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Refined products will probably be more of an issue than oil. They can draw crude out of the SPR if needed. That's what it's for.

The real question is how long the refineries will be shut down.

There's an article here:

http://www.nola.com/

And the [url=http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=flash%20flood%20warning]Naitional Weather Service has issued a warning ...

Not sure how many of the levees are still earthen.

But yeah, during Katrina, the levee failures came after the storm, not during.

The CNN reporter saw water bursting through a levee. Water was rising so fast the cops made them leave.

Later, the NOLA officials said the leak was actually under a gate in the levee, not a breach ...

I doubt all of those will become storms and come ashore in the US.

Still...there's a theory that storms tend to follow the same path during a season, for reasons they don't fully understand. For ...

Re: Geraldo....

On EasternUSwx, someone commented, "Too bad that we didn't get to see if a showboat actually floats." Laughing

Velshi, in an elevated house on Grand Isle, reported awhile ago that the first floor was starting to flood. (They moved upstairs.) I think he said the house was on 13' stilts, so it sounds like they ...

CNN confirms that a levee is failing along the Industrial Canal, and the Ninth Ward is starting to flood.

CNN weather guy saying the storm surge just beginning. There's hours more to go. He thinks the levees will fail, the only question is where.

I topped off my car over the weekend.

I don't drive much, and could drive even less than I do. I fill up maybe once a month, so topping off the tank gives me a lot more than three days.

I thin ...

CNN is reporting cracks in the Industrial Canal levees that were being overtopped.

They said the Lower Ninth Ward is likely to be flooded again.

I think Simmons said that if everyone rushed to fill up at once, it would drain the system dry.

CNN's weather man said on the air that he gassed up all his vehicles yesterday. He lives in Atlanta, but he was afraid that supplies would be disrupted.

The industrial canal levees are almost toppled according to news from the NO radio.

Toppled? Are you sure they said "toppled," and not "overtopped"?

Overtopped is okay, and expected. Toppled, ...

Traders are very short-sighted. Mostly, they're trying to predict what other traders will do.

Way too early to say what's going to happen. Remember, they thought NOLA had "dodged a bullet" afte ...