Preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Ida should be completed today. She’s pushing a lot of water. Wind field – NHS reflects approximately 60 miles across of hurricane winds and 250 miles of tropical storm winds. Ida is gaining strength rapidly. Any Treeper in the coastal area of Louisiana and Mississippi should be taking preparatory action today. Those in the forecast areas are strongly advised to pay close attention to local officials and heed all evacuation orders. [National Hurricane Center]
NHS ADVISORY – “Maximum sustained winds are near 85 mph (140 km/h) with higher gusts. Rapid strengthening is forecast during the next 24 to 36 hours and Ida is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it approaches the northern Gulf coast on Sunday night. Weakening is expected after Ida makes landfall.
At 1000 AM CDT (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Ida was located near latitude 24.8 North, longitude 86.1 West. Ida is moving toward the northwest near 16 mph (26 km/h), and this general motion should continue through late Sunday or early Monday, followed by a slower northward motion on Monday. On the forecast track, the center of Ida will move over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico today and move over the central Gulf of Mexico tonight and early Sunday. Ida is then expected to make landfall along the U.S. northern Gulf coast within the hurricane warning area on Sunday. (Advisory Link)
Check your hurricane supplies of shelf-stable food, water, medicine and don’t forget pets. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Everything is replaceable, except you and your family. We have a lot of Treepers in the path of this storm. If you need assistance, use the comments section of any ‘Ida Update thread’ to reach out, or use the email address in the upper right of the site.
Right now you are in control. Have a solid plan, work that plan – stay busy, and don’t get caught up in the hysteria. Try to avoid national media hype. Stay updated via your local news stations. Reach out to your neighbors; touch-base and check to see if they are okay or need anything. Community restoration begins before the storm arrives. Look out for each-other.
Regarding any evacuation plan, please pay attention to your local officials who will be coordinating with state Dept. of Transportation. As the path and impact zone of the storm becomes more predictable your local officials will alert to best route(s) for evacuation.
For those in the cone of uncertainty; remember, planning and proactive measures taken now can significantly reduce stress in the days ahead. As a general rule: take cover from wind – but evacuate away from water.
Communication is important. Update your friends and family contact list. Stay in touch with family and friends, let them know your plans. Select a single point of contact for communication from you that all others can then contact for updates if needed.
Organize your important papers, insurance forms, personal papers and place them in one ‘ready-to-go’ location.
Evaluate your personal hurricane and storm supplies; update and replace anything you might have used. Assess, modify and/or update any possible evacuation plans based on your location, and/or any changes to your family status. Fill car with gasoline. Review prescriptions, refill if needed.
Secure your shutters and window coverings; test your generator; re-organize and familiarize yourself with all of your supplies and hardware. Check batteries in portable tools; locate tools you might need; walk your property to consider what you may need to do based on the storms path. All decisions are yours. You are in control.
Consider travel plans based on roads and traffic density. Being proactive now helps to keep any future stress level low. You are in control. If you have pets, additional plans may be needed.
One possible proactive measure is to make a hotel reservation further inland that you would consider evacuating to. Follow updates of the storms’ progress; make reservations now if determined; you can always cancel if not needed. It is better to have a secondary evacuation place established in advance. Being proactive reduces stress. Even if you wait until later to cancel, it is better to pay a cancellation fee (usually one night charge) than to not have a plan on where to go. Trust me, it’s worth it. Protect your family. Make the booking decision now.
♦ Look over the National Hurricane Center resources for planning assistance.
♦ Also a great resource – CREATE A PLAN
Ida is forecast to hit come ashore in Louisiana on Sunday evening, that’s August 29th. That is exactly 16 years to the day after Katrina hit the same section of coast as a Major hurricane on August 29th, 2005. It will be interesting to see if the flood control systems and levies that are supposed to help protect “The Chocolate City”, ie: New Orleans, have been improved since that time. You may remember the the mayor of the Chocolate City back then, Ray Nagin, had diverted funds intended for updating the Levies and flood control systems to other purposes. Just wondering if a lesson was learned? I doubt it, but could be wrong.
