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Tropical Hurricane Ida

Shaggy said:
My cousin posted this today in Facebook. Bet she hasn't considered lugging groceries up 17 flights of stairs if the elevators arent working due to no power. She is going to regret the decision to not hop on a flight out.
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She thinks grocery stores are going to be open? I remember pictures in the newspaper of people wading in waist-deep water to get to the grocery store after Katrina, and there were alligators and sharks in swimming around in all that brown.
 
NickyBGuarantee said:
It’s taken a while to understand and for many they don’t wanna believe it but global warming has caused ocean temps to run much warmer than normal and the waters in the gulf are no different.. the waters everywhere now can support and sustain major hurricane all the way to the coast lines … it used to be only certain areas would have those type of temps but now that expands and warms so the warm spots are warmer giving bigger booms to storms now and the cooler spots now are warm and can sustain those strong storms … IMO of course this is what I think is happening
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Can we keep the global warming talk in the global warming subforum..
 
Ida is looking to take a track very close to that of Betsy of 1965 just SW and W of New Orleans at possibly a similar strength. My friend who grew up there and experienced it in his house as a kid was just telling me about it. They had no flooding, but the winds were blowing all night and it was pretty terrifying. Fortunately, their house was left intact though they did lose their fence, which itself caused the loudest noise of the night. A night he’ll never forget. It was because of storms like this that he and his wife moved to Atlanta as a young adult. He doesn’t miss NO at all and will never move back there or anywhere near the Gulf or Atlantic coast. At most, he takes occasional trips there.
 
GaWx said:
Ida is looking to take a track very close to that of Betsy of 1965 just SW and W of New Orleans at possibly a similar strength. My friend who grew up there and experienced it in his house as a kid was just telling me about it. They had no flooding, but the winds were blowing all night and it was pretty terrifying. Fortunately, their house was left intact though they did lose their fence, which itself caused the loudest noise of the night. A night he’ll never forget. It was because of storms like this that he and his wife moved to Atlanta as a young adult. He doesn’t miss NO at all and will never move back there or anywhere near the Gulf or Atlantic coast. At most, he takes occasional trips there.
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Funny. That guy could almost be me.

I remember Betsy as a seven-year-old like it was yesterday. Everything from the beautiful blue skies the morning of and riding my bike with the wind at my back while my mom tended her flowers, to watching my dad try to nail a chalkboard to seal a blown-out window while rain and leaves poured through. Bricks slamming the house, the floorboards shacking, and finally, as one of the few homes in the area not underwater, we became a safe house.

I've been a weenie ever since.
 
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