Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V

NHC - NOAA ^ | 28 August 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[mikrofon]

Pardon the crassness, but the only evacuation this mayor is familiar with is probably the one that created the big brown spot in his pants...

[spectre]

OMG..UP to 100,000 people stuck in New Orleans.

No wonder I feel so sick.

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[chgomac]

They have time estimates for how long it will take for X amount of cars to get to safety. Someone posted that being stuck in a car will be deadly when this starts and the winds are already picking up.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

downtown NO is at 30 90. The closer to 90 it gets, the closer to the center of town it gets.

[beyond the sea]

902 ............. very very low.

[janetjanet998]

i just noticed from the NHC discussion..amazing.if true it will not weaken until landfall
KATRINA HAS STRENGTHENED RAPIDLY OVERNIGHT INTO A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE OVER THE VERY WARM AND DEEP LOOP CURRENT OF THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE HURRICANE HAS AN ANNULAR APPEARANCE ON SATELLITE WITH A WELL-DEFINED EYE AND SYMMETRIC OUTFLOW PATTERN... REFLECTIVE OF NEAR ZERO SHEAR.

[kitkat]

Tell us northerners what Contraflow is please. I assume it's traffic directed to go in only one direction, in this case OUT of NO. Is that correct?

[Black Tooth]

There you go again, comparing the energy of 10 to 15 atomic bombs to a tiny sonic boom. Next thing you'll be comparing the weight of a sonic boom to millions of pounds of flood water.

Maybe I am not getting through.

I only compared external forces "shaking" the earth, such as hurricanes, sonic booms, explosions etc. I never compared the magnitude of a hurricane to sonic boom. Only that both shake the earth in the area.

You are the one that implied and suggested that hurricanes can trigger earthquakes. To be clear, I completely disagree with that, and I am confident that most credible seismologist would agree with me, not you.

[shield]

These people have made some terrible decisions.

I'm sickened by the situation they've created.

Is this why they're called...THE BIG EASY...?

[sheikdetailfeather]

Up to 100,000 people stuck in New Orleans per Fox news.

[al baby]

your gonna get a time out for that one

[NautiNurse]

thanks for the correction.

[saquin]

This webcam in downtown NO shows people still walking around.

Please tell me that's not live. That's just ridiculous.

[Maigrey]

Weather girl for the Weather channel was on, and it looked 7-8ft swells already at gulf Shores, AL.

Hang on to your bloomers, it's gonna be a wild ride.

[shield]

LOL...

[Altamira]

Read post #852, and please try to control your temper. This is the Hurricane thread; the Flying off the Handle thread is elsewhere...

[mewzilla]

...REFLECTIVE OF NEAR ZERO SHEAR.

Ye gad.

[cubreporter]

Thank you for that beautiful prayer. Does the prayer have to be said three times or the last line. Not sure.

[mware]

Interesting Fox is advertising 50 Most Beloved Hymns.

I suspect lots of people will be turning to them in the next few hours and days.

[fortunecookie]

Thanks for the update and links. I've been away for a couple days and missed the earlier ones. My prayers and thoughts are with everyone in the storms path. God Bless and keep you and God speed in getting out of the area. When I first heard about it last week, Katrina was an uneventful tropical depression in the Atlantic. This seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime kind of hurricane forming.