We are 467 miles from Hurricane Ida (hurrah) and I believe we are getting feeder band rains. It pours for 15 or 20 minutes, then stops, and starts again after a while. This is a very serious storm in Louisiana and it has slowed down and is still a very "organized" storm, so the worst may be ahead, with days of rain and flooding, and emergency services hampered from getting to those who need help. It's stronger than Katrina, which parts of New Orleans is still not completely over after 16 years. Keep on praying!!
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Prayed and continue to pray for all those in harms way.....we still have relatives in Walker LA and they had some damage but nothing like when they lived in New Orleans during Katrina....that one ran them out of there after living almost a lifetime in that area.....
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by toogie
edited 31 Aug 2021
A lot of people relocated after Katrina's devastation. I can't blame them. New Orleans is a city below sea level. I guess I'm not as trusting of sea walls....glad your friends are ok. My sister-in-law and family are in Prairieville/Gonzales area. They said the house shook but no damage. I am thankful as BIL has cancer, too.
261163Keep wondering how Toogie and all her family are. I have no experience of what a hurricane is like. Seeing the pictures in the media are scary. From not having experienced a hurricane I have no idea of how wide an area is affected as it goes through or when people are told to evacuate where do they evacuate to? Many, many questions to ask. Take care too
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by graceandham
30 Aug 2021
Most people evacuate until they get to another family member or really good friend. Often the stopping point is when they run out of gas or cash. My church has served as a shelter for Mobile, AL storms and it is about 4 1/2 hours drive in regular, non-evacuation traffic from the city of Mobile. I figure this storm from outer rain bands to outer rain bands on the other side was nearly 1,000 miles wide, but I think the weatherman measures it across the eye (Center) of the storm and this one was not as wide as last year's bad storm that hit Louisiana. Most people die after the eye passes, because of wading through water with a live electrical line while cleaning up or evacuating, because of trees falling on their houses after loosening in soil with 18 hours of rain, heart attacks while running chain saws to remove trees, car wrecks driving through water that was deeper than it looks. And many other reasons. Strange that the dangers come later. Today they are helicoptering people off of roofs, whose houses flooded to the ceiling. You would be correct in saying that these folk who endure these storms are a hardy bunch.
by toogie
31 Aug 2021
You are correct Betsey, some deaths occur afterwards. People have died not running their generators in a well ventilated space, or pointing the exhaust toward an open window. My 'traveling' niece went into her sisters house one time to find she was getting poisoning, because of the fumes. Sister didn't realize backing the truck up to the house, so the electrical cord would reach was causing her headache and disorientation. She was running the welding machine on the truck for electricity.
115749My husband and I have been praying for all who are experiencing the fury of Ida We are experiencing the eastern outer bands and are in a tornado watch until 4pm. And this has only just begun. Ida is still traveling through many many miles inland. So prayers need to continue.
169064Heard on morning television about the strength of those winds being worse that Katrina. Prayers for all our Cute friends to survive this hurricane without too much damage and for no loss of life. Love Chris
234496The reports we heard sounded dreadful with strong sustained winds, not just gusts. Praying for all in harms way.
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