Windy night in the Big Easy

Tropical storm Cindy is passing right over New Orleans as I type this. The lake front aiport is getting gusts to 60 mph in torrential rains. The main airport has gusts to 52 mph. Cindy is a tiny storm though with winds a hundred miles away reported as CALM! Camille was a similar storm. Much much stronger of course. Camille's winds were 200 mph.

Dennis is next in line and if the long range model guidance is right, New Orleans has a much bigger problem on it's hands. This far out a computer projection is cause for interest, nothing more.

Make no mistake about it though. N.O. is living on borrowed time. The city is already below sea level and believe me the sea knows about it. The pumping of oil and water from beneath the ground and the compaction of the Mississippi river sediment that the city was built on bring it a little lower every year.

Every time I visit the French Quarter, I look at those old historic buildings as if I may never see them again. They will be gone some day.

I guess you cannot just up and move a whole city..Well until mother nature does it for you, and that she will eventually do to the big easy. Tonight is just a warning from the sea that it will win eventually.

It ALWAYS does.

Later,
Dan