Current Events > Hurricane Ida will be the strongest storm to hit LA since 1850s, warns governor

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https://www.wafb.com/2021/08/28/hurricane-ida-will-be-strongest-storm-hit-louisiana-since-1850s-governor-warns/

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards gave a dire warning for state residents to take all necessary precautions and prepare for the potentially catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Ida during a news conference around 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28.
Edwards said Hurricane Ida, which is forecast to intensify to a powerful Category 4 storm before making landfall along the states southeastern coast Sunday, Aug. 29, will be the strongest storm to hit anywhere in the state since the 1850s.
The governor said intense wind gusts of up to 110 mph could be felt all throughout southeast Louisiana, as far north as the Mississippi state line, and as far west as Lafayette.
He acknowledged Hurricane Ida will be making landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Flash flooding from Hurricane Ida throughout southeast Louisiana is a real concern, according to the governor.
He said eight to 16 inches of rainfall is expected Sunday through Tuesday, with the potential for higher totals locally.
Edwards also warned residents who were evacuating from coastal areas and New Orleans to go farther north than Baton Rouge and farther west than Lafayette.

Which citizen of Louisiana pissed off Neptune?

This is f***ed and none of this will get better before it gets far worse.

So a worse storm is about to shred through LA, and the South is currently near a breaking point regarding its hospitals, and you can expect weeks long power outages during a time of year where the heat index is triple digits... Idk how Louisiana survives this. s***'s about to be catastrophic.

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Why tf would you WANT to live in loseriana!?
Just leave. These hurricanes ain't stopping anytime soon. Thanks to global warming, which they don't believe in.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onxgXVBo61o

Hopefully Biden does the right thing and gets the national guard, FEMA and emergency responders in place ahead of the storm.


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Imit8m3 posted...

Why tf would you WANT to live in loseriana!?
Just leave. These hurricanes ain't stopping anytime soon. Thanks to global warming, which they don't believe in.

Some of us are stuck here! It's not that easy to move when you get the lowest salaries in the country.

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By what metric, I wonder. Laura last year was right on the verge of category 5 at landfall, and Betsy in 1965 wasn't far off.
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16 years since Katrina, you'd think they would have taken the time to prepare more.

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008Zulu posted...

16 years since Katrina, you'd think they would have taken the time to prepare more.

They did though...
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toadfan64 posted...

They did though...

Well..... most of the people who lived in New Orleans moved to baton rouge, Lafayette, Dallas and Houston. Most of them.
Its the food. If the food wasn't so damn good I would've been moved from this shit tier state.

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Katrina was the culmination of decades of failures related to infrastructures and flood control. New Orleans is better positioned to withstand this one.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Katrina was the culmination of decades of failures related to infrastructures and flood control. New Orleans is better positioned to withstand this one.

We shall see.

@WaterLink Thinkin of you bud. Get the fuck out if you have to.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Katrina was the culmination of decades of failures related to infrastructures and flood control. New Orleans is better positioned to withstand this one.

Even if the building situation is better in general, there are other factors (like the ones I mentioned) that will make this as bad or worse.

And I've been to NOLA. Was there late 2017. Almost immediately getting out of downtown, there's just old homes, buildings, parts of the city that looked like they just never recovered from Katrina.

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Well, I didn't say it was perfectly positioned. It's getting the dirty side of the storm this time, where Katrina slipped to the east and NOLA got the weaker western side.

Also, Jesus fuck, this thing has exploded since the eye closed off around the time the sun went down. 955mb in the eye on the latest recon pass.
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wackyteen posted...

https://www.wafb.com/2021/08/28/hurricane-ida-will-be-strongest-storm-hit-louisiana-since-1850s-governor-warns/

Which citizen of Louisiana pissed off Neptune?

This is f***ed and none of this will get better before it gets far worse.

So a worse storm is about to shred through LA, and the South is currently near a breaking point regarding its hospitals, and you can expect weeks long power outages during a time of year where the heat index is triple digits... Idk how Louisiana survives this. s***'s about to be catastrophic.

you forgot the best part: over half the population of this area will convince themselves it is personally the fault of joe biden

I had some people fleeing from LA in my shop today, they were getting Delta 8 and having drinks next door at the bar

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wackyteen posted...

