Jolly needs to take cover
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Now, look...The durn thing is just a Cat 4...
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@george-k said in Jolly needs to take cover:
You safe and secure?
What's the latest update for your area?
Maybe some hurricane force winds, around 4-6 inches of rain or so, just another day at the office.
The Hunter plane this morning placed Ida at 150mph, 935mb, which makes her stronger than Laura. She's a hair east of track, which makes it better for me in my part of the state, but I wouldn't want to be in New Orleans this evening. Good news is that almost all of the pumps are working, so you you shouldn't see the debacle of Katrina. But it certainly could be Betsy.
Speaking of, today is the anniversary of Katrina.
What we don't need is another "Forgotten Storm". Folks don't remember Rita, which followed Katrina and was actually a stronger hurricane. The one-two punch was not to be forgotten.
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Ida vs Katrina
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@copper said in Jolly needs to take cover:
I hope we will see pictures of politicians surveying the devastation.
Oh, there's a difference between hope and certainty.
Unintended consequences...The hospitals are FULL. Can't move patients. I hope they have their feces together in New Orleans. I suspect they do, as best as possible.
Unintended consequences 2 - Hotels, shelters, etc., probably as far west as Houston and as far north as Shreveport and East Texas...Fellows, welcome to the highest rate of COVID in the world.
Just thought I'd through that last bit in there, as food for thought...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@copper said in Jolly needs to take cover:
I hope we will see pictures of politicians surveying the devastation.
Oh, there's a difference between hope and certainty.
Unintended consequences...The hospitals are FULL. Can't move patients. I hope they have their feces together in New Orleans. I suspect they do, as best as possible.
Unintended consequences 2 - Hotels, shelters, etc., probably as far west as Houston and as far north as Shreveport and East Texas...Fellows, welcome to the highest rate of COVID in the world.
Just thought I'd through that last bit in there, as food for thought...
@jolly said in Jolly needs to take cover:
@copper said in Jolly needs to take cover:
I hope we will see pictures of politicians surveying the devastation.
Oh, there's a difference between hope and certainty.
Unintended consequences...The hospitals are FULL. Can't move patients. I hope they have their feces together in New Orleans. I suspect they do, as best as possible.
Unintended consequences 2 - Hotels, shelters, etc., probably as far west as Houston and as far north as Shreveport and East Texas...Fellows, welcome to the highest rate of COVID in the world.
Just thought I'd through that last bit in there, as food for thought...
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that. What a potential shitstorm.
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The should have a hospital ship positioned to assist. Also i wonder what resources FEMA has put in place in advance.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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The should have a hospital ship positioned to assist. Also i wonder what resources FEMA has put in place in advance.
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The should have a hospital ship positioned to assist. Also i wonder what resources FEMA has put in place in advance.
@mik said in Jolly needs to take cover:
The should have a hospital ship positioned to assist. Also i wonder what resources FEMA has put in place in advance.
About fifteen miles from the house I understand they have about 90 mil-type portable generators parked and quite a bit of water and ice. It's been the staging area before...It's the largest National Guard base in the state, with their own batch of Blackhawks.
Search and rescue teams are billeted out in the facilities at AEX, from my understanding, and a beefed-up U.S. Marshal contingent.
The water and ice will roll as needed, using private contractors to haul and NG to help pass it out. The NG will set up the generators where they will do the most good (waterworks, sewage lift station, etc.), if the emergency systems already in place don't work or if they don't have back-up power. S&R will be used as needed, with the Marshals to help provide security for them, again, if needed.
Other than the stuff local to me, I don't know.
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The Weather Channel had an interview with the police chief down at Grand Isle, where Ida came ashore. He was riding out the storm with his guys in a bunker built to withstand 200mph winds, looking out at the storm through a bulletproof glass.
The Chief said they actually had 15 or so stragglers show up and they were housing them as best they could, but you could forget about helping anybody not inside the building...Especially since all their vehicles were sitting in several feet of water.
He was laughing about an old "chicken shack" across from the station that had withstood multiple hurricanes through some miracle, finally decided to give it up on this one and flew off in pieces. It had company, though, as multiple building and roofs were being torn apart.
I bet that was a hoot, being down there in the middle of that eye...
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