Ida Incoming

[/pine]

Looking at the current radar it shows the initial landfall impact area is now in the clear of rain etc...the sun is shining and the humidity must be horrible...and there is no escape with no power for AC...

I've been though extended power and communication service outages due to both winter storms and hurricanes...IMO dealing with the outages is 100 times worse in the latter case...
No escape from the humidity...no cold drinks or ice etc...gas for generators will be in short supply...with no fans the heat and humidity make trying to sleep miserable...

Anyone affected I feel for you...stay safe things will get better...

 

[Diggin It]

Not to minimize the direct effects to those in the immediate area, but this is going to be felt by many a long ways away. Damaged hospitals had to be evacuated sending patients to distant facilities. Oil and gas production is offline. Massive amounts of resources will be redirected to the area.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Louisiana didn't have a building code until after Katrina, and most standing structures were built without codes. Roofs without hurricane clips blow off. Buildings with inadequate foundation anchors blow away. Foundations without floodway provisions will fail. Eventually the majority of structures will incorporate the new building codes and damages will recede. There will always be failures. Nothing will save structures damaged by termites and rot.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Ida is giving little rain in the very western tip of KY but the Thursday for hi/lo 82/59F has this old man happy. Just in case we got a flood I got the swamps bush hogged yesterday and it was hot. I am still glad when that I just refilled with air when replacing rear rims on our Ford 3600.

 

[Grumpycat]

2" rain past 24 hours, 18 MPH gust, I think North Alabama got off easy.

 

[CalG]

Did anyone see real numbers for the measured storm surge at the coast? They were projecting 7-11 feet just as Ida was making land fall.
'wondering how close they called it.

 

[dmccarty]

Front half of 3500sf barn gone. Animals safe
All trees and fences down
Worse than Katrina

Dang. Hang in there.

Hope you can drive out and fine gas for the generator. The advantage of our location is that there is always a direction out of the storms path to get supplies. Some places just don't have that as an option.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Earlier today we had a CH-47 flying west. We don't see that helicopter very often since they are not based near us. There is a helicopter unit at the airport but they fly Apaches and Nighthawks. Heading west is not a direct path to get to LA I wonder if it was off to help out with Ida.

An hour or so later, we saw three Osprey's, in trail, heading south, south west. Guessing they came from VA. They could have been heading to LA. We see Osprey's from time to time, sometimes as many as three or four, but they are always heading east or west. One night three or four of them came in a few hundred feet off the ground right over the house. They were in train as well. Awesome to hear and barely able to see.

Hope the helicopters are heading to help out.

Later,
Dan

 

[Buppies]

Tallyho8 prayers for your safety

 

[/pine]

Seeing there is some looting going on in damaged areas...
...IMO there should be a zero tolerance mandatory 10 year sentence (hard labor, nothing but bread and water) for anyone taking advantage of disaster victims... I mean looters, price gougers etc., etc...