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Sanrith Descartes

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Borzak said:
Waiting to see a truck hit with a lawn chair at 100+ mph.
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We used to joke all the time to those thrill seekers who went outside during storms that it isnt the 120mph wind that will kill you, its the shit being thrown by the 120 mph win that will kill you.
 
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Borzak

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MARS oil platform is having "issues". Hurricane hitting directly on the LOOP. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform, where pipelines go out to the gulf and an load/unload tankers offshore.

One offshore rig had problems with it's BOP (Blow out preventer) during their shutdown. No further word on that yet. Some are already drilled and some obviously were still drilling pre hurricane and had to shut down.

Fourchon mentioned above is the jumping off point for a lot of offshore work and offshore fishing.

Once it gets further inland and starts hitting massive number of refineries and chemical plants between New Orleans and Baton Rouge my phone might start to ring. Hopefully not. I think it's 75 plants in the 90 mile river miles between them. Nuke plant across river from New Orleans, one just north of Baton Rouge. Both kept running during Katrina.
 
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Borzak

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Sanrith Descartes said:
We used to joke all the time to those thrill seekers who went outside during storms that it isnt the 120mph wind that will kill you, its the shit being thrown by the 120 mph win that will kill you.
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Put a pretty big dent in your day I would imagine.
 
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Borzak said:
Most all structures on Grand Isle are camps and people know they are subject to often washing away or heavy flooding. It's a place to surf fish and spend a few days at a camp mostly.

Pumps in New Orleans are going down due to lack of power one by one. No backup of course after billions and billions spent post Katrina. That money got siphoned off I'm sure.
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Driving around Grand Isle on Google Street View, it looks just like the Galveston area, outside of town. A bunch of beach houses on stilts that people from Houston dive down and rent for a weekend or more.

I don't see many people surviving, if they tried to try to ride it out there. The surge will wash over that area like a little sandbar.

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Borzak

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Driving around Grand Isle on Google Street View, it looks just like the Galveston area, outside of town. A bunch of beach houses on stilts that people from Houston dive down and rent for a weekend or more.

I don't see many people surviving, if they tried to try to ride it out there. The surge will wash over that area like a little sandbar.

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Grand Isle has been under evacuation for a few days already. It is under evacuation notice often. Not many people actually on the island. Lot of the camps are mostly people that rent from out of town as you mentioned. Bumming around, surf fishing and stuff. You go there it's clear all the places for rent are low cost and are easily rebuilt. Looked it up, didn't know the population it's listed at 1,200. It's a pretty long barrier island. One end is just a WMA or Natural Area whatever they call it.
 
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Port Fourchon is right below Golden Meadow on the way to Grand Isle. There's very very little "land" down there. You drive the road down and both sides are water/canals the whole way down there. Did a bridge on Bayou Lafource just bleow Houma that was on a giant pivot. Counterbalanced so it rested on a pivot and could rotate 90 degrees to let the shrimp boats go up the bayou for hurricanes. Then turn back to allow traffic. Just as needed situation not a automatic thing. Just opened and left open for a few days.

But once you get below Baton Rouge there's just a lot of water and a little land. The northern half of East Baton Rouge Parish is pine uplands. Below that it turns to canals and bayous in a hurry. I'm near where that map shows Osyka in MS on the northern end. It's 400' elevation and it drops off raipdly toward Baton Rouge a little more than an hour away which is 60' elevation.

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Mahes

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That shoreline camera that is right on the hurricane wall...... If it comes inland with that force its going to erase structures. Its like being inside a perpetual tornado.
 
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Borzak said:
Grand Isle has been under evacuation for a few days already. It is under evacuation notice often. Not many people actually on the island. Lot of the camps are mostly people that rent from out of town as you mentioned. Bumming around, surf fishing and stuff. You go there it's clear all the places for rent are low cost and are easily rebuilt. Looked it up, didn't know the population it's listed at 1,200. It's a pretty long barrier island. One end is just a WMA or Natural Area whatever they call it.
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28 people stayed, I dont see how any of them live through it to be honest
 
Borzak

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That stream of the guy from Texas in Lockport just said the Golden Meadow floodgate was overtopped. I know he's not from there, but that's the flood gate for where he is at.
 
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