**** Official Hurricane Ida Thread ****

[Millennial_Messiah]

Currently a cat 1 but NHC, which generally errs on the conservative side with hurricane intensity predictions, is actually forecasting a 140 MPH Cat 4...... W:wowW

Currently forecast to hit just due west of Metro New Orleans with NOLA and Lake Pontchartrain clearly in the cone. Let's see how Biden handles his Katrina. Darth_Pelican (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=22958) Pelican (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=47088) Pelicans78

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/221823_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png


Hurricane Ida Discussion Number 6
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
500 PM EDT Fri Aug 27 2021

Cuban radar data and reports from an earlier Air Force Reserve
Hurricane Hunter mission indicate that Ida's inner core structure
continued to improve after the release of the previous advisory
package. An eye became apparent in radar imagery before the center
reached the Isle of Youth, and the final fix from the Air Force
Hurricane Hunter aircraft reported a closed 24-n-mi wide eye. The
aircraft measured winds to support hurricane intensity shortly
before 1800 UTC, and during the final northeast eyewall pass, and
flight-level wind data support increasing the intensity to 70 kt,
which is used as the initial intensity for this advisory.

The upper-level outflow has expanded over all but the southwestern
portion of the circulation, and the upper-level wind pattern is
forecast to continue to improve overnight and early Saturday.
Once Ida moves past western Cuba and into the southeastern Gulf of
Mexico, it will be moving through a very favorable oceanic and
atmospheric environment consisting of high ocean heat content
waters, low vertical wind shear, and a moist low- to mid-level
atmosphere. These conditions are likely to result in a period
of rapid strengthening during the next 24 to 36 hours. In fact,
with the higher initial wind speed, the intensity guidance has
significantly increased this cycle, and the bulk of the guidance
now brings Ida to category 4 intensity. The NHC forecast explicitly
calls for rapid intensification during the next 24 to 36 hours,
which is supported by several of the dynamical models, the LGEM
model, and high probabilities of rapid intensification indicated
by the SHIPS and DTOPS RI guidance. The NHC forecast is near
the IVCN multi-model consensus aid, but is lower than HCCA and
LGEM. It should be noted that some fluctuations in intensity are
possible as Ida nears the northern Gulf coast due to possible
eyewall replacement cycles. In addition to the expected increase in
strength, the dynamical model guidance again calls for Ida's wind
field to expand while it moves over the Gulf of Mexico. As a
result, there is higher-than-normal confidence that a large and
powerful hurricane will impact portions of the northern Gulf coast
by late this weekend and early next week.

Ida has wobbled a little right of the previous track, but the longer
term motion continues to be northwestward or 320/13 kt. The steering
currents remain well-established as a strong deep-layer ridge over
the western Atlantic should continue to steer Ida northwestward
across the Gulf this weekend. Ida will approach the western
portion of the ridge after landfall, and this should result in a
slower northward motion by day 3. After that time, a short-wave
trough over the central United States is expected to cause the
system to turn northeastward. The track guidance remains in
remarkably good agreement through landfall along the northern Gulf
coast, and there is higher-than-normal confidence in that portion of
the track forecast. However, users are again reminded to not focus
on the exact details of the track forecast as storm surge, wind,
and rainfall impacts will extend far from the center.

Key Messages:

1. Life-threatening storm surge and hurricane conditions are
expected to continue through tonight in portions of western Cuba,
including the Isle of Youth, where a Hurricane Warning is in effect.
Life-threatening heavy rains, flash flooding and mudslides are
expected across Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and western Cuba,
including the Isle of Youth.

2. There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation
Sunday along the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi within the
Storm Surge Warning area. Extremely life-threatening inundation of
10 to 15 feet above ground level is possible within the area from
Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Mouth of the Mississippi River.
Interests throughout the warning area should follow any advice given
by local officials.

3. Ida is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when
it reaches the coast of Louisiana. Hurricane-force winds are
expected Sunday in portions of the Hurricane Warning area along the
Louisiana coast, including metropolitan New Orleans, with
potentially catastrophic wind damage possible where the core of Ida
moves onshore. Actions to protect life and property should be rushed
to completion in the warning area.

