TROPICAL DEPRESSION BETA Discussion Thread

I started getting special marine warnings about an hour ago on myradar app, and ever since then, it's ramped back up here where I'm at.  It's back like it was the first 48 hrs.  
I haven't gone out with the hand held wind gauge to clock it, (I've about had enough of dealing with that stinging rain.  The novelty of it wore off... 2 days ago.), but it's 
absolutely screaming.    

For those that didn't read the wind speeds I posted about over the past few days, I'm about 30 miles +/- SSE of Fourchon.  Friday night through Sunday night, we were getting nothing less than 50+ mph winds.  Most of that time we were getting constant 60+ mph winds with gusts well over 70 mph.  Some of the biggest and most violent waves I've ever witnessed. Today has been much calmer, and it's been blowing like a winter time blue northern.  But compared to the first two days, it was plumb chill and relaxed.  lol.  

The one thing that hasn't changed throughout is the rain.  It has been an unbelievable amount of rain.  (the whole yard is flooded far as you can see in all directions, lol).  I watch the radar, and it just keeps building and building.  I click on future radar, and it always shows that blob moving out some kind of way.  Blowing off to the east, sliding to the west following beta, and a few times even moving up onto land.  I know "future radars" are not very accurate, just an idea of what's to come.  Regardless... it's been wrong.  That blob has not moved, and for the past hour and some change, it's gone haywire. 

Got off I10 in Laplace on way back to Baton Rouge (3rd time across  spillway today), and that was a mistake. Did get the food I needed but 51 was taking on water and the onramp back onto 10 was pretty sketchy. Glad I had a higher profile vehicle and saw other cars do it first to show it was makeable.

A whole lot of water being pushed that direction.

Beta looks like he’s having another blowup of storms?

And it is still my understanding, 8 years after Isaac, that 51 and I10 are the only levees for LaPlace. What does that really equate to..4or 5ft above sea level? If I’m wrong correct me. So at this point of surge even a moderate TS coming from the right direction would flood them again. Why can’t they just build an 8ft levee 100 ft N of I10 in the swamp?

I'm not sure of the numbers out there but it was unnerving to see the water that high for a TS over in Texas. I know we've had the wind blowing at them for days but it's easy to forget how vulnerable they are.