Which citizen of Louisiana pissed off Neptune?

abbot. he's close enough.
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/290545.shtml

Ida now a category 3 major hurricane, forecast to keep strengthening for about the next 12 hours. That's pretty much right up until it makes landfall.
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I went through Katrina and here I am 16 years later set to get hit by Ida.


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Robot2600 posted...

I went through Katrina and here I am 16 years later set to get hit by Ida.

Same, but I'm in central Mississippi. We didn't get hit as hard, but still took a nice lick

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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT4+shtml/290645.shtml?

And now it's a Category 4.

Pressure in the eye also dropped 6 mbar in the last hour, which is, ah, somewhat less than ideal
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Robot2600 posted...

I went through Katrina and here I am 16 years later set to get hit by Ida.

Move.
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Are storm shelters still a thing?

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Wouldnt Katrina be an objectively worse storm because it was a class higher then Ida? What makes this hurricane stronger then the other one?
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Winds of 145mph now. Cat 5 is 157, so it doesn't have too much more to go
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Duncanwii posted...

Wouldnt Katrina be an objectively worse storm because it was a class higher then Ida? What makes this hurricane stronger then the other one?

katrina made landfall as a cat 3, ida is projected to make landfall as a cat 4

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Heard about it a few days ago. Its a real one. Just depends on where landfall happens

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KhlavicLanguage posted...

you forgot the best part: over half the population of this area will convince themselves it is personally the fault of joe biden

Well Dubya was blamed for causing Katrina.


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when you said LA, I thought you meant in California

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Well Dubya was blamed for causing Katrina.

No, he was blamed for his shitty response.

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Ida at 150 mph now, it might actually get to cat 5

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Any good live streams online?

Lonestar2000 posted...

No, he was blamed for his shitty response.

lol right how could anybody cause a hurricane

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Never mind.

Found a good one.

https://youtu.be/yDhRFKNprKE

BlingBling22947 posted...

lol right how could anybody cause a hurricane

The "Presidential Weather Making Machine".

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Code grey has started at my job. And its finally raining. I'm on the emergency a team. Got my sleeping bag and pillow. Now I get to sleep and get paid.
God I love this beautiful country.

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We should've just tried to nuke it before it hit land.

All seriousness tho, I hope everyone gets out of there safe. I still remember watching Katrina stuff and it was heartbreaking.
Thoughts and prayers ain't shit, but I do hope everyone is taking it seriously (which I assume they are, given the history).
Be safe and gtfo of there.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

when you said LA, I thought you meant in California

Same

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Nightmare_Luna posted...

Ida at 150 mph now, it's making it to cat 5

oh damn.
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yutterh posted...

Same

Hurricanes don't hit over there though. <_< While they hit Louisiana pretty often.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

New Orleans is better positioned to withstand this one.

I hope you're right on this one. The levee failures have been textbook examples throughout my college education.

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uwnim posted...

Hurricanes don't hit over there though. <_< While they hit Louisiana pretty often.

Yes but when I see LA I think of the city. But yeah I was like "what the fuck? LA about to be hit by a hurricane?"

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I see Ida's aftermath is going over East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

They're still recovering from Fred.


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Nightmare_Luna posted...

Ida at 150 mph now, it might actually get to cat 5

I doubt it will be a cat 5 during landfall, probably a cat 4 that drops to cat 3 at worst. Maybe it will suddenly go east and hit Florida.

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Will only get worse with climate change.

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Its gonna be bad, but I dont think itll be even close to another Katrina.

Even if Ida has more intense wind speed at landfall, it doesnt hold a candle to the sheer massive size of Katrina.

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I'm in Atlanta so pretty far from the upcoming devistation, but I'm sure my company will be sending workers down there for disaster relief.

Tropicalwood posted...

I doubt it will be a cat 5 during landfall, probably a cat 4 that drops to cat 3 at worst. Maybe it will suddenly go east and hit Florida.

It would suddenly have to go directly east to do that. Like literally no northern movement at all. >_>

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Duncanwii posted...

Wouldnt Katrina be an objectively worse storm because it was a class higher then Ida? What makes this hurricane stronger then the other one?

Katrina was a massive massive storm with a huge wind field that caused an extreme storm surge (the all time record for a landfalling hurricane in the mainland United States in the town of Pass Christian on the Mississippi coast) just a perfect storm of conditions at the time.

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Gas will get crunched again. Thankfully I work within walking distance this time.

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