4. Ida is likely to produce heavy rainfall later Sunday into Monday
across the central Gulf Coast from southeast Louisiana to coastal
Mississippi and Alabama, resulting in considerable flash, urban,
small stream, and riverline flooding impacts. As Ida moves inland,
flooding impacts are possible across portions of the Lower
Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys.

FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS

INIT 27/2100Z 22.1N 83.2W 70 KT 80 MPH
12H 28/0600Z 23.5N 84.8W 85 KT 100 MPH
24H 28/1800Z 25.3N 86.9W 105 KT 120 MPH
36H 29/0600Z 27.1N 89.0W 115 KT 130 MPH
48H 29/1800Z 28.6N 90.6W 120 KT 140 MPH
60H 30/0600Z 30.0N 91.3W 80 KT 90 MPH...INLAND
72H 30/1800Z 31.5N 91.1W 40 KT 45 MPH...INLAND
96H 31/1800Z 34.4N 89.3W 30 KT 35 MPH...INLAND
120H 01/1800Z 36.0N 86.0W 20 KT 25 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW

$$
Forecaster Brown

[DarrinS]

Louisiana gonna get hammered again.

[hater]

Life goes on

[pgardn]

Life goes on

Life goes on.
But some does not.

When there are no longer humans on our planet, life will go on.

[DarrinS]

Life goes on.
But some does not.

When there are no longer humans on our planet, life will go on.

Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy

[pgardn]

Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy

Life goes on.

Everybody says...
You know what they say...
Someone told me that...

Yeah good stuff Darrin. You go grandma.

[DarrinS]

Life goes on.

Everybody says...
You know what they say...
Someone told me that...

Yeah good stuff Darrin. You go grandma.

You're weird

[pgardn]

You're weird

Ya think?

No you dont... think.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Louisiana gonna get hammered again.
I was there last year including around close to Lake Charles in October well after Laura hit, and you couldn't even tell a cat 4 hurricane hit there a month or so earlier.

[ElNono]

Westcoaster, don't give a fuck

[DarrinS]

Westcoaster, don't give a fuck

I guess we don't care about your fires

[ElNono]

I guess we don't care about your fires

Or earthquakes... :tu

[DarrinS]

Or earthquakes... :tu


I care about natural disasters, even if I'm not personally affected.

In before "muh zipcode" crew

[Winehole23]

I care about natural disasters, even if I'm not personally affected.

In before "muh zipcode" crewjust for COVID, apparently

:lol

[Darth_Pelican]

60-70mph winds expected here. The track would need to shift around 50 miles East for us to be destroyed, but the trend has been more west.

[boutons_deux]

Nawlins fucked, Sun afternoon, night, Cat 4

16th anniversary of Katrina

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/100304_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_wind_probs_34_F120+png/100304.png

[Millennial_Messiah]

60-70mph winds expected here. The track would need to shift around 50 miles East for us to be destroyed, but the trend has been more west.

GFS trend has actually been to the east since yesterday, and the storm itself is moving on the eastern end of the cone guideline so far... over a hot central Gulf eddy which is typical for late August (same part of the gulf and time of year as Katrina), Ida looks like a CAT 3 at the moment...

https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/SECTOR/gm/02/20212401541_GOES16-ABI-gm-02-1000x1000.jpg

[Millennial_Messiah]

Nawlins fucked, Sun afternoon, night, Cat 4

16th anniversary of Katrina

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/100304_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_wind_probs_34_F120+png/100304.png
Yep. And, just like Katrina, it will make landfall in that Sun night/Mon morning time window, just as in '05
, :lol

[Thread]

Yep. And, just like Katrina, it will make landfall in that Sun night/Mon morning time window, just as in '05
, :lol

This time on MF Biden's tab. Is that barrel-a-shit gonna act like somebody, or, get his ambivalent on and blame 'em for the Civil War and COVID?

[boutons_deux]

how long will it stay running

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=catsmeow2

[baseline bum]

I guess we don't care about your fires

Um we already knew you didn't

[hater]

I guess we don't care about your fires

Or their massive homeless

[DarrinS]

Um we already knew you didn't

Should have used blue font

[SnakeBoy]

If the levee breaks they'll have no place to stay

[Monostradamus]

Should have used blue font
Nah, you don’t

[ElNono]

Or their massive homeless

Well, it's not like they care about their own homeless, if we're being frank...

