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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
In the Galveston storm of 1900, ALL the children in the orphanage and ALL the nuns were lost. They were swept away in the storm surge. Some of their bodies were found tied together with ropes. The nuns had tried to keep them together.
I don't know the elevation of the NO Superdome but I fear the 20+ foot storm surge.
Oh my Lord, that sounds so bad. Those people need to get to an interior wall and huddle. My Lord, this is awful.
Guenevere ... I am transcribing the WDSU feed, I'm not there!!!
Except for the roof, evidently, which they must have constructed to lower standards than the rest of the building, if you're thinking is right.
Hey, wasn't he the guy whose eyes looked all spooky during the liberation of Afgahnistan? Wold Boy, or something to that effect?
I recall during the last hurricane season a reported got socked in the gut with a coconut - she went down but survived.
You got that right!
I think MSNBC is the best to watch for the coverage in the Dome. He was able to get still pictures out and you can see the holes in the roof.
Looks like Fox's weather lady's concerns are coming true.
For what it's worth...it's been reported that the 20+ storm surge for NO is now unlikely.
Temps getting warmer inside the Superdome.
From the map I see at post 878 it seems the eye is passing directly over the Superdome.
I haven't read the report, but I'd bet they were saying that each piece of the dome (i.e. the roof) is structurally dependent on the others.
There ARE buildings where the roof is an essential part of the entire structure (your home is a likely example)... but this is not such a structure (at least not from what I can see).
The areas where the eyewall passes over are likely to sustain a lot of damage. After the eye passes over the eyewall hits again at full force. No gradual increase as when the hurruicane is approaching. Just WHAM! Could really do a number on already weakened structures.
The only people who will be any danger will be those stupid enough to stand under falling parts of the roof. The structure itself is in little danger.
Sounds like a scenario we've heard many times before. Reporters trying to hype a situation.
Yes, poor Janice had a hard time holding it together yeaterday - as far as I know she has not been on Fox yet today
... backup generators going, they can see now but before it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face ... (silver lining optimist, hole in the roof but at least now we can see) ... [report ends]
Tell me...why is the silt being deposited way out into the Gulf? Because the natural distributary process has been subverted! I'm not talking about today...think longer-term and broader.
Secondly, levees could breach in multiple places. Lake Pontchartrain AND the river...but that's not the point. Why is there a levee for Lake P.? Perhaps because of its elevation relative to the the developed areas? Why such a difference? Again, think of long-term policies, not just today.
(And I note that the river elevation is "high," and the lake elevation is the "normal.")
"I watched the roof collapse of Miller Stadium . . . . So much steel tends to go . . .down."
These roof panels are very heavy per the technical specs posted here last night. If they are vibrating and lifting, there's a good chance they will not fall inside, instead they can be lifted off and flung elsewhere.
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