Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

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

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

Images:

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

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:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

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 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

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

[aft_lizard]

http://info.insure.com/home/flood/
Who needs flood insurance?
By Insure.com

When your home is flooded, it can lead to financial ruin if you don't have the proper insurance. And note this: A basic homeowners policy won't cover your flood damage! You need flood insurance — a special policy backed by the federal government, with cooperation from local communities and private insurance companies.

About 200 insurance companies, possibly including the company that already handles your homeowners or auto insurance, write and service flood insurance policies for the government, which finances the program through premiums.

Although flood insurance is relatively inexpensive, most Americans neglect to purchase protection. Only about one-quarter of the homes in areas most vulnerable are insured against flood loss, according to the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA). In those areas, flooding is 26 times more likely to occur than a fire during the course of a typical 30-year mortgage.

[silentknight]

What kind of damage in Carrolton?

[Dog Gone]

From Reuters:

Shell said two of its oil drilling rigs under contract were adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. One rig is owned by Nobel, the other by Transocean Inc.

[Howlin]

Press conference with Haley Barbour coming up.

[TonyInOhio]

where are these examples of people without flood insurance, being paid off by the government? from my knowledge of it, all they do is provide low interest loans.

The type of aid varies depending upon the level of damage and type of disaster declaration. In the areas of most extensive damage, the assistance will be outright grants.

[Abigail Adams]

What is an oil rig, exactly? Is it a platform?

[CindyDawg]

Low interest loans would be better. If you know you have to pay it back you will do everything you can to minimize damages.

[Jack Black]

FEMA provides both 'grants' and 'loans'. Grants are not repayable. Usually the 'grant' is to make things moderately habitable, or provide for temporary housing. Loans are for permanant repairs.

[Babsig]

Are they headed for upstate SC?

[SunnySide]

"I really thought GA would escape the wrath of Katrina. This thing must be massive to have arms in Georgia."

I didn't. I've been watching the same intell weather map since yesterday. The northern storm (swan)neck got pulled down into Katrina and formed a solid neck, building up Katrinas strength. Now what is happening is the hurricane is like a YoYo that will snap back upwards north, the neck acting like the YoYo string.

[Johnny Crab]

where are these examples of people without flood insurance, being paid off by the government?

Not here. Ours is due by 9/15/05....creek is 200 yards from our home.

[Republican Red]

All is not well in Georgia. Rush hour is just starting and tornados being reported near I-20 and other major highways.

The Carrol County tornado look like they might be heading my way in Alpharetta.

The rain is really coming down here now.

[GummyIII]

Oops...try this link: Photo Gallery

[Johnny Crab]

where are these examples of people without flood insurance, being paid off by the government?

Not here. Ours is due by 9/15/05....creek is 200 yards from our home.

[Johnny Crab]

where are these examples of people without flood insurance, being paid off by the government?

Not here. Ours is due by 9/15/05....creek is 200 yards from our home.

[commish]

Per New Orleans Mayor : 40000 homes flodded in ST. bernard parish. 400 people known to be on rooftops, numerous bodies seen floating. :-(

THis is the scenario we feared. This is just one area of New orleans. Nothing has been heard yet from Venice and the area near landfall. Also, no reports what so ever from Pass Christian/Bay St. Louis area.

THis is utterly heartbreaking, everyone please pray for these people, and prepare yourselves for a catastrophe of the likes not seen by this country in many many years. :-(

[TonyInOhio]

Press conference with Haley Barbour coming up.

Anyone have a streaming link for this?

[BurbankKarl]

FEMA guy dressing down dumb reporter.

[Abigail Adams]

Wow, 400 people on roofs? God help them.