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Cat 4 hurricane heading for states slammed by COVID
27 August 2021, 06:45 PM
wtgCat 4 hurricane heading for states slammed by COVID
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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27 August 2021, 07:39 PM
Steve MillerCategory 4! The article says Katrina was a Cat 3.
Lets hope everyone makes it through OK!
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27 August 2021, 09:19 PM
RealPlayerGod’s will? That’s what the theocrats said about AIDS.
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27 August 2021, 10:04 PM
MikhailohKatrina was a Cat 5.
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27 August 2021, 10:11 PM
wtgYes it was. The article is wrong.
edit: Well, maybe. Maybe not. See discussion below.
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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
28 August 2021, 01:50 AM
DanielKatrina weakened to a Category 3 by the time it hit New Orleans. I guess that was what they meant.
https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina28 August 2021, 09:34 AM
CHASquote:
Originally posted by RealPlayer:
God’s will? That’s what the theocrats said about AIDS.
If you remind them they cannot process it.
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28 August 2021, 10:14 AM
Mary Annaquote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
Katrina was a Cat 5.
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.
28 August 2021, 10:16 AM
Mary AnnaI 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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28 August 2021, 03:59 PM
Mary AnnaA few billion probably went to graft, but that's still a lot of money. Maybe they got the job done.
28 August 2021, 05:05 PM
Piano*DadMeanwhile, 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.
29 August 2021, 12:06 AM
DanielWhat MA said. It was a failure of the levee system.
29 August 2021, 12:23 AM
Steve Millerquote:
Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
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.
Not much. Southern AZ has done almost nothing in the way of storm water retention.
Taxes, etc.
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