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Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. Thousands of people did not evacuate New Orleans. Outer bands of Katrina are reaching the Louisiana coast.
Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be in their safe locations.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi
Buoy Data Florida
Images:
New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait
Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop
Northwest Florida Long Range Radar
Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop
Other Resources:
Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics
Live streaming:
WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
| Category | Wind Speed | Barometric Pressure | Storm Surge | Damage Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Depression |
< 39 mph < 34 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Tropical Storm |
39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Hurricane 1 (Weak) |
74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
Minimal damage to vegetation |
| Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
| Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
Extensive damage to small buildings |
| Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts |
27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
| Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
Catastrophic building failures possible |
LOL!
If something like Katrina hit the 'Burgh,
yinz know that WPXI would send Dee Thompson out to cover it at 2 in the morning.
(But only if the temperature was below 20° F)
"I work hard in all kinds of weather to cover breaking news for the morning shows."
~ Dee Thompson
That poor sob has truly earned my respect.
IMHO, he deserves some kind of award for shouldering some of the crappiest news coverage assignments in broadcast history.
Yup. Lots of foxtrots. I'm mentally washing my mouth out with soap as I type :(
"I can't print what I'm thinking."
Does it look like this:
No sh*t? WTF?!
Just........damn. [g]
I'm with you -- if oil were still $25-30/bbl, then yeah - let it ride. But our economy is already stressed with fuel price increases. My personal over/under call for this week is $90/bbl. We need a proactive intervention in this case.
Someone suggested adding your location to your tag line. I thought it was a very good idea.
I think Shep will wind up taking one for the team.
From my post #61 above:
Hubby was in Slidell last month and heard on the local news that the police's swat team had gone into one of NO's projects to do a test. The fired off 2-3 shots at a time to see how long it would take someone to call 911. They fired over 700 rounds before the first call to 911 came in. No kidding. And rest assured, there ARE guns in that crowd and unfortunately, that's why they have to wait to get in. The saftey of the people in the Dome, especially the children, must come first. If a gun were to go off in the Dome with that many people in it, all hell could break loose.
http://www.superdome.com/site.php?pageID=2
Superdome Statistics
Total Land Area: (building, garages, and grounds) 52 acres
Height: 273 feet (82.3 meters)
Diameter of Dome: 680 feet (210 meters)
Area of Roof: 9.7 acres
Interior Space: 125,000,000 cubic feet
Total square footage: 269,000 sq. ft. (82,342 sq. meters)
Main Arena: 166,180 sq. ft. (50,685 sq. meters)
Convention Concourse: 76,711 sq. ft. (8,261 sq. meters)
Concrete: 169,000 cubic yards (131,820 cubic meters)
Structural Steel: 20,000 tons (18,200 metric tons)
Air Conditioning: 9,000 tons (8,190 metric tons)
Meeting Rooms (200 Loge Level): Four 19,000 square foot quadrant rooms (each divisible into 6 individual rooms, 28 smaller reception rooms)
Rest rooms: 102 (51 women's & 51 men's)
Private Box Suites: 137
Parking Capacity: 5,000 cars & 250 buses
Air Conditioning: 9,000 tons
Lighting: 19,507 fixtures utilizing 27,869 lamps
Video System: 2 DiamondVision panels, each 28'7"x 36'3"
Scoreboards: 4 message/scoreboards, each 8'x 88' 2 out-of-town scoreboards, each 4.5'x 46'
Electrical Wiring: 400 miles (640 kilometers), including fiber optic lines
Anodized Aluminum Siding: more than 550,000 sq. ft.
Escalators: 42
Elevators: 14 (9 passenger & 5 freight )
Maximum Seating Capacity: football 69,703, expanded football 72,003, arena concerts 20,000, basketball 55,675, baseball 63,525
Press Seating: 334 (football & baseball press boxes, and 11 broadcast/spotting booths).
Artificial Turf: Momentum by SportExe, installed July 2004
A reporter should be able to maintain composure even in the worst of circumstances.
It is part of the job.
You can cry when the cameras are off or during commercial. Not when you should be composed and rationally delivering the news.
I am okay when somebody sometimes does screw up and show some emotion. But, you can't do it all the time.
WWL - contraflow is about done on I-10, and there's almost nobody at the start of it.
It's 40.
And how'd you get your mouse to say that? :-)
After years of living in a house with four people and two bathrooms, that is a very scary ratio indeed.
It won't matter when the sewers flood and it all comes up. Eeeewww! My granny lived during the depression so she hoarded everything. I once counted 649 rolls of tp in her house!
You don't need an AQ terrorist--just some gang nutjob with a quick temper and a quicker trigger finger.
I am still in shock at some of the cavalier attitudes with some of those that are partying on Burboun Street.
The dynamical model consensus from the National Hurricane Center had Kat moving anywhere between Appilachicola and NO. The path being quoted by the NHC was somewhere EAST of Pensacola.
That said, those models almost uniformly shifted west early Saturday.
The Mayor of NO was a moron for NOT having the wheels in motion beforehand on at least Friday, more like Thursday..
Why are people going into a single structure is beyond me.
Maybe they had no where else to go.
I went to a Microsoft developers convention this year. The men's rooms had the lines, the women could just walk in. But IT is a kind of anti-universe.
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