Weeeeeeee! 
Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
Me too!
The Baton Rouge radar "storm totals" make it look that under 2" of rain fell in New Orleans, but they are surrounded by '2-6"' areas - including onto the lake.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar/latest/DS.80stp/si.klix.shtml
I'm not quite sure of where this comes from though: when I hit "refresh" a while ago, expecting to see more orange and red on the map, some of the general color scheme seemingly went to lower totals. I had not saved the earlier one for comparison, so I'm not sure what's up with that...
Whatever, if N.O. area doesn't get smacked by significantly more rain, that will sure be a help.
Hopefully things will improve, but I am getting that pit of the stomach feeling that we may wake up tomorrow to another disaster after the disaster just as with Katrina.
Just got a note from friend in Bosier City. Was talking to him about 11 and we got cut off. They are back up now, communications and power.
LOL. Yes, maam.
london avenue canal also "seeping" now.. 6-8 inches in some nieghborhoods...source live report on MSNBC
>>> The Federal government did well. Brown, who despite his background did excellent last year with the several hurricanes that hit Florida and gained invaluable experience that could have been used here...he was used as a scapegoat and that was one thing I did not like.<<<
Exactly. Brown was a scapegoat. He was far more experienced than the media claimed. He became a FEMA employee in 2001, and worked for FEMA in several responsible positions prior to becoming director in January 2003. Since becoming director he organized the response to 165 federally declared disasters, including more than a dozen hurricanes and tropical storms. Another point: the hit piece on Brown by Time Magazine has been thoroughly discredited as yet another example of MSM Creative Journalism.
They can sustain immense collateral damage, suffer huge financial losses, donate voluminous sums of $$ to the stricken, freely send hundreds of truckloads of vital food, personal care and prescription items to the needy, consistently support our troops and contribute the help of their employees to volunteer by the hundreds in times of tragedy ... and yet watch: they will continue to be demonized just because they're successful.
It was impressive in a frightening way. You could *see* the cloud bands and the separation between them. The cloud formations were also really odd.
Weeeeeeee!
London Ave is in New Orleans???
After Hugo, South Carolina and Electric was asked the same question. Their answer - to expensive.
In some areas, I understand that it has been done in some places. Although lines in residential neighborhoods would be buried the large lines that carry the power from the plant to the stations to the customer would still be above ground and vunerable.
I am in Utah, but I have been in floods watching the clumps of fire ants float by...and I used to garden barefoot so I could wash the ants off my ankles with the hose. If I wore shoes and socks, they'd get under my socks and it hurt more.
Great photo! I bet seeing that rainbow made you feel comforted, didn't it? Almost like a sign that all will be ok.
yes..in new orleans
Check the Industrial Canal. It has (at least one) set of locks, and that canal communicates between the lake and the river.
The Bonnet Carre Spillway is opened by lifting creosoted timbers out of place. It isn't made up of "doors" the way a lock is. I doubt the Bonnet Carre' Spillway is open at all.
Split screen on Fox showed I-10 Columbus (?) Texas heavily crowded with traffic heading for Houston area.
Quite a breeze here in the DFW area, 20mph + in Arlington.
Thats as close As I ever want to get.
One of the gates is open? River's not high enough to need it!
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