Hurricane Katrina Thread: Any LA Gaffers?

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Scalemail Ted said:
In Jefferson Parish, where im from, it was explictly stated that there are NO SHELTERS for any of the parish's citizens to seek. Also our parish president requested that anyone riding out the store, go out and purchase an axe, pick or maul, so that when and if they seek shelter from flood waters in their attics that they can break the roof to reach higher grounds. The parish Sheriff then added that the first job of the police / fire / resuce crews after the storm hits is to 'go search for corpses.'

Not to downplay anything -- this is still a big, big deal -- but there are two things to keep in mind. The Parish President does tend to "inflate" things a little. Remember during Dennis, where he was the only person to issue an evac order. He was trying to get people to leave, so take into account that he could be exaggerating just a bit. The axe, pick, maul stuff was refering more to the low-lying areas.

Still, it's not looking good.

I notice we have a few LA GAF'ers here, would anyone want to set up a phone/contact system between us so we can keep things updated and in-touch during the storm? Just PM me if you'd be interested.
 
Lardbutt said:
Holy fuck. A hurricane can do THAT?

A hurricane can do much worse. Camille took 3 loaded tankers from out at sea (ALAMO VICTORY, the HULDA, and the SILVER HAWK) and deposited them on shore. One several miles inland. Smaller boats and yachts became missiles and were rocketed into subdivisions miles away.


Then there are the tornados...
 
If so you're inclined and want coverage in warning areas...

http://www.wwltv.com
http://wdsu.com

WWL-TV Channel 4 in New Orleans and WDSU-TV Channel 6 are streaming their TV coverage live. (For WDSU, you'll have to go to their WeatherPlus feed).

http://www.wjbo.com
1150 AM WJBO in Baton Rouge has a live stream. They are also feeding stations in New Orleans and Biloxi, so you'll hear stuff from numerous sources there.

http://www.wpmi.com (apparently won't work in Firefox)
Biloxi TV station also streaming live.
 
mightynine said:
Or if he just woke up from a party in the Quarter, he's probably wondering where everyone is.

The lights are still on at that particular bar, so maybe its still open.
 
Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smokey blue-green
I can't forsake a dixie dead-shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
Colonel Tom, What's wrong? What's going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, Hey north you're south shut your big mouth,
You gotta do what you feel is real
Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years
Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me
I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said, Hey man thanks
Sometimes I fell so good, I gotta scream
She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she said...
My memory is muddy what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
 
Nameless said:
Remember that FX special where they came up with a fictional Scenario of what a major Oil Crisis in the US would be like...Didn't it all start because of a major hurricane hitting New Orleans????


thank god I wasn't the only person who watched that movie.
 
They just said on the news that thousands of people are still backed up on the highways in LA and that these people will likely be caught in the storm. :(
 
Baron Aloha said:
They just said on the news that thousands of people are still backed up on the highways in LA and that these people will likely be caught in the storm. :(
Wow, that's terrible. :(
 
Baron Aloha said:
They just said on the news that thousands of people are still backed up on the highways in LA and that these people will likely be caught in the storm. :(

Makes you wonder why they waited so long to get the hell out.
 
Culex said:
Makes you wonder why they waited so long to get the hell out.

Probably because a vast proportion of people living there yesterday didn't realize there would be this huge slut knocking on their door tomorrow morning.
 
Culex said:
Makes you wonder why they waited so long to get the hell out.

See how long it takes to drive anywhere outside of Katrinas path driving at 4MPH. Most of these people have been on the road since early this morning. I have relatives who left YESTERDAY who are just getting to Atlanta. Katrina has only been a category 5 storm for a little over a day. The people who are already out left long before it was considered a cat5 storm. The rest who left after the mandatory evacuation at 10AM today are mostly still on the road.
 
Fucking lawsuits will popup.

"The mayor told us to leave and we where stuck on the highway."

Oh and to whoever said the Superdome was not hurricane tested, this is not the first hurricane. It would be a disaster if that were to fall.
 
This is so terribly depressing :(

New Orleans, one of America's most charming cities, could be converted into a giant cesspool laced with toxic chemicals and raw sewage. Even coffins from the city's legendary cemeteries could be released by floodwaters.
 
Phoenix said:
See how long it takes to drive anywhere outside of Katrinas path driving at 4MPH. Most of these people have been on the road since early this morning. I have relatives who left YESTERDAY who are just getting to Atlanta. Katrina has only been a category 5 storm for a little over a day. The people who are already out left long before it was considered a cat5 storm. The rest who left after the mandatory evacuation at 10AM today are mostly still on the road.

Damn, I didn't realize it was that bad!
 
Hitokage said:
Peak winds at 160mph, lowest pressure at 920mb and made landfall as a Cat 2? Please. :P


Please my ass. That storm basically destroyed my entire home county. Several trees fell on my house and our beach house on the other side of the county was completely destroyed.
 
skinnyrattler said:
Fucking lawsuits will popup.

"The mayor told us to leave and we where stuck on the highway."

Oh and to whoever said the Superdome was not hurricane tested, this is not the first hurricane. It would be a disaster if that were to fall.


The Superdome has survived a lot of stuff and its highly unlikely that Katrina is going to change that.

