Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V

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

[MinuteGal]

Was your comment supposed to be directed at me?

Leni

[mware]

plane just flew through the eye. It is getting stronger.

[Jeff Head]

I believe Gilbert in 1988 had 185 MPH winds and a reading of 888. It his Jamaica and then the Yucatan. There may have been one other hurricane with a lower reading, but I cannot rember which it was.

[Gabz]

the smells and light and heat and wonders and frustrations and marvels that are that city....home of my childhood, how I have missed you...and now will I ever get to see you again?

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Knitting}}}}}}}}}}}}}

I am weeping with you.

[sheikdetailfeather]

180mph may become official soon per Fox meterologist. 902 MB

[Erik Latranyi]

Per FNC, Katrina down to 902 millibars, 180mph sustained winds.

[MamaB]

The eye is 40 miles across now.

[LA Woman3]

They aren't stopping the evacuations, just the flow direction?? That means they only had 24 full hours to exit with the contraflow. Great plan.

[berkeleybeej]

RE: news stations / reporters, etc.

I was wondering what decisions the news organizations are making about their satellite trucks. I guess the reporters can hightail it to hotels, etc to get high enough off the ground. But those trucks cost beaucoup bucks - what are they going to do about them?

[tomkat]

I didn't hear her say what song, but I can hear it as clear as a bell, ya know ... ?

[BJungNan]

And here it is, Sunday afternoon. The devastation will be underway within 12 hours. Now they raise the alarm.

How do they evactuate 480,000 people in 12 hours or so?

[Txsleuth]

Oh, my...thanks for the update, I think...sigh

[Howlin]

Don't you love Google Earth?

Look at this one he just did:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472358/posts?page=68#68

[AntiGuv]

If the eye passes to the east, they will get it from both sides. It's as simple as that:

Maestri says imagine what happens if a huge storm hits just to the east of the city.

"The hurricane is spinning counter-clockwise, it's now got a wall of water in front of it some 30 to 40 feet high, as it approaches the levees that surround the city, it tops those levees," describes Maestri. "The water comes over the top - and first the communities on the west side of the Mississippi river go under. Now Lake Ponchetrain— which is on the eastern side of the community—now that water from Lake Ponchetrain is now pushed on the population that is fleeing from the western side, and everybody's caught in the middle. The bowl now completely fills and we've got the entire community under water, some 20 to 30 feet under water."

Sorry to say, but your intuition is just plain wrong.

[abb]

Insurance?

[Tuxedo]

any word on how many are staying put in NO (resisting orders to leave?). Some of those Cajun folks are pretty stubborn. And also, any estimate on how many are still in the city? Baton Rouge is only upriver about a hundred miles or so... any evacs going on there?

[katykelly]

mark

[mware]

Try 100,00 not 480,000.

[Tarpon]

Last I saw, 215 mile diameter hurricane force, 400 mile diameter TS.

Katrina was about 50 mile diameter hurricane force when it left Florida mainland.

[Palladin]

I hate to admit it, but Fidel Castro did a better job of evacuating his poor and elderly to high ground during the last hurricane down there.