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New Orleans Lakefront Airport
CNN video: NEW looks bad; partially under water. Heavy damage to most
buildings, particularly the large Millionaire FBO west of 18/36. Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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There is an AP story about the Federal disaster response. The FAA took
so much damage, that they are waiting for roads to clear before trucking in new equipment. Maybe, forever. In Charlotte County, Florida, Charley took out what is estimated as the equivalent of ten years of the 2004 rate of new construction. "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... CNN video: NEW looks bad; partially under water. Heavy damage to most buildings, particularly the large Millionaire FBO west of 18/36. Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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Dan
how bad did Gulfport get hit? I'm scheduled back in there on 20Sept vis strike bound NWA. How about BFM? Area?????? Rocky |
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how bad did Gulfport get hit? I'm scheduled back in there on 20Sept vis strike bound NWA. How about BFM? Area?????? Something's telling you not to go. -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I just go an email from Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic stating we may be
called to fly in supplies to the nearest suitable airport. Looks like I may end up as part of the disaster response. Michelle sfb wrote: There is an AP story about the Federal disaster response. The FAA took so much damage, that they are waiting for roads to clear before trucking in new equipment. Maybe, forever. In Charlotte County, Florida, Charley took out what is estimated as the equivalent of ten years of the 2004 rate of new construction. "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... CNN video: NEW looks bad; partially under water. Heavy damage to most buildings, particularly the large Millionaire FBO west of 18/36. Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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Took the brunt of the bigger storm surges. The Bay St. Louis bridge is
gone. The Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge is severely damaged. US 90 is damaged and impassable. wrote in message oups.com... Dan how bad did Gulfport get hit? I'm scheduled back in there on 20Sept vis strike bound NWA. How about BFM? Area?????? Rocky |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? It will be a while. When I did this job: http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Boats.htm#Dimillo The drydock was pumped down to put the ferry in at night because electric rates were cheaper. The drydock was the largest connected electric load in Maine and it would have cost $150,000 to pump it 15 feet down and 15 feet up in the day time. It still cost plenty to do it at night. Presumably, they will pump New Orleans 24 hours a day. The drydock was about 900 x 120 feet = 108,000 square feet. New Orleans, now flooded to about the same depth is 5,000,000,000 square feet or 46,464 times as large. At the daytime energy prices of Maine a decade ago, it would therefore cost $6,969,600,000 to pump the city out. The discharges on the drydock pumps were only about 100 feet long and the city pumps have the head losses of many hundreds of feet in some cases. Energy prices are going to be way higher by the time they get this system running. It might be cheaper to just leave it as a lake and rebuild somewhere else. A FEMA manager said yesterday that some young staffers just starting will still be working on the aftermath of Katrina when they retire. -- Roger Long |
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Roger Long wrote: "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? It will be a while. One of the biggest problems that they have is that most of the big pumping stations are diesel powered pumps and require constant manning. If I remember correctly they only have something like 5 days worth of fuel at each station. Craig C. |
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Can you imagine what the cost of diesel fuel is going to be by the
time they finish this project? We may be glad most of us are still burning 100LL. Of course, since that cost will be added to the cost of everything that moves by truck, a lot of us aren't going to be able to continue flying anyway. -- Roger Long |
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That won't be a problem as they need to repair Lake Pontchartrain levees
first since they pump into the lake. Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. The AP reports the I-10 bridge damage will shut down long haul east-west traffic totally ignoring that I-12 bypasses New Orleans north of the lake. wrote in message One of the biggest problems that they have is that most of the big pumping stations are diesel powered pumps and require constant manning. If I remember correctly they only have something like 5 days worth of fuel at each station. Craig C. |
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