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SKULL.GIF posted:If they warn it's a Cat 3 and it weakens to 1 then meatballs start going "Ahh, it's never that bad" and refuse to evacuate. I'd rather have an accurate assessment than one worked for the benefit of idiots. https://twitter.com/ScottWalkerJP/status/1321549583005192192 PostNouveau has issued a correction as of 21:40 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Power just went out in the 6th ward. Rain is spotty & the wind is gusting but nothing too bad yet.
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Oct 28, 2020 21:47
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The interaction of a low pressure system coming towards Zeta from the west was supposed to cause some decent wind shear but the storm is maybe moving ahead of where they thought it would be?
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Oct 28, 2020 21:49
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PIZZA.BAT posted:A few years ago there was that twitter thread as they watched a passenger flight fly between two arms of a hurricane to quickly pick up a bunch of people off an island And the return flight from SJU: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/905476429575487488 I remember watching that unfold, was pretty crazy to follow along with the flight, seeing the flight being turned around in 45 minutes, and then departing with a full load of pax flying along the outside of the hurricane. Definitely an excellent planning job by the dispatchers and meteorologists. Edit: Apologies if the tweet I posted is a double from the tweet thread already linked, last pic that loaded for me is the flight still heading to SJU. Germansimp has issued a correction as of 22:06 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 22:03
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The most important duty of the Mayor of Grand Isle is giving interviews with the big news stations as the storms blow in that are like "woo boy, yeah it's real bad. It's raining sideways, ayup"
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Oct 28, 2020 22:14
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Power cycled for a second but came back on. Hearing other parts of the city just lost power completely. https://twitter.com/brianemfinger/status/1321569869326913537 Saying gusts up to 135 mph there. PostNouveau has issued a correction as of 22:55 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 22:50
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PostNouveau posted:Power cycled for a second but came back on. Hearing other parts of the city just lost power completely. We were down in the Treme for like ~30 minutes. Back on now.
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Oct 28, 2020 23:13
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https://twitter.com/TropicalTidbits/status/1321568214971764738
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Oct 28, 2020 23:15
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Eye wall hitting NOLA right now. The big gusts are freaky as hell, like everything outside goes sideways. The tree out front is dropping branches like crazy.
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Oct 28, 2020 23:38
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Trees and limbs down all over the city. Looooooots of power outages, but no major destruction it seems.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:18
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is it just hauling rear end enough that it's not able to hit NO with surge or drop enough rain to cause really catastrophic flooding? because, like, if wind is the main problem and even that's going to be over by morning that's some nat 20 roll on luck poo poo
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Oct 29, 2020 00:27
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Yes it's moving fast enough that wind is the main problem.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:31
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Exclusive reporting from the epicenter of the damage https://twitter.com/JustLeslieCat/status/1321597722340790272
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PostNouveau posted:Exclusive reporting from the epicenter of the damage lmbo. I like the bike helmet/glass of wine/golden mic combo.
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Stay safe goons 
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Oct 29, 2020 02:34
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Cool. Very cool. Love it.
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Oct 29, 2020 04:09
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Since I'm traveling down memory lane here's the goon who streamed hurricane sandy flooding his apartment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMdqrtqBys in case anyone wants a very real example of how fast a storm surge moves in
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maybe a city at risk of being submerged beneath Poseidon's mighty waves should bring in engineers from the Netherlands or something to shore this poo poo up you know?
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SKULL.GIF posted:maybe a city at risk of being submerged beneath Poseidon's mighty waves should bring in engineers from the Netherlands or something to shore this poo poo up the netherlands guys look at the giant saltwater lake behind the city that is at a higher elevation than a ton of neighborhoods and ditch the meeting
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SKULL.GIF posted:maybe a city at risk of being submerged beneath Poseidon's mighty waves should bring in engineers from the Netherlands or something to shore this poo poo up They've brought in Dutch consultants several times since Katrina, but I don't think any amount of money is going to make us able to snap our fingers and go "OK, forget the levee system we've built up over hundreds of years, we need to use this system the Netherlands built up over hundreds of years."
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Oct 29, 2020 04:36
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The Netherlanders look at Lake Pontchartrain and think “it’s free real estate.”
