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MARS oil platform is having "issues". Hurricane hitting directly on the LOOP. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform, where pipelines go out to the gulf and an load/unload tankers offshore. One offshore rig had problems with it's BOP (Blow out preventer) during their shutdown. No further word on...

Most all structures on Grand Isle are camps and people know they are subject to often washing away or heavy flooding. It's a place to surf fish and spend a few days at a camp mostly. Pumps in New Orleans are going down due to lack of power one by one. No backup of course after billions and...

EMS suspended until further notice in New Orleans.

Waiting to see a truck hit with a lawn chair at 100+ mph. Bottom one guy just went through Golden Meadow I think. It was Golden Meadow and he drove into Lockport he finally said. Golden Meadow was easy to pick out from the bridge they have. Surprised he didn't get a speed ticket while sitting...

Local news out of Baton Rouge and New Orleans almost totally shut down since last night. Just updates on school closures and shit lol. But yeah man has always and probably always will leave near water/coast. Overwhelming percentage of Americans live within I think 2 hours of a coast or...

The big thing for most people in a hurricane is long term power outages that go on forever. Even 150 miles inland or more you can go weeks with no power, everyone you know has no power, and every store you normally go to has no power. I lived 3 hours north of Houston and Rita did a number on me...

Mobile, AL already getting tornado watches. Rain predictions, difference between good side and bad side of a hurricane. I used to live for a short time just south of Hammond almost on the lake in Ponchatoula, LA. I can't imagine that much rain. They took it bad during Katrina.

Power starting to go out in New Orleans. Saw the west bank was having some large outages. Found some traffic, I-55 just north of the LA/MS border. Went to McDonalds to get breakfast. I-55 traffic was light, next door is a truck stop. Pretty heavy traffic getting gas and most had a LA licence...

Mom went to the store this morning and just got back of all things. Said it was a great time to go to the store. Only 6 people in the store. Nobody on the road and she went under I-55 and it was totally clear just over an hour north of New Orleans. Said they had everything including ice, but no...

Looking at Baton Rouge traffic. All traffic flowing I-10 west out of town at 60-75mpg, Same for I10 East. I55 North out of Hammond is 70+ and cams show clear nearly everywhere. Of course at this point where in the hell are you going to go. Predicted here shows winds of 70mph and rain of 6"...

160mph now. Showed a pic of I-10 at the LA/TX Border and it was bumper to bumper crawling along. Rain in New Orleans now. Edge just hitting Baton Rouge and Gulfport MS right on the gulf. Next update they expect cat 5. Not as large phsyically as Katrina was is one plus.

Storm picking up rotation speed and pressure dropping pretty fast now.

Bourbon street on a Saturday night.

1008 mb "extrapolated" at sea level now. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/

Coon Ass engineering. Breaux Bridge obviously near the spillway.

Turn is going to put New Orleans and Baton Rouge on the bad side. A lot of New Orleans is going to come down to the levees and the new storm surge wall go. Baton Rouge is already heavily sogged down. First half of the year they got 48" of rain when the entire year they average 60". Fully expect...

Where it's headed is the swampiest of areas except right for the southwest portion of the state where there is like 250 people in an entire parish, just duck hunting. If you look at an aerial photo/sat photo there it's all canals put through the swamp from the oil industry over decades. Still...

They are accurate a day before hand. If you wait till a day before very very hard to leave due to a couple million people trying to get gas and travel on the interstate to 300 or more miles away to find a place to stay. During Katrina people went to Memphis, Houston, and San Antonio and could...

Gas stations starting to close from being out of gas. Not easy moving a couple million people overnight 300+ miles. It went from cat 1 which nobody leaves for to cat 4 from the morning to afternoon.

Gets moving. Also as gets pointed out in this thread often. A number of people will stay because they figure by end of day it will change direction 10 times in the predictions and not hit anywhere near them or not near as strong. People have seen it often in their life and just shrug. Lower MS...

A LOT of people as mentioned that will never work. The largest employer in the state of LA now is the university medical center. Which is the new name for Charity hospital in New Orleans. D governor in LA much like during Katrina. There's a reason I haven't lived in LA since I left high school...

As stated it's built there for a reason, unless you manage to move the Gulf and all the Oil infrastructure of south LA good luck. Now living there and building casinos and shit, no idea they can be built anywhere. The french quarter can be built in any rat infested area. The money maker there is...

It went over Cuba, didn't do much to the size.

It wasn't built like that to begin with. The city is sinking the more water the corps pumps out the lower the city gets. Like I said 100 years ago New Orleans was a "town" not a city built for river traffic. There's a reason the low parts are the ghetto of the ghetto. Anyone that can leave did...

Prediction now 4 and 2 by the time it hits Baton Rouge which is where they predict it be now. By noon probably Lake Charles and by 3pm the prediction will be Pensacola if it goes as normal predictions. 100 miles northeast of Baton Rouge power already been off and on twice today. Winds not...

I haven't looked in a while, but 5ish hours ago they were shifting the prediction to the west more toward Lake Charles which got hit hard last year, then move up into East, TX. It's been pretty dry here the last few days. Before two weeks ago it rained everyday. Baton Rouge set a record with 48"...

Prediction down to Cat 3. People always ask why people live down there. I wouldn't. Especially for retail crap that you could work any number of other places. Pre Oil Boom and cars in the US New Orleans was a pretty small/sleepy town. New Orleans is the gateway to the gulf and oil. The largest...

Here's the great wall project they built, found it. It's a big, near project. If it works.

The Corp of engineers spent billions making a new steel sea wall sunk interlocked together sunk down like 80 feet. 8 miles long, 150' deep and largest surge barrier in the world according to the video I linked below. The corps is not well liked in Louisiana. 50% of the things they have done turn...

Generators.

Mandella effect.

The good news is act 1 got easier this league. Oh wait it didn't, it got harder. Seemed odd to frontload the changes to the first thing a new player hits instead of toward the end.

Reddit keeps talking about the "vision" seen how that went in a game before.

https://nerdist.com/article/lab-grown-brains-have-eyeballs/

My small oil company service ETF for pipelines and drilling is gree today, that's it.

Been a LOT more entertaining to watch if they took out Chris's knee and watched him roll around while say "Damn that hurt didn't it?"

I only look at reddit every few months, maybe right before a league. The Chris "walked on water" is still pretty large over there. In a ways it's almost bipolar.