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this storm is the strangest damn thing i ever saw.

formed on land, moved to gulf, never really organized or got its shit together.
somehow still got to hurricane strength.

this thing then figures out a way to push a higher surge up the bayous than Andrew did in ‘92. Andrew hit almost same area as a high 3/low 4.
Andrew was a 6’ surge here. This one appears closer to 9’ (my unscientific method of guessing - it spilled over 9’ levees).

now this thing is barely moving still.
and the biblical rains that were predicted aren’t making it to land.
the colorful shit on radar just disappears when it hits the coast.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Good read on how the national news is hurting those in Louisiana not helping. My favorite portion is below.



https://www.bayoubrief.com/2019/07/...-of-tropical-storm-barry-is-its-own-disaster/
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good read.
national crews never seem to help as much as they think.

reminds me of our flood for Rita in ‘05.
New Orleans was still a post Katrina war zone, so La National guard was bit busy.
they imported dudes from Arizona (because Arizona people def know hurricanes).
they tried to take over operations down here.
and it quickly became a clusterfuck.

i had a chance to talk to one for a few minutes and asked him.
“Why don’t y’all let the local cops and first responders take the lead here? they know the are and have waaaaay to much experience with hurricanes. And y’all can assist as needed. “

dude’s answer was “we have the situation under control”.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
good read.
national crews never seem to help as much as they think.

reminds me of our flood for Rita in ‘05.
New Orleans was still a post Katrina war zone, so La National guard was bit busy.
they imported dudes from Arizona (because Arizona people def know hurricanes).
they tried to take over operations down here.
and it quickly became a clusterfuck.

i had a chance to talk to one for a few minutes and asked him.
“Why don’t y’all let the local cops and first responders take the lead here? they know the are and have waaaaay to much experience with hurricanes. And y’all can assist as needed. “

dude’s answer was “we have the situation under control”.
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The 256th was in Baghdad in 2005. That's why you didn't have locals working the issue. Those men and women had zero fucks to give for Iraq when Katrina hit. I felt so bad for them. Most people left the computer labs and phone banks alone just so those guys/gals could contact home.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
The 256th was in Baghdad in 2005. That's why you didn't have locals working the issue. Those men and women had zero fucks to give for Iraq when Katrina hit. I felt so bad for them. Most people left the computer labs and phone banks alone just so those guys/gals could contact home.
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i couldn’t imagine not being here for that ‘05 season.
got hit by 3 of them that year. 2 of the 3 were all time badasses at the time.

Katrina to this day is the absolute worst weather i ever witnessed and am extremely thankful i was on the west side of the eye.

Rita wasn’t near as bad here because of how far from here she hit. but i was on our levee trying to stop the water when it broke.
was both one of the more amazing things i’ve ever seen as well as the most deflating.
 
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Daughter asked me how many calories are in a lightening strike. Looked it up. Average lightening strike has about 1 billion joules. One joule = .000239 kilocalories. So one lightening strike has just over 239,000 Kilocalories, rather fattening.
 
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