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Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« on: August 29, 2012, 06:43:00 AM »
After last night's land fall of Isaac, I assumed it would blow over coastal and low-lying Louisiana pretty quickly. But look at what's happened instead!!! There's an awful lot of rain there and the flooding is bound to be bad.
 
If you're affected by this, you have my prayers and best wishes!
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2012, 02:02:34 PM »
An area is now flooded that has never flooded before.  Storm surge has overflowed a dyke.  Now they have to intentionally breech that dyke to relieve pressure, or have it washed away.

One good thing sort of, it is bringing relief, a little late, to the drought stricken area in the mid west.  At least that is what I heard on the radio today.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2012, 04:46:09 AM »
It'll be interesting to know how much of what gets flooded this time was rebuilt after Katrina.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2012, 07:08:05 AM »
Are you guys in Arkansas and Missouri seeing any rain yet?
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2012, 07:11:22 AM »
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  It'll be interesting to know how much of what gets flooded this time was rebuilt after Katrina. 

I will never for the life of me understand why we rebuilt that place KNOWING that the destruction will happen again...
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2012, 09:08:27 AM »
Quote from: Swift One on August 30, 2012, 07:11:22 AM
I will never for the life of me understand why we rebuilt that place KNOWING that the destruction will happen again...
so the Saints could win the Super Bowl.
 
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2012, 10:46:04 AM »
I think this shows something that I overlooked after Katrina. Back then, it was a category 5 hurricane that hit New Orleans as a category 3. That's a very strong storm, so I expected lots of problems, and the extensive flooding was a plausible side-effect of a hurricane ravaged city surrounded by water.
 
This is quite a different situation where the winds were relatively mild and not much wind damage occurred, but it shows that the these cities are guaranteed to flood severely whenever there's a tropical storm, which is to say frequently. This is not like some of the 100 year floods that were seen in the northeast a few years ago, this something that could happen every year.
 
Judging from some of the flooding, 3 story houses flooded to the tops of the second stories, they have clearly built in places that make no sense to build in.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2012, 12:21:13 PM »
New Orleans. Built close to the ocean and about 12 feet below seal level. Anybody besides me see something wrong with this picture ?
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2012, 05:25:43 PM »
We're in South Mississippi about 370 feet above sea level.  The eye of Katrina passed through here after it had destroyed Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pascagoula.  Her eye was well east of New Orleans.  Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel finally acknowledged a couple of nights ago while he was in New Orleans that NOLA had only tropical storm winds in Katrina.  (They reached 130 mph here, and we're over 40 miles inland.)  Isaac had little wind, but has it ever rained!  My estimate, based on a bucket that filled and overflowed, is that we may have had close to 2 feet of rain!  Roads have been closed that have never been flooded before.  We have a cabin in the woods that is near a creek.  The creek has flooded before but has never got in the cabin.  It may have this time.  We couldn't get to it this morning to check - there was water flowing over the road that leads to it, and it rained a lot more this afternoon.  If you live close to the Gulf of Mexico very long you will experience tropical weather.  If you live a few feet above, or below, sea level, you will get flooded.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2012, 06:36:51 PM »
Jackruff:


Yikes! I was hoping it wasn't that bad. I was beginning to think it was very localized flooding because I haven't seen any aerial photos of extensive flooding in the news like we had after katrina.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2012, 04:02:21 PM »
Yep, we had about a foot of water in one of our two cabins.  I don't know yet if our pump was ruined.  It was under water.  Otherwise, I don't think too much damage was done.  The creek is the West Hobolochitto which flows into the Pearl River down near Picayune.
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Re: Crikey! Rain in Louisiana worse that I thought!!!
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2012, 04:30:30 PM »
That's not good, but it doesn't seem terrible either. Good luck getting this squared away.
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