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re: Today's anniversary of the strongest hurricane in Louisiana history - and it's not Katrina
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:26 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:26 pm to TDsngumbo
Ida kicked our arse here in the community of Pumpkin Center…Massive damage to homes and property… trees down everywhere…Two sentinel pine trees on our house…
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Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:29 pm to red sox fan 13
I was working in the ER in Bogalusa the night it came through. It was a monster. It sounded like a train was going over us in the storm. I drove home to Mandeville the next day. I didn’t know what I was gonna find. Luckily the house was fine, but damn near every tree in my yard was blown over. I was lucky.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:31 pm to TDsngumbo
Longest night of my life. Thought that bitch would never leave.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:36 pm to NorthEndZone
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The 'Houma' label on that third loop is SE of Houma. The small '+' NW of the label is downtown Houma - which was close to but never in the total clear of the eye as you pointed out.
I remember that all too well.
I was in downtown Houma at work for the storm. Luckily it was a sturdy building and while it took a beating survived the storm with only superficial exterior damage.
I could see what was going on outside with our outside cameras. Luckily we had a generator and our fiber internet stayed working for the entire storm. We only started having issues after the storm.
My home took a beating in Cut Off. A tree fell on the roof and blew out some windows. Stayed a month without power at home. Office was 2 weeks without power. We are on the hospital leg so we got power back pretty quickly.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:37 pm to TDsngumbo
Was in Mandeville for Ida. That was the first "direct" impact storm I had experienced with a wife and kids to worry about. They all slept in my closet and I stayed up drinking just praying for it to pass. It was horrible seeing it slow to a near stop.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:38 pm to TheFonz
When it came through I saw someone on here in Laplace or Reserve talk about how the house was breathing like lungs. That would be a no for me. As for me my biggest problem with Ida was Entergy actually getting the power back on in BR shortly after the storm and then turning it off for like a week.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:39 pm to rmnldr
quote:Agreed. I live about the same distance from Ida's eastern eyewall passing as from Katrina's western eyewall passing and Ida dropped no trees on my property, but Katrina knocked down 12.
Just no. Katrina may have begun degrading with its maximum winds dropping when the ERC failed and dry air began to intrude but Katrina was still massive and stronger compared to Ida
Posted on 8/29/25 at 9:44 pm to TDsngumbo
For all intensive porpoises isn’t the difference between them, the top 5 or whatever, pretty negligible as far as effects felt in the general ground zero areas?
Posted on 8/29/25 at 10:00 pm to Havoc
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For all intensive porpoises isn’t the difference between them, the top 5 or whatever, pretty negligible as far as effects felt in the general ground zero areas?
I am pretty sure the porpoises were affected by the storm.
But Katrina was wider and was so much more developed early on.
Katrina peaked out over the gulf. The wind field was broadening and the surge was still pushing a surge from when she was at her peak when it was category 5. You also have the bad luck of having the landmasses creating a funnel. Instead of spreading out the surge, it just kept getting higher along the Mississippi gulf coast for the entire duration of the event.
Ida on the other hand was still gaining strength when she came ashore and did not have enough time to build up a surge. The winds were so strong. That they created a reverse surge from water inside the Morganza System pushing the Bubba Dove floodgate out of alignment.
This post was edited on 8/30/25 at 11:08 am
Posted on 8/29/25 at 10:03 pm to GEAUXmedic
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The storm that finally made me leave Louisiana.
I remember you in that storm. That was a rough night, I know.
This post was edited on 8/29/25 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 8/29/25 at 10:14 pm to NorthEndZone
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I linked it to start at the most intense part, but you can also watch the entire video. 6:30 to 18:00 is the must-see part.
@13:30, the stilts/pylons/whatever they're called failed, but the house itself handled that collapse pretty impressively. If anyone were in it at the time, they'd be aching for a while, but alive.
I stayed at my family's property in Amite, ~20 miles north of Hammond, and it was still a pretty nerve racking experience. Happy that I didn't stay at home in Metry for that one.
This post was edited on 8/29/25 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 8/29/25 at 10:14 pm to NorthEndZone
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The home of an aquaintance of mine was one of the few newer brick homes that was structurally damaged beyond repair with the second floor being partially ripped off the bottom floor by what had to have been a small mesovort of some sort. Neighbors' houses only a few feet away had damage but nothing like that.
From the air via the satellite it was the tree damage and, to a lesser extent, the roof damage that gave it away as having significant mesovort damage. There were trees laid in different direction, opposite the prevailing wind. Roofs were taken off and lofted in different directions, too. And, as you mentioned, the overall sporadic nature of the damage.
The friction amplified by the slowdown and the overall change in storm motion as Ida made its turn really seemed to goose the rotations in the eye wall. It was a fascinating, though horrific, radar watch.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 12:09 am to red sox fan 13
Yep I think we’re splitting hairs on which one was worst. They both were horrible in their own ways.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 12:35 am to white perch
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I was working in the ER in Bogalusa
Probably just slightly less dangerous than the storm itself
Posted on 8/30/25 at 3:06 am to TDsngumbo
We were leaving on a cruise out of Galveston as Ida was working her way in. Had no bad weather on the cruise.
Got back to NOLA and found that I had roof damage and it had rained inside my house ruining floors and ceiling collapsed in ground floor bedroom.
Got back to NOLA and found that I had roof damage and it had rained inside my house ruining floors and ceiling collapsed in ground floor bedroom.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 6:56 am to Tarps99
From Matthews on down, LA 1 was destroyed. Even people in Thibodaux didn't understand the devastation. The Nicholls president thought that students could learn online for a day or 2, then go back to campus. Um no. There was no power, no internet. People had lost everything - how could they get on a computer for class if they lost one in the storm. Furthermore, they couldn't drive to campus because there was no gasoline to be had.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 7:01 am to LegendInMyMind
If I remember correctly the winds blew (hard) for 11-11 1/2 hours.
Just kept going. That’s what caused so much damage. The hurricane was terrible no doubt, but if it would have sped through it would not have been near as bad.
Just kept going. That’s what caused so much damage. The hurricane was terrible no doubt, but if it would have sped through it would not have been near as bad.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 7:26 am to TDsngumbo
My in laws refused to evacuate and visit us in Chicago. Eye wall passed about 4 miles to their west - and they were up near Ponchatula. They had never been through a real hurricane.
I think they got 50-60 mph winds at their house for a while, which is no joke for beginners. They had gusts well over 80, but the worst of it was a mile or two to their west.
They said they’d never stay for one ever again after that.
I think they got 50-60 mph winds at their house for a while, which is no joke for beginners. They had gusts well over 80, but the worst of it was a mile or two to their west.
They said they’d never stay for one ever again after that.
This post was edited on 8/30/25 at 7:30 am
Posted on 8/30/25 at 7:28 am to Bob Sacamano 89
The worst parts lasted for about two or two and a half hours for me, with winds gusting near 110mph at the worst part around 9:45 or 10:00pm. I know we got relatively calm conditions for about ten minutes where the wind died down to probably 30mph then it came roaring back to 80ish mph after that from a different direction until finally dying down around 1:00am. Pretty sure the edge of the eye clipped my location briefly. I lost a fence, about half my shingles, some soffit, an attic vent, and my home office had to be gutted because it flooded from rain being blown inside around the edges of the windows and door.
This post was edited on 8/30/25 at 7:29 am
Posted on 8/30/25 at 7:35 am to Ingeniero
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mom said they spent all night awake in the hallway praying for it to end. She said she'll never ride out another one like that.
Wonder if God listens when people have the ability and also choose not to evacuate?
I wouldn't blame him for putting those people on mute.
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