There’s not much you can do except hunker down when winds of this scale start hitting the coastline. Hurricane Ida is about to make landfall along the Louisiana coastal region with winds in excess of 150mph. A very strong category-4 storm, with massive storm surge potential. The hurricane force winds (the buzzsaw) are approximately 100 miles wide. Anyone who needs help, feel free to reach out in the comments section, or send us an email and we will do everything we can to assist.
NHC Report – At 1000 AM CDT (1500 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Ida was located by reconnaissance aircraft and NWS Doppler radar near latitude 28.8 North, longitude 90.0 West. Ida is moving toward the northwest near 13 mph (20 km/h). A slightly slower northwestward motion should continue through this evening. A turn toward the north should occur by Monday morning, followed by a slightly faster northeastward motion by Monday night and Tuesday. On the forecast track, the center of Ida will make landfall along the coast of southeastern Louisiana within the hurricane warning area within the next few hours.
Reports from NOAA and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicated that the maximum sustained winds are near 150 mph (240km/h) with higher gusts. Ida is an extremely dangerous category-4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some slight additional strengthening is still possible before Ida moves onshore along the Louisiana coast. (read more)
Hurricanes can be frightening; downright scary. There’s nothing quite like going through a few to reset your outlook on just how Mother Nature can deliver a cleansing cycle to an entire geographic region. If there’s one positive aspect to this storm, it’s the daylight as she makes landfall…. at least it ain’t night.
Telephone and power poles, yes, even the concrete ones, can, and likely will, snap like toothpicks. There’s a sound when you are inside a hurricane that you can never forget.
It ain’t a howling wind, it’s a roar. A damn scary raging roar that just won’t quit….
It will quit… eventually… but at the time you are hearing it, it doesn’t seem like it will ever end.
A constant and pure rage of scary wind that doesn’t ebb and flow like normal wind and storms… hurricane wind just starts and stays, sometimes for hours.
This type of wind is relentless and damn scary. It takes you to that state where you begin to doubt things, it just won’t let up.
And then, depending on her irrelevant opinion toward your insignificant presence, she stops.
Then silence.
No birds. No frogs. No crickets. No sound.
Nature goes mute. It’s weird.
We have no idea how much ambient noise is around us, until it stops.
Oh, if she wants, she’ll keep dumping buckets on you as she wanders away. Buckets. Not pails, garbage can sized buckets. After the scour, yup, nature too has a rinse cycle.
Prayers for all those in Ida’s path.
Pray together, and be strong together. It might sound goofy to some, but don’t be bashful about prayer – it works.
It will be ok.
https://twitter.com/BrotxtMe/status/1432032090455875589?s=20
The eye of Hurricane Allen passed right over my house when I was a kid. That was something to behold.
I was underway doing patrols in the Caribbean when Allen came roaring through. David and Frederick the year before.
Wow.
Have a lot to pray about lately, but added one for those in the path of this storm. Here in Ohio, we get blizzards and ice storms….some pretty hairy things. But always Remember….HE is with you! Always!
Like you Rick I have only dealt with wicked snow storms and the searing heat of the desert.
This hurricane business sounds like the worst of what nature can send our way.
Prayers for all in its path.
I have been watching this live feed from Grand Isle LA all morning. It is absolutely insane. Camera is mounted 7 feet off the ground. It went underwater about an hour ago but is somehow back broadcasting. I hope anyone left on Grand Isle is OK.
https://www.severestudios.com/storm-chasers/john.humphress2.html
Radar images.
https://www.wwltv.com/radar
This cleansing storm is sorely needed in Washington DC.
I wished we could transport that thing right on top of the capital just about time she made landfall.
We need the Congresscreeps to be in DC when it hits though. And much stronger winds and rain. It needs a thorough cleansing.
DC needs a n F-10 tornado.
Yes I realize the scale only goes to F-5.
Hence my request….
Prayers for all experiencing the effects of Ida.
May we all hug and hold our families and friends extra close.
What a beast. Prayers for all in the region…
Please pray for the shrimpers that are riding out the storm on their boats. It’s their entire life and livelihood. Lots of folks depend on these Mariners for an income.
153 MPH WIND GUST! Dash symbolThis from a CAPTAIN ON A SHIP located in Port Fourchon—the same location that HURRICANE IDA made landfall at 11:55 a.m. CDT (12:55 p.m. EDT). ?#ida #HurricaneIda #Louisiana
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveNorrisTV/status/1432064044257665032
If I heard correctly, the main issue here was that it was just a Cat2 until yesterday when it jumped up to a 4. BIG difference and, due to timing, caught people unaware. NO time for mass evac!
