Hurricane Ida, on 16th anniversary of Katrina
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About to get the eyewall. Camera nearly submerged. |
Anonymous
Apparently that cam is fixed 7ft from the ground. |
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Stonger, but smaller. So bad from Baton Rouge thru New Orleans. Crushing to the industrial corridor. Katrina weakened before landfall. Ida strengthened. Katrina was a man made disaster due to levees breaking. Ida will be a natural disaster.
That northwestern path of Ida not only puts New Orleans more in the bullseye than it did in Katrina, but it also more targets Baton Rouge and crucial industrial areas, Masters said. He said Ida is forecast to move through “the just absolute worst place for a hurricane." “It is forecast to track over the industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which is one of the key infrastructure regions of the U.S., critical to the economy,” Masters said. “You’re probably going to shut down the Mississippi River for barge traffic for multiple weeks.” Meteorologist Steve Bowen, head of global catastrophe insight at the risk and consulting firm Aon, said the impact will be felt beyond coastal areas. https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ida-katrina-compare-louisiana-88dce72660d0c928f4815eff5a8bfd8f |
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| Local coverage is predicting that the surge in NOLA won’t be too bad, based on the wind direction. The north shore of the Lake is likely to get hit harder. The biggest impacts will be to shipping. Some of the biggest ports in the world are down there, and Port Fourchon, which is ground zero, is a huge off shore oil services hub. With shipping already messed up because of covid, this isn’t good. |
Anonymous
| Was there ever a documentary about Katrina, that explained the levee system and what happened? As a northerner, I’m having a hard time understanding it. |
Anonymous
Cam no longer streaming live. |
Anonymous
Aside from the personal devastation that is sure to come, more supply chain issues will affect the rest of the country. We will all be affected to some degree by this. |
Anonymous
It’s back? The water & wind are crazy. |
Anonymous
Correct. It's back on. Must have been a cell phone tower glitch, not damage to the camera itself. Apparently it's a Samsung cell phone with back up battery inside a hard Pelican casing, strapped to a metal pole 7 or 8 feet off the ground, which is itself 7 feet above sea level. So surge of about 14 feet. |
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Breaking News:
Shell Mars Deep Water oil platform has broken loose in the Gulf of Mexico. High probability of major oil spill. |
Anonymous
Only reported by independent station, needs confirmation. |
Anonymous
Oh, no!! |
Anonymous
Spike Lee, When the Levees Broke. |
Anonymous
It looks like the original report has been retracted. Someone who knows about these things said on a discussion board that the wells are capped below that, so if it did break free, it was unlikely to cause a spill. Fingers crossed that all of that is true. |
Anonymous
Now it’s a different location? |