EDIT: I barely saw Toytoy's post. How much do y'all think gas prices will go up tomorrow? Remember when Katrina hit? I remember I was working that night, and one of my co-workers warned me that we'd better fill up our trucks that night, because he heard that gas prices were about to make a big jump. Sure enough, the next day they were like $.50 higher, and they just kept going up from there for years. I DO NOT want to go back to the days of $3.50 a gallon. They SAY that the price increase was because of loss of refining capabilities and "speculators," but if y'all ask me, that was just the oil companies price-gouging.
depends how much damage was done to the rigs and refineries. If you have some platforms that sunk or whatever or some refineries that have to go offline... yeah, it could be a lot more than that.
We're at $4.50 over here already, I would LOVE to go back to $3.50. TWC reported a few hours ago that a platform may have gone down, but it was not confirmed. I've had the TV on TWC all day and they haven't said anything else about it.
main transmission tower that feeds electricity into NOLA just collapsed into the Mississippi, per local news station WAPT in Jackson
Been seeing reports on that as well. If i were there, the second I felt the winds were dying down I'd get the hell out. It's going to be worse than the Wild West in Nola with no power. Also - mixed reports on oil rigs in the gulf. ETA: Apparently we are just now starting to get the worst of it. I can catch 3 radio stations right now and the rest appear to be down.
reports coming in of people on roof tops begging for rescue but boats being told its still too dangerous. This sounds horribly familiar. On the fucking anniversary...
My aunt had to chop her way out of her attic with a claw hammer in Diamondhead, Ms. during Katrina while holding her infant daughter and her dog. I remember CNN following two old dudes in a small boat using a large axe, going house to house to rescue people trapped in their attics during Katrina as well. They had a make-shift shelter on a roof top with a couple of cases of water and MREs. They'd paddle around for a while, chop through a roof and pull some people out, then back to their shelter for a bit. Then paddle back out to the next set of houses looking for people trapped in their attic.
Haven't signed into work yet, but the reports aren't great. Generally we can expect power outages to be cut in half every 48-72 hours. Water is a bit trickier, and road clearing even trickier still. In my role, it's unlikely I'll see any Ida related action anytime soon. I am in recovery, and working a detail til the end of the year. Here's hoping she isn't the first of many. I'll keep my eyes on the hospital and medical lifelines, that's going to be the challenging one.
I just saw on CNN that in New Orleans, ICU patients that were on ventilators are being ventilated by hand right now. If you’ve ever done that, you know 20-30 minutes is a long time. An hour or more? That’s endurance and dedication.
....that makes no sense. Any and every hospital would have backup generators, with enough resources to rely on them exclusively for at least 72 hours, if not much much longer. Can I get some sauce on that?
Partial generator failure, bagged while they were moved to another location. https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_5f268aaa-0912-11ec-a8fb-d3a108e9db9f.html
Here's a nice quick video reminding me how stupid I was to ride out Sandy on our boat. This is violent.
Thanks for that. I confirmed that issue is getting worked on the generator side. I was told there are no beds to evacuate those patients to, as just about all the spare capacity is occupied by COVID patients. If you want to get good and fucking mad, ask how many of those occupants are vaccinated and eligible. "That data isn't updated, but their last estimate was about 88%". Meaning hurricane survivors are being forced into secondary sites for medical care, because unvacinated people are dying from COVID, occupying the beds. This is my absolute nightmare, and I am grateful I am not working it directly.
Fucking hell. Violent is such an understatement. I can only imagine your level of frustration... it was what... almost 2 years ago now? that we were talking about this and envisioning exactly this scenario where you had a hurricane in a pandemic region... but even then I don't think we ever considered the fact that there would be this number of people fighting to not be vaccinated. It's so fucking stupid, and preventable.
@downndirty Question... when you guys did all of your forecasting and modelling, did you take into account those that would not want to be vaccinated? I'd be curious to know if/when you got surprised at the numbers that fought against it... or if you were able to predict the level of stupid early on?