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Sakra. Poor people there...
Hurricane Katrina becomes Category 4
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I did a quick copy and paste from the new Earth Sat Google program to show the location of New Orleans comparative to the eye. It actually seems like the western eyewall will just pass over the city centre during the next half hour.
As I'm typing this they should be in the worst of the hurricane - if they can ride that out they should be heading into safer conditions as they're enveloped in the southwestern part of the hurricane.
As I'm typing this they should be in the worst of the hurricane - if they can ride that out they should be heading into safer conditions as they're enveloped in the southwestern part of the hurricane.
My experience is that emergency planners are indeed very, very, stupid.IglooDude said:I'm tempted to withdraw my earlier comment to Stormbind that emergency management planners are not morons.
To get people out of FL as quickly as possible, they instructed everyone to use the roads with highest speed limit (Turnpike & 95) which created 1mph traffic jams running the length of the state... meanwhile the 55mph US1 was devoid of traffic (like a ghost road with only an occational car doing 100mph+ and enjoying it), but planners insisted their idea of using only two thirds of available capacity was better
We don't get hurricanes, lucky us. We only get the remnants that cross the Atlantic.
Of course the water is always an issue and global warming *is* a concern obviously. Strangely ebough *drought* sometimes can cause probelms for the dykes as well. We had a (small) flood mid-summer last year due to a dyke failing.
We don't have the option to move away in large numbers, so plans are made to deal with the water when it comes. Currently the fashion is to appoint flood areas where access water can be let-in to remove pressure. This is mostly to handle excess water flowing in from the rivers, which happens more often than sea-floods. Heard of what happened in mid-Europe last week? Those kinds of floods are a bigger threat ATM.
Of course the water is always an issue and global warming *is* a concern obviously. Strangely ebough *drought* sometimes can cause probelms for the dykes as well. We had a (small) flood mid-summer last year due to a dyke failing.
We don't have the option to move away in large numbers, so plans are made to deal with the water when it comes. Currently the fashion is to appoint flood areas where access water can be let-in to remove pressure. This is mostly to handle excess water flowing in from the rivers, which happens more often than sea-floods. Heard of what happened in mid-Europe last week? Those kinds of floods are a bigger threat ATM.
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a space oddity said:
Yeah, this year, CZ hasn't been hit. We've got ours few years ago (remember Prague underwater?).
stormbind said:My experience is that emergency planners are indeed very, very, stupid.
To get people out of FL as quickly as possible, they instructed everyone to use the roads with highest speed limit (Turnpike & 95) which created 1mph traffic jams running the length of the state... meanwhile the 55mph US1 was devoid of traffic (like a ghost road with only an occational car doing 100mph+ and enjoying it), but planners insisted their idea of using only two thirds of available capacity was better
Could they have been holding US1 out for emergency vehicle traffic (and Nat'l Guard units coming in)?
One thing I've learned with emergency management is that some decisions that look stupid can have factors that the general public isn't aware of. In the Superdome facilities case, it could be that the toilets aren't dependent on the electrical system, and the water system will run pretty much no matter what (and floodwater contamination doesn't much matter anyway for that specific usage).
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stormbind said:
Tell that to all the people who died in Virginia from Camille in 1969... even though Camille made landfall in Mississippi.
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Speedo said:
1953, when the dikes burst, and 1800 people drowned in the subsequent flooding. Okay, so that wasn't from a tropical hurricane, but the winds from that storm did reach hurricane force.
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I cant help chuckling when I hear people talking about cities being saved by 'dykes'. I imagine rows of brave butch looking women in plaid fighting the elements with shovels and bucket brigades
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Glad to have made somebody laugh today. Dike is the proper term then, I take it? I'll use "dijk" from now on, the only way that is right anyway!Bozo Erectus said:I cant help chuckling when I hear people talking about cities being saved by 'dykes'. I imagine rows of brave butch looking women in plaid fighting the elements with shovels and bucket brigades
. Thanks for your info.
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Space, no thats the right spelling, for both, oddly enough
All on the Pietersberg (Peter's "mountain") in the south east, I guess.
Seriously? It would cause a problem only if it's *really* major, people have lived here for ages. Half of the country is well above sea level. If push comes to shove, I'm sure our neighbours would let us in. Provided we don't stay too long, of course...
Seriously? It would cause a problem only if it's *really* major, people have lived here for ages. Half of the country is well above sea level. If push comes to shove, I'm sure our neighbours would let us in. Provided we don't stay too long, of course...
We wouldn't go; we'd stay to make the "seabarriers" higher and stronger.dgfred said:Where would you go to if there was major flood?Where would most of
the population go?
"Seabarrier" chosen as the normal word seems to ignite childish snickering ...
a space oddity said:All on the Pietersberg (Peter's "mountain") in the south east, I guess.
Seriously? It would cause a problem only if it's *really* major, people have lived here for ages. Half of the country is well above sea level. If push comes to shove, I'm sure our neighbours would let us in. Provided we don't stay too long, of course...
I'm sure the Germans are eager to return the favor, as you were so hospitable to them in the past several decades.
. Many, many people are sheltering there
Does not sound good. 
here's to hoping things aren't quite as bad as they are presented.
here's to hoping things aren't quite as bad as they are presented.
