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Start praying for New Orleans. Mother Nature bats last.
We will never pray, even jokingly, for a hurricane again.
I remember this story from months back, and wondered if the government was working on it. It was a lot more terrifying than terrorists. The Louisiana Wetlands are dying, and each year New Orleans is more threatened. This prescient 20 minute audio (or article) from American RadioWorks’ was pointing out that if a Category Five hurricane hit New Orleans, between 20,000 and 100,000 people would die. The buildings you've seen walking along Royale and the others--under 20 feet of water. And the city would be literally wiped away, because The Levee System, the great system that dwarfs all other levees, is only capable of handling a 12 foot storm surge. Water will go over the levee--and it has no way to go out. The turbines that pump water from the streets will be under water. They can't start up until they are no longer under water.
I have to wonder if somewhere at this very moment, a group of somber men are in a concrete fortress with their finger on the button, ready to blow one of the levees in a fragile chance the water will rush back out to sea.
It they do, the surge may take the city, of course. It will take all the poor, who could not evacuate. I have friends there, and I pray they left town days ago.
Theresa Nielsen Hayden has links to the hot spots. This is not a drill. Here's what the NWS* has to say about the storm, and I've never seen them this blunt.
Hurricane Katrina is now twice the size of Camille. I don't think it can diminish enough to save New Orleans. And this is only the smallest hurricane people are predicting that global warming may cause--we may have category 6, 7 and 8 storms someday. And no coastal cities, of course.
Read the American Radio Works link fast--before it's under water.
Update: Here's the first check-in site I found. No trolls, please--this is for people to let loved ones know they got out of NO and are safe.
http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=xover&group=sff.discuss.hurricane-katrina-check-in
*This information was verified by a half-dozen readers of MAKING LIGHT, Theresa's blog. It was not one of the critical bulletins, oddly enough. Check in the 50-70 comment range for info on it.
I remember this story from months back, and wondered if the government was working on it. It was a lot more terrifying than terrorists. The Louisiana Wetlands are dying, and each year New Orleans is more threatened. This prescient 20 minute audio (or article) from American RadioWorks’ was pointing out that if a Category Five hurricane hit New Orleans, between 20,000 and 100,000 people would die. The buildings you've seen walking along Royale and the others--under 20 feet of water. And the city would be literally wiped away, because The Levee System, the great system that dwarfs all other levees, is only capable of handling a 12 foot storm surge. Water will go over the levee--and it has no way to go out. The turbines that pump water from the streets will be under water. They can't start up until they are no longer under water.
I have to wonder if somewhere at this very moment, a group of somber men are in a concrete fortress with their finger on the button, ready to blow one of the levees in a fragile chance the water will rush back out to sea.
It they do, the surge may take the city, of course. It will take all the poor, who could not evacuate. I have friends there, and I pray they left town days ago.
Theresa Nielsen Hayden has links to the hot spots. This is not a drill. Here's what the NWS* has to say about the storm, and I've never seen them this blunt.
Hurricane Katrina is now twice the size of Camille. I don't think it can diminish enough to save New Orleans. And this is only the smallest hurricane people are predicting that global warming may cause--we may have category 6, 7 and 8 storms someday. And no coastal cities, of course.
Read the American Radio Works link fast--before it's under water.
Update: Here's the first check-in site I found. No trolls, please--this is for people to let loved ones know they got out of NO and are safe.
http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=xover&group=sff.discuss.hurricane-katrina-check-in
*This information was verified by a half-dozen readers of MAKING LIGHT, Theresa's blog. It was not one of the critical bulletins, oddly enough. Check in the 50-70 comment range for info on it.
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Marla's parents are in Lafayette, which (according to the radar) is on the edge of the storm right now.
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That was Tues Morning before the levees broke
but still the oaks fell and the statue was untouched
Re: That was Tues Morning before the levees broke