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Gustav update: Grand Isle flooding

Louisiana flooding widespread.. Officials viewed Grand Isle flooding today via helicopter.. Grand Isle took on massive flooding.. A report yesterday that seven people were still on overwashed Louisiana island.. Developing.. And cleaning up..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/02/2008 07:45:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post

All the news unfit to print for Monday, September 1, 2008


WE'RE THE WIVES FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND WE'RE HERE TO HELP


Move over Jerry Lewis! The would-be Republican convention has turned into a telethon.. Laura Bush and Cindy McCain lead the appeal for donations after Hurricane Gustav.. They appeared Monday night at an abridged version of opening night of the Republican Convention for the fundraising effort.. Delegates are also putting together comfort packages filled with supplies for hurricane victims..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 09:58:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


Out of the woods? Try JUST ENTERING THE WOODS..

Just as Gustav winds down into a power storm, minus the hurricane title, residents will assess the damages--once they can get back home.. And while major disaster seems to have been averted at this hour in New Orleans, there are other storms coming.. Hanna poised to strike the United States before the end of this week (Republican convention begins with a storm and ends the same way?) Focus will then shift to Ike.. Some fearful forecasts put Ike near the Gulf of Mexico next week.. Another potential exists in the Atlantic for development, just off the African coast..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 09:52:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


Still watching NEW ORLEANS, but they may have dodged the bullet with Gustav..


People walk along the Industrial Canal flood wall in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, September 1, 2008. REUTERS/Dave Martin
Major damage taking place in Western Louisiana .. Mississippi officials said a 15-foot storm surge flooded homes and inundated the only highways to coastal towns devastated by Katrina .. As far as the levees in New Orleans: Col. Jeff Bedey, commander of the Corps' hurricane protection office, said, "We are seeing some overtopping waves. We are cautiously optimistic and confident that we won't see catastrophic wall failure."

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 02:42:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


2:30 UPDATE

Gustav is near Morgan City, Louisiana.. Levees overtopped in New Orleans--but not breached.. Roads flooded.. Grand Isle hit hard.. Various tornado warnings from Florida panhandle though Louisiana.. Fears for East Texas, as storm may stall out.. New hurricane threatens Mid-Atlantic late this week: Hanna.. NWS carefully studying system in Atlantic forming.. would be Ike.. Oil prices fall as Gustav weakens..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 02:31:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


Water levels cause stress on levees; still no breaches reported; so far, Industrial Canal levee not compromised

Big waves crashing over Industrial Canal in New Orleans.. Winds still coming out of the South .. Army Corps of Engineers concerned about the water level .. Levees stressed but not compromised..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 01:27:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post




AP PHOTO
SO FAR SO GOOD: LEVEES CONTINUE TO HOLD, PROTECTING NEW ORLEANS FROM DISASTER


Developing..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 12:23:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


ALL EYES ON THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL: LEVEES STRESSED -- BUT HOLDING

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 11:45:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


FOX NEWS: COAST GUARD MAY HAVE SAVED NEW ORLEANS

Shepard Smith reporting that Coast Guard have secured the barge that was floating freely in Industrial Canal in New Orleans..

Developing..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 11:32:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


PRAYERS FOR NEW ORLEANS..

FOX NEWS REPORTING: 2 boats and a barge loose in Industrial Canal! One bumping into city sewer and water system! Various networks showing live footage of water overtopping levees.. --BUT NOT BREACHING..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 11:18:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


New Orleans Local coverage

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 11:12:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


GUSTAV: LANDFALL

Landfall of Gustav near Cocodrie, Louisiana..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 11:05:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


Gustav = A Little Relief for Republicans?

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are not going to address the Republican convention *if they have one!* And privately many Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief.. the Politico reporting that Bush's decision to pay attention to Gustav is saying the GOP an 'awkward moment'..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 10:44:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


Reports: Levees in New Orleans being overtopped

FOX NEW'S Shepard Smith said that at least one levee wall in the Ninth Ward is being topped at this point ..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 10:28:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


REPORTS: GRAND ISLE FLOODING


Reports on CNN: The Gulf of Mexico is covering Grand Isle.. CNN's reporter covering Grand Isle, Ali Velshi, says he cannot see any land on Grand Isle..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 10:25:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


We don't like Ike


In the midst of Gustav, perhaps this will be hurricane overload: But forecasters are closely studying a tropical depression forming between Africa and the Lesser Antilles.. A few forecast models show this storm traveling to the Gulf of Mexico..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 10:16:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


FEMA OFFICIAL SAYS GUSTAV WILL OVERTOP LEVEES

Federal Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Harvey E. Johnson said a surge will likely overtop some levees and at least partially flood New Orleans..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 10:14:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


SERIOUS CONCERN OVER LEVEES


The amount of rain that Gustav will produce is causing fear inside FEMA and Homeland Security.. The situation in Louisiana is dire.. Grand Isle may be in the eye of the storm.. Gustav is tracking a little more Northwest at this hour, staying longer over water--warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing it to keep its strength pretty steady over the past few hours.. Gustav is going to be a massive rainmaker.. Concerns this Labor Day 2008 over levees that may break...

