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Will not be any Saints marching in this season, not in New Orleans for sure.

That superdome is still standing and there was some damage, but I do not think it was a bad idea to put people there. Where else can you put them? People were drowning in their own homes. In my book it saved the lives of everyone inside.

It is much worse there than what you see on TV. I doubt very many toilets are flushing right now in that City. Being so low, I doubt there is much gravity sewers, and with no power I doubt many sewer lift stations are pumping right now, everything will be backing up. So yes, the washroom facilites would be bad there, but bad in a lot of places there.

When you think of no running water, you think we can give them bottled drinking water. Well you need water for sanitation too. To wash with and for the obvious.

Standard water conserving/sanitation measure in this type of emergency is to tell people to take a dump in plastic bag.

We really take running water and electrical power for granted these days.

hell I just want to know what happens when the Saints play their first football game.......who gets the seats the ticketbuyers or the flood victims?

I hope those people get to go home soon and that they have homes to go to.

Has anyone heard from frigetater? He's in Mississippi I think. He called it right in his thread.

http://www.hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthr...threadid=83273

low bid ?

I just read a few facts about the superdome...9,000 tons of air conditioning in that place


can you get 9,000 tons in 13 seer

Originally posted by doglips
The a/c is down..

yea, 5 miles down the street, upside down, stuck in a tree

With all the water and warm bodies in there they say the smell is getting pretty bad. I think Brian Williams called it the "aroma" or something to that effect.

could the panels have blown-off due to the 'expert' workmanship of those good-ol-boyz installers?

???

The govenor of Louisiana said this morning on NBC that having all these people is going to be a good experiment. I guess it is ok to experiment with the less fortunate and needy or perhaps it was just a poor choice of words.

The a/c is down..they have no power..generators can not power the a/c units only the lights (guessing too small of generators)...last year here in Florida we had some schools being used as shelters that ended up with roof's being torn off....I'm sure when they moved people there they had engineers swear it would hold up....once more paper facts meet real world and the two don't always match.

But then again people are still safer there than were they would have been.

It is times like this when some of the most intelligent, highly educated people, come up with the stupidest ideas. Each of those roof panels have got to be at least 10 x 20
thats a good size chunk of aluminum to be blown into a crowd.

wouldnt you know it , not an engineer in site to forsee this . Where are they when you need one?

Current photo
http://www.repubblica.it.nyud.net:80...trina/dopo.jpg

Imagine when the 200 + mph gust hit and those sheets start flying around inside, man this could be a real catastrofy.

What dumb M F'er came up with the idea to put 20,000 people in there. It's too late to evac them now.

I hear the A/C is down

Free estimates - 24 hr response time - ac tune ups -29.99

I can see the busniess boom now

I hear the A/C is down

oops , now it sprung another leak ...and another ....its raining inside the superdome now .

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so during the worst part of the cat 4 cane--how do ya get all of those people out of the dome and where do they go ?

it looks to me like you could get a lot of people on one of those things, anyone have any idea how many people you could get on em ?
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do you have any idea what you are saying? did you know that a c-130 is an airplane that is made to fly . What do you think it would do if it were packed with people and a gust of 130 mph wind picked it up and flipped it over.. ok it is a heavy plane and wont flip right? you put your family in one

I bet it will still be standing after the storm.
After all it is aerodynamic.
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I'm taking side bets on that-- aerodynamic-- engineering marval---

cause the roof is leaking! aluminum panels on the roof of the dome are blowing off according to ABC news

I think the structure itself will be there, they drill down to hit bedrock when they build those things, its the peripheral stuff that could get blown off , like scorboards and roofs, and what about internal flooding, if the roof blows will the dome be able to drain off fast enough will anyone be able to get to an exit, could the water level possibly be higher inside the dome than it is outside the dome ?

Just some things to think about.

If FEMA had a conscience they would use every weapon at the governments disposal to relocate those people for a while, because it sounds like they will have to leave when its over anyway because it will be uninhabittable for a while.

I'm sitting here thinking, that I know of 7 c-130;s that are parked about 100 miles from where I am at, and they sit idle at a time like this, now I have never been in the service or on one of these large planes, but I have seen them and it looks to me like you could get a lot of people on one of those things, anyone have any idea how many people you could get on em ?

Originally posted by oil lp man
I bet it will still be standing after the storm.
After all it is aerodynamic.

No doubt but just as the tiles blew off the shuttle what about the roof. Not saying it will but man this is a bad one.I don't think they've seen anything like this.

I wouldn't stay there.