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I still don’t think national audiences understand all the damage that Isaac is doing. I think Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Miss., are in horrible shape, as is probably the western third or half of Pass Christian. I think low lying areas of Mobile County, AL are in horrid shape, and there is lots of street flooding in areas closer to the rivers and/or bay. And the reports of bad conditions in my original hometown of New Orleans keep growing, as is evidenced by this very handy (and admirably thorough) summary on the city’s website. For most people, this list won’t mean much, but for me, it is full of meaning; it worries me sick. And with reports of 17 inches of rain at Audubon Park, where I grew up, I bet a lot of surrounding streets are seriously flooded; the park used to flood badly with just 8 inches of rain, not 17. Here in Mobile, the winds are only intermittently super-gusty, but the rain has been coming down for 24 hours now, and the past few hours it has been coming down in absolute torrents.
Back to Pass Christian: I just spoke with my aunt and uncle, who are in the higher, east side of the town. They have a tree on their roof and major leaks from it into their bedroom. They say that Highway 90 there, as in Gulfport, was overtopped for at least a while — and overtopping there means bad things for anybody who has rebuilt on the lower, west end of the town near Henderson Point.
Much of the news has rightly focused on the bad situation in Plaquemines Parish, LA, where Parish President Billy Nungesser has done a great job of getting attention (much merited) for their plight; what I am wondering is how bad things are in the other coastal parishes: St. Bernard, Terrebonne, West Jefferson.… I do know there is lots of street flooding in Algiers, directly across the river from downtown New Orleans, in areas that mostly escaped bad flooding in Katrina.
And the INLAND flooding hasn’t even started yet: Lots of little rivers will be well overflowing their banks and flooding whole neighborhoods.
In short, while this is a storm that has not featured extremely high winds, it has brought enough water from above and from the Gulf that it is certainly a serious disaster.
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JimP| 8.29.12 @ 5:59PM
That is very sad and upsetting news. My prayers will be with/for everyone on the Gulf coast today.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.29.12 @ 6:00PM
As someone who went through Irene, I'd say the biggest problem will be flooding -- as in flooded streets, power outages, and the slowness of local governments to get things back to normal.
Bob Grant| 8.29.12 @ 6:00PM
And yet our "president" finds the time to campaign in Virginia and have a tweet session with the Obama Choir.
Also, Jindal is begging obama to open up more federal funds but obamamandias sticks his chin out, nose up and says NOPE.
Butch| 8.29.12 @ 7:53PM
Ironic, isn't it. Huey Long rides again. I'm a native Louisianian like Quin, and, 40 years after Huey, you could still tell the differences between the roads in the parishes that went for Huey and those that didn't. No funds, regardless of need, went anywhere other than to those who favored the King(fish) politically.
C Bowen | 8.29.12 @ 8:32PM
Jindal cannot handle a common storm on his own?
I thought Jindal was a conservative Republican--thank you very much for the information. What a phony!
Alej| 8.29.12 @ 10:08PM
When Yankee states have a forest fire that destroys three trailer parks, the Treasury is opened up to them.
I'd go into the massive acreage of developed urban area that is being destroyed by flooding, but I don't care to argue with a Yankee troll.
Occam's Tool| 8.29.12 @ 10:49PM
Bowen: Not a common storm, and the Governor is asking for help in his official capacity and being refused by the vermin you adore in the White House.
Emergency intervention is not a time to play politics. Safety of community in situations like this, like the common defense and maintenance of roads and waterways, IS a core function of governnment. Quin, I hope your family is warm, safe, and dry, with plenty of power and clean water.
spike59| 8.30.12 @ 6:04AM
common storm? you're a common idiot
JimH| 8.30.12 @ 8:07AM
Does this mean that BO has written off LAs electoral votes?
fmm| 8.29.12 @ 6:22PM
Did you have a point to make other than that Isaac is doing pretty much what hurricanes do on the gulf coast? Maybe a point such as Bob Grant made above?
C Bowen | 8.29.12 @ 8:34PM
LA cannot handle a common storm? Give it back to France or at least the alligators and snakes.
JmsA| 8.29.12 @ 9:51PM
Typical ignorant comment, as usual.
JP| 8.30.12 @ 9:43AM
Hell,NYC cannot handle transfats, Big Gupls, and smokes. What a bunch of wussies! Effette urbanites!
PCPSmokerII| 8.29.12 @ 9:34PM
More evidence the Left is winning. Here we have this asshole Hilier writing about the damages caused by a hurricane.
Alej| 8.29.12 @ 10:11PM
Here we have this asshole Yankee Democrat dismissing billions of dollars in damages to individuals' property.
Can't wait for the SHTF. The Left will be a vague memory when it's over.
spike59| 8.30.12 @ 6:07AM
wait till he figures out that these other people won't be in much position to have their wealth 'spread around' to his EBT card...where will he get his cheetos and malt liquor then?
Cobalt| 8.29.12 @ 11:03PM
Hopefully, there will be no loss of life from this hurricane. Whenever there is bad flooding, there always seems to be unnecessary deaths from drowning.
A few inches of water is enough to sweep a person away, and a few feet of water will sweep a car away.
Keep your family close to home until the water recedes.
Cobalt| 8.29.12 @ 11:51PM
That should be moving and rushing water, like you would encounter in a swollen stream, creek, river, etc.
Oldefarte| 8.30.12 @ 11:50AM
Thanks for the important info and update!!!!