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 09:48:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


9:41 UPDATE

Tornado warnings all across the Gulf Coast from the Florida panhandle back to Texas.. Hurricane force winds in a widespread area across New Orleans.. Gustav downgraded to a Cat 2 storm (however, please remember, 115 MPH was a Cat 3, Gustav is now at 110 MPH, so a Cat 2 is NOT a huge difference).. Various cities across the Gulf, including the city of New Orleans, is watching and praying that their levees hold. New Orleans is not getting a direct hit, but instead is on the Northeast quadrant of the storm.. People of Grand Isle are worried about a storm surge..A possible high storm surge.. The most frightening impact of this storm: Forecasters are studying computer guidance that this storm is about to slow down and stall out.. possibly over Louisiana.. This could get bad, even with it being a Cat 2

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 09:41:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


GUSTAV STATUS.. PATH GFDL model.. Watches/warnings New Orleans cameras.. Gustav news wire.. Gustav photo wire.. Radar.. * * * * The Red Cross.. Habitat New Orleans.. Salvation Army.. Developing..

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posted by schmuckraker @ 9/01/2008 02:00:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post

All the news unfit to print for Sunday, August 31, 2008


11:30 WRAP..

The big three, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, and CNN have gone wall to wall with Gustav coverage.. The main focus of the nets appears to be on New Orleans. Advice of experts appears to have been heeded.. Officials say that 90% of the townspeoples have gone.. Somewhere. Hopefully safe.. Bobby Jindal, Ray Nagin, and George W. Bush have warned of dire circumstances at this critical time before Gustav comes on land.. While people along the Gulf Coast fear what oculd happen once Gustav comes on land, FEMA is eager to show America and the world what it says it learned since Katrina three years ago. Cramming may have paid off.. Other news events at this moment.. 11:30 Sunday night.. Only a few hours before the storm begins to ravage the Gulf Coast:
  • The Gulf Coast: Now it's waiting time..
  • World oil prices already rising..
  • >Gustav losses on scale of Katrina..
  • Hurricane winds may start at sunrise..
  • Defiant few remain in the French Quarter..

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    • posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 11:30:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    GOP convention: Opening night called off due to Gustav

    McCain/Palin convention calls off first day's speeches and events, with the exception of official procedures required under party rules..

    (*Interesting side note: Left-wing political blogs are attacking Sarah Palin's family, saying Palin faked her last pregnancy and point to a photo of her daughter with a 'baby bump in the photo* .. the race could get nasty..)

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 10:28:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    BIG EASY: BIG EMPTY

    Warnings appear to be getting through to people.. Reports say that New Orleans is a ghost town tonight..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 09:35:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    READY THIS TIME?


    AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari
    Bush: "This storm is dangerous"

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 01:27:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    LATEST GUSTAV GUIDANCE FROM THE NWS

    THE NEW GUIDANCE RUNS SHOW A SLIGHT LEFT TURN AFTER 12 HR WITH A LEFTWARD SHIFT IN THE LANDFALL POINT ON THE LOUISIANA COAST. THE NEW FORECAST TRACK WILL NOT FOLLOW THIS SHIFT YET...AND THUS LIES NEAR THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE GUIDANCE ENVELOPE AND THE PREVIOUS FORECAST TRACK THROUGH 48 HR. AFTER 48-72 HR...THERE IS MAJOR DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DYNAMICAL MODELS ON WHETHER GUSTAV WILL RECURVE INTO THE WESTERLIES...STALL OVER LOUISIANA OR TEXAS...OR TURN SOUTHWESTWARD. SINCE THIS KIND OF SPREAD FREQUENTLY PRECEDES SLOW MOTION...THE FORECAST TRACK WILL CALL FOR A SLOW WESTWARD MOTION AFTER 72 HR.

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 11:23:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


    WHITE HOUSE: BUSH AND CHENEY ARE GOING TO SKIP THE CONVENTION

    Other cancellations: Schwarzenegger, Jindal, Rick Perry..

    McCain has been rumored to be thinking of speaking to the convention via satellite.. Perhaps the week will be shortened due to the potential deadly impact of Gustav..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 11:14:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


    LATEST GUSTAV MODELS


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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 03:40:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


    GUSTAV: POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING


    Gustav is winding up in the Gulf.. preparations are underway across the South.. Hurricane hunters watching for signs of the big storm becoming a Cat 5, something that is now expected in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.. Gustav's impact: Tides reaching at least 9-12 feet above normal and winds potentially of Category 3 status, or at least 111 mph, as it slams into the coastline of the Gulf.. Widespread flooding expected.. 6 to 12 inches of rain. .low line areas will be affected by the massive rains .. there will also be isolated tornadoes.. Tonight's hurricane watch statement to New Orleans appears eerily similar to Katrina three short years ago:
    "A POTENTIAL STORM SURGE OF 15 TO 20 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR AND TO THE RIGHT OF LOCATION OF LANDFALL OF HURRICANE GUSTAV. A STORM SURGE OF THIS MAGNITUDE COULD RESULT IN EXTENSIVE FLOODING AND POSE A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS WILL POTENTIALLY IMPACT COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA DURING THE PRE DAWN HOURS MONDAY MORNING AND SPREAD INLAND ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND ACROSS COASTAL MISSISSIPPI MONDAY MORNING. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG PORTIONS OF THE COAST BY MID MONDAY MORNING AND SPREAD INLAND TO SOME AREAS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MONDAY NIGHT"

