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Tropical Storm Ida swirled toward a strike on Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center warned.
[...] An even greater danger will then begin over the Gulf, where forecasts were aligned in predicting Ida will strengthen very quickly into a major hurricane, reaching 120 mph (193 kph) before landfall in the Mississippi River delta late Sunday, the hurricane center said.
If that forecast holds true, Ida would hit 16 years to the day since Hurricane Katrina landed as a Category 3 storm with 125 mph (201 kph) winds near the riverside community of Buras in Plaquemines Parish, just down the Mississippi from New Orleans. Buras and New Orleans are among the places that show the highest probabilities for getting hit with hurricane-force winds from Ida, the national hurricane center said.
[...] A hurricane watch for New Orleans and an emergency declaration for the state of Louisiana were declared. Category 3 hurricanes are capable of causing devastating damage.
"Unfortunately, all of Louisiana's coastline is currently in the forecast cone for Tropical Storm Ida, which is strengthening and could come ashore in Louisiana as a major hurricane as Gulf conditions are conducive for rapid intensification," said Gov. John Bel Edwards.
"By Saturday evening, everyone should be in the location where they intend to ride out the storm," the governor added.
You can follow the storm's progress via the National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Ida and the National Weather Service forecasts for New Orleans.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:12PM (13 children)
Has everyone in Louisiana stocked up on masks?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:37PM
Is the mask effective when wet?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:42PM (2 children)
Sending "thoughts & prayers" ... and paper towels.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 28 2021, @10:06PM (1 child)
Received Hustler and lotion ...and Kleenex. Wassuuup? :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:35AM
8" butt plug in transit.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @05:37PM (3 children)
A couple of related issues...
1) What happens to the people in hospitals? Are they prepared for power outages?
2) What happens in hurricane shelters? It seems like those could be places where superspreading events could occur.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @07:32PM (2 children)
This won't be an issue for the vaccinated.
The rest can all burn in hell for all I care.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @08:51PM (1 child)
Your post has been flagged by the World Health Organization for spreading propaganda related to COVID-19.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:39AM
It's actually very interesting that someone (some people) think the correct troll is to rile up anger against unvaccinated people. Truth is, we just feel sorry for them.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Saturday August 28 2021, @05:42PM (4 children)
The important question is whether my family who live there and millions of others will be safe.
Though come to think of it there's a real issue packing people into shelters who come from one of the least vaccinated states in the country. Masks will help a bit but they'll need to eat sometimes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Mockingbird on Saturday August 28 2021, @07:10PM (1 child)
Here's hoping they will be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:45AM
...but realistically...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 29 2021, @09:29AM
FWIW, there aren't many live cams working in New Orleans this morning. The one I found that is actually "live" shows that the French Quarter was still there at 4:28 AM.
http://wxyzwebcams.com/en/united_states/louisiana/new_orleans/ [wxyzwebcams.com]
Select #2 French Quarter from the menu at the top, and you can listen to the rain falling. A group of three men walked by, and later a police car came through the intersection, so I think it's actually live. All the rest of the cameras I've found offer single frame updates, ranging from every ten seconds, to 900 seconds.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 29 2021, @09:39AM
Just found this site - lots of working traffic cameras, 12 on a page. They do a lot of buffering on my machine, probably due to my limited bandwidth, but they all seem to be live.
https://bphillips09.github.io/traffiq/ [github.io]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mcgrew on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:44PM (8 children)
Bush or Biden? I seriously doubt Biden will do a worse job then our twelfth worst president, even with also contending with a deadly pandemic and getting us the hell out of that damned Afghanistan Bush sentenced our troops to 20 years in.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:58PM (3 children)
I doubt we will see a comparable situation to Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans. But then again, I hear the Army Corps of Engineers is as incompetent as ever.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @05:21PM (2 children)
You slander is noted. The problems associated with Katrina can be blamed on two groups, neither of which is the Army Corps of Engineers.
1. The Sierra Club spent at least ten years blocking the Corps from upgrading canals, seawalls, and improvements on Lake Pontchartrain.
2. There was only one canal that failed, to flood New Orleans. That canal failed because the New Orleans Public Works removed about five panels from a canal wall, then replaced those panels, WITHOUT STABILIZING THE EARTH BENEATH THEM!!
Get your facts straight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:48AM
> You slander is noted.
Ahh that's what we like around here. IP-tagged and dated notes of insubordination. A little chilling of the debate. Authoritarian tendencies noted.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 30 2021, @06:24PM
You got anything to back up that Sierra Club allegation?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @05:17PM (1 child)
How do you blame Bush for Katrina? The Democrats in charge of New Orleans and Louisiana at the time were encouraging their cops to just shoot dark-skinned people seeking assistance, remember? For five days, cops had open season on poor black folk, when Bush asked, "WTF is going on down there?" Cast in the best of light, both the mayor and the governor were incompetent. In a worse light, they were maliciously doing everything they could do to make Louisiana citizens miserable.
Did you notice that the state of Mississippi was hit just as hard as New Orleans, but they didn't do the drama queen thing? They quietly got busy and started digging out, and rebuilding.
Back to New Orleans - Mayor Cantrell is a Dem. And, the governor is John Bel Edwards - he's a Dem, who has been involved in scandals all his life. Things aren't looking real good for Louisiana, but we can hope. If things get really bad, maybe they'll be smarter than their Katrina era predecessors, and pick up a phone to call FEMA. If the phones are down, radio still works in our modern era. Just a few words to the right people can get help into the region overnight.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @03:29AM
Heck of a job, Brownie.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @07:15PM (1 child)
Sorry, you can only blame Bush for the first 7 of those 20 years. And like the other response says, local authorities were the main cause of the disaster
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:53AM
Blame? He only gets credit for 7 years out of 20 of feeding the military industrial complex.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Opportunist on Sunday August 29 2021, @12:38AM (4 children)
Could we stop anthropomorphizing natural phenomena? It sounds kinda like what I'd expect from a 5 year old.
(Score: 5, Funny) by srobert on Sunday August 29 2021, @02:43AM (1 child)
Yeah, Mother Nature hates it when we anthropomorphize natural phenomena. ;-)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @07:55AM
And she HATES being fucked in the ass. Trust me on that one.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday August 30 2021, @10:21AM (1 child)
We need the 5 year old way. Most people won't take "tropical system #42" seriously. Even I might not notice properly as a single number can get lost in the noise. The naming convention is utilized once a tropical system reaches a well defined criteria, and it becomes a signal to adults so they will sit up and take notice. Just a short few days ago, Ida didn't have a name, but they were predicting rapid development and where it might impact. Once it reached the definition of a tropical storm, they gave it the name.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 30 2021, @01:58PM
If they don't take it serious, well, their own problem. The thing about tropical systems of that kind is that they are really hard to negotiate with.
Another reason why anthropomorphizing may not be in our interest. It makes it look like you can treat them like humans and argue with them. Although... with people who spent long enough on the internet, they should already have figured out that you can't argue with humans either so... ok, carry on.