Isaac: a blessing in disguise?

[trof]

I live near the Alabama gulf coast and it looks like we dodged the bullet.
And I hope poor ol' NOLA doesn't get hammered again. Got a lot of friends and in-laws in the area.
But this will be the BIG story, probably through the week-end.
Not the repug convention.
I think God hates repugs.

[Danmel]

1. my daughter is in nola

There is no upside to.this

[trof]

10. Good friend's daughter is there.

One of my favorite people. Just talked to her.
She'll make a decision about leaving later this evening.
If she goes, she'll come here.
She is inside the levees and think she'll be OK at this point.
Good luck to your daughter.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. "New Orleans has decided NOT to order an evacuation, trusting the new levees."

says the weather blog.

Dunno how I feel about this, but since I don't live there....

Glad we dodged some of the bullet:

as for Alabama:
"The nightmare scenario of a long-duration landfall I wrote about last night continues. The forecast consensus is that the storm will slow to a crawl near southeastern Louisiana keeping southeast to east winds into the corner between Louisiana and Mississippi, and southerly winds against southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle, for an EXTENDED period of time.

This will continue to push Gulf water over the coast and into Mobile Bay and other inlets for longer than normal in a landfalling hurricane."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/bnorcross/show.html?entrynum=6

[cthulu2016]

2. Ummm.... no.

[meow2u3]

3. Only one good thing can come out of Isaac

Drought relief, especially when (and if) his remnants hit the Plains states and/or the Midwest.

[trof]

11. And maybe raise the Mississippi River?

Many barges stranded because of low water.

[CJCRANE]

4. No. It would've been better to let the Repubs spout their nonsense uninterrupted.

People can make up their own minds.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Another factor for Isaac

it is bringing rain... I know bucketful's is not exactly the best way to get it with parched land... but it is bringing rain.

[HooptieWagon]

6. The ground is so parched,

it may soak up the rain before too much runs of. Hope so, anyway... they need it.

[Junkdrawer]

13. parched ground = flash floods

like pouring water on concrete.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/DN/20120712/NEWS21/307120053

[2pooped2pop]

7. I wouldn't call it a blessing

but is has fucked with the repiglicans for sure.

[Courtesy Flush]

8. Are you new to this?

The worst weather is always east of the eye. If the eye hits New Orleans, then Alabama will get the worst of it. (Keeping in mind that this is not a major storm).

I'm in New Iberia, Louisiana. I could have sat on my front porch through Katrina, but a few weeks later, Rita hit to the west of us, about the same distance away, and we had to evacuate. Clean side/ dirty side.

[trof]

12. New? Not hardly. Been here 20 years.

180 miles from NOLA.
MS coast will get the worst, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass Christian.
We'll get 4-6" of rain, maybe 40-50 mph winds.


Last time I checked this is not even a hurricane, although the TV media are trying their best hype it into one.

You're talking to an old aviator here.
I can read radar, isobars (pressure gradients), wind patterns.
New?
Hardly.

[slackmaster]

9. Ha ha, "Blessing In The Skies"

I get it.