All our bayou brethren...................

An 8 to 10 foot crest is expected to hit some areas....pretty frightening when part of the area is under sea level.
 
pt109 said:
I’ve always wondered why army engineers didn’t do a better job of flood control.
They were talking about it decades ago.
Holland does a much better job than North America
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Oddly enough Holland sent people over to study our flood protection after Katrina! We may be better set up than Holland at least as far as New Orleans and that general area. One problem from long ago, the huge electric motors that propel the flood pumps in New Orleans are about ten feet below sea level. The ring levee that keeps water out of New Orleans become the rim of a bowl when the water outruns the flood control!

I have moved fifty miles north and 250 feet higher so while I am getting beaned by the hurricane, no real worries. Might be out of contact a few days or so but that is all. Power and internet will probably go and I may have to pull a fade. Family with a whole house generator nearby so I have to evacuate almost as far as I can throw a rock!

I hope those in greater danger are as well or better prepared! Still tucking away the last few things so I don't have to chase them around the yard then I can watch it rain!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Oddly enough Holland sent people over to study our flood protection after Katrina! We may be better set up than Holland at least as far as New Orleans and that general area. One problem from long ago, the huge electric motors that propel the flood pumps in New Orleans are about ten feet below sea level. The ring levee that keeps water out of New Orleans become the rim of a bowl when the water outruns the flood control!

I have moved fifty miles north and 250 feet higher so while I am getting beaned by the hurricane, no real worries. Might be out of contact a few days or so but that is all. Power and internet will probably go and I may have to pull a fade. Family with a whole house generator nearby so I have to evacuate almost as far as I can throw a rock!

I hope those in greater danger are as well or better prepared! Still tucking away the last few things so I don't have to chase them around the yard then I can watch it rain!

Hu
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Interesting, Hu...I didn’t know that.
I’ve been through that area a few times...but never when it was real wet...but I heard the stories.
When I very young, I was having breakfast at a diner in Gulfport....fell into a conversation with the guy beside me.
He was late 20s....he ended up telling me about a wave just a couple years before, came off the Gulf and went two miles inland....he was working up state for the hydro....but he lost his wife and kid.
I still remember how he told me, flat emotionless voice....his way of keeping it together.
I can still hear the talk in my mind after all these years....we argued about the check, but I insisted...
....nothing has ever happened that bad to me.
 
My daughter & her family live in Baton Rouge. The storm hasn’t reached them yet but she’ll get hit later today.
They just sold their newer home a month ago and bought an older home with a huge yard. The good news is
it’s red brick except for the roof and windows. But Ida is ripping roofs off with 125+ winds and 150+mph gusts.
Anyone that has to shelter in place for a storm of this ferocity is going to experience a hellacious next few days.
 
The only good thing about a hurricane is you can see it coming.

Earthquakes there is zero notice.

good luck to everyone🙏🏼🙏🏼
Fatboy
 
pt109 said:
Interesting, Hu...I didn’t know that.
I’ve been through that area a few times...but never when it was real wet...but I heard the stories.
When I very young, I was having breakfast at a diner in Gulfport....fell into a conversation with the guy beside me.
He was late 20s....he ended up telling me about a wave just a couple years before, came off the Gulf and went two miles inland....he was working up state for the hydro....but he lost his wife and kid.
I still remember how he told me, flat emotionless voice....his way of keeping it together.
I can still hear the talk in my mind after all these years....we argued about the check, but I insisted...
....nothing has ever happened that bad to me.
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Strange things happen. Sad when there is loss of life but I have had a rogue wave come out of the gulf on a calm day and swamp a boat. I knew we would play hell starting the outboard without power so I reached under a couple feet of salt water and picked up a large twelve volt automotive style battery. Very dangerous and I can tell you it hurt, a lot! We were both facing a jetty fishing as we did dozens of times at that location. No idea where that wave came from. Louisiana is actually a high risk earthquake area. No recent seismic activity to speak of. They mentiion the Mississippi running backwards earlier today, it did for about eight hours further north following an earthquake in middle America in I think the eighteen hundreds.

