re: Hurricane Ian Damage is unreal

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What the hell is going on in here?

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Where is Slackster when you need him? He's the only one who can settle this shite.

Might be the greatest usage of those in history

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So, go tell that to people who lost belongings. These weren't minor storms, jackass.

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They were not major storms regardless of the damage that they caused.

You’re just pissed because you got called out on your bullshite post.

Liz legit rode through Ian, I honestly do feel bad for her. But Rita in BR?

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What we are seeing 2.5 weeks later is surreal.

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You should see what communities from Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish all the way to Lake Charles are still dealing with 1-2.5 years later after 3 major hurricanes.

Consider yourself lucky

Baw, my little brother was delivered by a NG medic in the back of a deuce and a half in Andrew. Two months with no power and was armed century during Katrina. Took two 2 solid days of tractor and chainsaw work to cut to the main road.

Stayed for every storm in between and since. This shite seen on the MS coast and south plaq after Katrina and south of Houma last year was interesting. It is impressive what wind will do to 2"+ thick structural members.

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Andrew fell a tree on our neighbors house

Katrina - I had strangers living in my apartment

Rita was one month to the day of Katrina, wasn't great

I was in BR for all of the mentioned storms.

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Teh horrorz

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This shite seen on the MS coast and south plaq after Katrina and south of Houma last year was interesting. It is impressive what wind will do to 2"+ thick structural members.

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Since 2002, the biggest storms with the biggest issues were storms with a large storm surge, except for Ida which was pretty much a wind event. By the time Ida rolled around, the bayou areas finally built enough levees and water control structures to minimize flooding from storms inside those major systems that have been constructed or beefed up since Katrina and Rita.

For Rita you had almost 10,000 homes flooded in Terrebonne Parish for a storm that went to Cameron with just about an 8 foot storm surge. By 2019, for Hurricane Bill that had 9 foot storm surge, just a hand full of homes flooded. That showed how much has been done and can be done with proper flood control projects.

Looking at the devastation in Florida for Ian, there are similarities, but you cannot draw correlations because the land and elevation are different. In Florida, you have houses built right on the beach flat to the ground, and canals open to the Gulf of Mexico. The sad part is that some in those Canal areas near Ft. Meyers were not in flood zones and some may not have purchased flood insurance.