Tops Louisiana Levee on Katrina Anniversary
Reuters (Wed 7:30 am ET): Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, triggering life-threatening flooding seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac brought driving winds and rain beginning late on Tuesday.
“On the east bank right now, we have reports of people on their roofs and attics and 12 to 14 foot of water (in their homes),” Nungesser told CNN. “This storm has delivered more of a punch than people thought.”
(Wed 12:00 am ET): Hurricane Isaac has moved back over water and is expected to make a second landfall (Associated Press). … National Hurricane Center Advisory: “ISAAC MOVING SLOWLY ALONG THE COAST OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND PRODUCING A DANGEROUS STORM SURGE.”
TUESDAY NIGHT: First Landfall
USA Today (Tue 10:35 pm ET): Isaac, upgraded from tropical storm to Category 1 hurricane, touched land in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans Tuesday evening before heading back over the Gulf of Mexico. … The National Weather Service issued a warning of “life-threatening flooding” possible outside hurricane protection levees and in areas around Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas.
Isaac Strikes Louisiana (NOAA Satellite Image)
Washingtington Post: The long duration of this event means the impacts may not be immediately apparent but will manifest themselves gradually as rainfall totals mount and increase flooding and winds continuously weaken trees and vulnerable structures. The storm appears as strong and healthy as it has been and there are no signs of imminent weakening.
Convention “News”
Dave Barry: “The Republican convention finally got going on Tuesday with a parade of speakers taking the stage to express the official theme of the evening:’Mitt Romney: You’re Darned Tooting He’s Human!’” (National Journal)
From my notebook:
- Keynoter Chris Christie treated Romney like the embarrassing relative who had to be mentioned because you might be in his will.
- Go for it GOP, picking on teachers worked so well for Bob Dole.
- Hypnotized by blue martini haze behind GOP speakers. Stare long enuf and Ryan budget numbers almost add up.
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59 Responses to Isaac Has Landed
Now on The Trail
So… Mitt has made landfall…
…next… a topical depression…
All that talk days back about rippers and strippers, got me to call a pal of mine in FL.
Marty reports that the only stripping republicans care about are the ones that hold their Depends up.
I’ve been watching Isaac, only seeing the convention when there were people other than repubs talking. I noticed that cnn and hln were not hooked to the weather channel -- looks as if they’re trying out some competition to twc. Have they been doing that for awhile and I didn’t notice?
KGC, I have heard mention made of mitt’s need to do a fix on his mass tax form. Nobody seems to pick up on it. That’s also the status of voter suppression. What’s going on? Is Holder at all competent? Is he hiding in fear of those mean ole repubs?
I also don’t have a lot of admiration for O’s accomplishments, but then again, he didn’t get much help from his party. The dnc crowd deserve the blame for this, not O. They completely mis-read the depth of racism which is endemic in the repub world. That’s what made the whole four years an exercise in putting the uppity O in his place, and then they didn’t know how to combat it.
If you can seriously consider not voting for O, I’m afraid you are going to be in for some deep deep sorrow when you see
what mitt has in store for us. The fix will be in.
Update on the doin’s in France.
They’ve gone on trips to Amboise, and went to Clos Luc which is the last house DaVinci lived in. Both were great.
They took the boys to a riverside playground with a bouncyhouse and other things. The river is the Loire (!), which can be seen a little from their house.
Kitty seems to be slowly recovering. They have taken him outside for walks with his leash, and spends time looking out windows. For the record he’s a maine coon cat. Andrea bought his a little traveling basket with pillows, took off the door, and put the basketin a corner under the stair where he hides out. In the morning he was curled up and snuggling in among the pillows. He is the only one with a good bed, tho, since their furniture is not with them yet
Boys start school next week, at the local catholic school, which should confuse them big time. We/they are not churchy or dogma families!
Enough good feeling time.
I watch morning joe whenever I want to hear ignorant pontification balanced by funny faces and eye-rolling.
Kept trying to watch Christie last night and kept wondering, “Why is this angry, insulting man appealing to anyone?”. Then it occurred to me that he is the perfect image of the Republican party as it exists today … angry about everything and insulting to anyone with a more positive outlook on life.
that slogan “we can do better” begs for clarification.
we can do better than mitt?
we can do better than when we were there before?
we can do better but we won’t
jamie, literally and figuratively
Good morning…good posts this morning.
I read this in the Detroit Free Press --
Makes Romney sound like a pedophile! Good grief!
