down for a day or two. If it were breached the result would be the same the waters would just rise more rapidly.

I suppose you get some benefit. But Im thinking just physics and economics, the levee is there for a reason and if its overtopped the damage is done.
 
The golden neckbeard said:
If you live in a tornado prone area wouldn't you have a basement tho? I have never seen a house without a basement where tornado's are common. Even apartments will have shelters.
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Clockwork_PurBle said:
Unfortunately nope. Granted I don't live in what's considered "Tornado Alley," but the South still gets a lot of tornadoes every year. It's kind of weird actually. Having lived through the 2011 outbreaks and having to shelter from them every year has definitely made one of my "musts" for a home be a basement or in-ground shelter, though.

Of course I don't know the actual numbers for homes with basements.
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late but adding to this, some places in the tornado-prone South can't have basements or underground shelters. Florida is a swamp, for example. On other places, there are public above ground concrete shelters that are reinforced with steel that can handle tornadic winds. Can't really confirm and no idea if the huge public ones work (one area in the South I visit built a public shelter after it got hit by a bad one), though I do hear of small tornado shelters brought for houses get by unscratched while the family house is unfortunately blown to pieces.

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The golden neckbeard said:
The ocean literally isn't gonna go down for a day or two. If it were breached the result would be the same the waters would just rise more rapidly.

I suppose you get some benefit. But Im thinking just physics and economics, the levee is there for a reason and if its overtopped the damage is done.
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yeah, I'm pretty familiar with fluid physics. Not so much ocean and flooding patterns.
 
Aib Ld said:
late but adding to this, some places in the tornado-prone South can't have basements or underground shelters. Florida is a swamp, for example. On other places, there are public above ground concrete shelters that are reinforced with steel that can handle tornadic winds. Can't really confirm and no idea if the huge public ones work (one area in the South I visit built a public shelter after it got hit by a bad one), though I do hear of small tornado shelters brought for houses get by unscratched while the family house is unfortunately blown to pieces.

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Yeah but they are not standard to the house. You gotta buy them...they are rare.

And yeah I am a Florida fag, if i dig 4 feet i start hitting water so no basement is possible
 

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A man was killed after a tree fell on his house, making him the first confirmed death of Ida.

Part of the roof at St. Anne Hospital flew off the building and started taking on water. They are planning on evacuating as soon as the roads clear.



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The golden neckbeard said:
Yeah but they are not standard to the house. You gotta buy them...they are rare.

And yeah I am a Florida fag, if i dig 4 feet i start hitting water so no basement is possible
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Wish family in the South could get a basement, they seem comfy with along the feeling of safety. Tornado shelters are too expensive and not a lot of houses in the town have a basement. It's hell to visit since I'm not used to tornado season and tornadoes at all.
 
The golden neckbeard said:
There is no reason whatsovever for local social media
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But these accounts are not local. Its housewives and happening fags reposing chainletters. I see the same shit but I am not bringing it here because I can't nail it down. Im my eyes the boomer parish president who lives in,and is in that parish right now calling in holds some more weight then Katelyn @k8roulette2 who lives in a totally different city retweeting things by literately-who's who are also not there.

That MARS oil rig thing twitter was all abuzz about turned out to be total bullshit.
The reports of the 22 barges crashing through levee's turned out to be total bullshit.

I am not saying twitter is a bad resource, just remember its full of retards and trolls is all.
 
If someone had told me that Biden was going to be the second coming of George Bush I wouldn't have believed them.

I'm just going to enjoy the schadenfreude.
 
Flooding isn't going to stop for quite some time since this storm is dumping a metric fuckton of water into the Mississippi River. And it's going to keep dumping water into the Mississippi since over the next few days it's going to fucking pour in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and almost all that water all goes back into one river which goes right through New Orleans.

It's going to be fascinating to see what happens over the next few days.
The golden neckbeard said:
The ocean literally isn't gonna go down for a day or two. If it were breached the result would be the same the waters would just rise more rapidly.
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If you breech a levee in the right spot, you reduce tension on the levee in other areas. In theory, it's pretty useful since it allows controlled flooding. In practice it's fucking shit because a lot of people get fucked over and who gets fucked over depends on who's doing the breaching. Supposedly this happened during Hurricane Katrina where the Corps of Engineers dynamited at least one levee and flooded a black neighborhood but looking it up to see more details shows me that it's apparently a conspiracy theory that people like Louis Farrakhan have promoted. I don't know either way, since evidence is clear the levees were poorly maintained and insufficient for the job.

However, it definitely happened in the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood when the rich people in New Orleans blew up a levee that flooded out all the poor Cajuns and shit and then the poor Cajuns ended up electing Huey Long who made damn sure to fuck over those rich assholes. Apparently that's what the Katrina levee dynamiting is based on.
 
Why is the flooding so bad in New Orleans? the Leevee looks so primitive.
also why is there no buffer land build infront of the city? it should be flat enough to build something like that.
 
murdered meat bag said:
these people have my sympathies. id have no idea where to run to if i was in the same situation here. what hotel/motel? how far do i have to go before gas in the car and gas stations run out?

its way different if youre competing with millions of frantic people, plans go out the door.
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One of things about New Orleans is that it's a huge city and suffers the curse that most big cities have: that car ownership is very low, especially among the poor who have been indoctrinated on the idea that you don't need a car when you can just take public transportation, let along the whole bullshit where they romanticize walking everywhere you want to go because you are in a big city and walking through the big city is an adventure every time due to the bounty of city life you experience on the sidewalk on foot.

Most people WITH cars tend to have planned out evacuation routes well in advance. Some people flee to relatives houses who live on higher ground and have houses that can withstand the onslaught. Some do the hotel/motel route and a lot of motels do big business during hurricane season as far as business goes.

But in general, you need to have an exit strategy and place to crash already figured out before the storm hits. It's one of the reasons why the whole "prepper" business thrives on people in places like New Orleans where you have to be prepared and prepared before shit hits the fan.
 
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