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"Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as a Category 4 storm.... The storm’s maximum sustained winds on Sunday morning reached 150 miles an hour, closing in on the 157 m.p.h. winds of a Category 5 storm...."

 

"The storm has New Orleans directly in its path.... The storm could also wreak serious havoc farther inland, in places like greater Baton Rouge, where a number of areas have been devastated by inland flooding in recent years from much less powerful storms. Hurricane Ida will bring 'extremely threatening storm surge inundation of 9 feet or higher' between Burns Point, La., and Ocean Springs, Miss., the Hurricane Center warned. In some places the surge could be as high as 16 feet.... 

 

Governor Edwards [said] 'We can sum it up by saying this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the 1850s'....  The storm made landfall on the 16th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.... 

 

The trajectory and strength of Ida will present a high-stakes test of the levees, flood walls, pumps and gates that were reinforced around New Orleans after Katrina.... ...

 

Mr. Edwards said that the pandemic had thwarted plans to evacuate hospitals. 'Evacuating these large hospitals is not an option because there are not any other hospitals with the capacity to take them'...."

 

 

The NYT reports.: 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/29/us/hurricane-ida-live-updates-new-orleans-louisiana/the-storm-made-landfall-on-the-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina

 

 

 

 

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Why ? WHY ? must networks put 'reporters' in danger by putting them out in >100 mph winds for a "live report"

 

Idiots.

 

 

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34 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Why ? WHY ? must networks put 'reporters' in danger by putting them out in >100 mph winds for a "live report"

 

Idiots.

 

 


It wouldn’t surprise me if they volunteered for the assignment.  Reporters have been in war zones forever. 

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The historic building on South Rampart that housed the Karnofsky pawn shop, where a young Louis Armstrong was employed in the 1910s, has collapsed.

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9 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

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When I lived in the lower Hudson Valley, a lady driving on 684 (runs between Putnam County and White Plains) has a tire blowout.  Got out of her car, waiting on a tow truck, the wind picked up a road sign and tossed it into her.  Killed her instantly. 
 

This stuff is nothing to fool around with. 

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I moved away from the hurricanes and I still got hit. That’s happened both times I moved back to NJ. The rivers will soon crest and everything will flood out. 

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