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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: CatDancing
Date: August 29, 2021, 4:58 pm
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Prayers and all good wishes for y'all's safety.
{{{hugggs}}}
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: oreally
Date: August 29, 2021, 5:41 pm
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Thank you! I was way off. Looks like it's something like 1:00 AM
when I get the eye of the storm.
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: Queenie
Date: August 30, 2021, 6:48 am
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How are you southern peeps doing?
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: Heron
Date: August 30, 2021, 11:55 am
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I suspect our folks who were in Ida's path are preserving their
electronic devices' batteries as best they can, since they
likely don't have electricity today.
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: Queenie
Date: August 30, 2021, 12:15 pm
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When an entire city is without power, how long do you suppose it
will be before the food runs out?
I'm sure that there are generators in a bunch of places. What I
don't know is how many, how much fuel they have, whether there
is more fuel to buy when they run out, etc.
I hope that enough roads are passable that emergency supplies
can get in.
I have vivid memories of not thinking Katrina had been all that
bad in terms of deaths, etc and that turned out to be because
things were so bad that the news of how bad it was couldn't
spread very fast.
Anyway, I certainly hope that things are at least passable for
the maximum number of people affected by the storm.
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: August 30, 2021, 1:36 pm
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> When an entire city is without power, how long do you suppose
it will be before the food runs out?
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Under normal circumstances (so, now), FEMA has already
stockpiled goods in the general region. They'll still need to
distribute further, but there is food and water that should be
available PDQ.
Of course, this presumes FEMA has been able to recover from the
previous admin's devastation. I've got a friend who works on
rapid response deployment, they spent the past four years
pushing back loudly. It's not a waste of money to stockpile, and
it's not something that can be pushed off until next year ::)
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: Queenie
Date: September 1, 2021, 6:56 am
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I hope they can get supplies in soon.
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: guest33
Date: September 1, 2021, 7:13 am
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> I hope they can get supplies in soon.
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It is well know in hurricane country, that you are on your own
for 48-72 hrs after the storm passes. That is why you stock up
on bottled water and canned food in June.
My area, after Irma, some people didn’t get power back for 10-14
days after she passed. And we only had sustained winds in the
70s.
Remember lots of rural areas are on wells. The well pump runs
on electricity, so no water at all unless you hook up a
generator. Which is why we collect buckets. So they can be
filled ahead of time, so you can at least flush.
Trucks carrying supplies can’t get in, en masse, until the roads
are cleared. That takes time.
Trucks can’t cross bridges, until the bridges are cleared as
safe, and that takes time.
They do a lot of staging before hand, I remember when we left,
seeing trucks carrying lots of electrical poles down I 75 for
staging. But these trucks can’t move until the roads are
cleared. Since Ida blew up so quickly, there was less time to
stage everything.
Another thing, yes it is miserable after a storm moves through,
but Verizon, for example sets up stations where they have it
cooled and have free WiFi there and people can charge devices.
But again this takes time to set up.
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Re: Hurricane Ida
DIR By: Queenie
Date: September 1, 2021, 6:48 pm
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Here's something you don't see every day.
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