[Leica] Here's why I'm content shooting landscapes and flowers

[frankandaubrey at mindspring.com (Frank Farmer)]

That doesn't sound good.  I've always heard that the Big Easy is basically 
just a big bowl.
That is no good for storms that bring tremendous amounts of water.  Indeed.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com>
Sent: Sep 15, 2004 11:00 AM
To: 'Frank Farmer' <frankandaubrey@mindspring.com>, 
        'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: RE: [Leica] Here's why I'm content shooting landscapes and flowers

We aren't sure of Camille's wind speed because she broke the gauges.
Guess they weren't made for 230+ mph. What we are concerned about down
here is that we're below sea level, and if the storm surge floods the
area and dumps Lake Pontchartrain into the city (it is connected to the
gulf), then the city will be sitting it 14 feet of chemically polluted
water from all of the petrochemical plants lining the river. I'm not in
a flood zone, but I'm still below sea level. If my house gets water, the
other houses in the city will be under 20 feet of water.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Farmer
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:55 AM
To: Adam Bridge; Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Here's why I'm content shooting landscapes and
flowers

Hopefully, this one is nowhere close to Camille!  I think Ivan has
weakened some on his
way in.  All the same, I wish those closer to the coast all the luck and
grace in the
world.  Here in Jackson we just expect traffic and rain.

Camille, from what I recall, had winds that were 230+ mph at landfall
and  she was
still a category 3 storm when she got 78 miles inland to Hattiesburg.
Quite 
a devastating storm.

Good luck and God speed!

Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com>
Sent: Sep 14, 2004 6:40 PM
To: jls@runbox.com, Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Here's why I'm content shooting landscapes and
flowers

I hope you have your water-wings Jeffery! This looks to have some
Camile-esque tendancies that are distrubing. I missed Camile but when
PARCHE was in new construction at Ingals in Pascagoula there were
water-lines on the building - ABOVE THE SECOND FLOOR WINDOWS - that
maked the extent of flooding. And if you needed to kill an afternoon
you just had to ask one of the yard-workers what they were doing when
Camile hit. Everyone had a story. Some of them might even have been
true!

With New Orleans being so low and with the eye's pressure being so low
as well, well I hope it misses a high tide.

I remember that Camile laid waste to things well inland with tornados
galore.

I hope we miss those too!

Good luck to all in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. I
have this terrible feeling your gonna need it.

Adam


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:17:06 -0500, Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com>
wrote:
> Nice...triplets! Hope I don't see anything like that in the next 36
> hours.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Hemenway
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:37 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: [Leica] Here's why I'm content shooting landscapes and
flowers
> 
>  From PC Weather:
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> http://www.pcwp.com/images/pictur2.jpg
> http://www.pcwp.com/images/pictur3.jpg
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