When A Miss is as Bad As a Hit
Aug 29th, 2005 at 12:43 pm by Susie
Just so you know how serious this storm that “missed” New Orleans is, here are some reports from the comments at Weather Underground:
East New Orleans is under 10 feet of water and rising… French Quarter has some flooding… Rest of city is dry although some spillage is now occuring from lake side..
100’s of people are on their roofs in the southeast part of LA, awaiting rescue…rescuers will not reach them for hours…
Downtonw Mobile is under 10 feet of water…Mobile / Gulfport got hit very very hard…Many people trapped…
10% of NO structures completely destroyed…alot bettr than expected…French Quarter / Bourbon Street largely intact…
Mobile / Gulfrport - estimates of 50% complete structure failure….
The worst of it seems to have passed NO in winds…flooding is the unknown at this point… NO emergency management has fielded 622 calls from people trapped.. they can not yet respond…
storm surge in Biloxi/Gulfpport estimated at 23 feet///per AP
NO [Weather Service] Radar is definitively out@!
I remember turning on CNN early the morning after Hurricane Andrew had gone through Florida late the night before. The anchors were saying how few reports of damage they had, and how Andrew must have been not as bad as everyone thought it was going to be.
The reason, of course, was that the destruction had been so devastating that those areas had no way of getting any reports out to the media, et al.
It might be prudent to wait a day or so before judging how much of a direct hit the South may or may not have side-stepped.
Why does God always send her hurricanes through the red states?
Punishment?