Sturg… I hear ya on the morning joe thing. Actually, I rarely watch tv before noontime… but this morning I turn on joe to hear about the convention ( I did not watch) and there’s Andrea Mitchell pontificating about how glorious Ann’s speech was… said women in the audience were crying. I quietly threw up a little bit in my mouth and turned off the damn tele.
Bethy…
I watched storm coverage last night on the weather channel. They mentioned that they were now affiliated with NBC… which means they would also be affiliated with MSNBC. That may be why CNN doesn’t use them… not totally sure, it’s just a guess.
hey MADM… always glad to see you sneak in here…
rr -- Like you, I just watched the ~highlight~ reel on MoJo. You know what would have been even less of a fairy tale, Queen Ann? If you didn’t have the money/insurance for good healthcare!
Chris Christi sounded a bit more excited about saying Ryan’s name, than he did Romney’s name.
I did see one woman on the news who had replaced one word on her sign so that it read, “We dig this.” Wasn’t sure if she had crossed out “built” because she knew better, or, if she thought it would be cool to “dig” something, daddy-o.
My relatives in Buras, LA passed away before Katrina hit, but I’m sure their in-laws are still in the area. They lost everything twice; never could understand why they wanted to stay there, but they were horrified by the thought of twisters. That area is under the gun for the next day or so, it seems.
Bethy woohooo
Yes Mittens is a tax/electoral cheat and the main stream media could care less — too busy blowing all the Romneys
Craig got it exactly right
Christie treated Romney like the embarrassing relative who had to be mentioned because you might be in his will.
Mittens the most unpopular presidential candidate ever
mad -- Good to see you!
BTW,Buras, LA is in Plaquemines Parish. Listening to Parish Prez, Nungusser, I can’t imagine he won’t run for a higher office one day.
“Andrea bought his a little traveling basket with pillows, took off the door, and put the basket in a corner under the stair where he hides out. In the morning he was curled up and snuggling in among the pillows.”
Ohhh, that is so sweet… cats really do hate (sorry Jack, need to use the hate word again in this one instance) to move, or have things changed on them. It takes them quite a while to adjust. You have a wonderful way of wording things, Bethy.
Glad to hear your family is getting settled in, and hope to hear how the boys are doing next week in Catholic school (… am I wrong to assume that they speak English in that school?). I’ve been watching tons of sub-titled French movies (can’t get enough of them) and have grown to love the people there and their sense of humor. There’s such a realness about them, and I think if I were ever to leave the country, that’s where I would want to be. It’s amazing what you can learn about a country through it’s art (in this case, movies).
Guess the pandering-to-women phase of the CON-vention is over tonight. The weasle-in-waiting speaks, yes? Romney-on-the-floor-laughing-my-a$$-off, but Ryan-on-the-floor…be afraid for the future; be very afraid.
… anxious to hear more about how those in Louisiana are doing. I’m sure Houston will end up getting a hurricane scare or two before we get through the season. They’ve been busily cutting down dying and dead tree’s since the drought to minimize the damage from another storm.
Texas is more or less like four states (imo). If you divided it in half (approximately) both ways, you’d see a completely different climate (and therefore culture?) in each of them. I’m happy down here in my little corner, far enough north of Houston to miss out on a lot of the traffic — what am I saying?!! The traffic is getting worse up here every day, as I speak. It’s definitely not the same as it was when we moved up here almost 20 years ago. But, because of the influx, there are a lot more conveniences that I enjoy.
There are more police on the roads here than I’ve ever seen anywhere. They are very serious about enforcing the speed, and manage to keep crime very low (out where we are, at least). I’ve learned to have a great respect for law enforcement, and those who put their lives (and time) on the line every day.
The republican slogan has changed
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/08/29/isaac-has-landed/#comment-296272
“Enough good feeling time.”
Nah… never enough of that.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/08/28/grand-canyon-mars-style/#comment-296249
Jason,
Wow, thanks for the Cenk clip! Romney is a tragedy waiting to happen for the country but President Obama is no prize for us everyday folk either..Ugh, i’m so over this election and i really don’t want to even participate..The Cenk piece is a must see for all the rah rah Obama crowd, ah but he’s a D so he must be better than those TERRIBLE Republican’s..
During her speech last night, Ann(toinette) related the poor days of her early marriage…”they were the best times!
Oh really? I guess hiding all of your money is a terrible drag on the relationship. Humanize? Robot Mormons might be inhabiting the White House.
Sounds like NOLA is taking a beating but isn’t facing what it experienced with Katrina. Then again, the Pres of Placamines Parrish says Woodlawn has never flooded like it is this time. Maybe tomorrw Isaac will move far enough north that we’ll know how much damage he’s caused.
