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Most Likely Mega-Disaster to Occur

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Gatorubet;1919456; said:
Nutria. The generator - she is full of gas, cher - no?
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i don't have a generator.

my yard is prone to flooding for hurricanes.
like right up to my door sill (never in the house so far).
so i ain't running nothing that produces electricity when that shit happens.


according to the latest map, i think my house will be safe.
assuming they open Morganza to 50% capacity, I'm in the 0-5 foot range.
5 foot above sea level would give me about a foot to spare.
which is more clearance than any of the 3 hurricanes that flooded us since I moved into this house back in '01.


plus, the way my neighborhood is set up will work in our favor for this one (not so much for hurricanes though).
3 of our 4 stations pump from the town into the marsh that leads directly to the gulf. As long as the pumps can keep up, we'll be ok. Since it's supposed to be a very slow rising flood, our pumps stand a puncher's chance at least.

Now the office where I work is a different story.
the pumps that empty that bowl flow out into the marsh from which the flood will be coming.
the floor of our building is right at the projected crest of the flood. so that one will be CLOSE.
and the road leading to it is a good foot (maybe more) below the level of our floor. so we won't be operational for a while if that happens.
 
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Nutriaitch;1920571; said:
gator, you hearing anything about how opening the Morganza would affect Hwy 90 and/or I-10 heading west?
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[Mark May] Nute, 90 will flood on a T.S. Southwest wind and a little rain. I can't imagine it being passable. And I can't see I-10 overpass not being high enough at the Atchafalaya - although I wonder at I-10 between Ramah and Grosse Tete - that could be flooded. I'm writing off 190 at Krotz Springs in my mind, poor bastards.

Sand boils starting to appear in Red Stick, so the powers that be in the Capital will not hesitate to send that [Mark May] down to you ASAP. I see sooner rather than later.

You gonna sit tight my friend, or go enjoy the cosmopolitan delights of Crowley? :p
 
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Gatorubet;1920642; said:
[Mark May] Nute, 90 will flood on a T.S. Southwest wind and a little rain. I can't imagine it being passable. And I can't see I-10 overpass not being high enough at the Atchafalaya - although I wonder at I-10 between Ramah and Grosse Tete - that could be flooded. I'm writing off 190 at Krotz Springs in my mind, poor bastards.
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I'm supposed to be driving to Houston 1st week of june.
just hoping I don't have to go all the way to Canada before I can start heading west.

Gatorubet;1920642; said:
Sand boils starting to appear in Red Stick, so the powers that be in the Capital will not hesitate to send that [Mark May] down to you ASAP. I see sooner rather than later.

You gonna sit tight my friend, or go enjoy the cosmopolitan delights of Crowley? :p
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if the projections stay like they are, I'm not going anywhere.
still playing the waiting game right now.
 
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BUCKYLE;1920930; said:
This isn't happening in the North, right?

Seems gator and I have different definitions of the words "mega" and "disaster".
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http://www.mvttc.com/news_details.php?id=89 :wink:

The river system that feeds to the mouth of the Mississippi carries barges loaded with imported petrochemical products, construction material and other goods as well as exports such as grain, corn, soybean and coal. More than 60% of all agricultural products exported from the U.S. are shipped through the mouth of the Mississippi.
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Gatorubet;1920939; said:
http://www.mvttc.com/news_details.php?id=89 :wink:
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So basically you're saying that the lower Mississippi folks are screwing it up for the rest of us. You've already driven your plague of seagulls upriver at us, now you're not even going to export our grain?

Just give us back all the topsoil you've leached from us these past few million years and we'll call it good. We can grow enough food to support ourselves until we figure out how to make oil from cow patties.

Right bastards.
 
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knapplc;1921003; said:
Just give us back all the topsoil you've leached from us these past few million years and we'll call it good. We can grow enough food to support ourselves until we figure out how to make oil from cow patties.
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Sure. If you have the weapons to protect it from Idaho.

knapplc;1921003; said:
Right bastards.
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Good luck with that heating oil and coal thing this winter.
 
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Gatorubet;1921027; said:
Sure. If you have the weapons to protect it from Idaho.
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Shouldn't be a problem.


Gatorubet;1921027; said:
Good luck with that heating oil and coal thing this winter.
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We get our coal via rail from our slave mines in Wyoming and Colorado. So what if we have a little black lung disease? Living past 40 is overrated.

But we won't be sending you any ribeyes anymore, if that's how you're going to be. And corn. Consider yourselves cut off from corn. And milo. And soybeans. And flyover space. And great yawning expanses of nothing. We'll never share those again.

So there.
 
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Gatorubet;1921025; said:
If you read the original thread post it helps. The Mississippi from Baton Rouge to the Gulf could dry up.
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Personally, I think the gubberment will spend tens of billions of dollars and pour a concrete channel to keep the lower Mississippi flowing right where it is before they'll allow it to switch deltas over to the Atchafalaya.

There isn't a politician in DC that isn't getting something from Big Oil or Big Agra. I just don't see how anyone would allow it to happen.

Of course, it may happen. But the feds will *fix* it. I don't know what the numbers wind up being exactly, but I have to think that when it's all said and done, it'd be cheaper to move the Mississippi back to where it is than to move the refineries, casinos, and deep water ports.
 
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