Hurricane Ida - The Aftermath

[Kendra]

https:// twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1432860028269219845?s=19

good. And V, huge thanks and thumbs up for all the links you've been posting.

[keith]

From Katrina I remember that FEMA had a park of camper vans and RVs to move to or near the location. Do they still make that?

The damage is so wide spread that I expect FEMA trailers will soon appear.

Shirley they've still got a gazillion square feets of old Walmart stores left over from the Obama daze they can use?





Okay... I'll leave now.

[keith]

Things got very hairy for NBC News reporter Shaquille Brewster during a live Hurricane Ida report from Gulfport, MS.

Some guy jumps out of a pickup truck and angrily confronts Brewster's crew, prompting a shaken Craig Melvin to express extreme concern for his colleague.

Was there ever any word on what 'pickup truck guy' was on about? Was there inaccurate reporting going on somewhere?

EDIT: Never mind. I just found the story on the preceding page.

[Volkonski]

Nine LA refineries shutdown for IDA. If they had no damage, have electricity and staff is available restart would take several days. If they flooded then repairs can take months.

There is currently plenty of gasoline in storage but delivering it to gas stations is slow because of lack of power and of drivers many of whom evacuated or are dealing with storm damage.

Fuel demand is high now because so many gas and diesel generators are in use.

As always, panic buying and hoarding is a problem.

[Volkonski]

Really? Why weren't they evacuated before the storm?

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[sugar magnolia]

Power is also coming back in several areas.

[Volkonski]

When I flew to Texas after Harvey the closest I could get to Houston was San Antonio. FEMA had rented almost every available vehicle so I had to wait at the rental place for someone to return a car before I could get mine. I loaded up the car with cleaning supplies in SA before driving to Baytown.

[sugar magnolia]

Really? Why weren't they evacuated before the storm?

As of 11:00 am today.
https://www.katc.com/news/covering-loui ... their-work

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

Pennsylvania.

[Volkonski]

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[Volkonski]

Some folks have lost just about everything. After Katrina quite a few of the people evacuated by bus to Houston had nothing to go back to. Many stayed in Houston and started over.

[tek]

Pennsylvania.

Wait, didn't we already have a Johnstown Flood?

[Volkonski]

[Reality Check]

Pennsylvania.

Johnstown? Let's hope history does repeat itself.

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

Good point.

[Volkonski]

[sugar magnolia]

Based on the people I've known from Grand Isle, their definition of "uninhabitable" is not the same as it is for other people. My friend said this morning that the 3'-5' of sand is the big issue.

Well that sucks that they removed the tweet. It said GI was "uninhabitable" 100% of the buildings were damaged and 40% of them were destroyed.

[Luke]

Where's Capt Karl and the OpVec? That's what Louisiana needs right now, #FatRambo with his supply truck. No peeps about the idea on his Telegram.

[Foggy]

► Show Spoiler

The storm took place in the real world, but Karl hasn't caught up with current events there lately.

[Kendra]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dagl ... CgxHLdx96U

Benjamin Eugene Dagley, who local police say is the man seen angrily confronting MSNBC correspondent Shaquille Brewster during live coverage of Hurricane Ida in Mississippi, was also charged in Ohio in 2017 for nearly causing what one Cleveland newspaper described as a “potential environmental disaster.”

Gulfport’s NBC News affiliate flagged a Cleveland Plain Dealer article from August 2017 detailing criminal charges against Dagley, who had allegedly drilled holes into tanks of dangerous chemicals at an electroplating company.

Dagley, who was then a resident of Ohio, was charged with breaking and entering a business called Cleveland Plating. Although Dagley was identified in police reports as a former co-owner of the company, the Plain Dealer reported that court records show he owned a similar electroplating company at the same location before Cleveland Plating took over. Dagley still owned the property itself at the time.

According to a Cleveland police report cited by the Plain Dealer, Dagley’s actions sent one employee of the electroplating company to the hospital for exposure to toxic chemicals, and risked a potential environmental disaster. Surveillance footage showed that the tanks Dagley drilled holes into contained sodium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, yellow chromate, ferrous chloride, and sulfuric acid, the plant’s owner told the Plain Dealer.