If Austin's home prices keep going up and up, homelessness is going to be another export from California, tbh

[SnakeBoy]

Well, it's not like they care about their own homeless, if we're being frank...

If Austin's home prices keep going up and up, homelessness is going to be another export from California, tbh

Summer is a bitch and so is winter sometimes. They'll make their way to the west coast.

Abbott should buy them bus tickets tbh. It's the compassionate thing to do.

[Millennial_Messiah]

100 MPH cat 2 now, still hasn't *rapidly* intensified yet, but one hurricane model has a 155 mph landfall right on Plaquemines Parish just south of NOLA.

[ElNono]

Summer is a bitch and so is winter sometimes. They'll make their way to the west coast.

Abbott should buy them bus tickets tbh. It's the compassionate thing to do.

There's a warm jail for them too, tbh... another difference between California and Texas, tbh

[SnakeBoy]

They're having a hurricane party on Bourbon Street

What's that saying about history?

[benefactor]

They're having a hurricane party on Bourbon Street

What's that saying about history?
There will always be idiots having hurricane parties, no matter the circumstances. Darwin tends to sort those folks out.

[pgardn]

Summer is a bitch and so is winter sometimes. They'll make their way to the west coast.

Abbott should buy them bus tickets tbh. It's the compassionate thing to do.

Abbott should grab himself a bus and drive it off a cliff.
fkn dumbass, part one of the three stooges.

[pgardn]

They're having a hurricane party on Bourbon Street

What's that saying about history?

These idiots have places to sleep in or some sort of shelter.
Thats about it. tough question...

[DarrinS]

They're having a hurricane party on Bourbon Street

What's that saying about history?

Will be rescued by red necks.

[hater]

https://twitter.com/LouisianaGov/status/1431763575362793473?s=19

Life goes on unless u in louisiana nig

[Robz4000]

Running out of time to rapidly intensify tbh.

[SnakeBoy]

Running out of time to rapidly intensify tbh.

Idk man that eye looks pretty sweet for rapid development

[Thread]

Idk man that eye looks pretty sweet for rapid development

Like a milkshake.

[pgardn]

Will be rescued by red necks. red necks will be rescued by Copters and I will pay taxes for it.

[Robz4000]

Running out of time to rapidly intensify tbh.

:lol well I was wrong

[Millennial_Messiah]

Category 4 140 MPH winds and we still haven't reached diurnal max (essentially the crack of dawn, for TCs)... which was when storms like Katrina bombed from a cat.3 with 115 MPH winds the night I went to bed to a 165 MPH cat.5 when I woke up that ensuing Sunday morning.

[SnakeBoy]

So NO is going to get the east side of this one it looks like

Didn't Katrina jog to the east at the last minute and spare them the worst of what they could have gotten?

[Millennial_Messiah]

So NO is going to get the east side of this one it looks like

Didn't Katrina jog to the east at the last minute and spare them the worst of what they could have gotten?

Yes, the east side (right-front quadrant; think passenger front bumper on a car) is typically and always worse for hurricane impact, especially with regards to tornadoes and overall wind field. But what meteorologists did not expect when Katrina was making landfall as "only" a weakened category 3 and "sparing New Orleans by staying off to the east" was that by staying east of NOLA it meant that well after landfall once Katrina was north of Lake Pontchartrain, the cyclonic down-winds from Katrina pushed and effectively dumped the Lake into the city, particularly low-lying areas on the east side like the Ninth Ward -- and breaking the levee systems there.

With Ida although Ida may actually strike closer to New Orleans itself and NOLA will be getting the nastier side of the initial hurricane impact itself, the angle at which Ida is hitting means that Ida won't be dumping Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans, which is a big difference.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Ida will ultimately end up being worse for New Orleans than say, Gustav ('08) or Isaac ('12), but significantly less damaging than Katrina because the levees will hold up and the surge will be a lot less thanks to the angle of Ida's track being less of a worst case scenario for NOLA compared to Katrina.

Thanks Drew Brees for leaving NOLA, I guess?! I guess the blessing of Brees was the only thing keeping NOLA safe from major hurricanes for 15+ years.