ANOTHER trick the JoeBama admin did to confuse us and cause chaos!! LOL!!! Even “Mother Nature” is in on their Agenda.
Why moderation? You didn’t insult anyone or use profanity. I think you need to take into account people who may be new to the community or the elderly who aren’t able to get out there and handle large sheets of OSB at a moments notice. Not everyone’s in the same state of physical conditioning you are.
And I just wanted you to know that you shouldn’t fear moderation. 😉
Many business near the beach here in NE Florida, have big storm shutters that hinge at the top. When open, they are like an awning, and also easy to close. It makes no sense for anyplace that is in the path of a hurricane every few or even several years, not to be fitted up with something. I just don’t get why, it seems, they did not learn anything from Katrina.
Well, to be fair, Katrina is not a good comparison. Not for New Orleans anyway. New Orleans had a relatively minor wind event. The problem with Katrina and New Orleans was that the industrial canal levee broke (most likely from lack of maintenance). This caused Lake Ponchartrain to empty into the cereal bowl depression that is New Orleans. Shutters on windows would have done nothing. However, i do agree that anyone that lives where Hurricanes can hit should definitely have storm shutters. We have accordion shutters on our Space Coast, FL house. Takes about 5 minutes for us to get ready for a storm.
15 nm radius eyewall at 930bar… impressive
there is a secondary system that is now visible on the eastern quadrant of the eye wall.. about 50 nm out…
also impressive this system now has two major hurricane wind level source!,!!!…not too common at this windspeed.
the general interpretation is the storm began a disintegration phase…
the various models are all on consistent concensus this storm will rapidly diminish in windspeed in the next 5 – 10 hours or so
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to about 100 mph..then at the 24 hour mark, down to 40/70 mph.
the rain/ooding is still going to be there, but the high speed winds should start to slow down soon.
grand isle, dulac, cocodrie are the first impact areas… Morgan city and Houma are next up.
there will be some people to rescue in those areas but the culture of awareness is not like new Orleans… very few are acting like fools…most have evacuated.
we anticipate fewer than 1000 people will need emergency evac…and probably due to medical emergencies not necessarily due to hurricane… that’s the general assumption at this time
the last 24 hours the vast majority left this area uniformity, steadily, and orderly…
God Bless America
around midnight the first major search and rescue ops begin..
God Bless America
here is imagery of the secondary system that has formed to the east
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/meso_band.php?sat=G16&lat=29N&lon=89W&band=13&length=30
your self importance tenor is noted.
of course you are right.
just ask you.
As a medical first responder some people have to stay to care for others. Not everyone is a risk taker.
Various web cams available and are showing Real situation, no blabbermouth idiot in a rain suit telling us how they are so smart and we are all going to die.
God I’m so sick of the commie “media”
And, I miss Rush.
Intellectually, some of your points are well taken. And, without a doubt, in recent years, the media’s reporting on extreme weather has become obscene. Suddenly normal heavy rain and snow are always a STORM!!!! etc.
And, as you note, we’ve had hurricanes (and tornadoes and earthquakes, etc) forever. I think those events fall well outside normal weather that the media hypes.
It’s also true there are people who don’t prepare properly and leave themselves more vulnerable for it, though even those who prepare can lose a lot.
I don’t think anyone here is making a case about victimhood.
And I also think CTH is a community where people come to care about each other (as much as one can know who the other person is via a handle on a comment). And it’s also true that a lot of Treepers likely live in the South.
On top of everything, these exceedingly harrowing times that have ramped up feelings of vulnerability, there is a desperate need for good news. The mental and physical exhaustion from all of what’s come at us in the past 18 months is significant compounded by the dread of what awaits.
As to your comment about men chasing the plane instead of staying to fight, it’s easy to sit in judgement from far away. But until someone is in a desperate situation as is unfolding in Afghanistan (the half of which we probably don’t even know, as much as one can ever “know” from far away) a person never truly knows how they’ll react. We can imagine how we might, but until the proverbial shit hits the fan, we don’t know. Most people likely hope they will be brave, but human history shows otherwise.
In any case, everyone “deals” with what comes their way in life, each in their own manner ~ fear, resolve, planning, panic, bravery, etc. This is part of the human condition.
