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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 02:10:14 EDT lnxw48a1
   Outer tropical storm force winds from #Hurricane #Ida are probably already starting to come onshore in #Louisiana. It is 01:05 CDT, 2021-AUG-29 ... sixteen years to the day after Hurricane #Katrina came onshore. Ida is a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 115MPH.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 13:18:22 EDT lnxw48a1

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      Ida lands as a category 4 hurricane with estimated sustained winds of 150MPH and gusts of 185MPH. #LA is getting torn up from the winds and the flooding. (I saw storm surge forecasts of 15ft last night, I’d guess even more ocean water than expected got pushed onshore with this higher wind speed.)
      
      I really hope most people got out of Dodge before the storm arrived. Otherwise, this is conversation with your Maker time in #Louisiana and probably #Mississippi ( #MS ) and #Alabama ( #AL ) right now.
      1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 19:05:39 EDT GeniusMusing

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         Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River
         https://gizmodo.com/ida-reversed-the-mississippi-river-1847581160
         
         >The Mississippi was discharging roughly 350,000 cubic feet (9,910 cubic meters) of water per second in the days prior to Ida’s arrival. Water moved upstream at a rate of 40,000 cubic feet (1,132 cubic meters) per second.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 20:22:45 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @geniusmusing Yeah, I expect that #Hurricane #Ida will have nearly every federal agency involved in responding, the way Puerto Rico did after Hurricane #Maria. Co-workers are already trying to guess who gets sent to #LA and who goes to #MS or even #TN.