brentrich Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 my best guess - $200 to $250 billion in damage from hurricane IDA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 minute ago, forkyfork said: hundreds of dollars in damage the shrimp industry will be decimated for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, Tezeta said: It’s a complex system. Yes it has been revamped but why anyone would 100% trust any piece of infrastructure in America of all places is just beyond me. Also it’s not just about levees. What if a chemical plant blows 2 hours from now? There’s lots of catastrophes that can still happen. In America of all places? Wtf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezeta Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, OSUmetstud said: Oh sure. I'm just saying that from what we've seen today, I think they'll be alright. Am I not allowed to give an opinion on it? Your opinion is always welcome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 All those communities NW of Grand Isle toward Larose are just getting raked with the NE eye wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormFollowerUSA Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Well New Orleans won’t feel the worst of the storm until tonight. But we have to remember New Orleans originally fared okay Katrina albeit lot of damage. It was the levees breaking that really made the disaster it became. Had they held, Katrina while it would be still remembered would not be remembered the way it is today. catastrophe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezeta Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 It’s crazy how good it still looks on Satellite and radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Lot of Debris flying around in Timmer's stream in Houma. He is still in outer eye wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, clskinsfan said: I think the oil rig that is loose was over a billion dollars to build itself. Dont think its going to reach Katrina's numbers. But it is still going to be expensive. IIRC, that report turned out to be unsubstantiated and was retracted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, JC-CT said: Looks like Ida hit during a full moon after all. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPITSnow Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Wmsptwx said: Lol why am I getting weenied for sharing opinion/somewhat good news in the banter thread. I’m leaving actual thread for experts. It has a lot to do with you downplaying this constantly…first you said it wouldn’t get below 960, now you are claims NOLA is out of the woods. I don’t like weenies that root for destruction but what you’re doing is the opposite end of the spectrum. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 11 minutes ago, BYG Jacob said: Aged like milk Pew...will someone please throw out those "won't get there" posts from yesterday? They're stinkin' up the joint...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPITSnow Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 minute ago, Maestrobjwa said: Pew...will someone please throw out those "won't get there" posts from yesterday? They're stinkin' up the joint...lol There are a couple embarrassing predictions in the forecast thread…though a weenie I give a pass too but not a pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 I have yet to understand how a stationary city can dodge things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Reed heading to Matthews on 90 to get to eye......this is so great....what an animal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPITSnow Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, ice1972 said: Reed heading to Matthews on 90 to get to eye......this is so great....what an animal He’s an idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, ice1972 said: Reed heading to Matthews on 90 to get to eye......this is so great....what an animal I was watching this on FB until the feed was lost. He's is nuts to try driving thru the eyewall to reach the eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Just now, yotaman said: I was watching this on FB until the feed was lost. He's is nuts to try driving thru the eyewall to reach the eye. Hes on FB and Youtube but regardless the service is obviously impacting both...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 He's saying he sees the eye off to the right...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 This is wild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 He made it.....got out and took a selfie lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPITSnow Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 11 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said: As of 545pm east time I still have not seen any storm chaser video that is showing true high end Cat 3 conditions. I am just comparing some of the Youtube videos of past major storms. Maybe no ones position if directly under the worst of the eyewall. Reed Timmers video in Houma definitely has not shown true near white out conditions as we saw many times with Michael. Ida's radar and satellite presentation is so impressive so chasers must be just missing the inner eyewall. Didn’t take long lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 South Louisiana is unnatural, and while the reasons were good, the unexpected affects, bad. The Mississippi changes its main channel to the Gulf every few hundred years. It would have about a century ago but they built a structure to limit flow down the Atchafalaya, where the river was about to switch to, from the main channel to protect shipping in BTR and MSY/NOLA. They also build many flood levees. Now each year, during Spring rain and snowmelt, sediment gets carried to the very tip of the river to extend the delta, and soft sediment compacting a cm or more a year are not getting new sediment. Reduced annual flow, but at a cost. Similar for Galliano and Golden Meadow, Bayou Lafourche is a distributary of the Mississippi, a flood control structure was built to stop annual floods along the bayou. Those towns don't flood anymore, which means new sediment doesn't keep ground levels even as the soft sediment beneath compacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Oil companies built canals in the swamplands to get drilling barges in, that messed up the fresh water/sea water mix. The nutria, brought for fur, eats marsh grasses, and the logical predator to keep them in check, the alligator, doesn't seem to have a taste for nutria. A lot of 'land' South of NOLA is open water, not even swamp. One reason Ida is slow to spin down just inland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rvarookie Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Grand isle cam - does it look like parts of houses missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Reed has punched the eye in Lockport. Cloudy with light rain there. 942mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Bullshit ruffles are fire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 23 minutes ago, JC-CT said: When you can get Zapp’s, everything else is garbage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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