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 12:47:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


    HAVOC AT THE GOP CONVENTION: WHO WILL ATTEND, WHO WILL CANCEL? McCAIN/PALIN TO GO TO MISSISSIPPI

    The Republican party is set to start its convention Monday--just as Hurricane Gustav (and then Hanna) make major headlines in the Gulf of Mexico.. Tonight, as Governor Bobby Jindal says Gustav could be worse than Katrina and Mayor Ray Nagin is telling New Orleans residents to be 'very scared' of Gustav, questions persist as to who will be speaking at GOP convention.. The POLITICO details a scrambled mess .. President George W. Bush, officials say, will most likely not be at the convention.. There are even plans that John McCain may deliver his acceptance speech via satellite.. According to the POLITICO report tonight, McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 12:35:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post


    Parades across America as New Orleans evacuates

    Three years after Katrina devastated Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas in the South, New Orleans is feeling deju vu all over again. Late Saturday Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, the city most destroyed by Katrina's force in 2005.. And now today, as America celebrates Labor Day weekend with parades and streamers, millions across the South prepare for what could be a will most likely become an intense and dangerous Category 5 hurricane.. Aimed for somewhere along the Gulf Coast.. MORE: Thousands flee powerful storm.. At this hour, FEMA waiting for storm to blow into Cat 5 Destroys parts of Cuba, now in open Gulf water.. * * * Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal warned that Gustav could be worse that Hurricane Katrina three years ago.. Jindal is requesting a 'pre-landfall' disaster declaration..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/31/2008 12:26:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post

    All the news unfit to print for Saturday, August 30, 2008


    CATEGORY 4

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/30/2008 06:30:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    New storm data

    New computer models putting Gustav west of New Orleans..

    Latest radar..
    Storm will be off Southern Coast of Louisiana by 8am Monday..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/30/2008 01:42:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post


    EARLY FORECASTS


    Watching Gustav..
    The forecast for New Orleans next week

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/30/2008 11:18:00 AM  0 Comments Links to this post

    All the news unfit to print for Friday, August 29, 2008


    NEW ORLEANS ON EDGE

    St. Bernard Parish mandatory evacuation could begin at 4 pm Saturday..

    ..the parish's borders would be closed and that no one would be let back in..

    The city of New Orleans.. on edge, three years after disaster..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/29/2008 10:46:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post



    GUSTAV A DANGEROUS HURRICANE; FEARS THAT STORM COULD STRIKE AS A CAT 4

    Today is the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.. As memorial services played out in New Orleans to mark the tragic events of three years ago when the state, local, and federal government all failed, a new storm (and maybe 2) on the horizon is causing fear along the Gulf Coast. And fear, again, three years later, in the city of New Orleans.. Hurricane Gustav, now over open water, is set to explode into a hell storm in the Gulf of Mexico.. Accuweather is predicting that a building high pressure in the United States will force Gustav to Louisiana.. A map tonight on Accuweather shows Louisiana is set to get extreme damage from Gustav.. Henry Margusity wrote today of the 'ultimate disaster' in which two storms, Gustav and Hanna, could strike the Gulf Coast and play havoc with the nation's oil production.. Three years later, New Orleans on edge over Gustav.. Oil Rig insurers brace themselves.. National Guard troops activated.. Offshore oil producers evacuate workers .. The five day cone of possibility for Gustav takes it directly to Southwest Louisiana.. A discussion statement tonight from government forecasters: "DUE TO THE NOTABLE MODEL SPREAD LATE IN THE FORECAST PERIOD...IT IS ONCE AGAIN IMPORTANT TO RESTATE THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT YET POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHERE AND WHEN GUSTAV WILL MAKE FINAL LANDFALL".. THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 1100 PM EDT..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/29/2008 08:02:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post

    All the news unfit to print for Wednesday, August 27, 2008


    Computer models put Gustav dangerously close to New Orleans

    Can it happen again?? Yes. And has before, most likely timeless times throughout history.. New computer models tonight are putting Hurricane Gustav dangerously close to New Orleans.. ...Louisiana has already declared a State of Emergency and has mobilized the National Guard... Weather circles tonight are abuzz over the implications of a direct hit--again--on New Orleans.. ..on the eve of a convention.. ..three years to the week after Katrina.. ....in a state not recovered..

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    posted by schmuckraker @ 8/27/2008 10:19:00 PM  0 Comments Links to this post

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