Hurricane Ida (Tropical Disturbance in GoM, heading towards TX/LA Aug. 2021)

[sheddi]

I got a text from raptor saying "no power, no internet, otherwise all ok".

Pretty much all of New Orleans and surrounding areas look to be without power at the moment. Entergy has 800k+ customers without power. I'm slightly surprised to find that cellphone service is still up.

Daybreak will be fairly soon? We'll start getting pictures from the affected areas once there's enough light for the news crews and other folk on the ground.

[woodsghost]

I got a text from raptor saying "no power, no internet, otherwise all ok".

Pretty much all of New Orleans and surrounding areas look to be without power at the moment. Entergy has 800k+ customers without power. I'm slightly surprised to find that cellphone service is still up.

Daybreak will be fairly soon? We'll start getting pictures from the affected areas once there's enough light for the news crews and other folk on the ground.

In the US, cell phone service has been pretty independent of gird function. My bet is the cell towers have batteries or generators and once those die, then cell service dies.

[flybynight]

Local news is reporting the electric transmission lines leading to the city are damaged

[flybynight]

https://streetwise.nola.gov/

street closures by flooding or debris

[RickOShea]

That storm chaser guy, Reed Timmer, is livestreaming from the Houma area....

I was watching that stream when it dropped out. I was worried that the masonry building he was sheltering behind had fallen on him.

Turns out he wasn't dead after all and came back with this video which is almost as crazy as those Canadians-driving-through-a-wildfire ones were a couple of years ago:

Yeah, I was switching back-and-forth between Timmer's and Aaron Jayjack's streams. They were both sitting in the same parking lot in Houma, waiting for the eye to pass over.  But then Ida made a big jog to the east, and that's when they both had to haul arse about 15 miles to the north east to get back to the eye.



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https://www.facebook.com/ColleenMarieWX/posts/241037191359459

[flybynight]

https://youtu.be/QBMMTA22l8o

[MPMalloy]

This just in from raptor:

All ok nota Katrina i listened to the news reports and what you will hear ia not what i see in nola. At&t is out and internet down. No flooding just a bunch of pita wind damage.

[flybynight]

Hopefully this turns out to be the last major storm of the season.


https://youtu.be/UJR3VVO08A0

[flybynight]

Near as I can see on their web page. Only four waffle house locations closed in New Orleans region

[sheddi]

From what I can see from WWLTV there's a lot of wind damage but less flooding than feared.

OTOH they're reporting that power could be out for three weeks    so Raptor's generators are going to get a good work-out!

[MPMalloy]

Per raptor @ 1005 hrs: 

All ok comms are black hole

[flybynight]

Per raptor @ 1005 hrs: 

All ok comms are black hole

Ask him if there's anything we can do for him.

[MPMalloy]

Per raptor @ 1005 hrs: 

All ok comms are black hole

Ask him if there's anything we can do for him.

Will do; how are you?

[RickOShea]

A bunch of my guys were supposed to leave this morning for Washington-St. Tammany Electric, the same utility we worked at for hurricane Katrina....but right at the last minute our crews were told to "stand-by".

I'm not sure what the situation is. For Katrina we were there for six weeks, with crews rotating out every two weeks. Maybe WSTE already has all they can handle right now, and our guys will go in the second wave.

[MPMalloy]

raptor decamp'd for his farm.  He has grid power, no gas to be had, & he stated he check in here when he can.

FBN:  I passed your traffic.

[flybynight]

Per raptor @ 1005 hrs: 

All ok comms are black hole

Ask him if there's anything we can do for him.

Will do; how are you?

Hurricane free. ( makes sense,Kansas ya know  )  Tired of the heat.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

raptor decamp'd for his farm.  He has grid power, no gas to be had, & he stated he check in here when he can.

FBN:  I passed your traffic.

Good to hear Raptor is ok.

Anyone heard from Blast or Boskone ?

[CG]

raptor decamp'd for his farm.  He has grid power, no gas to be had, & he stated he check in here when he can.

FBN:  I passed your traffic.

Good to hear Raptor is ok.

Anyone heard from Blast or Boskone ?

Blast is tired from working the shelter, but back home.

[MPMalloy]

raptor decamp'd for his farm.  He has grid power, no gas to be had, & he stated he check in here when he can.

FBN:  I passed your traffic.

Good to hear Raptor is ok.  Anyone heard from Blast or Boskone?

Blast is tired from working the shelter, but back home.

I can only imagine how draining that work can be, on a few (or more) levels.

But also rewarding

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

raptor decamp'd for his farm.  He has grid power, no gas to be had, & he stated he check in here when he can.

FBN:  I passed your traffic.

Good to hear Raptor is ok.

Anyone heard from Blast or Boskone ?

Blast is tired from working the shelter, but back home.

Good to hear.

I wonder how Boskone fared. If I remember correctly, he's somewhere near Blast's AO.