The rain continues as well as the wind. For most of the day I've watched this billboard in the weather and well, not such good news to report for it. In this picture,taken this morning around 10:00am you can see it's still intact, giving a little in the winds but still intact.
Interesting facts about the power of this storm. On 8/28 the hurricane caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards 182,000 cubic feet per second and raised the river 10ft above it's normal level for this time of year. That's a lot of water being moved in the opposite direction on the world's 5th largest river.
The airport is closed for another day, but it's opening is in doubt for at least a week, maybe longer.
The winds are still a sustained 30-35 mph with gusts in the 40 mph range. The intrepid weather watchers are saying the wind will die off tonight to below 30 mph but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Trees trees trees. It seems that most of the damage in the area is confined to the arbor variety in the historic areas of the city. Most pictures I've seen show the whole root ball being taken up right out of the ground so we are looking at 10-15 ft (diameter) root balls in the air with large trees laying across power lines and road ways.
There is one of those large construction cranes directly in-front of my hotel room, 3 blocks away. I've notice it moving a lot lately and now the top portion has moved out from the position it was in this morning. Something to watch tonight.
One last thing, since today is the 7th anniversry to the day of Katrina's land fall, the news did a nice graphic comparison of the two storms' path into the state.
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