[StormLuva]

Don't worry spurstalkers. My colleague MannyisGod is certainly following this storm but I'd like to apologize for his mysterious disappearance. He is currently in a post-masturbatory coma. The strengthening into a Category 4 along with a direct path into a major populated area was just too much excitement for him to bare.

[Frenchfred]

Summer is a bitch and so is winter sometimes. They'll make their way to the west coast.

Abbott should buy them bus tickets tbh. It's the compassionate thing to do.

that's the way conservative christians deal with the needy. What would jesus do?

[pgardn]

that's the way conservative christians deal with the needy. What would jesus do?

It does not matter.
As long as they believe Jesus is Lord it does not matter how they behave or think.

[hater]

Hopefully unvaxed trumptards die by the thousands in this storms nigs amirite?

[pgardn]

Hopefully unvaxed trumptards die by the thousands in this storms nigs amirite?

No.
Just ship Syrian people in to NO and away from Assad.
Dying by drowing or getting hit in the head by a piece of wood, is preferred over being gassed you fkn hypocrite.

[Winehole23]

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[GAustex]

Given the circumstances the double eye wall thing may be a good thing

[Winehole23]

Given the circumstances the double eye wall thing may be a good thinghow so?

[GAustex]

how so?
though a bigger wind field
generally lower windspeed
maybe not though-i was surmising

[Millennial_Messiah]

*** 150 MPH CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA LANDFALL ALERT ***


...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA MAKES LANDFALL NEAR
PORT FOURCHON LOUISIANA...

NOAA Doppler radar imagery indicates that the eye of Ida made
landfall along the southeastern coast of Louisiana near Port
Fourchon around 1155 AM CDT (1655 UTC). Data from an Air Force
Reserve reconnaissance aircraft and Doppler radar data indicate that
Ida's maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 150
mph (240 km/h). The latest minimum central pressure estimated from
reconnaissance aircraft data is 930 mb (27.46 in).

Within the past hour, sustained winds of 43 mph (69 km/h) and a
gust to 67 mph (107 km/h) were reported at Lakefront Airport in New
Orleans.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge in Shell Beach, Louisiana,
recently reported a water level of 6.4 feet above mean higher high
water, which is an approximation of inundation in that area.

A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge at Bay Waveland Yacht Club,
Mississippi, recently reported a water level of 5.5 feet above mean
higher high water, which is an approximation of inundation in that
area.


SUMMARY OF 1155 AM CDT...1655 UTC...INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...29.1N 90.2W
ABOUT 15 MI...25 KM SW OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA
ABOUT 45 MI...75 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150 MPH...240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...930 MB...27.46 INCHES

$$
Forecaster Brown/Brennan

[Millennial_Messiah]

though a bigger wind field
generally lower windspeed
maybe not though-i was surmising

Big wind field, 150 MPH winds, 930 mb central pressure. Large wind field and landfalling with 25 MPH stronger winds than Katrina. This time, will skirt just to the west of Katrina, instead of just to the East. Let's see how NOLA fares this time.

My prediction is that it will be much worse than Hurricane Laura (last year's) impact, which was also a 150 MPH cat 4 landfall, but much smaller and in a much less populous area.

[redzero]

It took 14 hours to get to Austin from New Orleans. :madrun

[Blake]

It took 14 hours to get to Austin from New Orleans. :madrun

Damn

[Millennial_Messiah]

It took 14 hours to get to Austin from New Orleans. :madrun

At least you're safe. Except, Austin defunded the police.

[ChumpDumper]

At least you're safe. Except, Austin defunded the police.Yeah, they're totally broke. It's Fury Road out here.

[Winehole23]

“Wind is just air - it can’t hurt you”, “Hurricanes are natural and nothing new”, “Only weak and old buildings are affected”, etc.

[Winehole23]

"it's just a little wind and rain, bro"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9-qyY-XEAYPjZl?format=png&name=small

[CosmicCowboy]

Had an offshore tuna trip scheduled in a month out of Venice La. I wonder if Venice is even there now.

[Winehole23]

it's still a hurricane

1432075281414737920

[hater]

Any good live streams nigs?

Just want to tune in for ambience

[Thread]

Any good live streams nigs?

