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Originally Posted by TonyMontana
Could submerge New Orleans in 10-15 feet of water.
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I just had supper with some folks that came up to stay with a neighbor. They live right next to one of the levies in NOLA. They were talking about a scenario that the local news was giving that if the storm hits just right it will flood the city and that it could take six months to pump it dry. For those that don't know New Orleans is in a bowl and the city has pumping stations all around that have to pump water out even when it rains hard.
BTW - i just saw on the Weather Channel - Last year's biggest storm (Charlie) was a Category 4 and the storm center (the part of the storm that has hurricane force winds) was 45 miles across. Katrina is a Cartegory 5, the winds are stronger, and it is 205 miles across in the storm center!!! HOLY MOLY!! Plus it's forward movement is real slow so it is just gonna hang around and beat everything to death for alot longer than the storms we had last year.
*edit* these guys from NOLA said the Superdome roof is designed for 130 mph winds - Katrina is 165 mph +