I hope those in the path of this hurricane who haven’t the strength or the means to adequately take care, are surrounded by those who can assist. We know that no matter what, the aftermath is riddled with much loss and sorrow.
On top of so much already.
Excellent comment Sarah.
State of mind and avoiding panic is always important.
I have told this story here before but will repeat it with the patience of long time treepers.
My husband and I were part of search and rescue way way back when citizen teams of volunteers in the country were used a lot because we were young, healthy and owned snow mobiles and had a lot of knowledge of the mountains in our area.
We were given first aid training a bit more training and then called when people were lost during the winter for what ever reason in the mountains in our areas.
So we would set off in teams on our snow mobiles to search for them and hoped for a live rescue.
One time were searching for a man in his late thirties that we were not to terribly worried about because he was ex-military with some survival training and healthy.
We found him stark naked face down (dead) in a small stream.
Another time we were more stressed looking for a man in his late fifties with heart problems that we found comfortably resting under a tree waiting for us.
The only difference we could ever come up with was the younger, stronger man panicked.
I have seen it happen and it can come on people who seem intelligent, sane and civilized.
We never did find the one guys clothes.
It is easy to judge others but when a disaster occurs (life threatening) keeping calm and sensible leaves and it can happen to almost anyone.
An excellent British public information film of ?1970 on Hypothermia featuring a soldier lost in a mountain landscape mentioned that it’s characteristic that people suffering from hypothermia feel warm and tend to discard clothing.
The film seems to be no longer available:
https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/18403
I’m confused. You seemed to be saying that Afghan men were cowards for chasing our plane and are now empathic toward them because we abandoned them.
Anyway, I think you misunderstood some of what I was saying, but it’s not important. We are all very enraged and disgusted. I understand every single point you made in your reply. None of those points were what I was referring to.
I was watching a live cam from Grand Isle, LA.
It wasn’t rain, it was water pouring out of the sky.
Definitely not something I will put on my bucket list! Prayers for all those affected. Let’s pray Biden does not screw this up like everything else. I’ve been near a tornado that produced baseball sized hail and had to go to shelter but was noting like described above.
As the storm makes landfall, and the storm surge sweeps your home away, remember to mask up and get vaxxed!
/sarc off/
no disaster relief for the ‘unvaxxed’ ?
Suggestion for weather app developers here, I Can’t see anything for the weather. The intense colors, covers the boundary lines, and I can’t see them. Using a contrasting color for the boundaries lines, roads and text, to the different color codes would be helpful.
Maybe you are not aware of this, but a LOT of people fr/ hurricane -free areas move down this way every year.
They have no idea how to prepare for ‘canes and, basically, many think because of having gone thru a blizzard up north, they are prepared for whatever.
Having gone thru blizzards, earthquakes, and ‘canes I can tell you that I’d rather go thru both blizzards and earthquakes. >>>>> x 10.
Blizzerd>>> If you’ve got a woodstove, just sit back, safe and cozy inside and enjoy the view out your window. Plus a few other minor preps. Food can be “refrigerated ” by throwing it outside.
It’s pretty basic, and can be a lot of FUN actually.
Earthquakes? Prep once and forget about it. You don’t know when they’ll hit, anyway.
‘Canes? I won’t even go into it. SD has got the pages up.
And people learn new tips as they go along each year. It’s great to share that info w/ others.
Got my taste of that in the Thanksgiving (Canadian) blizzard of 2019 in Manitoba. The winds maxed out at barely cat 1 with the gusts that came over the lake and the destruction was beyond imaging on shore. Almost like a tornado but for miles and miles. Power was gone for two weeks in places. I do recall thinking more than once “and that was just cat 1!” May I never experience a real hurricane.
Bummer tho to have the power go out on Thanksgiving.
Hope whatever food you guys eat was fully cooked beforehand and you had plenty of candles or whatever on hand!
If so, that would qualify as a fun, memorable Thanksgiving!
Rode out Rita and Ike in southeast Texas 2005 and 2008.
Hang in there.
Prayers!
And Harvey in 2017. Prayers for all.
The Cajun Navy and Cajun Army are good orgs to donate to.
For most people, tomorrow they will begin the cleanup, power will be restored in the coming days and weeks, and life will go on.
These folks are accustomed to occasional hurricanes and they will come through fine. My neighbors got together and we helped each other get back to living somewhat normally fairly quickly, we didnt have to deal with storm surge where I lived, it was mostly a wind event.
