Louisiana's mammoth flooding: By the numbers

[sheshe2]

Catastrophic flooding has swallowed swaths of Louisiana in a deluge that the governor calls "unprecedented." But the breadth of the destruction can be hard to imagine.

Here's what the calamity looks like, by the numbers:

40,000: Homes damaged



6,900,000,000,000: Gallons of rainfall in one week



About 6.9 trillion gallons of rain pummeled Louisiana between August 8 and 14, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue.

That's enough to fill more than 10.4 million Olympic-size swimming pools.


13: Deaths across the state



$30 million: The estimated cost of the flood so far

31.39: Inches of rain in one day



20,000: People rescued

Gov. Edwards said 1,000 pets have also been rescued.



500 years: Expected frequency of a flood this big



The likelihood of a flood this catastrophic in the Baton Rouge area is about once every 500 years.

Since last August, five other floods across the country have been considered "500-year floods," according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


14.9 feet: Level Amite River on Wednesday
12: Parishes declared as disaster areas



President Barack Obama has granted Edwards' request for an emergency declaration in 12 parishes, the governor said Tuesday.

Edwards said he expects that number to rise, as he has requested emergency declarations in more than a dozen other parishes as well.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/us/louisiana-flooding-by-the-numbers/index.html

[lapfog_1]

1. We are all going to go broke

paying for the reconstruction every year (or twice a year) of homes destroyed (and cars and furniture and electronics) by these "once every 500 year" events

[blm]

15. And GOP insists this is nothing unusual.

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[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. trump climate denier "Hoax" advocate thinks a photo op

will make it all go away...here is a good read - tks for article sheshe2


https://thinkprogress.org/trump-louisiana-climate-change-hypocrisy-b0bb63a6804b#.31clg6xbf

snip -

“Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is taking his reckless and dangerous denial of climate science to the heart of a crisis fueled in part by climate change,” Sierra Club Political Director Khalid Pitts said in a statement. “That’s like a tobacco lobbyist offering health tips at a cancer ward.”

Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R), asked Republicans in Congress in 2005 to cut spending before sending disaster relief funds to Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In 2012, then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney faced backlash when he visited Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Isaac; Romney and running-mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) supported a budget that would have slashed federal disaster funding.

The deniers of climate change, goes deep into our American congress....

I just wish I could "wash those men right out of my hair" GOTV

[sheshe2]

4. Thanks for the link, asiliveandbreathe.

That was a good read.

Goddess, I can't stand looking at those two.

[Ace Rothstein]

5. White on radar? I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Dark red is usually bad and purple is very bad. Didn't know there was another level above purple. That's an insane amount of precipitation.

[sheshe2]

6. I know, Ace.

I can't wrap my head around those numbers.

[sheshe2]

7. Kick

[dembotoz]

8. 31 inches of rain in 1 day just beyond my comphrension

and a couple spots on the map got like and inch....go figure

[malaise]

9. Yep this was a disaster of epic proportions

The climate change deniers must be silenced.

[sheshe2]

10. And two of them were there today for a photo op.

Sad.

[malaise]

11. Saw that on the news minutes ago

You must see Don the Con moving away from the man hugging him - priceless

[sheshe2]

12. Missed that.

Was it because he was dirty or was it the color of his skin that was offensive to that prick Trump?

[malaise]

13. Was an older white man - and he sure didn't look dirty

I'd have an ad ready by tomorrow - 'this is what he really thinks of you'.

[sheshe2]

14. Maybe he wasn't rich enough.

However after that statue of Trump... I would not walk with in a mile of him!
Ick...eye bleach...Vulcan mind meld, take that image away.