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Originally Posted by chummer
Sounds like it missed New Orleans and is now a Cat.2.
Sure doesn't look like "the storm of the century".
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Well yes it "missed" NO directly, but that actually may be a bad deal for them. It landed to the West about 50 miles or so, which means that NO proper is getting the East side of the storm...the strong side. Also a Cat 2 hurricane still packs winds of 110 MPH...this thing is still very dangerous.
There are reports that water is overlapping the levees...which is something they can handle with minimal damage....but there are also reports that the levees have breached UNDERGROUND because of the storm surge and water is beginning to pour into the 9th ward. if so, we could be looking at the same debacle as 2005.
This thing aint over by a large margin.....there will catastrophic flooding inand as Gustav stalls and slows, and hopefully it wont be in any heavily populated areas, but Lafayette and Baton Rouge (both places that many NO'ers went for shelter) look like candidates to get clobbered.