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EarthCam Live: Hurricane Ida - Bourbon Street, New Orleans
YouTube channel: EarthCam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ziciboPx7w&ab_channel=EarthCam

Live video feed from New Orleans.

Just got a report from my neighbor. Power is still on, roofs look intact, no trees down and no flooding. I have seen some Facebook live feeds that have been damn impressive. You'll end up seeing some of them when they come out on You Tube and the like.

WVUE and WWL are still running their on-air broadcasts online. I didn't check the others. My sister still has power in Lakeview. She said it was a bit breezy.

I got off my platform yesterday and drove out of there yesterday. It was crazy on the highway yesterday. Flew in over Fourchon and Grand Isle. Landed in Houma. Drove through LaPlace yesterday to get to I55. Weather was normal yesterday.
Saw a lot of families yesterday just hanging out in the rest areas and.parking lots. At least they won't drown.

We could use some rain here in So Cal...

We heard you the first two times you said the same thing. You can go to Louisiana and collect all you want or hope for a hurricane or tsunami to hit your area.

If the initial reports are true, the backup emergency generators failed to start at the Thibodeaux, Louisiana main hospital. Posing serious problems in the ICU.

I have never been to Louisiana and I'm not being a smart ass, but do a lot of people there live in areas at or below sea level or the high tide line?

Few places are below sea level. To get any appreciable gains in elevation, you have to get above I-10. Unfortunately, since the various industries in the area have a maritime nexus, they all located well south of I-10. People need to live reasonably close to where they work.

Ah yes, I have engineered on tugs built in Morgan City LA. Oil terminals...oh schidt, fuel prices going up again?

With the Gulf of Mexico pretty much shut in presently, we’ll probably see a bump up in prices if past is prologue to go by.

Delta resident to his neighbor, "If IDA known...IDA bought a house on stilts".

Oh lort!

Dey dun shut down the local DG.

I ain’t even dove my Harri-ma-cane shopping yet.

Just keep doing your part by handing out masks and preaching the Fauci gospel.

#fishcampfrontlinehero

I don’t miss getting a rig ready for hurricanes.

Sounds fun, we’ll go party in the motel for a couple days.

Fug that.

Pull outta the hole. Run in with storm packer. Lay down pipe outta the Derrick. Nipple stack down. Put on storm cap. Skid in.
Chain down everything you can. Weld down the rest.


Around 2009 or 10.

We were moving the rig. Hurricane formed.

This was in late November or early December.

Strange for a hurricane. No one expected it to do anything

We were in processes of towing to a new field / block for a other operator.

Finally decided once we got in their field to jackup.
Never got a 100% preload. About 30’ air gap. Had to go.

Went to Lafayette.

We they flew back out to start up rig...



Like to lost it.

Leg settled.

Twisted port leg. Never was right. Couldn’t keep slide shoes in guides. Rip em out.

Neat pic Dave.

The media, therefore most people, focus on the nearest high-population cities during a hurricane. They will never understand the real damage and remediation involved in storms of this magnitude. It will be almost a year before things effected by the worst of this storm are restored, but in two days it will be old news.

Except for the Democrats effected. That is forever.

"One of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the 1850s.”


- Louisana Governor John Bel Edwards, Democrat.

My neighbor just gave me an update. Power went out about 2 hours ago. A few trees and limbs down in the neighborhood. No flooding and no apparent damage to houses. I have heard from some of my friends down the bayou. Bad. Really fugging bad.

Where’s dusty with the updates?

Folks in grand isle haven’t been heard from in hours....

Entergy reporting catastrophic power failure in Orleans Parish.

Jim cantore running around in the dark with his batting helmet on.