Get out of there.
I know many of you are sick to death of hearing about hurricanes and where they are going and how big and how prepared everyone is or isn't and no gas, gas shortages, gas rations, plywood, no plywood canned food and water etc etc but if you live anywhere where Ivan is heading, especially the New Orleans area, please get the hell out of there. I was just reading this post over at Wizbang and cannot even imagine that happening but I guess it has happened in the past, can happen and just might happen with this one.
If the fabled "Big One" ever hit New Orleans we were in big trouble.
The scenario goes like this:
The tidal surge will top the levees and the bowl will fill from river to lake. The studies say that if we took a direct hit from a category 4 or 5 storm, a city of one million people could be under as much as 30 feet of water. According to the experts there could be over 50,000 dead. What's more, since we would have to pump the water out the bowl, they say the city could be underwater for as long as 10 months.
Comments
omg... speechless...
Godspeed to everyone in the path is about the only thing I say...
Posted by: Diane | September 14, 2004 9:25 PM
Wow, that is very interesting and scary....I am a couple of hours from New Orleans but I think we are safe so far......The city is evacuating and schools are closed so I hope that everyone who can get out will. Chris is on the phone making plans with people, OH you know how I told you about the camp that we were supposed to go to? Well come to find out it is booked up, so we are making new plans and will wait till morning and see if we have to leave or not...Will update in the morning!
Posted by: Leslie | September 14, 2004 9:30 PM
I hope that this scenario doesn't play out. It frightens me. Keep trying to find a place to go. You guys will be in my thoughts until this is well past.
Posted by: kat | September 14, 2004 10:03 PM
Scary isn't it? I know people, other bloggers in it's path. Keep them in your thoughts.
Posted by: kat | September 14, 2004 10:05 PM
THat is very scary.....and I would think there would be lots of less severe problems along the Mississippi further north.
As it stands currently in northern Alabama, the Weather Channel says we can expect flooding of 'biblical' proportions.
I am going to head over and take a look at that post; thanks for pointing it out!
Posted by: kim | September 15, 2004 12:21 AM
Biblical? As in Noah type flooding? Wow.
Posted by: kat | September 15, 2004 5:52 AM
Yikes. I followed your link and then the other link posted at Wizband and it sounds like the Apocalypse. I would get the hell out of Dodge if I was living there.
Posted by: Terry | September 15, 2004 8:03 AM
I know it Terry. Doesn't it sound awful? Kim said they were on the news talking last night about biblical proportions. That's just baffling.
Posted by: kat | September 15, 2004 8:13 AM