Scary potential weather stuff

[ripzillia]

Let's sell it back to the French.

[JD]

Originally Posted by Hawkshot99

As far as New Orleans.....Lets build a city below sea level right in hurricane territory right on the coast. Sounds real smart to me.

How could there not be a port city at the mouth of the largest river in the country?
I'd like to see those suckers coming up the atlantic coast...kick off the fall creeking season for us. Spare New Orleans, let drown Boston instead.

[ski9]

Originally Posted by Warp Daddy

Sad for the people involved


Once again yet ANOTHER example WRONG -headed decision -making by those charged with LEADERSHIP ---- friggin bozos are killin us here !!

Right!

Gov. Jindal is roughly 4000 times more effective than that idiot Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. Blanco was a train wreck for NOLA. Believing local neighborhoods should rely on the Feds to organize school bus evacuations is like having the US Army run a Girl Scout cookie sale.

I just wonder if Mayor "Chocolate City" Nagin will hole up in a hotel room crying for another four days?

[ski9]

Originally Posted by ripzillia

Let's sell it back to the French.

Or just give it back...

[deadheadskier]

Originally Posted by JD

How could there not be a port city at the mouth of the largest river in the country?
I'd like to see those suckers coming up the atlantic coast...kick off the fall creeking season for us. Spare New Orleans, let drown Boston instead.

All shipping needs considered, I'd have to imagine that a large port could've been built upstream with relative ease and far more sheltered than NOLA.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by ski9

Or just give it back...

Doubt they'd want it back after we farked up the river and delta and all that.

Maybe they still would.

[dmc]

Originally Posted by Hawkshot99

As far as New Orleans.....Lets build a city below sea level right in hurricane territory right on the coast. Sounds real smart to me.

Lets blast a whole city before we check the facts... Sounds real smart to me...

NOLA was above sea level at one point.. But levees stop the flow of soil from the river that used to replenish the soil... Also the soil there compacts.. Most of the coast is sinking... Not just NOLA...

Also creating levees further up the river force cities further down to build levees...

So its sinking..

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Well looks like gas prices are gonna drop...NOLA is O.K.

[drjeff]

Originally Posted by GrilledSteezeSandwich

Well looks like gas prices are gonna drop...NOLA is O.K.

Oil closed down $5.75 today alone at $109.71 a barrel, which is basically as low as it's been since the beginning of April, and down almost $38 a barrel since it's peak the 2nd week of July. Per info on CNN, early oil company reconasance flights over oil platforms in the Gulf where Gus went through yesterday show little if any damage to any platforms and apparently per satellite imagery, no floating platforms were knocked off their moorings. Some Oil companies have estimated they they could start the rigs back up and get pumping the crude again as soon as tommorrow.

With Hanna looking like shes not going into the Gulf of Mexico later this week, that should bode well for a few days until Ike and Josephine figure out what if anything they're going to do(atleast as of now their development path seems to be following that of Hanna which *should* keep them out of the Gulf of Mexico, although there's currently a tropical wave that could have favorable conditions for development off the Northern Coast of South America near the Grenadines which could if any development happens based on the prevailing upper level winds as of late get that storm in a more favorable location for potential Gulf of Mexico action.

This is one seriously active tropical wave pattern were in right now with what seems like a tropical wave coming off the West Coast of Africa every 36 to 48 hours and heading into some very favorable both wind patterns and water temps for significant storm development

This is a satellite pic of Africa from today



Just look at all of those waves lined up across Africa. Lot's of potential stuff for the tropics the next few weeks!

[dmc]

wow... thats quite a lineup...