Oil-Storm huh? I guess I missed it.

I saw "The Day After" but, a real storm came through, and the power failed. I was in the 8th grade. I just purchased the DVD a few months ago- and now, 22 years later, I can finish it.

What was it about? What's a hurricane got to do with it?

 

I watched about 20-25 minutes. When I started punching holes through the storyline presented I got bored. The actors reminded me of the trailor park occupants you see on COPS.

Uh, last year Louisana was hit with a Cat 4 hurricane anybody remember Hurricane Ivan.

 

Louisiana was not directly hit by Ivan, I think most of you guys took the brunt of it. One hole I punched in it off the bat was the fact that if that area were to be hit by a hurricane, Port Fourchon wouldnt be directly hit, Grand Isle would be the one to take the direct hit, and granted a lot of the damage there would carry over to Fourchon. The actors werent great, but most of the info. was fairly accurate.

 

If you're anywhere off or along the Gulf Coast, that's a disaster waiting to happen.

Anyone remember that Cat 4 Cat 5 that was about to make landfall in LA in 2002/2003 and. as it approached the coast line, the water was "unseasonably cool" for some reason, and the storm weaken to a Cat 2 just before it made land fall...

They were worried about Avery Island, and Avery Island is well inland, comparatively speaking... In fact, any storm from the Gulf, even a straight shot, would have to cover 20 - 40 miles of land, and/or Marsh Island before Avery Island, and all the Tabasco sauce was lost...

The one I won't forget is Hurricane Elena that made it to within a few miles of Natchez, MS before it became a tropical storm...

Once it dipped to that level, there were no worries... I wasn't on the bridge, and we routinely have Thunderstorms with winds in excess of 60 MPH.. Where I come from, what we fear most about Hurricanes, is the Tornadoes they spin-off.

Anyone that grew up in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama, whether they were alive then or not, knows about Hurricane Camille...

They don't get much more powerful than camille- she was the strongest Cat 5 huricane to strike the US, and she came from out of nowhere.. A small, but intense Hurricane that left Damage more akin to a tornado, than a Hurricane. Nothing but slabs & pipes left where houses & buildings once stood...

Imagine if she had been as big as Ivan, Hugo, or Andrew was...