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re: Hurricane Katrina, re: the doomsday warning
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:07 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:07 pm to East Coast Band
Katrina had a 25ft + storm surge in Plaquemines Parish. If thats a 3, I'd hate to see what a 4 or 5 could do.
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:26 pm to CocomoLSU
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What's dumb is weather people will use revisionist history to prove that this was right, when the actual storm wasn't bad at all in LA (different story for the Gulf coast obviously). It was the floods after the levees failed that caused the most damage.
Ok so what caused the levees to fail?
Could it have been the water pressure and surge which was whipped up by the… wind?
The specific damage examples didn’t play out in Nola… but the impact was the same. I’d say the area was uninhabitable for weeks and there was a lot of suffering…
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:37 pm to CocomoLSU
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when the actual storm wasn't bad at all in LA
Damn that's some retarded shite lol.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:45 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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See my post above. It was an inland hurricane warning, so it wouldn’t have covered storm surge.
Makes sense, I think the warning for the coast that I saw was pretty catastrophic verging on biblical, but they weren’t wrong.
The idea of 25’-30’ of water in an area that’s so incredibly flat to begin with is pretty tough to conceptualize.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:50 pm to CocomoLSU
quote:That's not what you posted. You said the storm "wasn't bad at all" for LA.
Just that the storm itself wasn't near as bad as the damage that came later on.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:53 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Coolest August on recor
The year prior had record all time lows for louisiana with temperatures in the low 50s for a week. I have pictures fishing in August 04 wearing a jacket
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:00 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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That's not what you posted. You said the storm "wasn't bad at all" for LA.
As a comparative to the damage caused by the flooding.
But LA wasn't ravaged by it like the MGC was, with blocks and blocks of homes and buildings leveled like a nuke went off.
What I said was that the storm wasn't bad at all compared to the floods afterward.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:04 pm to CocomoLSU
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But LA wasn't ravaged by it like the MGC was, with blocks and blocks of homes and buildings leveled like a nuke went off.
There was plenty of that in Louisiana.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:05 pm to Snipe
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The day Baton Rouge died.
frick off 
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:14 pm to GreenRockTiger
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frick off
Well, I'm not wrong.
This place has been a shithole in the mold of New Orleans ever since August 30th 2005.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:18 pm to Shorts Guy
Right on..went into MS coast just after..called friends to report "no damage for at least two blocks off water.???That's because there was nothing "two blocks off water" Go look at empty lots today along 90 with steps in front!
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:25 pm to CocomoLSU
Such perspective coming from someone that was 25 years old when Katrina hit and didn't even have a skin in the game....
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:30 pm to Snipe
quote:yes you are - terrible crime and ghetto neighborhoods existed in BR way before Katrina
Well, I'm not wrong.
quote:more like since 1722
This place has been a shithole in the mold of New Orleans ever since August 30th 2005.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:35 pm to CocomoLSU
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But LA wasn't ravaged by it like the MGC was, with blocks and blocks of homes and buildings leveled like a nuke went off.
Oh really???
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:42 pm to CocomoLSU
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But LA wasn't ravaged by it like the MGC was, with blocks and blocks of homes and buildings leveled like a nuke went off.
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Hurricane Katrina destroyed or severely damaged approximately 130,000 homes in Mississippi, with the storm's powerful surge leading to widespread flooding and destruction along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The storm's impact was devastating for Mississippi, with reports detailing that coastal Mississippi towns were over 90% flooded, leading to the loss of countless houses.
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Hurricane Katrina destroyed or severely damaged approximately 240,000 homes in Louisiana, with the vast majority of the damage concentrated in the New Orleans area. Overall, more than 1.5 million housing units were damaged or destroyed along the Gulf Coast.
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Total Damage:
Across Louisiana and Mississippi, nearly 500,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Lasting Effects
Displacement:
The disaster displaced more than 800,000 people and led to a significant, though temporary, population decline in New Orleans.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:26 pm to East Coast Band
LINK
This article goes into detail of what the current flood protection system for New Orleans can and cannot protect. New Orleans would still be very susceptible to flooding from "the big one "
This article goes into detail of what the current flood protection system for New Orleans can and cannot protect. New Orleans would still be very susceptible to flooding from "the big one "
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:50 pm to East Coast Band
I might have read before about the guy who wrote this and why he used the language he did. He wanted to freak people out enough to make them listen to the warnings ? I could be wrong or remember incorrectly
Posted on 9/2/25 at 2:18 am to ThatTahoeOverThere
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Katrina had a 25ft + storm surge in Plaquemines Parish. If thats a 3, I'd hate to see what a 4 or 5 could do.
People get too hung up on the rating; size, angle, and the trend of development at landfall matter just as much.
All Cat 3's aren't equal.
Katrina weakening when it did was pretty much a worst case scenario for places like Plaquemines Parish and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 2:28 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 2:47 am to CocomoLSU
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when the actual storm wasn't bad at all in LA (different story for the Gulf coast obviously)
Slidell was hit just as hard or harder than the MS coast. Surge went miles inland and snapped pine trees alone decimated buildings and infrastructure not to mention other wind damage. Slidell was hit twice by the eyewall.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 3:04 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 5:56 am to East Coast Band
Ivor van Heerden from LSU predicted the levy failure due to faulty engineering and poor levee construction. He was truthful about it afterward. LSU tried to muzzle him and eventually fired him. There was also an email where to Lsu officials joked that he needed a cyanide pill. They spent more than $1 million defending the lawsuits and eventually settled for about 450 K.
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