I hope Leslie stays out to sea, because it is 400 miles across and is currently moving under 10 mph. The steering doesn’t look to improve so there will be wave erosion on the East Coast.
Huge slow moving storms are not good for the nerves or storm water runoff systems.
]]>So yes, they’re looking for someone to blame, but the fact that this storm sat there so long piling up water at the west end of the lake is why they flooded. They may be ten feet above the normal level of Lake Pontchartrain, and due to the long distance from Lake Pontchartrain to them (and resistance from the Illinois Central railroad embankment and all that brush in the swampy lowlands) storm surge will normally fall off long before it gets to them, but this time it just kept building and building until LaPlace was underwater. Your comment higher up about “when I was younger storms lasted hours, not days” is probably the difference here… normal storms just go over, they don’t just keep piling acre-feet of water onto the same location for days at a time…
]]>Katrina went to the East of NOLA and Isaac went to the West, so wind directions were totally different, but everyone is looking for someone to blame.
]]>LaPlace is already saying that and has been saying that since Thursday. Lake Pontchartrain flooded in from the back and put six feet of water in their streets. Note that Katrina didn’t do this.
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