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the local grapevine is reptorting that Tangipahoa River from Kentwood to Robertis being evacuated. A dam broke. This includes 50,000-60,000 people. There is no major news coverage on this yet
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new reports say the dam didn't break completely and they are pumping the reservoir out in an attempt to do a controlled breach before it fails completely... 50, to 60,000 evacuees nonethelass.
i am just getting rain and 35 MPH wind here. he had a 100 yr old oak go down across the street in front of our house at 11:50 and the county cleared it completely at 1:02.... they had to use a very large front-end load to get the trunk (4 feet across).
we could feel the ground tremble when it cracked, adn then again when it hit the ground i would geuss that each 3 foot peice of the trunk weighs about 4000 pounds green and wet.. i would not put a peice four feet long in an F150... maybe an F250 HD but an F350 or HD (450) should be about right
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: the local grapevine is reptorting that Tangipahoa River from Kentwood to Robertis being evacuated. A dam broke. This includes 50,000-60,000 people. There is no major news coverage on this yet
Actually, that was allover CNN a few hours ago. Guess you just missed it maybe?
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oh, i get it now, it's the "land mass effect" some of us live ontheland mass between NOLA and Alabam and we get our news two hours after the civilised world
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: oh, i get it now, it's the "land mass effect" some of us live ontheland mass between NOLA and Alabam and we get our news two hours after the civilised world
LOL! Dunno about that, but yes it was probably around 10AM CT when I first read it. The link I posted was the current one from CNN. But I did read it a few hours ago originally.
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i'm getting by here, but just south ofme it's a real mess... they say 900,000 Entergy customers are out and i'm one that is not (yet) MS isonly 4 million people, Louisianna is 4.5 million, so that is about 10% of all the people between both states...
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