A Visit from Issac

[keystiger]

That they do Dave. However we battle "interesting" weather here year round really. This is an article (and pics) from June storms--not hurricanes or tropical named storms just rain storms.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-coast-photos/2012/06/11/gJQAQbT1UV_blog.html
This storm was the one that flooded my house. Which is around 95 ft. above sea level on a bluff, the flooding was not from raising water but from water draining down the hill behind me that sits at 100-110 ft. above sea level. Note the 10-20" of rain in a 24 hour period in the story. More than some areas get annually. You have to be partially amphibious to live round here. Lol.
--Granted I am not shoveling snow--buying winter tires or dealing with the "lake affect" storms off Lake Erie I did in my youth---
I'll take heat/humidity and water over freezing/ice any day. Just a little background info. FYI.

 

[DaveM]

Funny how we all get use to our weather. Like us here we have our flooding in winter period that is now just moving towards the end (Normally end Sept). Then our windy season starts from October through to around end December. We are actually called the windy city and the funny thing is I don't really notice it much any more. We just know that if you want to go to the beach be there at 08:00 as around 11:00 or so the wind starts Some people wont even come and live here as they say the wind is too bad

 

[hemibee]

I've always found it funny that people say it rains a lot in Seattle, Washington but on average Houston gets 10 inches more per year and Mobile gets 30 inches more per year than Seattle. I guess the biggest difference is Mobile and Houston gets a lot of their rains at one time and Seattle spreads theirs out over the year.

 

[hemibee]

Some photos of the storm from a Houston TV Station. Most of the photos are from the New Orleans area but some are from the Mississippi coast and Mobile, Alabama.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/gallery?section=news/national_world&id=8787387&photo=1

 

[DaveM]

That is a lot of water running around where it should not be

 

[CarlS]

New Orleans got really pounded by rain and winds. However, the revamped levee system protecting NO did its job and the pumps are doing well at getting rid of tons of rain water.

Water is gettin high all along. Went in to work this morning. No problem with the drive in. However we decided to make it a short day as Mobile river started overflowing. Sorry for the crappy phone camera shot. I live on the east side of Mobile Bay, Daphne, and work in Mobile. 2 methods of commute Causeway, a few feet above the water level on a good day. Or the elevated Mobile Bay Bridge and you must go through 1 of 2 tunnels under the Mobile River.
--Carl I believe you have traveled these roads.
The Causeway is closed, its underwater completely. And the Bankhead tunnel is closed. So was rerouted to the Bay Bridge.
Sitting at the foot of Govt. St. at the light I was in water past my axles. Made to the elevated sections but that road I understand is now closed. So we are still feeling the effects for sure.
Heres the pic.
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Here is a pic of the flooded causeway
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US 90 is closed all along the coast. This was such a massively wide storm that flooding occurred from Apalachicola to west of New Orleans. The south and southeast winds piled up a lot of water.

These storms sure do cause a lot of damage

They certainly do - wind damage, flooding damage, and tornado damage.

That they do Dave. However we battle "interesting" weather here year round really. This is an article (and pics) from June storms--not hurricanes or tropical named storms just rain storms.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-coast-photos/2012/06/11/gJQAQbT1UV_blog.html
This storm was the one that flooded my house. Which is around 95 ft. above sea level on a bluff, the flooding was not from raising water but from water draining down the hill behind me that sits at 100-110 ft. above sea level. Note the 10-20" of rain in a 24 hour period in the story. More than some areas get annually. You have to be partially amphibious to live round here. Lol.
--Granted I am not shoveling snow--buying winter tires or dealing with the "lake affect" storms off Lake Erie I did in my youth---
I'll take heat/humidity and water over freezing/ice any day. Just a little background info. FYI.

AMEN!!

 

[keystiger]

Man........still dealing with Isaac. However no where near what Ms. &LA. are seeing. However the traffic today on my commute was insane. with only 1 route across the Bay, and 3 different accidents on that route......a 20 min. commute took 3 hours this morning, and 2 on the way home....Annoying at best, but the wait was made more bearable seeing, and knowing the added traffic on the road where hundreds and hundreds of support vehicles, bucket trucks power repair techs etc. etc. all heading West to help those who really NEED it.

 

[CarlS]

I hear you. I have been on the receiving end of those support vehicles, supplies and bucket trucks. They are a welcome sight. And they surely have their work cut out for them in MS, LA and AR.

 

[hemibee]

Last I heard, we had 688743 Louisiana customers without service but this was before the storm moved above Baton Rouge. I haven't heard the number of our Mississippi & Arkansas customers as of this time. We have crews in the storm area or headed that way from Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. I've probably left out a couple states but those I do remember. They are always a welcome sight both from a customer and employee point of view. When Ike came thru here four years ago it was New Jersey & Tennessee crews that worked my neighborhood.

 

[hemibee]

I just checked the outage numbers:
Louisiana 520824
Mississippi 30116
Arkansas 11694


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[DaveM]

Wow that is huge

 

[CarlS]

I just checked the outage numbers:
Louisiana 520824
Mississippi 30116
Arkansas 11694

That is a lot of folks without power - and that is miserable in the heat and humidity.

 

[CarlS]

The flooding along our east coast in the Vero Beach area has receded. A lot of folks had water in their homes. That area also had tornado damage.

 

[Rocky]

Named storms Leslie and Kirk are well off the coast out in the Atlantic and tracking east so won't be a problem for eastern North America.
Things are really picking up and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[hemibee]

As of 0800 CDT
Outages (My company only in these numbers)
Entergy Arkansas 2938 - 82% Restored
Entergy GSU Louisiana 44160 - 70% Restored
Entergy Louisiana 265926 - 38% Restored
Entergy New Orleans 90949 - 28% Restored
Entergy Mississippi 13790 - 78% Restored
Entergy Texas 0 - 100% Restored
Total Outages @ 0800 417769

Restoration workers on site - 6856
Restoration workers in route - 7329
Total restoration work force - 14185

 

[keystiger]

It is a mess for sure. And with heat indexes over 100 being without power right now is very bad. Plus the mosquitos, and west nile virus all ready at high levels in LA. That could spell major trouble. We where very, very fortunate here in Alabama.

 

[CarlS]

I have been through that before - 17 days without power in 2004. I empathize with all those folks. I did have a generator though.

 

[DaveM]

I think after 5 days getting a generator may be a great idea

 

[hemibee]

I think after 5 days getting a generator may be a great idea

After a couple hours getting the generator is a good idea.

We got lucky during Ike four years ago, the expected heat an humidity didn't show up and it was rather pleasant but that didn't keep me from firing up the generator which ran dang near non-stop for 9 days.

 

[DaveM]

The thing with the generator and the price of fuel these days it just cost so much to run. I was so close to getting one with our rolling black outs but then when I worked it out the cost would have just been to heavy all round