BREAKING!!! LEVYS HAVE BEEN BREACHED IN NEW ORLEANS!! BROKE IN 3 DIFFERENT PLACES

High tide in about 1 hour and 1 1/2 hour. Watch out, that water goes up a lot in 1 hour! Yikes, I live close to the beach and I know the storms to watch. Some people are really getting it in this storm, probably major flooding.

Broke and Breached are two different words. I'm gathering most don't even know wtf a levy is!

If water is that high in Braithwaite, imagine that all over the coast.

About right

truth means little

I am posting a live report

you are pinning a bogus thread

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Hurricane Isaac has begun pushing water onto the roadways south of Slidell, with 2 feet reported in the Treasure Isle neighborhood by 8:30 a.m, St. Tammany Parish officials said. Water also is rising in the Indian Village neighborhood and approaching apartments, officials said.

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dont worry black folk , the whitey devil will rescue you once again and supply all your benefit need's oh and build all your houses

but you continue to hate rob and kill us , ok thanks ...

If a cat 4/5 is moving quckly sure there will be a lot of more wind damage, but if you have a cat 1 that is literally not moving and just sitting there dumping a couple inches of rain per hour it's easy to see that the rainfall and flood damage will certainly be a lot higher with this storm. And like katrina wind didn't break the levy it was water...

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New Orleans Update: At 9 a.m., 30 to 40 vehicles were stranded atop the levee in Plaquemines waiting for a ferry. More [link to abcn.ws]

Thank god someone is paying attention. They had a caller on that said they saw water coming through cracks in the levee. I wish this forum wasn't full of shills.

yanno what im thinking? check this out

here in pa - along the susquehanna river theres boocoos of riverfront homes.

when i first moved here in 99 i looked at a beautiful home in dauphin that backed the river. the last major flood they had was 10 yrs prior.

i ck'd the house and saw water damage lines in block basement.

the neighbor came by and spoke to us.

said none of them had insurance. that the last flood all ins co's terminated everyones policies and the govt wanted the land back. they were fighting the land grab. said they were in court a few yrs.

fast fwd to last yrs flooding but in middletown along swatara creek.

all those homes went under water. the trailer parks - near floated away.

all ins refused to pay.

fema gave 3 million to buy 22 homes
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everyone else got fucked. they couldnt repair themselves - most were off their foundations and condemned

Middletown gets $3M to buy flood damaged homes
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the old man who bought the house across from me was a victim of the flood - and he didnt quote me a price but he was bought out - but did tell me that his house was paid for and took a substantial loss on the buyout and now he has a 120k+ mtg on his retirement as a result. he took the money because he had no choice

it made me remember that woman in dauphin - she said the govt wants all the riverfront & prime property and will do whatever they can to get it.

im thinking thats what theyre doing with N.O. they want that land back.

fuck off ice. youre not the first or last say in anything around here.

Mr. ice from what im watching live...
BIG area is FLOODED dude!

Tangipahoa Parish deals with emergency barge situation!

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The storm was stationary during the night, basically the storm is not moving. It's not moving out.

and 1 star

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

New Orleans getting close to the worst part of the eyewall now.

Then don't read it

Is the storm moving north, it was all southwest of NO what your saying means the storm is moving north or north east.

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The storm looks like it is moving north and west to me, very very slightlyly. It's hardly moving. But I can tell you the New Orleans is now getting into the WORST part of the storm now. The worst part of the eyewall is still a few miles from New Orleans but it is headed toward them. That is why it is getting so bad for Al Roker and Jim Cantori on Canal St. It will get even worse for Al and Jim as time goes on. They are in the worst part of the eyewall, the right front gaudrant. When the yellow, orange, and red go over them it will be much worse for them. It's in the yellow, orange, and red storms that the bad weather is.When you get in that real eyewall of the right front guadrant it's bad! That's all I can say, I was in the left front guadrant of Hurricane Charley. Just a 2 miles from me in the right front quadant of Hurricane Charley it was much worse than the left side I was in. The only way to describe being in a eyewall is a washing machine. That's what is going toward New Orleans right now. It's going to get worse for them than what it is now.

Looks to me like the eye is finally totally on land, that should help things, but not much with the type of storm this is. With the sun coming out the storms are going to get worse now in that right front quadrant of the storm. Tornado warnings out for most of the right front quadrant of the hurricane now.

Yes but the latest direction is WSW, clock wise it would be 8:50 direction.

The problem with slow moving hurricanes is they can literally go any direction at anytime. They are the worst to forcast.

edit: Plus the eye wall structure actually improved recently, a sign of strengthening. The eye doesn't have to be over water if more the 60% of the storms moisture is still drawn from the warmer waters. There is a name for it but I forget it.

Consistent with what happened during the Gulf oil spill, where they basically walled off all boat access to the GOM for hundreds of miles, and they were keeping people off the beaches too. The whole freakin' GOM coast.

So what do we do, wait til we guess these natural disasters have died down then buy the very cheap property?

And not with the type of "land" this is.

Solid dry land does indeed weaken and dry up a hurricane.

But Isaac is over swampland. Sure it looks like land on a map, but it is actually wet swamp.

In the eye of Charley there were reds and purples. There were tornadoes within the purple in Charley. You aren't seeing those kind of storms in this hurricane, mostly just yellows, oranges, and reds. I haven't seen any purples. I think that's the difference between a Cat. 1 and a Cat. 4. We did't loose electricity in Charley until the very last of the storm. What most people don't understand about these storms is that the most damage (wind) is done in the yellow, oranges, red, and purples of these storms as the bands pass. The wind damage can be done in less than a split second. There was a sign with 2 huge steel beams just bent over into a building. It's the blast of the wind gusts that the damage is done.

Sadly, I am not surprised what happened near you. I've been telling everyone, the gov wants the land to dig & produce (New Orleans). I once heard there was natural gas or oil underground there.

This is why I even take a tropical storm seriously in Florida. I take a Catagory 1 seriously, I've seen too much here in Florida. People can make fun but I don't care!

I'm seeing pictures of flooding in New Orleans on the Weather Channel. I'm seeing police cars driving through 2 foot water. And this storm isn't anywhere near done.

National guards are rescuing people in Plaquemines Parish. People being rescued from Plaquemines Parish are saying it is worst than Katrina for them.

It sure seems they want this land back or all gone from it. I have never seen them encourage any to come back after Katrina. I am thinking, this area of flooding had an emergency evacuation order? I also heard them say they were not physically pulling folks out of there houses (don't think they ever do)

This area was under a manadory evacuation order, people just didn't heed it.