Just want to tune in for ambience

Anything so far we can nail Biden upon the Tree of Woe with, hater?

Keep an eye peeled.

[Ef-man]

"it's just a little wind and rain, bro"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9-qyY-XEAYPjZl?format=png&name=small

“Not like it is 1,000mph winds or a pyroclastic flow like in Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD.”

[Winehole23]

Mississippi River has reportedly reversed flow -- very rare even during hurricanes.

[Thread]

Mississippi River has reportedly reversed flow -- very rare even during hurricanes.

GD it!!! The water shortage is over and Biden will get credit as soon as he returns from Dover AFB. SOB!!!

[Thread]

“Not like it is 1,000mph winds or a pyroclastic flow like in Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD.”

Anything bad we can lay at Biden's door step, fart face?

[hater]

Severestudios stream is good

[Millennial_Messiah]

it's still a hurricane

1432075281414737920
It's still a fucking Category 4 hurricane 6 hours after landfall. :lol

probably will be downgraded to Cat 3 at 7pm (8PM EDT advisory) though

Eyewall about to hit New Orleans right now, the worst is still to come for Darth_Pelican

[ElNono]

Hopefully unvaxed trumptards die by the thousands in this storms nigs amirite?

dunno, but Santa Monica beach is kicking ass today, tbh

[Blake]

Anything bad we can lay at Biden's door step, fart face?

Sorry but doubtful that Biden will just toss some paper towels at citizens for cleanup

[baseline bum]

dunno, but Santa Monica beach is kicking ass today, tbh

C'mon son, Huntington Beach is where it's at.

[ElNono]

C'mon son, Huntington Beach is where it's at.

too lazy to drive over there today, tbh

[baseline bum]

too lazy to drive over there today, tbh

Shit's great when there is a storm in Baja since it's south facing. Get some pretty decent waves in the ~10 foot range then. Though if you want a beach to just be lazy at Redondo is nice. West facing so the water is pretty calm, can practically just lay on your back and take siesta on the swells in the early afternoon. Plus nice to stuff yourself at the oyster bar on the pier after tbh.

[Thread]

Sorry but doubtful that Biden will just toss some paper towels at citizens for cleanup

Well not today anyways, he's back home in Delaware, a side trip to Dover AFB...the children have arrived.

[Thread]

Shit's great when there is a storm in Baja since it's south facing. Get some pretty decent waves in the ~10 foot range then. Though if you want a beach to just be lazy at Redondo is nice. West facing so the water is pretty calm, can practically just lay on your back and take siesta on the swells in the early afternoon. Plus nice to stuff yourself at the oyster bar on the pier after tbh.

How bout a bend over?

[Millennial_Messiah]

Oh wow it's been on land for 9 hours and it's still a 115 MPH Category 3, aka still a "major hurricane". Unreal. :lol


dunno, but Santa Monica beach is kicking ass today, tbh

I was there a few weeks ago. Santa Monica is the crown jewel of LA.

[spurraider21]

C'mon son, Huntington Beach is where it's at.
huntington beach was always worth if willing to make the drive. bonfire at night too

[SnakeBoy]

Not sure if true


Holy Frick!!! The main transmission tower that feeds New Orleans electricity has collapsed into the Mississippi River! People reporting that the city pumps have lost power!! These idiots don’t have back up power generators for their pumps!!! WTF...WTF!!!!! Criminal Negligence!!!! Power could be out for weeks!!!

[SnakeBoy]

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[SnakeBoy]

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[Monostradamus]

https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1432059979507245058?s=21

[Winehole23]

Not sure if trueapparently they can’t restore power to pumping stations until the roads are passable.


https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/30/major-electrical-tower-collapse-leaves-new-orleans-completely-without-power/

[ElNono]

Shit's great when there is a storm in Baja since it's south facing. Get some pretty decent waves in the ~10 foot range then. Though if you want a beach to just be lazy at Redondo is nice. West facing so the water is pretty calm, can practically just lay on your back and take siesta on the swells in the early afternoon. Plus nice to stuff yourself at the oyster bar on the pier after tbh.

I hit that pier all the time. There's also a nice restaurant over there as well...