I am happy to report that I listened to 0 minutes of the convention last night and have not even looked in to see what the pundits are saying about Ann’s (who Mrs. P thinks is mean) speech. I did listen to MoJo on the way to work and Joe said that he didn’t hear the spark from Christie’s speech that Palin’s had 4 years ago. Good.
Juan Williams: Ann Romney Looked Like a “Corporate Wife”
by Taylor Marsh Video
Tony, at one level I don’t give a crap about Obama’s failures (and they are stark and many), because if Romney is elected and the Senate goes into the ‘cant’s hands, the ONLY thing that stands between the enactment of the Romney (actually the Ryan/Boehner/McConnell) tax and economic agenda is Dem filibuster in the Senate -- and I do not have any confidence in that mechanism being used effectively. It is as much a question of having some semblance of balanced government as anything. (But yes, he MUST be better than Romney).
Ann(toinette) more like Barbara Bush then Laura
My presidential preference is Dr. Stein but I’m not interested in getting my last choice elected so I’m going with Obamarama and if it isn’t close in California I will be voting Green
9/11 is out of the hospital, back home again, and writing as only he can.
Thanks for posting 9/11′s update
Thanks, 9/11 and thanks, Jamie.
That wonderful post sure does put things into perspective.
Now I understand voter suppression by the GOP. The Big Lie continues and they rewrite history every time they stand on the podium. The only way they are going to win is to cheat. It comes natural to them.
From RS Matt Taibbi --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-a-momentary-ron-paul-revolt-at-the-gop-convention/2012/08/28/71f4ba56-f14f-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html?hpid=z4
did anyone cover this? did they ever announce paul’s votes?
matt, nicely nicely would take that bet any day
Thank you for bringing 9/11′s words to us, Jamie.
I watched Ms Romney’s speech. I thought she did an excellent job of humanizing herself and their relationship.
And, Gov Christie was, searching for words, Gov Christy.
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9/11, and what more can we ask for, there’s no place like home!
more on convention nuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/gop-convention-nuts-story-rnc-and-cnn-issue-terse-statements/2012/08/29/7524fef0-f1d8-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_blog.html
quote from link needs repeating:
“@erikwemple how is one idiot delegate saying something stupid / racist a news story? 1 delegate out of how many?
— Marc Ambinder (@marcambinder) August 29, 2012
Just as easy a question: How is this not a news story? If the act wasn’t racist, it was at least anti-media. If it wasn’t racist or anti-media, it was just plain barbaric. Weird, anomalous and outrageous — those traits alone generally qualify an incident as news. “
patd…I watched Minnesota pledge their delegates and they are not happy with the RNC — Or Mittens. Paul supporters appeared very miffed at Mitt. Romney’s first name was not used.
The really big lie in the Christie speech was the praise of those hard working immigrants and then turning around and trying to steal the fruits of their hard work
They worked hard all their lives
They joined unions
The paid for Social Security and Medicare
Congress stole the Social Security money and now
The GOP wants to break unions to get right to work minimum wage or ship the jobs overseas
Destroy SS & Medicare so the stolen money doesn’t have to be paid back
Decrease taxes so the greedy can have even more.
Sorry about that
Jamie…add
“Get rid of any federal regulations so the corporations can run free.”
I loathe what the republican party stands for. They may have good hair, but they are morally bankrupt. No one ever talks about ethics…only religious intrusion, no one talks about helping the needy, only the need for less to help the helpless. Less for the masses and more for the masters.
Biloxi casino underwater
At 11am, the National Hurricane Center says Isaac remains a hurricane with winds of 75 mph, gusting to 100 mph: “ISAAC DRENCHING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA…DANGEROUS STORM SURGE
AND FLOOD THREAT FROM HEAVY RAINS LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT”
An interesting article from the American Conservative.
Revolt of the Rich
Our financial elites are the new secessionists.
By Mike Lofgren
ABC News: Romney Campaign Party Yacht Flies Cayman Islands Flag
the daily show at the convention
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Jack, that’s really an interesting article, and IMHO it is exactly on target regarding the super rich. I don’t really know who reads the American Conservative, but if that isn’t written for the consumption of the elitely educated hoi poloi, I don’t know what is. The average repugn nitwits around here (my little town, not this site) couldn’t begin to understand what most of that passsge means. They would have no idea what the hell a pseudo-scientific inverted Marxist economic theory is (although a few of them probably have heard of Marx, but don’t have a clue what he actually wrote, said or did) a few might have an idea what coterminus is, none would know what obeisance means and Darwinist dystopia would have no more meaning to them than Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity -- which they probably believe was the design for the first atom bomb or something like that. (Reminds me of the Firesign Theater quote “Pretty words, but what do they mean?)