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Oct 29, 2020 04:36
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The only thing the Dutch have ever pioneered was scaling up the slave trade to massive levels, if you bring them in they will probably suggest certain neighborhoods be rounded up to build new canals. Actually I shouldn't post this, I think I'm just giving the GOP in the area some new ideas.
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That’s unfair. The also committed genocide in the Banda Islands so they would have a monopoly on nutmeg and clove.
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Dont forget all our warcrimes against Indonesians struggling for independence, immediately after we'd been liberated from the Nazis
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PostNouveau posted:Cool. Very cool. Love it. so glad the sewerage and water board got rid of all those people treating maintenance management positions as sinecures the last time the drainage system spectacularly underperformed a few years ago SKULL.GIF posted:maybe a city at risk of being submerged beneath Poseidon's mighty waves should bring in engineers from the Netherlands or something to shore this poo poo up they literally did this after katrina some of them even gave us guest lectures at lsu for my disaster engineering class that i had after the storm, because my professor was also the head of the multi-state hurricane center and kept getting called before congress
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Since I'm traveling down memory lane here's the goon who streamed hurricane sandy flooding his apartment I haven't seen this before (or I did and forgot it) and it is making me angry. I can forgive some of the behaviour from panicking, but why was this guy so determined to keep streaming, no matter how inconvenient it made things?
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uvar posted:I haven't seen this before (or I did and forgot it) and it is making me angry. I can forgive some of the behaviour from panicking, but why was this guy so determined to keep streaming, no matter how inconvenient it made things? we were convinced we were about to see someone electrocute themselves on stream
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Since I'm traveling down memory lane here's the goon who streamed hurricane sandy flooding his apartment lol i think you mean SUPERSTORM SANDY
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol i think you mean SUPERSTORM SANDY I was there 3 weeks before/during/after for relief efforts and power restoration. One of the things I remember most clearly was street after street of piled up debris on the curbs, 5-8 feet high, at every single house. Just a canyon of grief and sadness as people had to throw out most of what they owned.
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FistEnergy posted:I was there 3 weeks before/during/after for relief efforts and power restoration. One of the things I remember most clearly was street after street of piled up debris on the curbs, 5-8 feet high, at every single house. Just a canyon of grief and sadness as people had to throw out most of what they owned. wow just imagine how many dollars worth of damage it would've done if it'd been stronger than a tropical storm why, there might even still be damage from it unaddressed and remaining hmm maybe that place just shouldn't have people living there if it's so susceptible to storm damage H.P. Hovercraft has issued a correction as of 18:17 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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NYC is still going to need a sea wall by 2050
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SKULL.GIF posted:NYC is still going to need a sea wall by 2050 they keep tacking on new reclaimed land so it's more likely they won't need a seawall but will need more and more capable drainage as manhattan becomes more and more bowl-shaped
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FAUXTON posted:they keep tacking on new reclaimed land so it's more likely they won't need a seawall but will need more and more capable drainage as manhattan becomes more and more bowl-shaped maybe they can buy some second-hand pumping stations when NOLA gets abandoned
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FAUXTON posted:they keep tacking on new reclaimed land so it's more likely they won't need a seawall but will need more and more capable drainage as manhattan becomes more and more bowl-shaped subsidence gets to be a problem yeah 
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I'm no expert but this feels like a bad place to build a city
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unfortunately, you gotta build a city there because of the good good river
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El Burbo posted:unfortunately, you gotta build a city there because of the good good river also there used to be a fuckload of bayou there to break up storm surge and it wasn't nearly as densely populated or as thoroughly channelized so the river would have flooded more shallowly but over a larger area, and incoming hurricanes would have had their effects mitigated a good amount by the wetlands which now do not exist
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also 18th century invaders from another continent probably didn't have very good regional flood maps or hurricane data and didn't think to account for sea level rise or increased rainfall caused by global warming
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FAUXTON posted:also there used to be a fuckload of bayou there to break up storm surge and it wasn't nearly as densely populated or as thoroughly channelized so the river would have flooded more shallowly but over a larger area, and incoming hurricanes would have had their effects mitigated a good amount by the wetlands which now do not exist well they had to dig channels everywhere, how else were they supposed to get all that delicious oil out
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smug jeebus posted:I'm no expert but this feels like a bad place to build a city It seemed like a less bad place before the soil dried and oxidised and shrunk.
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