Just on the scale of "oh that is odd" my brother and I were canoeing on a few hundred acre lake in Mississippi. Very calm, no ripples even. Then a little three or four inch white capping wave went all the way from side to side and end to end of the lake! We just looked at that mini tsunami and pondered if it was caused by the main event or a preshock. Nothing else while we were on the water and nothing seemed to move. Never forgot that little tiny perfect breaking wave on a glass still lake though! Checked the news that evening, no report of a tremor, possibly a gravoid?

This hurricane should reach me in a few hours. Already in the outer edges, wind, rain, loosened some tin on the barn. Been building for hours. I'm either dead centered or on the windy side. Looks like the eye is about fifty miles due south at the moment. Amazingly for this little rural power company that favors the few cities in the area, I still have power.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Strange things happen. Sad when there is loss of life but I have had a rogue wave come out of the gulf on a calm day and swamp a boat. I knew we would play hell starting the outboard without power so I reached under a couple feet of salt water and picked up a large twelve volt automotive style battery. Very dangerous and I can tell you it hurt, a lot! We were both facing a jetty fishing as we did dozens of times at that location. No idea where that wave came from. Louisiana is actually a high risk earthquake area. No recent seismic activity to speak of. They mentiion the Mississippi running backwards earlier today, it did for about eight hours further north following an earthquake in middle America in I think the eighteen hundreds.

Just on the scale of "oh that is odd" my brother and I were canoeing on a few hundred acre lake in Mississippi. Very calm, no ripples even. Then a little three or four inch white capping wave went all the way from side to side and end to end of the lake! We just looked at that mini tsunami and pondered if it was caused by the main event or a preshock. Nothing else while we were on the water and nothing seemed to move. Never forgot that little tiny perfect breaking wave on a glass still lake though! Checked the news that evening, no report of a tremor, possibly a gravoid?

This hurricane should reach me in a few hours. Already in the outer edges, wind, rain, loosened some tin on the barn. Been building for hours. I'm either dead centered or on the windy side. Looks like the eye is about fifty miles due south at the moment. Amazingly for this little rural power company that favors the few cities in the area, I still have power.

Hu
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Hu by all newscasts you probably have no power at the time I posted this. My brother in law Mark(who you have met) decided to hunker down in Arabi. My sister is in Oregon spending time with my mother so I only need to worry for Mark.

Its been a few hours since we have heard from him, Mark is a tough Brit but damn this is a doozy.
 
Just spoke with Hu, AKA ShootingArts...no power, some rain and wind damage, but he's safe and well. He mentioned that he was in contact with JoeyA who is also safe and well. Good news. Hope that everyone else down there is also faring well.
 
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jimmyg said:
Just spoke with Hu, AKA ShootingArts...no power, some rain and wind damage, but he's safe and well. He mentioned that he was in contact with JoeyA who is also safe and well. Good news. Hope that everyone else down there is also faring well.
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Thanks for the heads up. I drove by (ish) his neck of the woods on the way back in from evacuation in Mississippi and I was surprised how well it fared, at least along the interstate.

That said, anything can happen to any house with a tree near it. I still won't likely get power back for 5 days or so.
 
I got power back late yesterday evening after being told to expect much longer delays. Scooped up more clothes and stuff, basically moved to my brothers, so I will be undoing that for the next few days. Emptied my ice box to bare walls so I have to go on a grocery run for everything too.

Three large sawtooth oaks on my house but they are very bushy and leafy and did minimal damage all things considered. One fell on my patio cover breaking it's fall a little too. Buckled the aluminum forming a funnel over my Valley pool table and filled that puppy to overflowing with water and the waferboard all melted. I will be selling a table with minor cosmetic damage soon!

Hu
 
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