I particularly liked this from the paragraph preceding the one you cited.
“As a former Republican congressional staff member, I saw for myself how GOP proponents of globalized vulture capitalism, such as Grover Norquist, Dick Armey, Phil Gramm, and Lawrence Kudlow, extolled the offshoring and financialization process as an unalloyed benefit. They were quick to denounce as socialism any attempt to mitigate its impact on society. Yet their ideology is nothing more than an upside-down utopianism, an absolutist twin of Marxism. If millions of people’s interests get damaged in the process of implementing their ideology, it is a necessary outcome of scientific laws of economics that must never be tampered with, just as Lenin believed that his version of materialist laws were final and inexorable.”
Indeed. Too bad the Repugns won’t own up to that.
I have a hope of low Republican voter turnout in November. The evangelical fundamentalist Christians will have difficulty voting for a Mormon and a Catholic. Social conservatives don’t have Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, or Michele Bachmann, instead an unknown in the form of a flip flopping Mormon. As for the Koch brothers sponsored social conservatives (The Tea Party); maybe their hate will rule and they will just not vote. Then we have the disenfranchised Ron Paul voters.
A storm inside the GOP convention
By Dana Milbank, Washington Post, August 28, 2012
I wonder how many taxpaying boats had to be evicted so that 150-footer from the Cayman Islands could stay in the St Petersburg Municipal Marina. Bless Romney’s little heart. He’s so entitled.
christchristie yakking about willard “…Christie said. “It was the kind of thing that gives you a little look into a guy’s heart….”
Reminds me of baby bush looking into putin’s eyes and finding his soul.
christ christie must be a doper, too.
Hurricane Isaac destroys home of MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry: http://mbist.ro/O3jTyP
Interesting that the casino has water above floor level but the lights are still on.
Something like the Titanic.
The problem with U.S. politics today is that we really have NO “left” wing. All we have is right wing extremists vs wimpy “neo-liberals” (such as the Clintons & Obama), politicians who are “conservative on economic issues and liberal on social issues.” But for neo-liberals, poverty is NOT a social issue. The neo-liberals have no political soul; they don’t really believe in anything. All they have to offer is a slightly less loony version of the right-wing agenda.
What we need today are left wing RADICALS, like we used to have in the USA in the 1930s, like they still have in Europe today, evidenced by the rising popular outrage over “austerity” measures (cutting social programs to bail out bad speculative investments made by the big banks.)
Europe has real, honest-to-goodness leftist intellectuals and politicians, whose views are routinely presented in the mainstream media. Strong left-wing ideas are COMPLETELY absent from political debates in the USA, except for a few voices on the margins. (Matt Taibbi, Cenk Uygur, etc)
It’s not just Europe. Canada, Australia, almost everywhere you go on this planet you’ll find an articulate, committed left wing, EXCEPT the USA, which steadily becoming the most right-wing country on Earth. If Romney wins, it will get far, far worse. If Obama wins, it will get still get worse, only more slowly.
” The neo-liberals have no political soul; they don’t really believe in anything. All they have to offer is a slightly less loony version of the right-wing agenda..”
Hear, hear!!!
” If Obama wins, it will get still get worse, only more slowly..”
…. and as for this, LOL!! (although I do know it’s wrong to laugh at something so serious.)
Nash! Every time I think I have ‘nothing’ left to say, you come up
with a zinger like that.
Very good post.
I’m amazed how many people are surprised by a hurricane in today’s media environment. They are plucking people off of roofs in Plaquemine Parrish. If you’ve ever been there, it’s so low lying even the smakes live in the trees.
I swear I think that we are interfering with natural selection every time we pluck some idiot off another roof.
Maybe the price for such extraction should be the signing of a quit claim deed for any property in the parish.
With the exception of NOLA where a measured decision has been made that it is in the national interest to protect the city, the remaining properties in the high hazard areas should self-insure and otherwise fend for themselves. Life saving efforts should of course continue.
Those homes in the low lying areas were there so that New Orleans had a place for the low income workers to live.
If you are going to let those places return to their natural state, then you need to pay for those people to relocate near to that geographic area rather than just dumping them in Texas so Barbara Bush can sneer at how much better off they have become.
If it is in the best interest of the city for them to stay, then the cost of protecting and/or saving them has to be built into the local budget.
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