TROPICAL STORM BERTHA

NWS ^ | 4 August 2002 | NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL

[RnMomof7]

It is very nice in Buffalo..no serial killers..no mosquitos this year..85 most of the time with a nice lake breeze..

[drstevej]

My wife lived in Buffalo as a girl. She is still shivering! Folks see my snow shovel in the garage (brought from Missouri) and say "What's that for?"

[Allegra]

I'm a weather geek - good job for a first post.

A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST ON MONDAY

My dog and I are heading for Lake Livingston at noon Tuesday. . . my first time off since the first week of June. If this storm makes for a rainy east Texas mid-week I'm am going to cry.

I hope we don't get any more of those violent storms we've had over the weekend. Saturday and Sunday were scary.

Hope you and Pooch have fun in Livingston!

[brat]

Ya done good, Loki! Keep safe Freepers!

[blam]

"This is precisely why I have not posted to this forum in all the time I have been here."

That is no reason to stay away. (If I'm not misquoted, shouted at or called names at least twice a day, well, that's a good day, lol) Shrug it off and jump back in.

[sunshine state]

Thanks for the info.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

LOL! Don't worry about what you say. Anyone not on the gulf coast doesn't get it. The "tropical storm" that hit our location last year had unofficially clocked gusts of 110. I believe it as we lost 2 50 year old oaks, 3 windows, and lot's of roof damage. But then again, that's the price we pay for living in paradise, and not in some snowbound city in the winter, LOL.

[backhoe]

Appreciate it... I actually noted to my wife yesterday that the weather we were having was "like it was when there's a hurricane somewhere else..."

Squalls, low, scudding dark clouds, gusty winds. Good to know the "weather eye" still works.

[cajungirl]

Hey I was in New Orleans for Camille,,what a storm!!!

[cajungirl]

Hey, I am in BR,,my sister said I need a fly swatter, a biohazard suit, a shotgun for the hazards here and now rain!!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Good report, lokibob - just read that Bertha has been downgraded from a Tropical Storm to a Tropical depression! STill a lot of rai coming in!

And the area off of the SC coast is now called just a "tropical disturbance" with the potential to develop into a tropical depression in the next 24 hrs. Looking at the pictures - it surely looks like a tropical depression to me! But what do I know? Backhoe your "hurricane sniffer" is a good one - so look over to the East and tell me whatcha think?

[drstevej]

***Hey, I am in BR,,my sister said I need a fly swatter, a biohazard suit, a shotgun for the hazards here and now rain!!***

The shotgun is mosquito repellant. Make sure you check out the restaurants while you are here. Awesome.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Couldn't get the image to post but the map here surely shows a storm building off the coast of SC. But again - it's only a "disturbance" - so what do I know?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Ok - this should load: animation. Maybe what's off the coast of SC is just trying to form and will just go away. Or maybe it will bring us some needed rain....if it could just leave the winds somewhere else.....

[OldFriend]

Was at a hotel in the French Quarter, alone, and a little concerned when they came around with those huge hurricane candles. It was so eerie seeing the lights of the police cruisers all night long. By morning the landcape had changed considerable but they seemed to recover pretty quickly.

[Cagey]

Some real beauties here. LOL

Hurricane Names-2002

Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Isidore
Josephine
Kyle
Lili
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred

[blam]

"Appreciate it... I actually noted to my wife yesterday that the weather we were having was "like it was when there's a hurricane somewhere else..."

That was exactly my description.

My lake was filled over night for the first time in three years, water is actually flowing over the spillway. Wonderful.

[Charles Martel]

...nothing was worse for New Orleans (in my lifetime anyway) than Betsy. We had eight FEET of water.

We lived in a shotgun house and had pulled the mattresses into the hallway (in case of broken windows). During the eye of the storm we went to sleep. Later we were awoken by neighbors banging on the door telling us to get out, the water was rising.

We lived in a house that was raised about three feet, and the water was already up to the porch. We lived next door to a family who owned the corner bar, and they happened to have a two-story house, so my dad carried each of us, piggy back style, over to the next door neighbor's house, where a hurricane party was in full swing.

The following morning boats came and took us to a place that wasn't flooded and we stayed in a shelter until we could get to a relative's house in Kenner.

I was five years old and I thought that it was all such fun.

Yes indeed... I remember Betsy's flooding, too. My home was in an eastern New Orleans suburb and the city officials were convinced that the entire area would be flooded because of incomplete flood barriers. So, we all went to my aunt's house in the center of the city - because like yours, that house was built a few feet above ground.

My parents' home didn't get a drop of water in it, while the location we chose flooded badly. I can remember seeing boats passing on Franklin Avenue and watching my dad's new '65 Chevelle flood to the dashboard. As the water came up, we moved to the two-story house next door.

As bad as the flooding was, Camille was immeasurably worse. My grandmother had a little house in Bay St. Louis, MS that was badly flooded (darned near floated away), and when I hear the name "Camille", I think of the images that greeted my uncomprehending young eyes, like this:

The Harrison County, Mississippi Library has quite a collection of photos - be sure to look at the "before and after" comparisons based on some old tourism photos.

Looks like Bertha is skirting the New Orleans area completely, hardly any rain here at all. We need the rain, but tropical weather we can do without.

[ClearBlueSky]

Thank you for saying that! It's really approaching the ludicrous when they start naming things that don't even have a closed circulation! Bertha is what we ,in New Orleans, call a ' shou-shou'. Little wind, little rain, no big deal. Oh, but the sensationalists who call themselves meterologists were predicting the landfall of the storm before it even BECAME a storm! How's that for reaching!
Sadly, all this does is make people who have never seen a real hurricane think that loose bunches of thunderstorms and a breeze of 40 mph is a Tropical Storm.
If ANY other professional was as lousy at their jobs as weather personnel are at theirs they would be unemployed quickly. Why would I believe someone who says a hurricane is going to hit us, while it's still hundreds of miles away, when they can't tell me if a thunderstorm is coming from the airport?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Good to know your lake is refilled!! We could use that kind of rain around here - but NOT THE WINDS!