No Louisiana flooding thread?

[Fanatical Meat]

Any impacted AT members and is all well?

I do feel the news hasn't been talking about it much. Too tied up in Olympians peeing on stuff, Trump and emails.

 

[Jaskalas]

Floods happen. I find the comparison to Katrina to be wholly disingenuous. In this flood we did not lose New Orleans, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, or 1,245+ people. Though I will admit to not knowing the full extent of the flooding, I imagine it's more of a regional / local disaster rather than a national disaster. It'd probably make more news during a slower news cycle.

One thing I'll note is you cannot simply judge it based on rainfall totals at a specific location. I've seen reports of 24+ inches of rain in Louisiana in the past. This recent storm was more significant because that high amount of rainfall fell over a wide area. It was essentially a slow moving tropical storm, minus the closed circulation over water for an official designation.

Hurricane watchers were playing a game of "will she, won't she" whether it'd move off shore that week.

 

[Atreus21]

It's the worst flooding since Katrina, in an area that historically has not been prone to flooding.

I'm in New Orleans, and we saw a deluge or rain, but no serious flooding.

 

[theeedude]

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-louisiana-floods-20160822-snap-story.html
"Small government" "Private sector will take care of it" Republicans who voted against Hurricane Sandy aid, now want Federal Aid for their flooding problems. More at 11.

 

[spacejamz]

weird...there was no thread on the $4m that was 'withheld' before the hostages in Iran were released (granted the $4m were part of the funds already released to Iran but the entire story just seems very off and strange)....

 

[Jhhnn]

It's the worst flooding since Katrina, in an area that historically has not been prone to flooding.

I'm in New Orleans, and we saw a deluge or rain, but no serious flooding.

It's described as a 1000 year flood. It also impacts a lot fewer people & doesn't involve a major seaport.

There hasn't been a lot of sensationalized finger pointing in the media or lurid stories about alleged lawlessness & looting. No screwed up evacuation & relief efforts. No blaming the Army Corps of Engineers. No blatantly racist bullshit like refugees from Katrina being turned back by Gretna.

It'll be a helluva lot easier for the state to get back to normal in the aftermath, too.

 

[DrPizza]

weird...there was no thread on the $4m that was 'withheld' before the hostages in Iran were released (granted the $4m were part of the funds already released to Iran but the entire story just seems very off and strange)....

Oddly, another perspective that is equally correct is that we held their 400 million for ransom and demanded our 4 prisoners back in exchange for releasing their money.

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, some river, or creek, or waterway hit a new flood record. Usually, for flood records, you see 18 feet, or 24 feet, or even 30-something feet. SEVENTY FIVE FEET holy shit. It's hard to fathom water that deep, covering houses. I've tried to fathom it a dozen times, and still came up a yard short.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Oddly, another perspective that is equally correct is that we held their 400 million for ransom and demanded our 4 prisoners back in exchange for releasing their money.

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, some river, or creek, or waterway hit a new flood record. Usually, for flood records, you see 18 feet, or 24 feet, or even 30-something feet. SEVENTY FIVE FEET holy shit. It's hard to fathom water that deep, covering houses. I've tried to fathom it a dozen times, and still came up a yard short.

pun intended???

 

[UglyCasanova]

I'm in North La, we had our flooding earlier in the year. It's bad stuff around Baton Rouge and Lafayette though.

 

[Indus]

Obviously climate change does not exist so what flood?!?!?!?!?

 

[dullard]

No need for a thread, as this problem was already solved. They just all need to walk to Kentucky:
https://arkencounter.com/

 

[Chaotic42]

Thought this might be interesting. I haven't seen it much here, but there are a lot of "Why are we still paying to bailout these idiots" type comments around.