Hurricanes...

[sabotabby]

The thought that there might not be a New Orleans anymore is too big and apocalyptic to comprehend.

I've never been there. Always meant to go. Hope I'll be able to go, one day. I'm hearing conflicting things about the probable extent of the damage and that some people hadn't been evacuated and can't be accounted for. I feel very trivial right now, sitting safe at work and reading about sheep hearts while the tides are rising.

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

They totally lucked out. New Orleans was merely extensively damaged but not destroyed; the catastrophic swamping of the levees didn't happen, because the storm took a last-second turn to the northeast, and the west edge of the storm eroded when it encountered some dry air. The eyewall missed the city, the storm surge was lower than they were afraid it would be, and the winds a little less.

Dodging a bullet doesn't begin to describe it. I bet people are going to whine about the apocalyptic rhetoric and the mandatory evacuation order, but they were this close to having the city nuked off the map. I'm still stunned they didn't evacuate sooner.

It's still going to cost thirty billion or more to clean up. Andrew might still end up having been a bit worse in dollar terms, but not by much. And oil's going to be near seventy-five bucks for a while, because about half the US's oil production is going to be off-line for some time.

Gulfport and Biloxi, now...

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

You should go, though. Such good food!

[sabotabby]

Good to hear; most of the news I saw over my lunch break looked very dire. It's actually passed now?