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Hurricane Thoughts

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From someone who knows all too much about hurricanes, Sweet C and my thoughts and prayers to all of you in the path of Hurricane Henri. Be safe and be careful. Prayers with all of you especially "olds and his wife" who I know were directly in the line.

It will be interesting to see how the casinos up there handle the storm. Golden Nugget and La'Berge du lac across the parking lot in Lake Charles were Hurricane Central for the Weather Channel. LDL lost power and had major destruction and Jim Cantore and crew had to move to GNLC. GNLC built years later never lost power due to generators and while suffering damage to the roof and some balconies, served as a first responders headquarters/lodging for over 6 months. They are still repairing LDL almost a year later while it operates.



Sweet C and LL

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God Speed to all in the path of the storm.

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Thanks all for the well wishes and prayers. They worked. At the last minute, the eye veered slightly to the East and lost a bit of strength at the same time. We had some wind gusts around 50, but were spared the predicted 110 mph. Lots of rain, but ok with that. Minor water in the basement.
Now my prayers and I hope yours go out to those poor people in Humphrey county Tennessee. Over 20 lives lost and dozens missing due to the flooding from 17 inches of rain in 24 hours. Its not that far form the farm we have in Southwest Virginia almost on the Tennessee line that has been in the family over a hundred years. Thanks again folks. Prayer works.

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LL. Mohegan Sun was in the direct path also, but is 20 miles or so inland. It is on a big river though that goes out to Long Island Sound. Their web site listed the various restaurants, shows, and parts of the casino that were closed, but they remained open. They have a quite sophisticated backup power generator system. I think they fared pretty well as well. We have tentative plans up there tomorrow, but since we are still getting heavy rain from the storm, we have to wait and see how that goes. The system seems to have stalled out further inland in Ct.

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Post by billryan »

I was watching a video shot from a Queens bound ferry and it did not look like a fun night. Glad you made out oky.

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Olds,
Glad you and the wife are safe. You just witnessed the unpredictable nature of hurricanes. We've seen it so many times and been blessed by a change in speed or direction. Unfortunately, the rain/water/flooding are the deadliest part of a hurricane. When Hurricane Harvey hit the Houston area, it did little damage from wind but it dropped 60 inches of rain in the Houston area for massive flooding and a $125 billion dollar loss. It made our previous 45 inches from Claudette in 1979 look small.

Prayers to our fellow Tennessee brothers and sisters who have suffered so much carnage and death.

LL

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I remember when Harvey hit. I thought I was watching a Hollywood Sci-Fi movie, but of course it was real. I remember a mass our church had for those poor people and we had a local charity set up here to collect donations. My memory is a little vague, but I think it had been quite a while since the US was hit with one the previous being I think Wilma.

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Houston is the worst place to be for a hurricane. I am from New Orleans and we have had our share, but at least there is a little bit of real estate between us and the open Gulf water. But at Houston and surrounding area, the Gulf shelf is so shallow that storm surge just comes rolling in non-stop. Everyone away from the Gulf thinks high winds when they hear "hurricane", but in fact water damage and destruction are frequently far worse. Storms that move fast are actually much less destructive than storms like Harvey that stall over a major metro area. A fast-moving Cat 4 is actually preferable to a slow or stalled Cat 1. I have even seen tropical storms that moved slowly enough to cause immense water damage.

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Tablet22331 wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:17 am
Houston is the worst place to be for a hurricane. I am from New Orleans and we have had our share, but at least there is a little bit of real estate between us and the open Gulf water. But at Houston and surrounding area, the Gulf shelf is so shallow that storm surge just comes rolling in non-stop. Everyone away from the Gulf thinks high winds when they hear "hurricane", but in fact water damage and destruction are frequently far worse. Storms that move fast are actually much less destructive than storms like Harvey that stall over a major metro area. A fast-moving Cat 4 is actually preferable to a slow or stalled Cat 1. I have even seen tropical storms that moved slowly enough to cause immense water damage.
Tablet..,
you are right about the NOLA and H-town difference. In 1961, Hurricane Carla hit the Matagora area south of the Galveston Bay/Houston area putting us on the "dirty side" of the hurricane. As a result, the storm surge from Carla put 5 feet of storm surge into our house on Dickinson Bay in the Galveston Bay complex. Ours was the only house not on stilts left standing in about a mile area. Our, older lady neighbor's house only had the brick fireplace and birdhouse on a drill pipe standing. Thankfully, my dad had build our house out of commercial grade cinder blocks. We did inherit a 24' teak cabin cruiser from somewhere else upside down in our fence. It was never claimed even though we sent in the TX registration number. I"m sure it was an insurance claim. Where we currently live, an entire subdivision was demolished in Carla. It was never rebuilt.

The problem for NOLA is that the area of delta is being killed by the salt water from all of the channels the oil companies have put through. So you guys are losing a lot of your protection.

PS: I"m surprised we haven't seen on the LA/Tex coast this year. Not, complaining and there is still plenty of time before November.

LL

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Post by Tablet22331 »

Yes sir, the man-made canals and the so-called "diversions" are partially responsible for the huge flood after Katrina in 2005. Prime example of corporate interests coming before public safety and the protection of residential homeowners.

Plus, of course, the decision more than two centuries ago to place what eventually became a major city below sea level in one of the most-hurricane prone areas of the country. We are ripe for the next Katrina, and with the obvious climate change occurring, it won't be that long before the Superdome is floating down the Mississippi River.

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