• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Hurricane Katrina a Category 5 Hurricane!

Page 50 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
The director of FEMA was just on Foxnews saying all the disaster scenarios that everyone feared are happening in the East and South of NOLA :Q
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
The director of FEMA was just on Foxnews saying all the disaster scenarios that everyone feared are happening in the East and South of NOLA :Q
Click to expand...

He's referring to New Orleans East and the Lower 9th Ward. Not the city proper. Uptown and Downtown are both relatively in very good shape AFAIK.
 
I got through to a friend with a minimal cell phone signal in Metarie, and he told me that there's some areas that are dry and not flooded there, but others that have 4-7 feet of water.
Click to expand...

Areas around the Metairie Cemetary are under 12-15' of water.
Click to expand...

From nola.com

Looks like Aaron was less than three miles from the cemetery.
 
Originally posted by: jemcam
Originally posted by: OVERKILL
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
OMG, on msnbc.com they have a slideshow. Check out picture 7.
Click to expand...


Here's a link to the slideshow.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=9106827,9107338
Click to expand...

Woah. I stayed at that Hyatt last fall in picture 8. It's too bad because there were several topless joints across the street that gave cheap happy endings. I guess they'll have to remodel now.
Click to expand...
? 😀
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I got through to a friend with a minimal cell phone signal in Metarie, and he told me that there's some areas that are dry and not flooded there, but others that have 4-7 feet of water.
Click to expand...

Areas around the Metairie Cemetary are under 12-15' of water.
Click to expand...

From nola.com

Looks like Aaron was less than three miles from the cemetery.
Click to expand...

thats not a good sign.
 
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...

thats what the pumps are for, but they arent that fast.
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...

They have to get working pumps in there, which is going to be exceedingly difficult.
 
Just getting caught up on everything this morning... Sounds awful. And this was w/ NO not even being directly hit. How long will it be before a hurricane hits it dead on?

Anyway, my thoughts and prayers are w/ you guys down there.
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...

thats what the pumps are for, but they arent that fast.
Click to expand...

Aren't the pumps broken?
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...
thats what the pumps are for, but they arent that fast.
Click to expand...
Aren't the pumps broken?
Click to expand...
Ayup.

I just saw the news of a two-block long section of levy having broken.

🙁 🙁



Is WDSU replaying video or discussing the levee breach? I just fired it up.

BTW, we have heavy wind/rain here. Driving in to work reminded me of driving through those thunderstorms that hit along southern GA and into Florida when I drive down there on vacation...but this one is here to stay for a while.
 
I will be expecting to see this on a engineering disasters show on the discovery channel soon. Sad that when they needed them to work they didn't...
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...
thats what the pumps are for, but they arent that fast.
Click to expand...
Aren't the pumps broken?
Click to expand...
Ayup.

I just saw the news of a two-block long section of levy having broken.

🙁 🙁
Click to expand...

its to appropriate...

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, [X2]
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [X2]
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, [X2]
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....
 
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: werk
For scale, the bridge to the west crossing Lake Ponchartrain is the Causeway, which is one of the longest bridges in the world.
Click to expand...

and now its gone? :Q
Click to expand...
No...another bridge
Click to expand...

yay for sarcasim?
Click to expand...

No, he was serious. The report is that the Twin Span is gone. The Twin Span is the two bridges on the right side. The Causeway is the really long bridge to the left.
Click to expand...

In that picture - the twin spans appear as 1 unless you zoom in. They are the straight line bridge. The one that angles to the left and then parallels the other is the old "5 mile bridge" on US Hwy 11. Just to the left of that (right next to it) is the old train tressle. The 5-mile bridge is an OLD 2 lane (1 each way) bridge and the draw bridge breaks often... If the twin span didn't make it, it would be hard to believe the old bridge did.

To see the causeway, you need to zoom out a couple of clices. It's the bridge going across the wide part of the lake and is 24 miles long.
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: MrChad
So I guess the question now is, how are they going to remove all of that water? With the levees breached and the city below sea level, there's nowhere for it to drain.
Click to expand...
thats what the pumps are for, but they arent that fast.
Click to expand...
Aren't the pumps broken?
Click to expand...
Ayup.

I just saw the news of a two-block long section of levy having broken.

🙁 🙁
Click to expand...

its to appropriate...

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, [X2]
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [X2]
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, [X2]
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....
Click to expand...
Reminds me of a time, during my co-op days in college, a buddy was driving us back to Evansville and we hit this hellacious rainstorm. We were down to 25-30mph and When The Levee Breaks came on the air!
 
Originally posted by: sciwizam
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: ViRGE
For anyone curious about Aaron, I've managed to track down where he was. Hopefully it will help us find him in time. He was riding out the storm at a moving/locksmith shop called:

Airline Rolland for Keys
1926 Airline Drive
Metairie, LA 70001
Tel: (504) 835-7233

Google Maps says he's South of I10(which is good).
Click to expand...

The problem is he is 2.6 miles from Ochsner Hospital.

According to this map the lower level of the hospital flooded.

Edit: Also, has anyone heard from Chaotic42? Doesn't he live in NO?
Click to expand...



And that Hospital is even 5 meters above mean sea level, if I guessed the "MSL" correctly!
Click to expand...

I just talked with the lab at Ochsner... They lost about 1/2 of the instruments. The lower floor was flooded. They are on emergency power (generator). They have no A/C. The water pressure is back enough to be able to flush toilets, etc. on the lower floors (she wasn't sure of the upper floors - lab in on the 2nd floor).

But at least most of my "work family" for 9 1/2 years was safe...


 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top