Posted on 11/08/2013 1:02:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I live 200 miles inland in North Carolina, so direct exposure to hurricanes in my life has been limited pretty much to Hugo and Fran. Hugo took the roof off the house I was renting at the time. Slept through it. I recall how odd the air was, you’d think it would be at least a little chilly with all that rain coming down in sheets with the wind howling, but it wasn’t, it was hot and humid like a dog’s breath.
They drive water into the oddest places, a torrent of water came into the dining room through a recessed light in the ceiling with a second story above it, before the power blinked out for good. That caused a fair amount of panic since the light was on at the time, fear of electrocution.
Fran was wind, trees felled in gigantic snags for hundreds of miles, it looked like those photos of Tunguska.
Thank you for the notes on their categories. I remembered Katrina slowed down, but also wiped out a bunch east of the Mississippi. The actual Katrina damage in NO was minimal. It was the flooding and overlapping the levees that was bad.
The history revisionists are going to keep “rewriting” until every school child thinks the NO disaster was because of a direct hit by Katrina not political mismanagement of engineering funds and keeping people enslaved as welfare recipients.
Mississippi took the real brunt of Katrina. The ocean came up between 25-30 feet in some areas and moved miles inland. Not trying to minimize what Sandy did to the NE, but if a Katrina had hit, the damage would have been magnitudes greater for a much larger area.
Nagin's Chocolate city made a lot of noise and failed to take any type proper steps - faulty levees accounted for most of the damage in NOLA because the eye of the storm was to the east and the winds over NOLA were actually helping to push the water away with the counterclockwise motion. If Katrina had hit to the west of NOLA and did it's eastward drift, NOLA would be forever changed even if the levees had held.
Fox News (via Drudge) is reporting over 1000 dead.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/09/strongest-typhoon-year-hits-philippines/
What was bad about Katrina, what made that particular storm such a watershed moment, was the Mad Max aftermath, the realization that many if not most of us will be on our own in the event of a major societal breakdown. It wasn’t a walk in the park by any stretch and New Orleans is still recovering. But, as far as hurricanes themselves go I wouldn’t put it in the top ten destructive hurricanes on record in the United States. Some of the worst were unnamed, before naming them ever became customary.
There is nothing good about a hurricane and yes it is a fear inducing event.
Bush and the Fed performed exactly as needed in Mississippi... Louisiana caused their own problems and mary landrieu and Governor Blankbrain blanco were a large part of them!
Prayers for you and your family.
If the death toll stays fairly low (and 1000-2000 would be considered low) things will be back to normal pretty quickly, They don't wait for outside help or help from the government because they know none will be coming.
Many reports now say death toll will exceed 10 thousand. Is that enough for you?
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