The Army Corps of Engineers probably got their part right. I would bet against proper maintenance and inspections since then.
From what I understand from someone in the area, the Levees have been sinking and are cracked for the last 5 years.
Oh and 8 billion is missing that was ear marked for them.
This is hearsay so take it with a grain of salt.
Grrrr.
No doubt at all that by noon on Monday we will all be sick of hearing “Build Back Better” from the DC bobbleheads. The lobbyists will be frothing at the mouth. Nanzi will have to add extra Polident because her dentures will be loose from “infrastructure bill, Build Back Better”.
I pray Mother Nature does not take too many lives.
This is a natural occurrence effecting a very small portion of the globe and it’s citizens. And it happens regularly.
Meanwhile, we have a one-time man made virus effecting all corners of the world and taking millions of lives and harming economies?
Let’s focus on what we can control.
And have some consequences.
The largest effect that the virus is having is the giant strides toward globalization and one world government that is taking place for a virus with a 99% survival rate. The sad realization that too many have fallen for the lies, manipulation and brainwashing has been difficult to watch. I pray God would allow the scales to fall from eyes that they may see the truth and give understanding to those who appear to have none.
I think the folks in Mobile and Pensacola should be getting a little worried. I also think folks in Houston and Beaumont should go fishing tomorrow. But I am just guessing.
no… you are thinking. ?
Folks in Houston and Beaumont should prepare for an influx of evacuees.
You may be right. It’s tracking further east than expect right now.
I stayed for Katrina and regretted it. My son came to my house last night and we loaded all the go-bags and headed back to his home close to Birmingham. I’m getting too old to run from hurricanes alone. Mobile is on the bad side of the storm and will flood whenever there is a heavy rainstorm! We saw a lot of Louisiana and Mississippi tags headed north on I-65. My sister said I-10 Eastbound was packed last night.
Katrina all over again.
Yeah, but this time it’s Sleepy Joe at the helm. I assure you, he won’t get crucified like Bush did.
Big windfield, tight eye, pushing significant storm surge, stupid mayor.
Yep, Katrina’s offspring.
Trust your GOD given intuition and do what you think is safer for you and family.
Our elected officials are dumb and don’t care about us at all.
Everything they do it’s political to move their poll numbers. You know what’s best for you.
I’m praying for all in the path of this storm.
One thing you can be certain of! What ever bad happens and when the Federal response is proven to once again be wanting, someone, somehow, will claim It’s all Trumps fault!
NOLA Mayor replaying Nagin’s songs, must see major disaster funds in the future to pilfer. SMH.
Exactly. God knows the people that need it never get it. Like “foreign aid.”
This storm was planned by Trump supporters in Washington DC on January 6th. Time to track down all of those perps and put their asses in solitary confinement until we can find the evidence to prove they did it. Trump invited them to come to Washington DC just so he could incite them to prepare this storm for the Biden Administration.
Seriously, the media will make this into the biggest hurricane in the history of the world so that they don’t have to cover the fiasco in Afghanistan. You can bet trillions will ostensibly flow to FEMA within a few days.
Anyone know if there are any members of the Louisiana Cajun Navy rotting in the DC correctional facility?
NOLA must be filled with people who have death wishes the way they keep electing mayors who pay ZERO attention to the Weather Channel. Jim Cantore needs to camp out in NOLA at the first sign of any tropical depression with a 1% chance of coming near NOLA. At least he can talk to people on the street in a sensible way and provide REAL guidance. My heart goes out to you in NOLA but PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO QUIT ELECTING IDIOTS!!
Please remember that people are not necessarily electing anyone! Many, if not all. or our election outcomes are determined prior to the actual election!
In the previous election of J Bel Edwards, he was actually losing at first..Then came the results of New Orleans and Baton Rouge which brought him the win.
Hard to kick the commies out when both the sadist Dems and sadist Republicans help one another to cheat and steal elections.
