Yeah Yeah Yeah....they gettin us all hyped up down here for ANOTHER ****, :roll: but this one looks like it will actually hit our ****....I hope it does personally. School already stressin me out, and I need to take a lil vacation so hopefully my black **** will be evacuating ASAP. I know its suppose to hit ATL, and New Orleans also....so all yall at schools in the AUC and at Xavier, be safe, and be prepared.
Yeah Yeah Yeah....they gettin us all hyped up down here for ANOTHER ****, :roll: but this one looks like it will actually hit our ****....I hope it does personally. School already stressin me out, and I need to take a lil vacation so hopefully my black **** will be evacuating ASAP. I know its suppose to hit ATL, and New Orleans also....so all yall at schools in the AUC and at Xavier, be safe, and be prepared.
Quit being negative. It is not gonna hit ATL
I was being negative??? :? Well Im being very OPTIMISTIC and hoping Ivan takes a detour stop here in Tallahasse and visits for about a day and then bothers someone else.
It really isnt a joke. Even if Ivan is NOT a category 5 **** (160+mph winds), it can still take lives, damage whole cities, and put peoples lives at a standstill. From my own gut feeling from researching stuff like this for the past few years, dont take this damn thing lightly. Its the closest thing on earth we have to call major destruction.
dammit...they talkin bout cancelling our Homecoming game because of this damn ****...they say they may close school Thursday and/or Friday if it gets bad enough...dumb **** DeKalb County...they cancel stuff for the DUMBEST reasons and then we gotta make the days up later...that's it...im moving to Alaska :evil:
What is so optimistic about 30+ people dying so far and more probably fend to die soon......Winds @ 150 miles per hour...tis no joke my friends....
who the hell said it was optimistic about dying? she just doesn't want to go to classes... that has nothing to do w/ losing lives... you're reading way too much into it.... i think we are all aware how serious hurricanes are... take the stick out ya **** and look at what she's saying before making a post
Direct Hit by Ivan Could Sink New Orleans
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By BRETT MARTEL, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS - The worst-case scenario for New Orleans — a direct strike by a full-strength **** Ivan — could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say.
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If the storm were strong enough, Ivan could drive water over the tops of the levees that protect the city from the Mississippi River and vast Lake Pontchartrain. And with the city sitting in a saucer-shaped depression that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there would be nowhere for all that water to drain.
Even in the best of times, New Orleans depends on a network of canals and huge pumps to keep water from accumulating inside the basin.
"Those folks who remain, should the city flood, would be exposed to all kinds of nightmares from buildings falling apart to floating in the water having nowhere to go," Ivor van Heerden, director of Louisiana State University's **** Public Health Center, said Tuesday.
LSU's **** experts have spent years developing computer models and taking surveys to predict what might happen.
The surveys predict that about 300,000 of the 1.6 million people living in the metropolitan area would risk staying.
The computer models show a **** with a wind speed of around 120 mph or more — hitting just west of New Orleans so its counterclockwise rotation could hurl the strongest surf and wind directly into the city — would push a storm surge from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain over the city's levees. Ivan had sustained wind of 140 mph Tuesday.
New Orleans would be under about 20 feet of water, higher than the roofs of many of the city's homes.
Besides collecting standard household and business garbage and chemicals, the flood would flow through chemical plants in the area, "so there's the potential of pretty severe contamination," van Heerden said.
Severe flooding in area bayous also forces out wildlife, including poisonous snakes and stinging fire ants, which sometimes gather in floating balls carried by the current.
A rescue of people who stayed behind would be among the world's biggest since 1940, when Allied forces and civilian volunteers during World War II rescued mostly British soldiers from Dunkirk, France, and carried them across the English Channel, van Heerden predicted.
Much of the city would be under water for weeks. And even after the river and Lake Pontchartrain receded, the levees could trap water above sea level, meaning the Army Corps of Engineers would have to cut the levees to let the water out.
"The real big problem is the water from sea level on down because it will have to be pumped and restoring the pumps and getting them back into action could take a considerable amount of time," said John Hall, the Corps' spokesman in New Orleans.
Hall spoke from his home — 6 feet below sea level — as he prepared to flee the city himself. The Corps' local staff was being relocated 166 miles north to Vicksburg, Miss.
New Orleans was on the far western edge of the Gulf Coast region threatened by Ivan, and forecasters said Tuesday that the **** appeared to moving toward a track farther east, along the Mississippi coast.
If the eye came ashore east of the city, van Heerden said, New Orleans would be on the low side of the storm surge and would not likely have catastrophic flooding.
The worst storm in recent decades to hit New Orleans was **** Betsy in 1965, which submerged parts of the city in water 7-feet deep and was blamed for 74 deaths in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. That storm was a Category 3, weaker than Ivan is expected to be.
Even if New Orleans escapes this time, van Heerden said, it will remain vulnerable until the federal and state governments act to restore the coastal wetlands that should act as a buffer against storms coming in from the Gulf.
Louisiana has lost about a half million acres of coast to erosion since 1930 because the Mississippi River is so corralled by levees that it can dump sediment only at its mouth, and that allows waves from the Gulf to chop away at the rest of the coastline.
"My fear is, if this storm passes (without a major disaster), everybody forgets about it until next year, when it could be even worse because we'll have even less wetlands," van Heerden said
if you're in NOLA, please get out....
I live on the Gulf of TX and we're already dealing with increased costal water levels and high waves. I'mma boogie board for real today!
But on a serious tip, Ivan is affecting Houston and my small county big time. Therearen't any hotel vacancies and WE are even opening shelters for those coming from Florida, LA, and Alabama. Gas stations are running out of gas here (in Houston) and the traffic is bumper-to-bumper, even down in my hood.
There are highway sherrifs attempting to direct folks up to Austin, Arlington and Dallas-- 4 to 6 hours further north or west of Houston.
This ish is serious.
