"New Orleans is Dry"... so says CNN just now...

[MazeRat7]

Apparently the Army Corp of Engineers gave them this update. If a link shows up on their web site, I will update this....

MZr7

[Skink]

1. But we are still burning stuff you shouldn't see so stay back.

[Gloria]

2. MSNBC today said it was still 20% underwater! So what gives??

eom

[unschooler]

3. Maybe not for long....

[redsoxliberal]

4. ummm?

[unschooler]

5. I think they're expecting some rain there this weekend...!

[redsoxliberal]

6. are you another one of those rita is heading for new orleans nuts?

please, repeat that statement:

btw, the clp5 has been recurving this thing immediately since it's birth... as in it originally had it curve before florida... add onto that that you should really take away the biggest outlier or two on either side, and that the models have been reasonably consistent on a landfall in this area and you have:



a chorpus christi to LA border landfall... perhaps some rain for NOLA... but not even close to the story... which is in Houston and Galveston.

[unschooler]

7. Well, I suppose I am a nut, but, no, I don't expect Rita to hit New

Orleans. Actually, I am utterly unqualified to even have an opinion on any topic related to weather prediction. However, the major news outlets seem to think it will hit Texas, so I'm placing my bet with them. However, I did hear the Governor of Louisiana cautioning that S. Louisiana might experience heavy rain.