CentralNJSnowman Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said: Hearing these reporters telling you to make sure you boil your water due to a boil water advisory and then seconds later say how so many people still have no electricity is just really funny. You can't boil water without power unless you have something that can heat up water like propane tanks etc which not everyone has If you have a gas stove + matches/lighter, you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said: Hearing these reporters telling you to make sure you boil your water due to a boil water advisory and then seconds later say how so many people still have no electricity is just really funny. You can't boil water without power unless you have something that can heat up water like propane tanks etc which not everyone has umm you can always get a pot and start a small fire it wont take long for the water to boil all you need is a lighter dry branches might be hard to find but theres always something around 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of OT Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, ineedsnow said: umm you can always get a pot and start a small fire it wont take long for the water to boil all you need is a lighter dry branches might be hard to find but theres always something around I take it you don’t live in the projects, or really any area where people live in apartment buildings. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, ineedsnow said: umm you can always get a pot and start a small fire it wont take long for the water to boil all you need is a lighter dry branches might be hard to find but theres always something around Or put a big pot on a grill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psv88 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Scenes of complete structure failures, clear cat 3 winds over land. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jac_not_in_dc Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 https://www.wwltv.com/video/weather/water-rescue-crew-says-flooding-in-lafitte-is-highest-its-even-been/289-0947a3c0-914a-4a30-8767-2d22e1a19639 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, psv88 said: Scenes of complete structure failures, clear cat 3 winds over land. You do have a lot of tin roofs, especially in the more rural areas which make those buildings more vulnerable. However, the videos are I have seen from chasers so far have shown significant structural/roof damage in Lafourche Parish from Lockport southeast as well as in Houma (all those areas saw the eye wall). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamTraveler Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 20 minutes ago, ineedsnow said: umm you can always get a pot and start a small fire it wont take long for the water to boil all you need is a lighter dry branches might be hard to find but theres always something around 10 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: Or put a big pot on a grill. A lot of people living in apartments don't have a yard to do that and if they do it outside risk getting fined or accidentally starting fires. People like that don't have things like grills either. It's easy to not realize how terribly off some people are if you don't live in their shoes. Some are completely screwed here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of OT Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 “Just go to Costco and buy propane 4head” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 We’re getting raked by a band right now. Extreme rain and 35mph wind mixing down.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Weather Monger Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 29 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said: A lot of people living in apartments don't have a yard to do that and if they do it outside risk getting fined or accidentally starting fires. People like that don't have things like grills either. It's easy to not realize how terribly off some people are if you don't live in their shoes. Some are completely screwed here. Why would anyone need to boil water when clearly responsible people who choose or have no choice bit to ride out a hurricane surely have at least three days of drinking water in their hurricane preparedness kits? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 25 minutes ago, NavarreDon said: We’re getting raked by a band right now. Extreme rain and 35mph wind mixing down. . These bands are going to be very problematic throughout today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cheese007 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Full day over land and still a TS. Impressive stuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jm1220 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 3 hours ago, CentralNJSnowman said: If you have a gas stove + matches/lighter, you can. Gas appliances are rare down south, it's mostly electric stoves. For those who do though-great. Thankfully the levees held in NOLA. Them being repaired/rebuilt recently I'm sure helped. The western suburbs though look horrendous. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 28 minutes ago, jm1220 said: Gas appliances are rare down south, it's mostly electric stoves. For those who do though-great. Thankfully the levees held in NOLA. Them being repaired/rebuilt recently I'm sure helped. The western suburbs though look horrendous. This is one of the things even I as a weather hobbyist didn't fully realize until I came down here, the difference in impacts in only a few miles is wildly different. I remember going out to Folly Beach last year during Isaias and the difference in conditions between my house and Folly (20 miles as the crow flies) was astounding. Went from cloudy with a slight breeze to 50 mph winds and roaring seas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, nwohweather said: This is one of the things even I as a weather hobbyist didn't fully realize until I came down here, the difference in impacts in only a few miles is wildly different. I remember going out to Folly Beach last year during Isaias and the difference in conditions between my house and Folly (20 miles as the crow flies) was astounding. Went from cloudy with a slight breeze to 50 mph winds and roaring seas. I was in Myrtle Beach for Isaias, and granted, it wasn't much of a hurricane and really only started to strengthen as it neared our area, but I realized that for most hurricanes, the area right around the eye experiences really bad weather and everyone else is generally ok. Even in terms of surge, seas were up but nothing crazy and then as the eye came very close, the surge came in, not that it was that bad. Our worst winds from that storm were probably from a couple of outer bands that actually hit us earlier in the day. We were just outside the western eyewall, and it didn't have much with it. The northern eyewall ran into Wilmington and was actually pretty strong when it hit there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Windspeed Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Interesting thing about those horrific photos of Grand Isle is that this location was actually just outside the core in the moat between the inner and outer eyewalls for much of the landfall event. They did get hammered by the outer eyewall for a time. It appears that Ida had a large radius of hurricane force winds well NE of the eyewall and unfortunately the photography is confirming that aspect of the TC. By no means intending to downplay the impact there, but perhaps as bad as these images are, it could have been even worse had Grand Isle received the brunt of the inner eyewall, essentially what Port Fourchon experienced. Whoever stayed and survived got lucky. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Does anyone have some of the best videos that depict the high winds as they happened? I looked on Youtube but it is full of news clips and damage pictures but I wanted to save some of those incredible videos that you guys were talking about yesterday. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of OT Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, GaWx said: Wow the sheet metal is insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 A+ Forecast dating back to Thursday. https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-hurricane-idea-verification.html 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 One thing I’ll say- though that’s a lot of damage in Grande Isle, that’s not nearly the surge damage I had expected for being in that location. Some houses clearly did get washed away, but not nearly what you’d expect from a 15 foot (predicted) surge. Good news on that front. Still the town looks like a complete mess and I’m sure every property has moderate to severe damage. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 38 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: A+ Forecast dating back to Thursday. https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-hurricane-idea-verification.html Great job!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 hour ago, nwohweather said: This is one of the things even I as a weather hobbyist didn't fully realize until I came down here, the difference in impacts in only a few miles is wildly different. I remember going out to Folly Beach last year during Isaias and the difference in conditions between my house and Folly (20 miles as the crow flies) was astounding. Went from cloudy with a slight breeze to 50 mph winds and roaring seas. My brother lives in Lake Worth, FL and was there for Dorian. It's insane (lucky) how he had some gusty showers pretty much but 100 or so miles east over Grand Bahama Island was annihilated. The PBI to MIA stretch is incredibly overdue for a bad one and the check will come due soon. Once north of NC hurricanes completely change to much more broad impacts. The worst of Sandy was actually 100 miles N of the center. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said: One thing I’ll say- though that’s a lot of damage in Grande Isle, that’s not nearly the surge damage I had expected for being in that location. Some houses clearly did get washed away, but not nearly what you’d expect from a 15 foot (predicted) surge. Good news on that front. Still the town looks like a complete mess and I’m sure every property has moderate to severe damage. It's early but I am not entirely sure if that 12-16 ft surge verified, and if it did it seems like it was mostly over uninhabited areas. Highest report I saw was about 10 ft Laplace. Obviously, am open to be proven wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, MattPetrulli said: It's early but I am not entirely sure if that 12-16 ft surge verified, and if it did it seems like it was mostly over uninhabited areas. Highest report I saw was about 10 ft Laplace. Obviously, am open to be proven wrong. It did in grand isle. Water topped Humphress's cam and it was 14ft ASL. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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