Oil and Gas warning

[Anti Federalist]

OK, this is nothing but speculation at this point, but I see a "perfect storm" on the horizon, for retail oil and gas prices and availability:

There is the ongoing downturn in production due to Biden's "enforced scarcity" policy of Marxist economics.

There are going to be long term consequences to the fall of Afghanistan vis. crude oil production due to political unrest and upheaval, and groveling to the Saudis on our knees like a five dollar hooker is not going to help.

And then there is this: a Cat 4 hurricane possibly flattening Port Fourchon in Louisiana over the next few days. Nobody outside the oil industry will have any idea of where that is, or why that gritty little mud port is so significant. It is very simple: fully 90 percent of all deep water oil production is staged and serviced out of Port Fourchon. Vessels leave there and travel hundreds of miles to rigs all across the Gulf Of Mexico, from Texas to Florida.

It sits about 5-10 feet above sea level, less than 500 yards from the ocean. A significant storm scoring a direct hit will knock that port out for months, possibility years, with no other suitable ports available.

So, a word to the wise...over this weekend examine your fuel supply status.

Got a bunch of vehicles, fill them all up.

Got oil or propane heat, maybe call to have the tanks filled.

Got stored gas, might want to add some to your supply.

A week from today, that supply chain may be breaking.

Port Fourchon is right where 090 West meets the LA shoreline.

 

[shakey1]

Wise precaution… thx.

 

[sparebulb]

This is good advice for all times.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Yah, so this is shaping up to be a Cat 4 storm and direct hit on Port Fourchon.

I stand by my initial advice, over the coming week, update and top off your fuel reserves as much as is possible.

 

[Anti Federalist]

0900 update has the storm at Cat 5 strength, making a direct hit on Port Fourchon.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurr...h-as-it-bears-down-on-louisiana-coast/1006534

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Anti Federalist]

Direct hit.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1432018288003911689

 

[phill4paul]

I filled up the truck tank this morning. Getting ready to head on a milk/beer run and will top off the SUV.

 

[Swordsmyth]

A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to "catastrophic transmission damage," according to Entergy New Orleans.

A company spokesperson said the storm had caused a "load imbalance to the company’s transmission and generation" and that Entergy is "making every effort to identify and rectify."

The only power in the city is coming from generators, according to Homeland Security. No further information was immediately available.

In 2008's Hurricane Gustav, nearly all of Entergy's transmission lines into the city failed, and regulators and elected officials ripped the company for the poor condition of its grid. Of the 14 lines that brought power to New Orleans at the time, 13 failed.

Before the power company's announcement, Ida had left more than 614,000 Entergy customers in Louisiana without power as of Sunday evening at 7 p.m.

Ida made landfall twice Sunday, around noon at Port Fourchon and near Galliano around 2 p.m. as a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. Since then, the storm has weakened slightly as it has moved ashore with winds of 120 miles per hour.

The National Hurricane Center reported at 7 p.m. that the eye of the storm was roughly 25 miles southwest of New Orleans and 55 miles southeast of Baton Rouge, moving northwest at 10 mph.

The highest affected areas for power outages were Jefferson and Orleans parishes, where around 372,000 Entergy customers were without power at 7 p.m. due to the high winds that have been ravaging the area since Sunday morning.

More at: https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_79e1b5a0-0925-11ec-819a-6f35bf1995ac.html

 

[sparebulb]

A company spokesperson said the storm had caused a "load imbalance to the company’s transmission and generation"....

That sounds just as scientific as a "chemical imbalance" necessitating pharmaceuticals.

 

[oyarde]

How can a storm cause a load imbalance ? They all turn the AC down at the same time ?

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/16WAPTNews/status/1432165768096096256

https://twitter.com/GoyneSteven/status/1432177564143980549

https://twitter.com/GoyneSteven/status/1432191713238470656

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Anti Federalist]

This is conclusive proof to me that these weather propagandists are deliberating hyping storm strengths to create panic, submission, FUD and ratings.

There is no way this damage was consistent with a direct eyewall hit of a strong Cat 4 or weak Cat 5 storm.

 

[sparebulb]

In B 4 someone mentions Climate Change.

 

[Swordsmyth]

This is conclusive proof to me that these weather propagandists are deliberating hyping storm strengths to create panic, submission, FUD and ratings.

There is no way this damage was consistent with a direct eyewall hit of a strong Cat 4 or weak Cat 5 storm.

No doubt.

 

[Anti Federalist]

No doubt.

In the photo I posted, the facility on the lower left side is a PHI heliport. At the very lower left are mobile homes on stilts that are pilot's berthing and bunkrooms.

Still standing.

The building at the upper center is C-Port 2. Those are covered vessel slips designed for 300 foot vessels. The one at the top of the photo is slip 9, which can fit vessels up to about 500 feet. They have a traveling gantry crane in each one designed to load deck cargo on the vessels.

Those panels were designed to blow off and save the structure.

There are three CPorts in Fourchon, and I reckon all of them look about the same today.

Most of the rest of the buildings are still standing.

When Rita hit Cameron LA, in 2005, I was there a couple of weeks after the fact.

That was a Cat 4 storm. It hit with a 25 storm surge, and it washed that town off the map. There was nothing substantial left.

Grand Isle's weather station never recorded a gust over 85 knots, and they were just a few miles to the east.

This is the record from that station, pressure never fell below 971 millibars and wind speeds, even in gusts, never exceeded 44 M/s.

That's 85 knots in non communist measurement.

The damage is see is what to be expected with roughly 100 knot winds.

A strong Cat 2 or weak Cat 3 at most.

Bad, sure, but not the end of the world - storm of the apocalypse that was predicted or is still being reported as.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

This is conclusive proof to me that these weather propagandists are deliberating hyping storm strengths to create panic, submission, FUD and ratings.

There is no way this damage was consistent with a direct eyewall hit of a strong Cat 4 or weak Cat 5 storm.

James Lindsay posted last night on Fedbook: "We live under the thumb of a giant induced anxiety disorder", noting a headline from Axios: "Meteorologists ahead of Hurricane Ida arrival: We can't bear to see this on satellite"

Supposedly grown ass adults in this world have all the fortitude of toddlers. And they were specifically and intentionally raised that way.

 

[Anti Federalist]

How can a storm cause a load imbalance ? They all turn the AC down at the same time ?