60% of NOLA’s population received food stamps/government assistance before Katrina in 2005. In 16 years, that number probably hasn’t decreased. They aren’t gonna choose conservatives. Ever.
Check Houston’s increase in these areas. A lot of them went to Houston and stayed.
Is the mayor kin to Nagin or just an admirer of his policies?
I’m praying for all in it’s path
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I expect a lot of thumbs down and nasty replies but here it goes.
Why do so many hurricanes target New Orleans?
Why are it’s Mayors so incompetent?
Why does the Federal Government spend hundreds of millions to rebuild it?
Basically it’s a shit hole with a small area that is
A tourist attraction.
Relocate that to Las Vegas, demolish the rest and turn into wetland preserve and wildlife sanctuary.
Problem solved.
Plan for population relocation , pending.
The biggest shithole in the world is New Jersey.
The mayors and governors are ALL corrupt SOBs.
Anyone with a brain left there a long time ago because they knew they would save themselves millions.
Ha!! I left in 2003 and never looked back!?
Hey, how did you know I used to be a corrupt Politician ? You hurt my feelings . Right now I’m living large on Long Beach Island. End of October I’ll be heading to South West Florida. BTW I’m an ” Urban Investor ” with lots of tax write offs.
They used the ports in new Orleans for trafficking
Last hurricane to hit was Betsy in 65. Last year 2 hurricanes hit Lake Charles. Meanwhile, if anything Houston has been hit harder than NO in recent years. Seems to me the mayors are about average for big cities. The people who have it hard are the hard-scrabble ones in the surrounding Parishes (including Steve Scalise’s district).
It’s a super important port city. Cargo from the whole upper Mississippi river goes there. Nothing can change that.
We were supposed to be able to fix all the hurricane problems with levees, but the corruption short circuits the technology every time.
At least mold isn’t a big problem in Las Vegas like it is in NOLA after a hurricane.
this is frightening.
I live in Northern Virginia 39 miles west of the cesspool
One “good thing” about living here is that we do not usually get any severe weather, mainly because of the blue ridge mountains and the Shenandoah, They chop up storms quite nicely.
The negative of living here is that in the past 20 years this area has turned from 100% conservative to…. ?? I am pretty sure the election was stolen in our county. I worked the polls and assisted with tallying at 9PM
Not a lot of doubt about it.
Payers for anyone in the path of hurricane Ida. Hurricanes ain’t no joke.
Yes. I grew up on the gulf coast. We use to have hurricane parties.
Then Celia came and my little sister and I ended up in a closet as our house fell apart.
My older sister had a piece of flying metal cut her foot open. Had to control the bleeding until we could finally get to a local dr. Local doc, right on the water, was doing emergency procedures in his garage. She had stitches, no an anesthetic, etc.
We were certainly thankful he was open for business. Lol. Doubt we’d see that now.
We were without water for at least a week, electricity took longer.
Be ready, heed Sundance’s advice, it might save your life.
Also, leave if you can. You will be under even stricter lockdowns than covid.
If you stay, hide your hardware, well.
“Citing the time it takes to implement contra-flow traffic as a problem, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell stated there is not enough time for the city of New Orleans to execute a mandatory evacuation. ”
Perhaps the Democrats see this as an opportunity and want a mass casualty event.
There might be a mass casualty event at the polls in New Orleans if the insurance companies decline to pay additional living expense claims for a mandatory evacuation for which there is no mandatory evacuation order.
Sure glad I live in Northern Utah. The weather is unpredictable but mild. Even this year’s draught ended up being mild. I pissed off my ex-wife, who is in Louisiana, by telling her that it was 80° F and 17% humidity yesterday. Before COVID people from the south west would migrate to Cache Valley for the summer. And even though I am from California I don’t mind the winter’s here.
Dry heat/cold is livable. Too much humidity is stiffing.
But too dry weather is havoc for my sinuses.
