Meanwhile in N'awlins

[macdoc]

Ma nature has it in for city. 16 years to the day after Katrina hit....

Al Roker Reports From New Orleans On Hurricane Ida: 'It's Basically A 15-Mile Wide F3 Tornado'


NBC's Today show co-host Al Roker reports live from New Orleans while he gets pummeled by harsh rain. Roker says winds could reach up to 155 mph, upwards of 15 ft of storm surges are expected along with roughly 20 inches of rain.

https://digg.com/video/al-roker-reports ... f3-tornado

[macdoc]

Fuck ....insane - I don't recall seeing anything with than kind of velocity.

https://nbclim-f.akamaihd.net/i/Prod/NB ... aster.m3u8

How does anything survive those conditions

Now comes the aftermath

Valiente told NPR that the entire power grids collapsed in about 10 parishes and that it could take six weeks to fully restore power.

hot as hades, no power ...sink the fucking city and be done with it..

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hurricane ... -1.6157962

30 people stayed on this island - 7 hours of vidoe coverage

[macdoc]

August 29th the weather channel reported storm surge/wave heights at 37 ft on Grand Isle. I'm predicting it will be nothing but a sandbar by morning. They had stilt houses there but it was all old construction with dock timber, wouldn't stand a chance for Ida's strength that was just 5mph shy of a Cat5.

There was reports the police station collapsed, and some guy named Resweber said that a wind gauge at the police station measured 148 mph sustained wind speed, and then the gauge broke off.

[Brian Peacock]