Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII

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

[rwfromkansas]

what happened to the easternuswx forum?

[Gabz]

Go get some sleep.....you've earned more than just a 'cat nap'

[RDTF]

It begins. I think that means there is one sighted

[gpapa]

Missed you on the last thread
BURL1
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=burl1
0200 GMT on 08/29/2005
Wind Direction (WDIR): ENE ( 60 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 60 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 78 kts
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.21 in
Pressure Tendency (PTDY): -0.17 in ( Falling Rapidly )
Air Temperature (ATMP): 80.8 °F
[no update since 9pm cdt]

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

q = c GC V (2)

Comment: Per the equation for wind pressure, Katrina's strength is 4 times greater at 160 mph than it was when it hit Florida at 80 mph (not "twice as strong" as a Fox reporter said earlier this morning...note the "wind velocity squared" term.)

[bonfire]

May as well stay up with the rest of us!

[Sonar5]

Thank you for all the hard work you folks do.

[SouthTexas]

Prayers for all in the Southland and to all a good night.

[TypeZoNegative]

So when are all the other nations of the world going to help us? We helped them when their countries had tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes.

[GOP_Proud]

< ... you and me both, but my butt seems to be epoxied to this chair, ya know ? >

Me too. I've been glued here nearly from the beginning. I really need to go to bed, but I just feel so helpless. I want to be here.

[pax_et_bonum]

It is a well known fact,,any disaster discussion on FR is only done with recipes sprinkled in. I think in times of high tension, we turn to comfort recipes. Like chicken and dumplin's or lemon meringue pie or banana pudding with vanilla wafers. Pretty soon we will discuss grandma's jello molds. Then we will all go to bed.

It's a great stress-relief, isn't it?

Sort of like laughing at innocent jokes and family stories at funerals... it's healthy to laugh a little through the worry or the tears.

[jeffers]

The new (2200) +12 and + 24 hour estimated positions indicate the eye's center will pass over Port Sulphur, and pass 4.7 miles due east of Picayune. Closest point of approach to the downtown New Orleans center is 25.9 miles east of the city.

The 1600 +12 and +24 hour plots indicated a closest point of approach of 12.1 miles east of the city.

The 2200 indicated position of the eye's center shows either no indication or possibly a slight indication of a turn to the north. The 1826 plot was taken during a wobble to the east, and shouldn't be used for a course track by itself. The average of the 1255, 1600, 1826, and 2200 plots indicate landfall of the eye's center between Caillou and Moncleuse Bays.

[Coldwater Creek]

Someone was complaining about the recipes on the last thread, but us folks that have loved ones in the path need a little sidebar once in a while to relieve the pressure.

[easonc52]

Yowser--I am tired enough to think that was directed at me...

Thanks for keeping up the posts.

My main reason to keep watching is because my 3 aging aunts live in Hattiesburg, MS, and it looks like this time it may affect them.

I hope that the worse case scenario never happens to anybody.

[mhking]

Carl Arredondo - WWL-TV: Rotation around hurricane is increasing; tornadoes and severe thunderstorms being spun off more rapidly.

[Strategerist]

There is the potential of a tidal wave from that volcano in the Canary Islands that would devastate the entire east coast sometime in the next x number of centuries.

The majority of the tsunami research community has debunked this; avalanche tsunamis create jumbled waveforms that don't propagate thousands of miles like quake tsunamis.

However, I agree with you in the sense that people should take a good look at the more extreme natural disasters in their area.

However there's been an overfocus on truly exceedingly rare disasters like this La Palma thing, or Yellowstone Caldera blowing that 1) are so rare the chance of it happening in our lifetime is microscopic and 2) there's no evidence that they're even remotely impending.

What really needs to be looked at and publicized is realistic stuff like a 7.5 quake on the Hayward Fault in Oakland/Berkeley, a quake of the same size on the Salt Lake City section of the Wasatch fault (which due to the city dropping would likely permanently submerge most of the city under the lake), a major lahar heading down Mt. Rainier into the populated suburbs, etc. etc.

[RightWhale]

There is wind. Some of the webcams are rocking and rolling.

[Peach]

Thank you for taking the time to explain things. Sometimes I listen to the weathermen and they're talking Greek while you talk English. LOL