[Thread]

apparently they can’t restore power to pumping stations until the roads are passable.


https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/30/major-electrical-tower-collapse-leaves-new-orleans-completely-without-power/

Biden's fault.

[Thread]

I hit that pier all the time. There's also a nice restaurant over there as well...

D&D, eh?

[ElNono]

D&D, eh?

?????

The restaurant is called Kincaids, IIRC

[Winehole23]

Ida's reportedly still a hurricane

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0921WPCQPF+gif/031947WPCQPF_sm.gif

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9_kmuuVEAELtRn?format=png&name=small

[Trainwreck2100]

apparently they can’t restore power to pumping stations until the roads are passable.


https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/30/major-electrical-tower-collapse-leaves-new-orleans-completely-without-power/

they can;t restore power because a transmission tower fell into the fucking mississippi river. Those things don't grow on trees, and with COVID shortages they are going to have to hope one has already been made and can be rerouted

[Thread]

?????

The restaurant is called Kincaids, IIRC

El, I know you, you're as tight as a nun's snootch on the Sabbath...hence D&D...Dine & Dash.

[ElNono]

El, I know you, you're as tight as a nun's snootch on the Sabbath...hence D&D...Dine & Dash.

I always pay for my meals, Dale... come on son, people are trying to make a living. I even left some hefty tips during the pandemic.

[Winehole23]

they can;t restore power because a transmission tower fell into the fucking mississippi river. Those things don't grow on trees, and with COVID shortages they are going to have to hope one has already been made and can be reroutedSure they can, it'll just take a few days/weeks to restore like it did here in Texas.

Tough break, though.

[boutons_deux]

Shit Storm rages at cable news for covering Hurricane Ida 'all night long'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-furious-hurricane-ida-coverage

[SnakeBoy]

Sure they can, it'll just take a few days/weeks to restore like it did here in Texas.

Tough break, though.

All they have to do is set it upright again. Easy peasy

https://i.imgur.com/dVVq2gk.png

[Millennial_Messiah]

All they have to do is set it upright again. Easy peasy

https://i.imgur.com/dVVq2gk.png
Real life isn't simcity.


they can;t restore power because a transmission tower fell into the fucking mississippi river. Those things don't grow on trees, and with COVID shortages they are going to have to hope one has already been made and can be rerouted


It could take a month or longer. And it's 90+ degrees with over 90% humidity in NOLA in September. No A/C.

[Darth_Pelican]

It's still a fucking Category 4 hurricane 6 hours after landfall. :lol

probably will be downgraded to Cat 3 at 7pm (8PM EDT advisory) though

Eyewall about to hit New Orleans right now, the worst is still to come for Darth_Pelican (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=22958)

The eyewall never hit New Orleans. It was well west of the city. We’re still without power but there’s minimal structural damage. The main damage was to the west of the city. Power restoration is the biggest challenge here but once restored recovery will be fine.

[benefactor]

The eyewall never hit New Orleans. It was well west of the city. We’re still without power but there’s minimal structural damage. The main damage was to the west of the city. Power restoration is the biggest challenge here but once restored recovery will be fine.
Glad you are ok bro:tu

[DarrinS]

Hit Houma

[Millennial_Messiah]

The eyewall never hit New Orleans. It was well west of the city. We’re still without power but there’s minimal structural damage. The main damage was to the west of the city. Power restoration is the biggest challenge here but once restored recovery will be fine.

yeah I heard people were crying for help on roofs at La Place and Metairie

Fortunately poor and flood-vulnerable places like the swampy northern New Orleans and the 9th ward got spared for the most part. Levees kept Lake Pontchartrain out of the city this time.

[Darth_Pelican]

yeah I heard people were crying for help on roofs at La Place and Metairie

Fortunately poor and flood-vulnerable places like the swampy northern New Orleans and the 9th ward got spared for the most part. Levees kept Lake Pontchartrain out of the city this time.

LaPlace yes, it’s not in the levee protection system and completely flooded. There’s also huge structural damage there because it took a direct hit. My parents live in Metairie. They lost roof shingles from the wind but Metairie didn’t flood. It’s levee protected.

[Winehole23]

As we saw with the Snowpocalypse in Texas, regulatory capture has screwed the public again.

