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Louisiana is drowning

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Aug 13, 2016.

  1. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    "Misunderstood." ... Right!
     
  2. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Good post Albert. It's unfortunate the media that should be telling these stories, and the stories about what's going on in Italy, have election year tunnel vision.
     
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  3. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Spoke with a friend who coaches at Southern and he said several of the athletes on the team lost their homes, but the whole team has been chipping in and helping wherever possible. It's going to be a long recovery process, especially for those who lost everything.
     
  4. studthug12

    studthug12 Active Member

    She swiped right
     
  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    And now there's the possibility of a hurricane or tropical storm swinging up that way late next week. Perfect.
     
  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Hurricane is coming ashore in Florida right now. Looks like The Weather Channel is only network covering it.
     
  7. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    A majority of Floridians don't even know places like Perry, Crawfordville and Cedar Key exist.
     
  8. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    Lower Alabamans do.
     
  9. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    That's my neck of the woods. Friend just texted - magnolia tree in neighbor's yard crashed down.

    EDIT: And she just sent me photos of the tree that crashed through her kitchen.
     
    Last edited: Sep 2, 2016
  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Second verse:

    New Orleans has already flooded twice in the last couple of weeks, including Saturday when parts of town got up to nine inches in a few hours. After a few days of insisting that all the pumps were functioning properly, the Sewerage & Water Board, a breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt body even by the standards of Louisiana government, keeps having to go back and admit more and more pumps were out of order.

    It wasn’t even a hurricane, but heavy rains flooded New Orleans as pumps faltered

    Now things are looking dramatically worse. After a Wednesday night fire took out a turbine, the whole system is down to its last source of backup power, which won't allow it to run at full capacity. You can guess what today's forecast is like.

    Landrieu: There was no backup for S&WB power system
     
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