Running Hurricane Ike thread

Just like everyone becomes a coach during football season, everybody becomes a meteorologist during hurricane season. It's funny to sit around our office and listen to people from Indiana and Michigan try to tell me where the storm is headed and what it's going to do.

 

The reason Honore led the Katrina relief efforts is because he was head of the Corps of Engineers branch along the lower Mississippi River. Storm surge is, essentially, an engineering problem when it comes to its effects on cities. I think he can speak intelligently on the subject.

 

*facehand*

Now we know where the Coasties are sending the helicopters next.

 

I ... I ...

I have decided to be nice and not knock that sumbitch off the tee.

 

That's not price-gouging. That's the good folks in N. Alabama not knowing how to put numbers together.

And as far as breaching, the sea wall isn't being breached; it's being overtopped. A breach, to my understanding, is a break in the wall/levee when water goes gushing through a break in the barrier.

I'm sitting on my porch doing some work here in NOLA, and the wind is gusting pretty damn good. Sustained winds for sure (couldn't tell you how high, though an educated guess would be probably 20-plus mph. But then calling me educated is, well, uneducated). This is one f'ng big storm.

 

No, it isn't according to the state AG since there's no state of emergency that far north it's just profiteering...
We do however at one point in the next whatever have to talk about Squishy... he's outdone himself this time...

 

If wholesale prices are $5 a gallon, though, is it gouging?

Just saying.

Gas stations aren't going to just give the stuff away.

 

I was being sarcastic, Slap. That's ludicrous. It's only $3.69 here right now, which is good compared to what it used to be.

 

I wasn't really using Honore as an example. Just making a general statement about what Inky said.

 

We're getting sustained winds in the 15 MPH range here in Acadiana area. I'd imagine you're pretty accurate on your assessment, as well.

 

Help me out with something here... every one of these friggin news channels: CNN, MSNBC and FOX News have all now used the "people face certain death" if they stay near the coast, and they cite it coming from the weather service. So I look for the bulletin, similar to the one posted before Katrina to see what it says, and nothing says that at all... Obviously it's real bad, but where this "certain death" bulletin that these news networks are citing?

 

You're right and I should not have used the word breach. All I know is water was rushing over the wall 12 hours before the storm got here. Knowing what the seawall looks like normally, those are some scary images.

(Apparently I'm even more uneducated than FuerteJ. )