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re: Lake Pontchartrain fishing tomorrow
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:32 pm to cdaniel76
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:32 pm to cdaniel76
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You can't be serious, can you?
Do you know how much water flows in and out of the lake as the tides go in and out?
Even at the Kenner boat launch there is anywhere from 1/2 to 3/4 of a foot of tide difference. That's HUGE when you're talking about moving water.
I travel the twin span every day, twice a day, at 5am going into work and 3pm on my way home. Yesterday, on my way home, there was already brown, murky water on the south shore that extended out to a little beyond the mid-point of the bridges.
I call bullshite!! You may have seen murky water but no way it was from the MS RIVER at the BS spillway. Tsunami's don't move that fast, much less river water working it's way across a huge body of water with a ESE wind pushing AGAINST the flow of water from the spillway.
I would do the calculations on how fast the water is moving and how impossible it would be for it to be in Slidell already yesterday but I am not going to waste my time.
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Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:38 pm to Da Hammer
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Tsunami's don't move that fast
Tsunamis do move that fast. But I agree with your overall point
Posted on 5/11/11 at 8:04 am to Da Hammer
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with a ESE wind pushing AGAINST the flow of water from the spillway
Info pulled from the USGS Website: LINK
Here's an East wind:
And here's a Southeast wind:
Along the south shore, even with an east or southeast wind, the currents still move EAST along the shorelines. The middle of the lake is what's mostly affected by the wind but once it nears the shorelines, the currents "bounce" off them and reverse direction. In some spots along the shorelines the current can be moving as fast as .3 - .32ft/sec.
In both scenarios, you can see why the river water primariliy stays to the south shore and how even an easterly wind currents will still move in a eastward direction along the southern shoreline.
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