The people who designed and architected stuff in New Orleans weren't retards - they know where they are and what the city has to absorb in order for the city to stay there. While certainly they cannot build 100ft levees to guarantee that water won't enter the city (newflash, new Orleans floods all the time WITHOUT hurricanes), they do know a fair amount about making the absolute worse case scenario so unlikely that extreme circumstances have to happen.

People have been predicting the total submerge of new orleans longer than I've been alive, and while it does flood and while I have actually gone out to a car in waist deep water - it tends to only happen in certain parts of the city and life goes on. The apocolypse scenario is a very unlikely scenario. While it can happen, people need to stop looking for New Orleans to become the next Atlantis everytime it rains.
 
The Weather Channel is now saying that there is a chance that the eye wall itself may JUST miss New Orleans to the east.
 
Culex said:
Makes you wonder why they waited so long to get the hell out.

I can tell you this, having grown up in Metairie (right outside of N.O.) and having seen many a storm, some people down there have this absurd notion of going down the ship, for lack of a better term. I do not understand it. Granted, I've been down there through cat 1s and what not, but if you've got a category 5 knocking on your doorstep and the only drop might be down to 4, it's time to get out.

That said, my dad finally decided to leave just a hour or so ago, so now I just hope he can get up to here in Baton Rouge before the winds pick up too much.
 
Matlock said:
"The entire city of New Orleans is under shit...under siege" -Foxnews

That's a fairly accurate idea. I heard Shep Smith got screwed on live Fox TV, with someone responding to his question "Fuck this storm!"
 
They keep saying that both sides of the road will open, but I keep seeing bumper to bumper traffic on one side with like one guy, for whatever crazy reason, going toward the storm on the other side.
 
teh_pwn said:
They keep saying that both sides of the road will open, but I keep seeing bumper to bumper traffic on one side with like one guy, for whatever crazy reason, going toward the storm on the other side.

Depends on which side of the city you're looking at. Some people are packed heading east, others packed headed west :)
 

"what the fuck are you staring at?"

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OMG, the FGFGFGGF Overlords are upon us, only one man will survive.

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"As if it'd be anybody else."
 
This is Ted. Apparently, my brother gave everyone a brief update. I decided to evacuate, along with my family, earlier this morning and head to Baton Rouge. We were luckifully able to avoid traffic by hoping onto river road on the west bank side and took it straight to Baton Rouge. Took only like 3 and a half hours.

Traffic through the traditonal routes is insane though. I have a friend that had called at about 5pm who was still on I-10 right outside of new orleans (they closed it on him); he was in traffic since 11am.

Most people I know did evacuate the city. I pray for the ones who had to remain.
I have a friend's dad who works for the levee district and he is helping sandbag Airline Hwy to avoid flooding from St Charles parish. My father stayed as essential government personnel. (My mother was suppose to stay at the hospital [a nurse] and will probably lose her job for leaving despite the fact that she made arrangements to leave prior.)... And my crazy manager decided to stay as well. I havent had the chance to contact everyone I know, I just hope they all sought safety.

I'm not quite sure what to expect when I return.

If anyone is interested in keeping up with the current news in new orleans watch the streaming reports of wwl. ( I was never fond of TWC, so sensationalistic)

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/vi...&props=livenoad

I'll try to keep everyone updated. Though now im looking from the outside, in.
 
Somebody tonight pointed out that if you're a tourist that got stuck in New Orleans, you are basically now occupying the Superdome with every homeless person, pimp, pusher, hooker, street performer, grifter and pickpocket in town. And probably 10-20 thousand smokers who aren't allowed to smoke even if they have cigarettes.

I think I'd rather take my chances with the storm outside :lol
 
Good Scalemail Ted, I was about to call you crazy :D

I just hope you have something to go back too, I lived in a trailer for 7 months thanks to a hurricane.. and it was not fun.

It might be awhile till they let people back in, so be prepared for that. Having never left I did not have to go through that, but it may be weeks or longer till you can go back home. The nation guard watchs for looters, so don't be concered.

Did you have a chance to salvage any nonreplaceables before you left?
 
From CNN:

"So, imagine you're the poor person who decides not to evacuate: Your house will disintegrate around you. The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole. And, eventually, the fire ants will win."
 
Suikoguy said:
Good Scalemail Ted, I was about to call you crazy :D

I just hope you have something to go back too, I lived in a trailer for 7 months thanks to a hurricane.. and it was not fun.

It might be awhile till they let people back in, so be prepared for that. Having never left I did not have to go through that, but it may be weeks or longer till you can go back home. The nation guard watchs for looters, so don't be concered.

Did you have a chance to salvage any nonreplaceables before you left?


I took my photo albums and my personal portfolio of finished and unfinished stories.
I also took a couple changes of clothes and other basic essentials. I left everything else behind.
 
The local weather forcast for New Orleans courtesy of Weather.com: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USLA0338?from=svrstormimpact

Bands of heavy rain containing strong gusty winds at times. High around 85F. Winds NNE at 70 to 90 mph. Rainfall over two inches. Winds could occasionally gust over 100 mph.

And they're probably being a little forgiving with that forcast...

...however I have a feeling this storm will drop to a low category 4 by landfall (130 - 140MPH winds). I'm still just impressed with how quickly this storm exploded yesterday. If I was still living in the South, I probably would have been caught by this storm and I'm usually pretty cautious.
 
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