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Consumer groups say the now familiar post-disaster face plants of U.S. telecom networks are completely avoidable, and the direct result of industry lobbying to eliminate meaningful oversight of the sector on the state and federal level.

Three years after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina caused widespread wireless outages, the FCC approved new rules requiring that all cell tower sites have a modest 8 hours of battery backup in the case of a power outage—effectively the bare minimum.

Backed by the Bush White House (https://www.rcrwireless.com/20081201/wireless/wireless-industry-wins-skirmish-in-backup-power-debate), the cellular industry successfully lobbied to scuttle the rules (https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/cell-carriers-fight-fcc-over-backup-power/), claiming they would have created “a huge economic and bureaucratic burden” for the industry. Sprint, now part of T-Mobile, complained at the time such rules would have created “staggering and irreparable harm (https://www.heraldnet.com/news/fcc-cell-companies-clash-over-rules-on-towers-backup-power/)” to the wireless industry.

In short, the U.S. wireless industry, which charges some of the highest rates in the world (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5zpw7/us-wireless-data-prices-are-among-the-most-expensive-on-earth) for mobile service, didn’t want to pay for fairly modest reliability upgrades. The industry’s successful bid to dismantle those rules would come to haunt victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 (https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/if-your-cell-tower-loses-power-be-sure-to-thank-ctia-and-the-d-c-circuit/), as well as victims of California’s historic 2019 wildfire season (https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywa4p5/wildfire-victims-dont-have-cell-service-thanks-to-greedy-telecoms).

Incompetence by the local power utility (PG&E) helped kickstart that year’s disasters, and incompetence by the regional telecom companies perpetuated it. Shortly after the fires, FCC data showed (https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360482A1.pdf) that nearly half a million wireless subscribers lacked access to wireless phone service, again thanks to a lack of reliable backup power at many tower locations.

“Nobody likes to pay for emergency preparedness,” Harold Feld, a wireless policy expert and lawyer at consumer group Public Knowledge told Motherboard at the time (https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywa4p5/wildfire-victims-dont-have-cell-service-thanks-to-greedy-telecoms). “That's why you need rules to force companies to spend the money. Companies will spend as little as they think they have to, which is why regulators need to tell them how much they have to spend.”

None of this is unfamiliar territory for the U.S. telecom sector, where companies routinely neglect aging infrastructure (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3v5n/american-phone-companies-are-literally-letting-their-networks-fall-apart) despite billions in taxpayer subsidies (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywkn4b/study-throwing-taxpayer-money-at-giant-isps-hasnt-fixed-americas-broadband-problem), tax breaks, and regulatory favors (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxeg/atandt-preps-for-new-layoffs-despite-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors). Instead of holding telecom operators more accountable for these failures, the trend has largely been to strip away both state and federal oversight (https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw5d5g/net-neutrality-big-telecom-broadband-deregulation) of regional telecom giants.

“After Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy, both Congress and the FCC took a hard look at widespread outages,” Leo Fitzpatrick, a lawyer at consumer group Free Press, told Motherboard. “Instead of issuing a regulatory regime to address the identified vulnerabilities, such as a recommendation to require backup power on cell towers which carriers fiercely resisted, the FCC punted and put its faith in a voluntary regime devised by the industry.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv9j7/how-big-telecom-killed-rules-that-would-have-prevented-hurricane-ida-outages

[hater]

Sounds like Katrina tbqh. Thousands stranded cant even leave home. No power no water. Alligators invading.

No help. Pretty soo. Im sure well see sign of SOS on rooftops.

Nothing has changed in so many years. Americans especially poor are always going to get fucked and left to die.

[Winehole23]

Sounds like Katrina tbqh. Thousands stranded cant even leave home. No power no water. Alligators invading.

No help. Pretty soo. Im sure well see sign of SOS on rooftops.

Nothing has changed in so many years. Americans especially poor are always going to get fucked and left to die.As usual you're talking out your ass.

Flooding isn't the big problem this time, it's power getting knocked out. The levee improvements kept Lake Ponchartain out of NOLA. Too bad for the other side of the lake though.

[redzero]

Power is back for a few areas. I'm kind of liking Austin, though.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Power is back for a few areas. I'm kind of liking Austin, though.

