re: Sally - Moving towards Georgia - Potential for Significant Flooding

Bought a house on the water in August and now it seems like every storm heads right at us lol. Haven't seen anyone pulling their boats out, just raising them higher in their boathouse. I have a generator so as long as the water stays out of my house we should be good to ride this out

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Duke, are we talking catastrophic in those areas or power loss etc? Basically should we get the F out?



I'm in New Orleans, Uptown practically on St. Charles. I'm expecting power outages and leaving today but as I mentioned earlier my wife is 8 months pregnant.

This won't be Laura winds. Not enough time I don't think. I am concerned about some rapid Intensification potential near landfall but it's going to be hard to know exactly what we're dealing with until it's rolling up. Could be Cat 1. Could be low end Cat 3.

The rain plus surge is the primary concern. You gotta pump the rain somewhere and at this angle the places you pump will be rising with the surge.

Everyone reading knows their area. Flood prone generally, I'd consider leaving this evening and hopefully it's for nothing. It's the flooding, again, that's the biggest concern.

Don't deal with street flooding much, in a good structure, and can deal with a couple of days without power? Right now you'd be fine staying I think.

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Thanks, don’t want to deal without power though we don’t lose power much here. But, yeah with a 3 year old I don’t want a couple of days without power. Thinking about heading to family in BR and then if they lose power we can figure it out from there.

Definitely don’t stick around with a pregnant wife.

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Princess Alexandra

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Laura Bechtel with WWL-TV said it’ will now be a Cat 2 with 100 mph winds at landfall in NOLA. 7-11 ft storm surge for Nola area.

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Cat 2 at landfall or cat 2 in NOLA? Either way Latoya finna eat (literally she’s probably snacking right now)

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My bae is back at wwl?!?!

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Nah, unfortunately.

Been pretty happy with the WWL weather crew though. Alexandria shows 500 heights with no context too much but otherwise they're all pretty good. Fox 8 have the best mets in town though.

Feel a surge coming and it’s not seawater.....

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But that’s dumb because when it makes landfall, it has about 70-100 miles to go before it hits NOLA

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Not that it's really much of "land".

This multi billion dollar levee and pump upgrade gonna get tested

Alabama baws. I’m on the storm team at work. Thinking of sending the wife and kids to Birmingham for a few days. What are the areas of town to avoid?

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Want to touch the booty

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Wood do much more then that.