I live in coastal SoCal, and our humidity is usually around 40% or so… but when we get those Santa Anas and our humidity drops to 10% I can barely breath at night.
Try using a vaporizer. Buy a steam vaporizer and a cold mist vaporizer, if you can, and find out which one works better for you. Or you could just boil a large pot of water on the stove.
We may get a record low of 42° F tonight.
Yes, you may have to get up and drink water during the night. But you can add a humidifier to the room. It is bad if you are on a Oxygen concentrator. They really dry you out.
So NOW, the Honorable Mayor of NO is urging people to evacuate?
NOW?
After not bothering to even try to update the traffic flow lanes because there ‘wasn’t enough time’.
Well, soon we’ll see how FEMA works under Joe’s Bidet. Do you think the corporatist propaganda machine will treat The Bidet they way they treated Dubya?
Praying this storm weakens before landfall.
Look for Biden’s handlers to photoshop him in Baton Rouge driving a boat or wading through the street carrying a black child to safety. “Prove he wasn’t there.” – – Jen Psaki with a smirk on her face
God Bless them. It’s not going to be back to normal for months. That takes a toll on everyone.
Get radios and if your vehicle does not have an AC plug built in then get a small transformer with ac plugs on one end and a cigarette lighter plug on the other. This way you can charge the radios with your vehicle.
Radios:
https://midlandusa.com/
Midland radios will take AA batteries in a pinch.
So this is still looking like a Category 4 that will make landfall tomorrow night; a couple of people mentioned that it could turn into a Cat 5. I could not believe the water temps that were recorded in parts of the Gulf of Mexico (87 degrees in one area showing on a map).
it’s not just the surface water temps. The warm water goes deep so the storm can keep drawing thermal energy. Time line for landfall has now moved up to tomorrow afternoon.
When I used to travel frequesntly to New Orleans by train, two(2) different people told me they had money in-hand for a strong levee, but by political corruption, the money was diverted. Therefore, I can predict the future. If there is a bad outcome at the levee, then some-one-else will be blamed. If a Republican was president, he would be impaled. In the absence of such an opportunity, there will be calls for vast new cash outlays for a lasting solution. If sin city is wiped out, I will count it as both a gift and a judgment from Heaven. May no one at all lose their lives.
No thanks, I’ll sit on my ass & wait for the Gub’mint to save me, like our Afghanistan allies.
s/off
Buy glow sticks for lighting, they work great if your power goes out and you want to save your batteries or if you run out of batteries. They last for about 6-8 hours, so you can just hang them in the bathroom or around the house and not need to carry flashlights around. Party stores, dollar stores and Target carry many different sizes, you want the thick ones if you can find them. Praying for everyone in the path of the hurricane, please stay safe out there.
Good idea for lighting, I keepa case of solar lawn light and charge them up the day before, they light rooms well. Pass on ideas for making it, helps us all.
Another thing to get (if you have time) is a battery-powered fan, and lots of batteries for the fan. After the hurricane, it will be hot, and you might not have electric power to run an air conditioner.
I got a ton of those at Walmart a few years back. All sizes.
Love ’em.
It seems like both the political people and the residents are always starting from scratch when one of these comes in–as though it’s all a big hysterical shock. Every time. Never happened this way before.
Ok so it is a bad situation, BUT isn’t this the same region known to be hit by hurricanes … only each year? Why the scramble for emergency preparations, this should be a fixed playbook. Or am I missing something?
It’s not that this is the first hurricane ever to make landfall.
I don’t think you’re missing anything.
No, not missing a thing, I think they run the same 5 year old footage as I see the same guy buying plywood again and again like he never learns. But not joking they do and then toss it as they have no where to store it and next year do it again. Pricey stupidity.
OK. Here’s something that many people would not think to plan for, but I KNOW first hand that this can happen.
A dementia/alzheimer patient absolutely refuses to budge.
The only thing I can think of (in hindsight) would be to have some sedative or sleeping pill on hand JIC.
They will likely be a *huge* problem once you get to where you are going….. but at least you got out of where you were.