Funnily enough, in the 9th Ward (Upper, not Lower though)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-MGmOQWQAELJDy?format=jpg&name=medium



LaPlace yes, it’s not in the levee protection system and completely flooded. There’s also huge structural damage there because it took a direct hit. My parents live in Metairie. They lost roof shingles from the wind but Metairie didn’t flood. It’s levee protected.


Metairie including upscale areas still with no power, and it's 95+ with 110+ heat indexes. They need to GTFO until the power is restored because otherwise they'll die of heat strokes.

[Thread]

That (Brownie) guy that Bush2 used is better than what guy Biden has going. Where's Biden with all his shit?

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

damn

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

cray

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[Winehole23]

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[baseline bum]

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Another 200 year flood nine years after Sandy.

[Thread]

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That smart ass chick that took over for AC ain't so big shot this morning.

What's the matter babe, don't it float?

[Winehole23]

the Texas snowpocalypse was kinda like that too

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[Robz4000]

the Texas snowpocalypse was kinda like that too

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Our country is fucked and unfuckable.

[Thread]

Our country is fucked and unfuckable.

The lightning strike?

Trump President.
Not Clinton.

[Winehole23]

*resemblance intensifies*


I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986.


In 35 years, nothing has changed my official conclusion: Entergy is a racketeering enterprise parading as a power company.


This week, Entergy lost 2000 miles of high-voltage power lines. I’ve worked on power systems worldwide and you won’t see that type of disaster in Bangladesh after a typhoon.


Why? To Entergy, hurricanes have become a profit center.


Here’s how they did it after Katrina. Entergy wouldn’t get the city’s lights back on for over a year. Not that they didn’t act swiftly: Just three weeks after the hurricane – Entergy took emergency action…by tossing its New Orleans subsidiary into bankruptcy. It was a nice trick to duck liabilities for its negligence and avoid fronting the cost of repair.


Yet, immediately after Katrina, Entergy posted a breathtaking 24% jump in profits for the quarter that it attributed to “weather.” But you don’t need a weatherman to know that this story blows: With New Orleans drowned, Entergy sold off the city’s electricity allotment elsewhere at a huge profit.
https://www.gregpalast.com/louisiana-black-out-not-an-act-of-god-an-act-of-entergy/

[Winehole23]

fucking DeBlasio

basement tenements are illegal precisely because they are fire/flood traps

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[Winehole23]

*resemblance intensifies*

https://www.gregpalast.com/louisiana-black-out-not-an-act-of-god-an-act-of-entergy/another Snowpocalypse parallel. the hurricane has passed, but the danger to people remains.

(also, mass death in the Northeast put slow motion deaths in NOLA in the shade)


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[Winehole23]

thanks, Joe

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[Thread]

thanks, Joe

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But at least Joe has 'em not raping one another in the "Superdome" this time.

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

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"Sportsman's Paradise"

[Winehole23]

Real life isn't simcity.




It could take a month or longer. And it's 90+ degrees with over 90% humidity in NOLA in September. No A/C.

Power back for 66% in New Orleans, 27% in Jefferson as Entergy suspends late fees and shutoffs (https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_dfa246fc-0f42-11ec-a542-8baecd741c27.html) (https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_dfa246fc-0f42-11ec-a542-8baecd741c27.html)

[boutons_deux]

BigOil owns Louisiana, almost all politicians are bribed to let BigOil run wide open

Impose hurricane proofing ($$$) of BigOil's facilities? never gonna happen, or even be proposed.

Same with S/E shithole Texas

[Millennial_Messiah]

Power back for 66% in New Orleans, 27% in Jefferson as Entergy suspends late fees and shutoffs (https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_dfa246fc-0f42-11ec-a542-8baecd741c27.html)


And gas prices seem to be back on the decline starting today after a 30-40 cent surge since Ida hit. All good news :tu

[Millennial_Messiah]

BigOil owns Louisiana, almost all politicians are bribed to let BigOil run wide open

Impose hurricane proofing ($$$) of BigOil's facilities? never gonna happen, or even be proposed.

Same with S/E shithole Texas

or have fun paying $4.49 a gallon in shithole California with all the leftist green new deal policies in place they have there.

Got a Tesla? still shit out of luck. electricity prices in CA are insane :lol