To All Cuffers in the South

[Surfah]

School cancelled. Work cancelled. Woohoo! We brought everything in, got our water storage ready, tested the generator, etc. We're ready. Hopefully we don't have to use any of it. I think it will miss us but Pellegrino you may be getting slammed.

[wuapinmon]

If any CUFFERS in the path of the storm needs a place to evacuate, our doors are open.

[YOhio]

Weather report for Southerners.

[il Padrino Ute]

Audubon Park in NOLA has gotten 17 inches of rain since midnight! :yikes:

Wow. The average rainfall for a year here in SLC is about 16 inches. Difficult to fathom that much precipitation.

[wuapinmon]

Audubon Park in NOLA has gotten 17 inches of rain since midnight! :yikes:

[Moliere]

We've got some steady (not strong) winds coming from the north east. Made for some good weather for my morning run. Here's to hoping NOLA and the rest of the gulf coast make it through without serious issues.

[myboynoah]

Raise your hand if you started singing "American Pie" in your head after reading this.

[Clark Addison]

It's "levees", not "levies".

Raise your hand if you started singing "American Pie" in your head after reading this.

[Moliere]

It's "levees", not "levies".

[Uncle Ted]

It's "levees", not "levies".

Same difference... the tax payers still got soaked one way or another in the end for billions.

[Jeff Lebowski]

It's "levees", not "levies".

[Moliere]

The biggest deal about Ike in Houston (not talking Galveston or the Bolivar peninsula) was the fact that it happened over the BYU-UCLA game weekend and the weekend Lehman Brothers collapsed. I was getting fuzzy rumors of that on Monday but didn't see anything concrete until I got into work on Tuesday, and by that time all hell was breaking loose.

I was at that BYU-UCLA game, which means I missed Ike. MJ and I were driving to the game and were stuck in traffic on I-15 when we called our neighbor and found out our house was fine but we'd lost some trees. BYU then demolished UCLA 59-0. That was a good weekend for me. We got back in Houston the day after power was restored to our home.

[Pheidippides]

Many people don't understand the tragedy of Katrina. When Ike blew through Houston, people were worried we'd end up with a Katrina-like experience complete with houses under water, looting, etc. What they failed to understand is that Katrina was Katrina because the levies didn't hold and part of NOLA is undersea level. Isaac is not a big storm and won't break the levies so NOLA is fine. It'll have some damage, but that's typical with a hurricane.

I don't remember how strong they rebuilt the levies. I remember them getting approved to build them to withstand a category 3 hurricane but I hope they decided to go to category 5 as I'm sure at some point in the next couple decades there will be another big storm to come through that area.

The biggest deal about Ike in Houston (not talking Galveston or the Bolivar peninsula) was the fact that it happened over the BYU-UCLA game weekend and the weekend Lehman Brothers collapsed. I was getting fuzzy rumors of that on Monday but didn't see anything concrete until I got into work on Tuesday, and by that time all hell was breaking loose.

[Moliere]

Isaac looks like morning fog compared to Katrina.

Many people don't understand the tragedy of Katrina. When Ike blew through Houston, people were worried we'd end up with a Katrina-like experience complete with houses under water, looting, etc. What they failed to understand is that Katrina was Katrina because the levies didn't hold and part of NOLA is undersea level. Isaac is not a big storm and won't break the levies so NOLA is fine. It'll have some damage, but that's typical with a hurricane.

I don't remember how strong they rebuilt the levies. I remember them getting approved to build them to withstand a category 3 hurricane but I hope they decided to go to category 5 as I'm sure at some point in the next couple decades there will be another big storm to come through that area.

[Indy Coug]

Not even comparable.

Isaac looks like morning fog compared to Katrina.