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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 10:11:06 PM » |
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Wow, looks pretty bad... Here over in Tallahassee we got rain all day today, but I think we missed the brunt that Jax endured.
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2008, 03:33:36 AM » |
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Man....Jax has to build some kind of protection or something. These flood look a lot worse than last years.
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2008, 08:16:59 AM » |
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Great Pics!! Makes you really scared when you think what will happen when JAX gets hit with a real hurricane that is a level 3 or 4.............
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2008, 08:30:59 AM » |
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What made it worse, was this darn storm just sitting and dumping all that rain. Not to say that the city would do well if struck by a major hurricane...in my opinion...we certainly wouldn't!
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2008, 08:53:15 AM » |
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thats a lot of flooding. Wow!
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« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2008, 08:55:16 AM » |
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Makes you think Venice... opps....corrected typo  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2008, 12:19:16 PM » |
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Good gracious! That's pretty, pretty bad. Yeah, if a CAT 2 or above hit, Jax would really be in trouble; and especially if they are slow moving like Fay. Y'all pray that you never get hit with the big one! And if you do, hope and pray they skirt along at around 25 miles an hour vice 2 to 6 miles an hour like Fay.
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« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2008, 02:06:17 PM » |
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We have had absolutely no planning and no forethought going on for the past few years.
The Delaney Administration had a pretty awesome guy, Chip (Patterson?) who was supposed to be one of the best guys in the country for emergency preparedness working for them, but apparently hes gone.
We would be even more wiped out by a category 5 Katrina event than New Orleans was. shoddy buildings, no planning, no sea walls, even a regular sustained bout of rain and we lost power for 1/8th of the residents.
With a little more windpower and some collateral damage, we would be screwed right proper, and there isnt even an ongoing process to prepare for it.
I found this out while trying to gather information for what would happen if the city had to deal with chronic flooding in the future if sea levels were to rise even incrementally.
We are making no plans at all. We are not even making plans to make plans.
And thats not just because that right now, the Builders Association pretty much controls the political process in this town, and anything which would impede rapid development is discouraged, but primarily because we don't have any real vision or thinking about the future going on anywhere in the city.
 BTW, Katrina was a Category 3 when it scored a glancing blow on New Orleans. The problem there was not mainly wind damage but the flooding caused by the overtopping of the levees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina |
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« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2008, 02:11:32 PM » |
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Also, in New Orleans there was the not insignificant fact that much of the City is below sea level. That is not something which is true of Jacksonville.
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stephendare
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2008, 02:25:22 PM » |
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We have had absolutely no planning and no forethought going on for the past few years.
The Delaney Administration had a pretty awesome guy, Chip (Patterson?) who was supposed to be one of the best guys in the country for emergency preparedness working for them, but apparently hes gone.
We would be even more wiped out by a category 5 Katrina event than New Orleans was. shoddy buildings, no planning, no sea walls, even a regular sustained bout of rain and we lost power for 1/8th of the residents.
With a little more windpower and some collateral damage, we would be screwed right proper, and there isnt even an ongoing process to prepare for it.
I found this out while trying to gather information for what would happen if the city had to deal with chronic flooding in the future if sea levels were to rise even incrementally.
We are making no plans at all. We are not even making plans to make plans.
And thats not just because that right now, the Builders Association pretty much controls the political process in this town, and anything which would impede rapid development is discouraged, but primarily because we don't have any real vision or thinking about the future going on anywhere in the city.
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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2008, 02:33:38 PM » |
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Not to say that the flooding was insignificant, but it's not like every street flooded. I live in Avondale (another older neighborhood), and had no flooding issues whatsoever. The stream of water on either side of the street towards the drain was never more than two feet wide.
With that said, we need to figure something out in some of these areas.
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stephendare
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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2008, 02:39:28 PM » |
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no kidding Steve. And for the city as a whole.
Are you kidding that the place functionally collapses after a little rain?
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2008, 03:05:20 PM » |
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Makes you think Vienna
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2008, 03:13:06 PM » |
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Makes you think Vienna
Makes me think of Venice. Guess I was hungry or something....I corrected my typo...thanks... |
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