Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]rcmckee sez: besides which they spin anticlockwise up here. You want it to hit EAST of you so you're on the side of the eye where the winds are coming back off the land. If it goes in west of you, you get maximum storm surge and flooding... East of you, you're on the dry side (comparatively speaking, of course.) --------------- The Nawlins problem is that they are on a shallow lake North that feeds into the gulf just East of them. A storm surge from the East could flood the lake, causing massive flooding in suburban New Orleans north of the lake, and spilling water into the New Orleans and Jefferson Parish canal systems that keeps the city (much of it below sea level) dry. It could also make the pumping station complex useless as there would be no place to send the water. Goes against the normal thought, but that's New Orleans for you. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish