Tropical Storm Ida- what a *****

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by gacook

Serious question (apologies for any timing faux pas), why do people choose to live in an area that gets destroyed by nature semi-regularly?

Serious question: What would you consider to be an acceptable passage of time between major events?

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[HobieMarty]

Growing up in the Florida panhandle, hurricanes were just part of the scenery, you just dealt with them.

Anywhere you live comes with a price of admission. The left coast has earthquakes and fires, midwest and central states deal with tornadoes, northern states have blizzards, and coastlines have hurricanes... price of admission!!!

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[Bill Douglas]

Doesn't look too good

Hoping for the best for you. Mainly be safe.

[Heel n Toe]

Hope you and yours stay safe. Uncanny in that it's coming at the same time of year Katrina showed up in 2005.

Click on the various selections on the left to get readings on different aspects of Ida:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=25.6;-88.4;5&l=wind-10m

You can also move the view by holding down on your cursor and pushing in any direction.

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by gacook

One of my favorite things about Arizona is we really have no "bad" weather.

You call 116 degrees “no bad weather”. Every place has it’s pluses and minuses.😉

[KFC911]

Earth has bad weather!

Let's move then

Seriously ... hope this doesn't do what it has the potential too.

FWIW.... hope it doesn't follow the path Fred did a week or so ago.... Eastern TN, and some western NC areas were absolutely wiped out by flooding ... devastating, and they don't need another hit.

A few years ago... much of NC east of Raleigh became one big azz lake.

Water is the real killer though the wind speeds get the headlines.

Please stay safe guys!

[flatbutt]

The forecasted surge. Fingers crossed up here for the Gulf.

[slow&rusty]

To our friends in Louisiana, hang in there and be safe. I'll be watching the weather reports and hoping the very best for everyone.

[ckelly78z]

Between a high storm surge, pounding waves, a strong wind, a wind direction change as it moves through, and a foot or more of rain/flooding....move inland if you can for this one, stay safe !

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by masraum

Stay safe, prepare, and if it looks too ugly, get out.

Run from the water, hide from the wind

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by gacook

Thanks, Mark. Louisiana (New Orleans) is one of the primary ones I've always wondered about, along with coastal Florida. They get hit so hard, so often, I've often wondered what keeps people there. One of my favorite things about Arizona is we really have no "bad" weather.

I do wish you well, and hope the storm does minimal damage to your state.

The problem isn't New Orleans. In Katrina, downtown was fine. The issue is the cheap real estate areas where no one should have been allowed to build.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Hope you and yours stay safe. Uncanny in that it's coming at the same time of year Katrina showed up in 2005.

Click on the various selections on the left to get readings on different aspects of Ida:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=25.6;-88.4;5&l=wind-10m

You can also move the view by holding down on your cursor and pushing in any direction.

Not really. This is the peak of the season. The warm gulf water super-sizes these storms. The water in places is 89 F!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by TimT

What a colossally ignorant question...

You might have tried to answer his question instead of going straight into jackass mode.

Hope you all stay safe.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by Norm K

Serious question: What would you consider to be an acceptable passage of time between major events?

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That's a really good question, Norm, and one I probably don't have a good answer for. For me...I'm pretty risk adverse to having my property destroyed, so I'd never live somewhere with much higher than 0 risk. Obviously, others don't think like I do.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

You call 116 degrees “no bad weather”. Every place has it’s pluses and minuses.😉

I won't call you colossal ignorant like others are quick to do...but Arizona is a huge state. Where I live, we rarely get outside the 90s.

[dheinz]

Stay safe everyone who will be affected...

On the other hand, I'm not looking forward to another home owner insurance premium increase...

Flame suit on...

[Instrument 41]

Just came in from Baton Rouge checking on kids, their homes and supplies. I10 West from NO through Baton Rouge is a parking lot. Listening to WWL out of New Orleans, National weather service guru said actual storm surge will be 15 with wave action from 30 to 35 feet. Someone asked him about their location and he said" Leave, because when you get back it will look nothing like you left and your subdivision will never be the same". As of 1 PM its now a Cat 2.

[TimT]

You might have tried to answer his question instead of going straight into jackass mode.

Yea whatever...

According to a quote I heard on CNN while at the gym... this storm has the potential to affect 14 million people along the gulf coast...And unfortunately it appears that the delta is in the bulls eye

Lets ask all those people why they live there..

Or closer to me just last week.. Henri was predicted to make landfall between Sayville, and Southampton, NY.. about 20 miles from my place..

For whatever reason the storm made landfall between Montauk, NY, and Block Island, RI.. over 100 miles from my place

Even though the storm was over 100 miles from me... I still got around 8 inches of rain over two days...

Once Henri made landfall... it kind of petered out and was just a rain event.. Yet it affected millions of people over a large geographic area..

Why do they continue to live there?

Hurricanes are huge, and unpredictable... to ask why people live in the path is stupid.. because you rarely know where the path is, or where the storm will really go and the storm affects people hundreds of miles away..

We know exactly where the San Andreas fault is.. why do people continue to live there?

Some places are pre-disastered

(World According to Garp)

[TimT]

Recent satellite view of the storm.. Looks like it will have an effect from Tallahassee to Houston.. possibly Corpus Christi..

Looks like Savanah, GA might get some weather from this storm...

[HobieMarty]

Stay safe. If you are in this storm's path and haven't left, then it is time to hunker down and hope for the best!!!

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