Published: August 27th, 2012 at 2:09 am ET
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Title: State of emergency
Source: The Advocate
Author: Robert Stewart
Date: Aug 27, 2012
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The parishes Jindal called on to evacuate are: Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Plaquemines, Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne and Washington.
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[Louisiana Governor Bobby] Jindal said he expects he will have to declare mandatory evacuations for the parishes after state officials meet again Monday morning.
State government offices in those 15 parishes will be closed Monday, the state Division of Administration said in a news release.
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Jindal said the state Department of Natural Resources is working with Texas Brine Co. LLC of Houston to make sure equipment at the site and surrounding areas of a massive sinkhole in Assumption Parish are secure.
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Title: 6:45 p.m. Tropical Storm Isaac
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: Aug 26, 2012
A state of emergency has been declared for Assumption Parish. A voluntary evacuation has been issued for low lying areas. State agencies are demobilizing at the Mobile Command Post in Bayou Corne. Schools will be open on Monday.
Briefings will be held on Monday and more information will follow!!!
Published: August 27th, 2012 at 2:09 am ET
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Gee d'ya think mebbe, just mebbe it was a bad idea for the U.S. E.P.A. to allow hazardous waste to be dumped into salt caverns without regulating the activity or having some kind of oversight?
Wish they had a giant circus tent they could throw over the sinkhole and surrounding area to keep it dry if the hurricane hits.
Wait, no, mebbe that would be a bad idea 'cos if anything goes wrong they could just hide it like they've done with the Fukushima Daichi #1 reactor ….
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Aw, heck, they'll probably just hide the problem anyway. "Any radiation or chemicals which may have escaped from the site are not of immediate concern for residents."
And don't forget this ubiquitous statement whenever there's a potential exposure hazard, "there is no immediate threat to human health."
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Taters,
That lie sticks as long as people and animals don't drop dead on the spot..
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This storm is BIG and it keeps moving west. The next 24 hours will tell us a lot more.
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Please just get out of the way of this hurricane. Who knows what Isaac is going to pick up and spread around, from that sink hole.
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The Atchafalaya is a large coastal swamp/marsh, linked together by many bayous, and it floods with a sneeze, since it's already flooded. Assumption Parish borders and contains a small part of the Atchafalaya, although the sink hole is not in the swamp. For an evacuation order to be given for an approaching hurricane is no big deal in itself, as it doesn't take much to flood areas around the bayous.
As I said before, a Cat 1 or 2 hurricane is no big deal, as all coastal construction is designed (by permit approval) is required to withstand 120 mph winds and tidal surges. Katrina destroyed anything that wasn't up to current design specs. The major concern would be flooding of roads, cutting off escape routes.
So little structural damage would be expected if it follows its current predicted path. And sinkholes would not be affected by the storms winds, only by the rains if they induce flooding, adding weight to the sinkhole pond. And Isaac is predicted to go east of the sinkhole, which means that rains would be lighter than on the east side of the storm (dirty side).
I'm not saying that the hurricane can not affect the sinkhole, but I don't expect a total collapse of the dome because of the storm. Isaac is not that big. I've seen too many Gulf hurricanes firsthand to think that Isaac will be a major problem, other than delaying any progress by sending people on the job to shelter. And they are not working now anyway because of orders from the government.
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It would be wise to test the rain/surge waters to determine the concentration of the dispersent chemicals, as well as the brew that is bubbling at the sinkhole. These will spread the pollution to destroy/effect cropland, fishing grounds, and spread the rate of cancers. Are researchers on this?
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Hi Sol Man
It would be wise to test..I'm the sure their researchers are on this. Now a days, I tend to question who will be protected corporations or the public?
Thank you Sol Man
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Hello WindorSolarPlease
Have appreciated your comments and links. Thank you! I think that we know the answer to the question, and it isn't to help the People, at least not since 1980. Since there is scant coverage on msm, where we would expect to hear these comments, I just had to put the thing out there. I do not believe that we are done with BP's dispersent mess. Don't know when we will be, but who would?
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