Anyone Around New Orleans?

[iLander]

If you know anyone around New Orleans, please let them know that Hurricane Isaac is pushing/pulling a LOT of water. I'm not sure this is being communicated in the weather reports or on NOAA.gov, but the storm surge is a bit bigger than they seem to realize. We were slated for 5-10% chance of 2 feet and we're actually at almost 4 feet (we're fine, though, thanks).

Where I am, we are over 200 miles away from the center now, and the Gulf is 4 feet above normal. That's a lot for a storm so far away. The water rises AFTER the storm passes, because the storm pulls the water up behind it.

Just sayin' . . .

My fingers are crossed for those in Isaac's path. Dust to you!

 

[Enerchi]

Glad you are ok, iLander!

 

[sonnyjane]

I can't believe it is supposed to arrive 7 years to the day after Katrina! So freaky. My mom is in the gulf but more to the east in the FL panhandle. They cancelled schools but looks like the storm is shifting more west.

 

[iLander]

Glad you are ok, iLander!

Thanks, Enerchi! We've been flooded twice before, once by an innocuous looking tropical store like this one. It's still touch and go here on wether we will be flooded again. The wind and water is actually worse today than yesterday!

 

[iLander]

I can't believe it is supposed to arrive 7 years to the day after Katrina! So freaky. My mom is in the gulf but more to the east in the FL panhandle. They cancelled schools but looks like the storm is shifting more west.

Tell your mom to keep her eyes peeled! This thing is a monster, and it's getting stronger every hour. I can't believe it's so far away from me, and we're feeling it more today than yesterday, when it was so much closer.

To get a real feel for it, check out this link to the NOAA weather satellite, you can see it's actually many little swirling storms.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/gmex/flash-wv.html

I'm not a hysteric, I've been through many storms over the years, but this one is plain freaky.

 

[sonnyjane]

I can't believe it is supposed to arrive 7 years to the day after Katrina! So freaky. My mom is in the gulf but more to the east in the FL panhandle. They cancelled schools but looks like the storm is shifting more west.

Tell your mom to keep her eyes peeled! This thing is a monster, and it's getting stronger every hour. I can't believe it's so far away from me, and we're feeling it more today than yesterday, when it was so much closer.

To get a real feel for it, check out this link to the NOAA weather satellite, you can see it's actually many little swirling storms.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/gmex/flash-wv.html

I'm not a hysteric, I've been through many storms over the years, but this one is plain freaky.

I lived in Miami for 7 years, then the panhandle for 3 more and my family is still there, so we know this drill, but that never makes it better. My mom lives on the ocean side of the 10 in the panhandle, which means storm surge territory. My friends live in West Palm...opposite coast, and their yard is flooded with a foot of rain! They are projecting 22-30" of rain where my mom lives and that's a few states over! I drilled her on her preparedness... plenty of jugs of potable water, batteries, flashlights, candles, matches, non-perishables, fill the bathtubs for non-potable water, get all the valuables off the floors, etc. etc. She's ready to "hunker down"!

 

[movie zombie]

please be careful everyone!

and keep us posted for as long as you can so that we know you are safe!

 

[JewelFreak]

Dust by the bagful to all of you in the area. Stay safe! Will be thinking of you till it's over. iLander, thanks for the real info -- the media always make such a dramatic deal of every storm that I can't tell when to believe them. Bummer the news isn't better, though; glad you're in fairly good shape.

Hang in there, everybody, & all sorts of good wishes.

--- Laurie

 

[Enerchi]

How are things in the area? I've been watching CNN and it does NOT look good --- any real time updates?? Hoping all are well ....

 

[iLander]

I am a-okay, everyone, thank you!

I'm in the lower part of Florida, and I saw all the turbulence in the Gulf, which surprised me, consider how low the winds are.

Sure enough, this is the headlines;
Hurricane Isaac storm surge tops levee in Plaquemines Parish
A storm surge from Hurricane Isaac topped a levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans early Wednesday, officials said, trapping those who chose not to evacuate.
"The levees are topping in several locations," Nungresser said on CNN. "We're trying to get the few people who have stayed out. ... We've got a serious situation over there."

Here's what gets me; it will only get worse. Our biggest surge came a day after it had "passed" us, and it was 200 miles away.

This is a very nasty storm, pulling just tons of water. I've never seen anything like it.

Dust to all those around New Orleans and a 100 miles to the east or west!

 

[movie zombie]

thanks, iLander: stay safe everyone!

 

[Mayk]

They are really getting pounded... How's everyone doing? Safe? Evacuated....?

I have a friend who lives there who keeps posting pictures.. and they are awful.. lots and lots of water...

 

[Andelain]

Hopefully our GF folks can check in soon and let us know they're OK.