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The Calm Before The Storm?

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sanmac | 23:04 Sat 28th Aug 2021 | ChatterBank
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Usually, this location is bustling with tourists and locals on a Saturday afternoon with all businesses open and thriving. Hurricane Ida is expected to make landfall on Sunday as a level 4 hurricane. Sixteen years ago tomorrow Katrina made a landfall as a level 3. I surely hope it doesn't happen again: https://www.earthcam.com/events/mardigras/?cam=catsmeow2
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Whoaaaa I hope it doesn't, sanmac.
Unnerving to know one is on the way, probably battening down the hatches.

Hope it's not too bad.
Crikey - is that Bourbon Street? I hope that they avoid the worst of the storm this time.
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Let's hope that it loses some intensity as it slowly travels across the Gulf towards the coast.
I hope so Sanmac - they lost so much with Katrina
Finger's crossed that it loses some of it's power before it hit's land.
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The problem is that hurricanes "love' warm water, and the Gulf of Mexico is like a bathtub full of warm water to them. But we can still hope I guess.
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Just after 3pm and really windy with heavy rain but, fortunately so far, no great damage at this location. The odd person has been around mostly taking selfies. Couple of fire-trucks just went speeding by on some mission. Some of the business signs are surely blowin' in the wind.
Street is deserted now, understandably.
Horrendous.
I don’t know if anyone here has been caught in a hurricane but I have and the satellite watching waiting for it to arrive is surreal. My thoughts are with those people.
An awful sense of foreboding surely.
Hard to describe. Everything prepared, windows taped so should they break the glass will hopefully be contained; sandbags in place; everything outside battened down …. but, apart from the sound of the gathering wind, the waiting is an odd silence.
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It must be one hell of a decision to make in a situation like this when so many variables, known and unknown, are involved: Do I go or do I stay? I saw a couple of guys earlier, at different times, probably homeless pushing shopping-carts filled with their possessions...Obviously they don't have much of a choice to make.
Where would they go? Really? Where? They just have to seek refuge in the depths of a multi storey car park or something like that. How awful.
better the lower floors - underground in N.Orleans and you'll probably drown. When Ike and Alison came through Houston, there were a number of deaths on the lower floors of carparks, hospitals and the underground-street system.
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The hydro for this part of New Orleans came back on Thursday afternoon, and if you watch as the camera pans around there doesn't seem to be much obvious damage. But the windows in the doors of the Cornet Restaurant seem to have been blown out and replaced with plywood. I don't think that the businesses will be open for quite a few days...Anyway, good to see not too much damage.
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Quickly, check out the action on Bourbon St.
It's...eerily empty.
Is there another storm due?
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It's empty because most of the bars etc haven't reopened. You missed a couple of religious zealots with loud-speakers yelling about the sinfulness of the French Quarter, and that God created Ida on the 16th anniversary of Katrina to bring destruction. The cops moved them on, but you can still hear them in the background.

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