Corps to install cameras at all trouble spots this yr

[TSmith274]

Corps of Engineers announced today that numerous cameras will be installed to monitor all trouble spots within the New Orleans area hurricane protection system this season and beyond. So, should we get a hurricane and there is another failure... we'll capture it on video. Should be interesting, but let's hope we never have to review the tapes.

[sunny]

Wow - interesting.

Have you heard that they said the levees will not be ready for June 1?

[Aquawind]

That's cool. Let's just hope they are ready to act and get it fixed faster next time around in like a thousand years hopefully.

[Audrey2Katrina]

Wow - interesting.

Have you heard that they said the levees will not be ready for June 1?

Yup... posted it in off topic. The gates proposed for the 17th St. Canal (The one that flooded all of Lakeview) will NOT be finished as promised.

Surprise, surprise!

A2K

[sunny]

I'm betting on at least two evacuations this year. What about you A2K?

[TSmith274]

I'm not looking forward to the first storm entering the gulf. It's going to be ridiculous. I'd say probably one evacuation. Remember... they'll be a lot more cautious with evacs this yr... so I'd bet one at least.

And about the floodgates... they say June 15th now. Although privately many admit it probably won't be until mid-July. Gotta love the Corp PR department.

[sunny]

True TSmith, re: caution on evacs. One thing we don't need is mass panic. I hope we can avoid that. I doubt we can, but I also hope we can (if that makes any sense )

[Audrey2Katrina]

My money is on at least two as well.. possibly a lot more if you count the number of shell-shocked folks who are going to leave at the earliest hint of a storm heading remotely in this direction. But as to actual called for evacs... at least one, and a high probability of 2.

A2K

[T-man]

Evacuation this year won't be like last year. According to official estimates, less than half the population has returned to the metro area. Therefore, the traffic should be lighter than last year. I usually evacuate, but of course not until after I've waited until the last minute to board up my two houses, checked and rechecked on my elderly relatives, attended to their hurricaned preps as well. What I'm afraid of is an initial traffic snarl because of a slight population shift in some of the metro areas, westbank, and northshore in particular. But I think it will go smoother overall.

[HurryKane]

I'll do like I always do, evacuate at midnight. Not as many Louisiana folks headed north on 59 at that time

[T-man]

well, I usually run up 55 myself. At night. On my way to Tennessee.

[Rainband]

Hilarious. Spending Money on cams to view the damage rather than spending money to prevent it.

[Yarrah]

Uhm...if they see something going wrong with the 'protection system' on camera, it's already too late to do anything about it.

[vbhoutex]

Corps of Engineers announced today that numerous cameras will be installed to monitor all trouble spots within the New Orleans area hurricane protection system this season and beyond. So, should we get a hurricane and there is another failure... we'll capture it on video. Should be interesting, but let's hope we never have to review the tapes.

And how do they expect to power and for that matter protect these cameras during the heighth of a Hurricane(hopefully we don't have to find out!!)??

[Lindaloo]

Hilarious. Spending Money on cams to view the damage rather than spending money to prevent it.

Yep! What a shame!

[MGC]

It is not a waste of money. At least with the cameras in place the Corps can watch the levees fail, know they have failed and figure out for shure why they failed.....MGC

[vbhoutex]

It is not a waste of money. At least with the cameras in place the Corps can watch the levees fail, know they have failed and figure out for shure why they failed.....MGC

I ask the question again. If there is a Hurricane strong enough for the levees to fail, how in the heck are they going to protect the cameras and/or even power them? Anemometers can't stand hurricanes of that magnitude and/or do not record after power loss, wo what would be any different about a camera?

[TSmith274]

It is not a waste of money. At least with the cameras in place the Corps can watch the levees fail, know they have failed and figure out for shure why they failed.....MGC

I ask the question again. If there is a Hurricane strong enough for the levees to fail, how in the heck are they going to protect the cameras and/or even power them? Anemometers can't stand hurricanes of that magnitude and/or do not record after power loss, wo what would be any different about a camera?

That's a good question. You don't think that an agency that builds the best levees in the world can figure out how to keep a camera running??

[greeng13]

Actually the Dutch build the best levees in the world I think

But it would be difficult to keep them running....

maybe if they were "built in" to (not protruding from/on top of) lamp posts??? I do not remember seeing any of those down during Kat....

or just "embed them" in the levees themselves with solar powered battery backup for after the power goes out??? (solar sounds like a wierd choice I know but how much time between power going out and levees bursting and then sun coming back up would there be??)

[MGC]

We had plenty of down lamp posts over here in Mississippi. I wonder how well the cameras will work during the storm? The visibility is not that great during a hurricane......MGC