watchin the news and seein that isidore is hittin land right now.....hope everyone gettin screwed by that b!tch is bein safe......protect your L's!! The storm.......she's a comin.....

 

It's only the outer bands of rain right now. I hope MRBBQMAN takes care, he's in New Orleans ya know.

 

The overcast reaches all the way up here. And I see
we are getting rain and rain on Thursday and Friday ...

You guys and gals in LA hang on tight to your trucks!
She is supposed to hit at New Orleans on Thursday.

 

Yep, I'm in New Orleans right now.

Not too bad yet. Strong Gusts of wind, etc.

Not sure where to park my truck though... High chance my carport is gonna fall over. So I got it between my house and my neighbhors. hrmmm... Might make a run for a local garage.

Maybe if my truck gets blown away, then I'll get some money for it and be able to buy an L

 

Yeah its not too bad. Its not raining hard by me, but it is constant. Im glad that they let us off of school!!!!

 

Trust me, do not underestimate a Tropical Storm or Category I hurricane. Nawlins is already below sea level isn't it? I hope the storm moves through quickly(less rain in each area).

Here on the coast of N.C. we are starting to get a little concerned about the other two storms. They have some serious potential, hopefully they will head to sea!!

 

that the eye of that storm is aiming to hit just west of the mississippi river. what that means is that the river's flow will be restricted or even slightly reversed and there will be no drainage out of the already below sea level city. this could get bad...really bad. and what really pisses me off is that I was going back to the dragstrip tomorrow!! DAMN THAT ISADORE.

 

I believe I heard our pumping system can handle the water from a Category 3 hurricane.

We are a lot better prepared than when other storms came through... of course, I'm not that prepared. Tomorrow I'll have to make a run for beer and beef jerky, then I'll be set for a few weeks.

 

The pumping stations can handle 2" of rain every hour. New Orleans has the best flood control in the world. that is for places that are at or below sea level. i live right by the lake, so my house is actually about 6' above sea level, so It never floods by my house. And we have the 20' levees to protects us from the lake.

 

Please be careful my Cajun brother/sisters.
Hope all that happens is you get a "little" wet

 

If I see a news clip of a real darned shiney truck floating down the street, I'll think of you Intel486.

I believe I'll wait a bit before checking out Nawlins.

Best of luck to yall out there.

Rocks

 

can say anything about houstons flood plain, look what allison did

 

Actually, mine would be the picture of the shiney truck smashed by a POS carport Bring it on wind!

In the may of like 95'? flood water here came up to the edge of my front porch and right at the edge of the backdoor. It was basically right below the top edge of my slab.

Hopefully we won't be seeing any flood water like that though.

 

Hello lightninkid,

Houston???? I lived there when I was a kid. Actually I lived in stinkadena. I remember a couple of tropical storms comming in out there that would flood us out of our house. It seemed like a couple times a year we would have to clean mud off our floors. As a kid we got a kick out of playing in the Bayous, but I am sure our parents didn't see it as fun.

Welcome to the forums, by the way.

Intel, I put some pics of my truck in my gallery...no swirls.LOL

Rocks

 

Hey Rocks,
thanks for the welcome. yeah it seems every other moth we have to clean up our city from some type of flood. But i LOVE HOUSTON!! i would not move. Man i remember when we could play out side in the flood w/o some old person sayin get out your gunna catch some thing.