Tammany Parish in LA (Mandatory Evacuations)

[nadinbrzezinski]

is under mandatory evacuation, reverse 911 are being issued, and they have "an imminent failure of lock 2."

This is according to the Weather Channel, I was channel surfing.

Hundreds of homes, if I got it right, will be under water.

Here more

http://www.wbrz.com/news/mandatory-evacuation-called-for-parts-of-st-tammany-parish/

[malaise]

1. I discovered that on Weather underground

and found an NBC link

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Went to CNN, the "news leader"

nothing yet

[laundry_queen]

4. They had it on earlier. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yeah, that is what I am hoping

[RB TexLa]

5. It's not going to be national news, they couldn't care, try WWL

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. You do realize the Weather Channel

a subsidiary of oh NBC News, IS national news?

[RB TexLa]

9. I have no idea who owns that website.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I am talking about the weather channel

in my distributor it is channel 46 if I remember correctly. I happen to turn to them when we have a local weather alert.

They are owned by NBC News, a subsidiary of it, and they are a NATIONAL NEWS OUTLET.

I know you are convinced none cares about you... I could make the same argument, did you know of the wild land fire we had two weeks ago here in the back country in San Diego? But I don't... I am not that negative. And in fact, I was one of the nooz bunnies getting the info out there.

But truth be told, people care about LA, and care deeply... some of the problems LA has are due to the LOCAL political oligarchy, by the way.

[RB TexLa]

14. Something on a tv? Oh.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. In fact, guess what they are covering right now?

RECOVERY EFFORTS...

[RB TexLa]

20. Sorry I don't get concerned with or what care what on teevees

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. But you are claiming there is no national coverage

when simply that is NOT true.

There IS NATIONAL COVERAGE as I type this...

So what is it? You do not care, or you do not care that there is actually national coverage?

You cannot have it both ways.

[RB TexLa]

25. I was saying I can't see why a national network would care

the country doesn't I'm sure they have other things to show on the tvs

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. But it is on my TV

perhaps YOU actually do not care about what happens in other sections of the country, so of course why would we care about LA? We call that projection by the way.

But you already knew that.

You actually have an issue with that... and we know that.

So now that we have settled that this is about you and not national coverage... next time you post this drivel we will know it is all about you, and not what the networks are doing.

After all I am clearly outside LA, or the South, clearly enough on the other coast. Yet, I care, and that goes for many other DU'ers.

So perhaps this is about you, and not the rest of us. We get it by the way.

[RB TexLa]

29. I do not understand what you are doing. I just said to try WWL

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. What I am doing is telling you

that

1.- There IS national coverage.

2.- People care.

Is this so hard to understand?

I mean I learned of this mandatory evacuation and reverse 911 due to that non existent national coverage.

[RB TexLa]

32. All I was telling you is WWL would have information. www.wwwltv.com

there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. And I am telling you that there is NATIONAL coverage

You said that there would not be any.

[RB TexLa]

35. Good, there's national TVs covering. good

[SoCalDem]

13. I wish they were back to being independent

It was beyond irksome the other day when the WEATHER CHANNEL showed the RNC convention "news"..

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. I know but that is a whole different discussion

[NYC_SKP]

2. crap.

damn...

[SoCalDem]

6. Now that the "federal" levees are "hardened", water will go elsewhere

Water always "wins"..

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-isaac-new-orleans-levees-20120829,0,3775733.story

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

August 29, 2012, 10:48 a.m.

New Orleans levee system holds up; flooding elsewhere was expected

As Hurricane Isaac battered New Orleans on Wednesday with heavy rain and storm surges, the city's levees and drainage pump system appeared to be performing as hoped.

Isaac is a “nasty, determined storm,” but the $14.5-billion storm protection system of levees, floodgates and walls is holding up well so far and is “absolutely paying off,” Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said on CNN.

A New Orleans city spokesman at the emergency operations center expressed satisfaction with the system as well. “We are very confident in the hurricane risk-reduction system, the federal system that is protecting the city right now," he said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We are not seeing the flooding you may see reported in Plaquemines Parish; they are taking the brunt of it.”

snip

[cbayer]

10. It's St Tammany, and it looks like they have stabilized the lock.

St. Tammany parish is the parish on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain, just over the causeway.

http://www.wdsu.com/weather/hurricanes/St-Tammany-lock-stabilized-evacuation-order-stays-in-place/-/12848220/16455072/-/64wd4yz/-/index.html

The area around the Pearl River is not highly populated and I suspect, but am not sure, that the actual number of homes evacuated is not large.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Not according to the PIO on the Weather Channel right now

She is telling people, EVACUATE

Location, Hickory north to bush to be specific.

And they have permission to open valves from the Army Corp of Engineers.

[cbayer]

18. The Weather Channel makes its money off of crisis and emergency.

This area is very rural and they are sending buses for the people who are supposed to evacuate.

While I am sorry for the people whose homes and lands may be threatened, I don't think there is much there there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. So you agree with RB-Texla that perhaps we need zero coverage?

I guess we should not have covered the fire at Ranchita two weeks ago either... there are only what was it 60 households, oh wait that was the Chihuahua valley, Ranchita had 80 iirc.

What the PIO said, is we still have a threat of a lock failure, we got permission to open gates, that IS a news story. Even if, it only affects ten households.

[cbayer]

21. I don't get off on disaster or pending disaster, but i don't object to coverage.

One of the reasons Katrina went so badly was because *wolf* had been called so frequently and for so long.

The news outlets overplayed low level threats for years. People evacuated repeatedly and unnecessarily. They had become immune to *the sky is falling* every year.

Coverage is fine. Making more of it than it really is has the potential for harm.

The rivers in this area are prone to flooding. I drove through hundreds and hundreds of miles of flooded areas around the Mississippi and other major rivers last year.

Again, I am ok with reporting it. I am not ok with overdramatizing it.

Sorry.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. So the PIO is over dramatizing it by saying

that they got permission from the Corp and that they are issuing 911 calls.

For the record, Ranchita residents refused to evacuate... and this time (lack of winds) they did right... but one of these years they will not... so what now? Oh yes, fire personnel will risk life and limb

I remember quite clearly telling a family in Tijuana, look, if you do not evacuate, I DO NOT have the personnel, or the gear, you are on your own. We may as well mark you as casualty right now.

They refused, we did body recovery.

[cbayer]

24. Again, we are talking about a small rural community and I am sure the authorities are on it.

Parish officials being strident with potential victims is one thing (not drama), but doing so when reporting is quite another (drama).

St. Tammany Parish has some major New Orleans suburbs. I entered this thread to clarify what the actual risk probably was, as I did not want people who might have friends or relatives in St. Tammany to become unnecessarily alarmed.

[zappaman]

26. I do have friends near that area, so thanks.

Some people like to exaggerate things and I find it harmful.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. So having the PIO on the Weather channel

telling the story to the weather channel is strident.

Gotcha. I'd better tell my editor that we really should not cover any more fires... I mean Julian IS small and rural..

[cbayer]

31. Do what you wish. Good day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. I just do not get the logic

and lord knows now I can honestly say I have been on the side of the issuing of warnings, and the "vulture" side.

So sorry... What I watched on the Weather channel was professional and far from strident.

[Schema Thing]

12. Fairly small, remote area of St. Tammany actually.