Well, the latest news on the latest hurricane this Sunday morning is that Hurricane Ike will probably go over Cuba, weaken some, then enter the Gulf of Mexico, strengthen some, then head towards New Orleans ... but a high pressure system will block it somewhat and turn it towards the west.
It might then parallel the Louisiana coast and go to Texas. Well, who knows??? (See the map from the National Hurricane Center NOAA at left from www.nhc.noaa.gov)
Anyway, we in New Orleans are very, very, very tired of all this. Just too many hurricanes and rumors of hurricanes. Life in post-Katrina New Orleans has been very hard and stressful for the past three years. Having to deal with an endless, nightmarish parade of destructive hurricanes does not help us. Whether they hit us or not, the anxiety and disruption they cause when ever the storms come on our radar is unimaginable. New Orleans is not a normal city. Most of it, but not all of it, lies below sea level. In some cases 8 to 10 feet or more below sea level. So, in order to survive, we need barrier islands at sea to act as windbreakers, marshlands or wetlands south of us to act as sponges to sop up the storm surge, and, of course, levees all around the city. Hurricane Katrina all but wiped out the barrier islands. The wetlands have been eroding over many years. And you saw what happened to the levees on CNN. So, unless we fix the barrier islands, the wetlands, and the levees, all we have left are prayers and luck to protect us.
-- Adrian
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It's unimagineable what citizens of Nola have been through. And continue to go through. God bless and keep you all.
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