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Posted on 08/28/2005 9:35:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Still has a strong west component to motion, landfall might be well west of NO.
Thanks for saying that. Apology accepted.
Some folks down there don't have a choice.
Oh, thank God....I have had to skip posts...I can't keep up and must have missed that. Thanks!
Thank you for the info--please check in with us when you get back.
The Eastern half of a storm is always the worst. Mobile is East of the storm's predicted path. Mobile and everything West of Mobile will get hit hard. The Western half is dangerous, no doubt, but not as severe as the Eastern half.
Yes. They are in Mobile, because any farther west is a death zone, and too dangerous. This hurricane will kill almost everything in its path near the coast, with water and wind.
Leftists have always felt that way about people they see as "lower" than them - just look at the DDT ban, which led to the death of 50 million Africans from malaria.
If this thing hits at 179 mph, put a long string of expletives after the "Oh".
I can't do anything but hope and pray with regards to the folks in the path of this monster. Well I'll probably donate to the Salvation Army, but I just went out and filled up both cars and the gas can for the mower.
"I can't find references other than the usual square of the wind speed. (That is, a 90 mph wind vs a 30 mph
is nine times more destructive)"
Links are hard to find because you really need a lot of processing horsepower to deal with all the variables. Till some math whiz tells me different, the figure the "experts" left me with was roughly the cube of the velocity.
What is going on with the Fox info babes...they seem to have the giggles.
Did you alert NASA for a possible UFO landing? LOL
I like that analogy. Puts it into perspective a little bit. Think of rocks and sand and even worse plywood flying around at 160 mph.
Jet airliners can take off at about 130-160 mph depending on the aircraft.
Football will just have to go elsewhere. Lives are more important.
They better start advising people caught in any rush as night falls to get to the center portions of the highrises...and they better open them and provision them right now if they are not already doing so.
The reason I wouldn't want to be in the Superdome is that, even though it's big and strong, in such strong winds all it takes is large wind-driven debris breaking a hole in the side of the dome and the wind would continue to break open the hole and then who knows.
There are lots of houses that could withstand winds of average hurricanes but flying debris creates an entry for the wind and it's downhill from there. That's one of the main reasons we board our windows.
FNC reporters have elected to "ride it out" inside the Superdome.
Glad you survived. The news makes this storm sound Biblical in its impact.
Suddenly earthquakes aren't as scary.
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