1. 2011’s TWELFTH STORM FROM TROPICAL DEPRESSION 13 TO TROPICAL STORM LEE IN GULF OF MEXICO ON SEPT 2 TO DYING IN NORTHEAST USA ON SEPT 7 Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction

2. SEPTEMBER 2: TROPICAL DEPRESSION 13 BECAME TROPICAL STORM LEE

3. SEPTEMBER 2: FLORIDA BEING SANDWICHED BY LEE AND KATIA

4. SEPT 2: Lee is about 295 km (185mi) miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, heading north at 3 kph (2 mph); the slow pace means that it could be a SUPER SOAKER rainmaker BEFORE AND AFTER landfall on Sept 3.

5. SEPT 2: Almost half the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and a third of natural gas output in Lee’s path were shut down.

6. SEPT 2: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency in several counties expected to be hit with heavy rain of 25 - 50 cm (10-20 in) as Lee nears.

7. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared states of emergency in ten Louisiana parishes, and officials urged voluntary evacuations in parts of Lafourche Parish and Grand Isle.

8. SEPTEMBER 3: FORECAST FOR LEE

9. SEPT 3:LANDFALL FOR LEE The storm is expected to make landfall on the central Louisiana coast late Saturday and turn east toward New Orleans, where it will provide the biggest test of rebuilt levees since Hurricane Gustav struck on Labor Day 2008.

10. SEPT 3: LEE: A SUPER SOAKER IN POINT AUX CHENES, LA

11. SEPT 3: LEE: A SUPER SOAKER IN MANDAVILLE, LA

12. SEPT 3: LEE: MANDAVILLE, LA

13. SEPT 3: LEE: RAIN LADEN CLOUDS IN NEW ORLEANS

14. SEPT 3: LEE: WATER RISING IN LONDON AVE CANAL

15. SEPT 3: LEE: LONDON AVE CANAL IN NEW ORLEANS

16. SEPT 3: LEE: FLOODING NEAR LONDON AVE CANAL IN NEW ORLEANS

17. SEPT 3: LEE: A SUPER SOAKER IN NEW ORLEANS

18. SEPT 3: LEE: POT HOLE IN NEW ORLEANS

19. SEPT 3: LEE: WIND DAMAGE IN NEW ORLEANS

20. SEPT 3: LEE: DOWNED TREE IN NEW ORLEANS

21. The prospect of flooding in low-lying New Orleans evoked 2005’s memories of Hurricane Katrina, which flooded 80 percent of the city, killed 1,500 people, and caused more than $80 billion in damage.

22. SEPT 4: At 8 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center said Lee's center had come ashore on the Louisiana coast about 80 km (50 mi) west of Lafayette, LA with maximum sustained winds of 75 kph (45 mph) headed north at 5 kph (3 mph)

23. As Lee weakens in the coming days, the system is expected to unleash heavy rains over a wide area of the central Gulf Coast and the Tennessee Valley as it moves northeastward.

24. LEE (SOURCE: NASA’S AQUA SATELLITE)

25. LOUISIANA

26. SEPT 4: NEW ORLEANS escaped without a Katrina- type, breached-levee, flooding disaster and no deaths, but the city had some local flooding and tens of thousands were without power.

27. SEPT 4: Since Thursday (Sept 1), parts of New Orleans had as much as 37 cm (15 in) of rain; 40 cm (16 in) in nearby Gretna, and over 27 cm (11 in) in parts of St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes.

28. SEPT 4: OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION RESUMED Exxon Mobile and Royal Dutch Shell returned workers to some oil and natural gas platforms as Tropical Storm Lee moved out of the Gulf of Mexico, drenching LA, MS, and AL as it accelerated to the east-northeast.

29. ALABAMA

30. SEPT 5: FLOODING IN BIRMINGHAM, AL

32. SEPT 5: A RESCUE IN FLOODED BIRMINGHAM, AL

33. BESSEMER, AL

36. HUEYTOWN, AL

37. SEPTEMBER 6: As of 10 p.m., there were 213,000 power outages reported statewide, including 162,000 in the Birmingham area..

38. The Birmingham Shuttlesworth-International Airport received 16 cm (6.69 in) of rain between midnight and 8 p.m., breaking the record of 5 cm (2.1 in) set on the same day in 1949.

39. The auditorium of Pinson Valley High School collapsed during the night (therefore, no deaths), leaving 1-1 ½ m (3-5 ft) of rain standing in the building.

40. TENNESSEE

41. SEPT 6: FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN TENNESSEE (GREEN)