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Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005Michoud/Katrina
The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye. (The worst place to be.) Just having the hurricane past does not end the danger - there's a lot of water that's going to drain past the city in the next few days. D.  SignatureTouch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL > The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears > the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye. (The > worst place to be.) > > Just having the hurricane past does not end the danger - there's a lot > of water that's going to drain past the city in the next few days. The roof has partially peeled off of the Superdome, and the Superdome was probably a dozen miles futher from the eye than Michoud. Meanwhile, downtown New Orleans looked to be slowly filling with water by late morning. Hip deep in some places, knee deep in others. - Ed Kyle > Meanwhile, downtown New Orleans > looked to be slowly filling with water by > late morning. Hip deep in some places, > knee deep in others. Latest reports put it at 6'-plus in eastern areas where pumps have failed. Off-topic for Michoud, but no less important for economic impact and the people who live there (we have friends there), are reports that Mobile Bay has surged past levees. The water is VERY deep in parts of the downtown. Signature"Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever." ~Anonymous "I believe as little as possible and know as much as I can." ~Todd Stuart Phillips <www.angryherb.net> >> The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears >> the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye. (The [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >The roof has partially peeled off of the Superdome, and the Superdome was >probably a dozen miles futher from the eye than Michoud. The news reports are extremely misleading on the conditions of the roof - the structure is mostly intact (altho leaking), what's been torn off if the equivalent of shingles. The white membrane is gone, but the structural concrete dome underneath is intact - the water making its way inside seems to be coming in via joints in the structure. (Like the roof of a typical stick built house - the sheathing is never meant to be exposed to the weather.) >Meanwhile, downtown New Orleans looked to be slowly filling with water by >late morning. Hip deep in some places, knee deep in others. Earlier it was reported that some pumps had failed - but those reports have not been repeated. The good news is that the storm surge was much less than forecast. D. SignatureTouch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL > >> The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears > >> the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye. (The [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > structure. (Like the roof of a typical stick built house - the > sheathing is never meant to be exposed to the weather.) There are at least two holes completely through the roof though. > >Meanwhile, downtown New Orleans looked to be slowly filling with water by > >late morning. Hip deep in some places, knee deep in others. > > Earlier it was reported that some pumps had failed - but those reports > have not been repeated. The good news is that the storm surge was > much less than forecast. A levee was reported to have failed somewhere on the east side of New Orleans, flooding a couple of neighborhoods one-story-deep. Here are some good "inside" thoughts about Michoud and the hurricane. "http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001601.html" I'm not sure, but I'm wondering, since Katrina seems to have really slammed into Gulfport and southern Mississippi, if Stennis, where the big engine test stands are and where RS-68 engines are assembled, may have been in the bullseye of this storm. - Ed Kyle >> >The roof has partially peeled off of the Superdome, and the Superdome was >> >probably a dozen miles futher from the eye than Michoud. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >There are at least two holes completely through the roof >though. Again, this appears to be exaggeration on the part of the media - the holes (according to reports) are where ventilators were torn away, not damage to the structural concrete. Speaking of idiocy - CNN is right now showing a video of an idiot who drove right into flood waters. He claims he didn't know how deep it way - despite an overpass a few tens of yards further down the road being clearly visible as being flooded to just below the level of the signs attached to the overpass. D. SignatureTouch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL Space.com says that Michoud has suffered some roof damage, but the severity of the damage is not yet known. "http://www.space.com/news/050829_katrina_michoud_updt.html" The good news is that the buildings are still there, and they're not under water. - Ed Kyle >>> The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears >>> the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye. (The [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > D. According to officials at Tulane Medical Center, there is a two-block breach in the levee that holds back Lake Pontchartrain. The breach is sending lake water down Canal Street. Water is reported to be rising at a rate of 1 inch every five minutes. |
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