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Hospitals can't move people out and are sheltering in place. Looking at 15 to 20 inches of rain. Yikes. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...cant-threat-n1277779
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Category 4! The article says Katrina was a Cat 3.  Lets hope everyone makes it through OK!
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
God’s will? That’s what the theocrats said about AIDS.
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Katrina was a Cat 5.
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Yes it was. The article is wrong. edit: Well, maybe. Maybe not. See discussion below.
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Katrina weakened to a Category 3 by the time it hit New Orleans. I guess that was what they meant. https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina | |||
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If you remind them they cannot process it.
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Katrina was a Cat 5 over open water, but it was "only" a Cat 3 when it made landfall in New Orleans and south Mississippi. The category system is based on wind speed. The destruction in New Orleans was largely due to flooding caused by failures of the levee system. The Mississippi Gulf Coast was wiped out by the storm surge.
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I wish I felt sanguine that the political apparatus in Louisiana had spent the last sixteen years fixing the levee system, which had actual gaps in it at the time Katrina struck, even though fifty years had passed since its design. They'd had certainly time to do it right. Also, the maintenance was so poor that there were trees growing in the levees. I sure hope they learned from those errors.
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They've spent some $14 billion on flood control upgrades since Katrina Let's hope they work.
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A few billion probably went to graft, but that's still a lot of money. Maybe they got the job done.
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Meanwhile, a tropical storm could be arriving in ... Arizona, of all places. By midweek. It's sliding right up the Gulf of California. Lots of flooding expected. At least it'll help a little bit with the drought in the SW. | |||
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What MA said. It was a failure of the levee system. | |||
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Not much. Southern AZ has done almost nothing in the way of storm water retention. Taxes, etc.
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