Happy Hour Hurricanes

[Franco]

Man walks into Pat O'Brien's in the French Quarter and orders two Hurricanes and a Carona. Bartender says, "That'll be $20.20

Two storms headed of the southeast Louisiana coast within 48 hours of each other. I have a place of the southeast coast that is raised 14 feet above the ground and plan on riding out the hurricanes while the wife heads for our main home north of New Orleans in Covington. Moved my boat last night to Houma, La. and parked it along with other boats at the Convention Center parking lot. I'll spend the day battening down the hatches so to speak around the place.

I've been through Hurricanes; Audry, Betsy, Camille, Katrina and a few other lesser ones. Would rather deal with a hurricane than a tornado. At least one gets warned of a hurricane well in advance.

Got the Kajun Kake and Escudo ready to go!

 

[ChickenT00th]

Me and my wife are in New Orleans, doing the same! Stay safe my friend.

 

[Franco]

Me and my wife are in New Orleans, doing the same! Stay safe my friend.

Kind of early in the day to be at Pat O'Brien's.

Hope those pumps in NOLA are working for you.

 

[pappymac]

Glad I live north of you guys. We're in Slidell.
I've got plenty of tobacco, a bottle of Bourbon, two bottles of rum and a bottle of gin. Will go out later to get some bottled water and sandwich stuff and fill up the tank with gas. Don't know why as I don't expect either of these to hit the New Orleans area harder than a thunderstorm.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I’m well north, up around the Shreveport/Bossier area. We’ll get some bad storms, but nothing like what y’all have to prepare for. Y’all stay safe down there. And drink a few hurricanes for me.

 

[tbradsim1]

I’m east below Lafayette, Daughter is in Mandeville, looks like the tropical storm is sliding a little more east. Getting ready anyway.yep hurricanes are better than tornadoes, as previous poster said you can get ready.

 

[mso489]

It sounds like you all are experienced and prepared and provisioned. Stay safe. It is often repeated advice, but most people get in trouble with hurricanes after the high speed winds are over, when they begin to go about and encounter the flooding. You folks all know this from long experience, but for anyone else reading who may not have this in the front of their minds.

 

[BROBS]

Man walks into Pat O'Brien's in the French Quarter and orders two Hurricanes and a Carona. Bartender says, "That'll be $20.20

Two storms headed of the southeast Louisiana coast within 48 hours of each other. I have a place of the southeast coast that is raised 14 feet above the ground and plan on riding out the hurricanes while the wife heads for our main home north of New Orleans in Covington. Moved my boat last night to Houma, La. and parked it along with other boats at the Convention Center parking lot. I'll spend the day battening down the hatches so to speak around the place.

I've been through Hurricanes; Audry, Betsy, Camille, Katrina and a few other lesser ones. Would rather deal with a hurricane than a tornado. At least one gets warned of a hurricane well in advance.

Got the Kajun Kake and Escudo ready to go!

Why do people continue to live there?

if you live on something 14 feet in the air... that’s called uninhabitable land.

 

[jttnk]

Why do people continue to live there?

if you live on something 14 feet in the air... that’s called uninhabitable land.

Same reason we live in AZ when it hasn’t been under 90 heaven at night) for somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 days. No where is perfect.

 

[BROBS]

Same reason we live in AZ when it hasn’t been under 90 heaven at night) for somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 days. No where is perfect.

You’re right.. some are just a helluva lot further from it. ?

 

[peregrinus]

Too bad the weatherman can’t divert those storms to California. They might not need the wind but with a million acres in flames they would welcome the water.

 

[pappymac]

Too bad the weatherman can’t divert those storms to California. They might not need the wind but with a million acres in flames they would welcome the water.

Yep, north Mexico does need some rain.

 

[mso489]

When I moved to central N.C., I thought hurricanes were a coastal problem and always kept my fingers crossed for the folks at the beach. Ha. Then Fran came cruising up the coast and decided to make an abrupt left turn, easterly. She loved our huge old oak trees that were standing in soil already sopping with weeks of rain. Tornados seem to turn up anywhere. We recently had our first earthquake at above the tremor level in a century. So it goes.

 

[anotherbob]

people are always like I live here in PA where it's safe. Even though the winter kills a bunch of people, it's just smarter about it. Like only kill some of them at a time. A slip on ice here, a stroke while shoveling snow early in the morning there. A tree branch falling on your head there.

 

[Franco]

Why do people continue to live there?

if you live on something 14 feet in the air... that’s called uninhabitable land.

We live for the food, the music, the hunting and fishing, the festivals and most of all, the culture.

My fishing camp on the coast is 14 feet off the ground. Get exercise walking up and down.

 

[ssjones]

My daughter bought a house in Covington, settles this week. Her and my wife drove her car down last night. My son-in-laws father checked the house out and deemed it not having any water damage.I think everyone in LA has flood coverage, but she qualified for the low level. Hope that holds true!

 

[Country Bladesmith]

My daughter bought a house in Covington, settles this week. Her and my wife drove her car down last night. My son-in-laws father checked the house out and deemed it not having any water damage.I think everyone in LA has flood coverage, but she qualified for the low level. Hope that holds true!

Not sure if the whole state does, but you might be right. My property never floods, not even a few years ago when our area was in the national news for flooding, but I’m still forced to buy it.

 

[3rdguy]

 

[BROBS]

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I see they’ve highlighted the areas where people shouldn’t live.

 

[3rdguy]

Crazy part is the winds we got from the derecho last week were a lot stronger then what either of these hurricanes will be putting out.