This is such a shame. If her mother remembers any of these TX. relatives, she may well have been happy once she discovered where she was.
My mother had devastating dementia for years before she died….been there and had to deal related issues.
The problem in this situation is not mama and her dementia.
No, sorry. I disagree.
My mother would have reacted *exactly* as this woman did.
Sometimes she would refuse to leave, sometimes she would be OK w/ leaving and then we’d have to turn the car around 1/2 way there, or we’d get to our destination where one of her siblings (who she loved) had set a beautiful lunch for us and we’d have to leave 1/2 way thru the meal.
All alzheimers patients are different- and many of them are different fr/ moment to moment on any given day.
I have also known people w/ alzheimers who were- what I would call- very friendly, compatible and not anxious or scared at all. IOW, fun to be around, even if the same stories *did* get boring after a while. hehe.
I fully understand that.I worked with Alzheimers patients for several years.
If I understand that my own mother might react that way, and I am responsible for her safety, I would have someone on standby (perhaps along with appropriate meds) to assist me in physically removing her. In the early years of dementia when my mother had medical needs and was flat refusing to agree to appropriate medical care—I found ways to get her in to that care. She did not get to be the decider at that point. There is no way I would have said, “Oh, well. Ok, then…”
I’m sorry this woman is in this predicament but since she already had a nightmare experience with her father, I don’t understand the lack of planning ahead, knowing what she knows firsthand.
Sometimes action is more important than empathy: it may save the life of someone you love.
Yes. I’m assuming that’s her problem.
She has no help (it happens). And no meds to give her to calm down. (Hence, my original post).
If I’m driving from LA. to TX , I do not want to be in the car w/ somebody who believes they are being kidnapped and looking at me as the culprit. Yelling, screaming, grabbing my neck or the wheel.
No way am I going to *blame* this poor woman who obviously is trying to do her best looking after her mom.
If it is a life and death situation, there is no discussion. If you have to make her leave, you must do so.
I am telling you, and anyone who may be the solo person “in charge” of a violently disposed dementia patient that the ONLY way to get BOTH of you safely to your destination may be to have Sedative Drugs on hand.
What the heck are people not understanding about this?
It appears that, for some of you, your option of last resort is to get physical, knock ’em out w/ a fist and hope they don’t revive til you get to your destination.
OK. She refuses to leave. So, you tell her we are going to the beauty parlor, pack her in the car and go. At 96 years old with dementia, she will not resist. You simply have to pick her up and buckle her in.
Having guns and ammo for……”unusually large spiders”
That’s funny.
Reminds me of the time one of my brothers-in-law (formerly an Iowa farm boy) was enjoying a visit to our Montana farm. I was about ten at the time.
He and one of my brothers got the idea (and went out and did it)….to use the 30.06 to dispatch a grasshopper.
Claimed there wasn’t enough left of the grasshopper for a decent burial.
What a mess.
https://www.newsweek.com/hurricane-ida-live-cam-watch-new-orleans-gulf-coast-prepare-dangerous-storm-1624023 has two live feeds – from New Orleans, Louisiana (with sound), and from Biloxi, Mississippi.
In the New Orleans video, you can see that the wind is blowing. Clouds are moving, and the trees are blowing a bit. I guess the wind is east to west, since Hurricane Ida is approaching the city.
Well, the web page says that they are live feeds. But if a car is driving by, and if you stop playing the video for a few seconds, then start up the video again, the car will resume driving from where it was before. (If it were live feed, the car would have advanced a few feet when the video was stopped.)
Bans of light rain across north east Texas from the storm.
Prayers of protection for my Louisiana neighbors and Gulf Coast brethren
Be safe all ?
The slower this monster is in the Gulf, the more water it absorbs. This is going to be awful. Pray for us!
The remnants of hurricane Nora expected to hit AZ Tuesday:
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/eastern-pacific/2021/hurricane-nora
Watch Fox 8 live New Orleans
https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/28/watch-fox-8-live/