Why do we live there? We like it obviously. We just clean up, fix the damage and go on.
If you’re going to live on the coast, this is what can happen, and you live with it.
And the “Chocolate City” mayor wouldn’t evac when there was time, just like Natin, never learned her lesson, and here we are again.
What is it with these black-run cities? Just negligent as hell.
They’re Democrats, that’s what’s with them.
If they were black Repub pols, they wouldn’t be stupid people.
My question is do you think the PTB have the ability to control the weather? Ida seemed to arrive at a particularly advantageous time for them to change the subject. HAARP?
And it’s hitting at that very vulnerable spot again in New Orleans. Will it make us forget about Kabul and the 13 soldiers?
Not me
I am watching live feeds of this hurricane, but my mind and heart is still with our marines and others in Kabul.
I still haven’t gotten over Benghazi, Kabul….even worse.
The talking idiots can try, but too many lives have been changed with the Kabul betrayal. I don’t think they will succeed.
No, we won’t forget because our new jihadi neighbors will remind us.
God is sending a message…… That’s twice in two years for LA. Pay attention New Orleans.
I believe that due to our nation’s decent into and acceptance of sin as a way of life, God has removed His hand of protection from us that our nation enjoyed for most of our history. Hopefully, you weren’t implying that it is something Louisiana or specifically New Orleans has done to warrant a message from God. I believe God is speaking, but it is to the nation and maybe specifically to the followers of Christ that have gotten complacent and failed to be the salt that we were called to be.
“…to the followers of Christ that have gotten complacent and failed to be the salt that we were called to be.”
To the House of the Lord, for sure.
I pray for everyone in the way of this terrible storm, and ask for God’s mercy, protection and comfort to fall upon on all who call on the Lord.
Having the wildfire burning down our necks last week, and then having God open His storehouse of rain and pour water from Heaven to make much of that fire go out, I pray that Jesus will call out to this storm, ‘Peace, be still’ and show His power from Heaven, to His glorious praise.
Praying for you all, no matter where you are.
Now *that’s* a good neighbor!
He gives a phone # to call if you’re sheltering in place and need help.
Not sure what they could actually do at this point, but it’s worth a try if you’re desperate.
We have a fish camp on bayou La Fourche inside the protection levee system. A friend who stayed told us the top floor of the hospital blew off.
In Golden Meadow
Have you ever been to Née Or.eans or that area? There are very many that can’t afford to hurricane proof, especially this big a storm.
ugh.
OK, I get it. A hurricane is one hell of a big thing and if you didn’t plan for it, it can be a life and death situation.
But you know, anyone in that area that didn’t plan…. I always wonder about people who don’t plan.
Out here we got the ground shaking… from experience we can tell a atta rocker from atta roller…. one shakes and you can stand up, the other you gotta sit down and I have seen waves, real waves, on long vertical walls.
And, there is no warning. None. Now, I must say I got some furniture in the house that I really got to nail up to the wall, haven’t done it yet, but it won’t be a life threatening situation… but when we rebuilt the house years ago we made the very expensive point of adding all kinds of upgraded materials and shear walls to allow the house to crack, but not break ( wood framed homes with stucco are really the best kind to resist quakes ). Shut off valves to the utilities, triple bolting to the foundation, that kind of stuff…
So, why is it that people in places where big hurricanes and floods happen all the time, don’t build their homes to withstand it? Roofs, flooding, generators, extra water, shovels, meds… I mean, you people have DAYS of warning.
Lack of $$$ perhaps? Some people barely have enough to eat during the last week of the month.
I’m sorry, but that’s not a very good excuse.
There are things you can do to make sure you are prepared. Otherwise you are giving up on all of your personal responsibility and expect others to help.
OK, so maybe you can go to the local church or local charity and see if they can help you.
The point is to take the initiative, not just sit passively because “life is tough” and give up, expecting others to come to your rescue at the worst (and most expensive) time. Do something while it is easy and cheap to do so.
Human nature! Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
I’m amazed that you’re amazed. YOU are the odd person here. I’m guessing you live in California? Even after all your reinforcing everything about your home to withstand “The Big One”, if you happen to be under an overpass when that big one arrives and you end up flattened like a pancake, those same people who don’t make their homes safe in hurricaneville will shake their heads and wonder why you lived where there are earthquakes!
I admire your attitude. I build things as you do and sometimes wonder the same things.
Wow! It’s sounds like demons being released.
Turn up the volume