Guest slamminshaun Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 Man, God help those people in Louisiana....Maximum sustained winds have now been greatly increased to 160 mph. Katrina continues not only grow stronger, but it continues to grow larger. That's the scary part!! http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siuol_leahcim Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 175 mph winds now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slamminshaun Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 175 mph winds now! Man...I hope those people over there don't screw around like the folks here did. I hope it weakens before hitting land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siuol_leahcim Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 the destruction is going to be severe if it hits new orleans head on :-[ god help those people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adam Singer Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 that storm is unreal, hopefully we dont see anymore like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4tribal1414779019 Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 Weather.com Katrina Video page Updatedhttp://www.weather.com/multimedia/index.html?clip=259&collection=topstoryMetereologists are saying Katrina is the strongest hurricane to ever hit NO if not the entire coast. Winds will be over 175-195+ by monday morning, stronger than the past hurricane Camile.This is unreal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swirlundergrounder Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 that storm is unreal, hopefully we dont see anymore like this I think this is just the beginning of them.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 td # 13 out there. ugh..... lets pray next weekend isnt a bust as well thanks to this one....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan2772 Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iwszone?Sites=:laz062URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGENATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTADEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTEDMOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALLFAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETEBLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITYVEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THEWINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERINGINCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BEKILLED.AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEARHURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...AREPOSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.LAZ038-040-050-056>070-MSZ080>082-290300-ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECTHURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORMFORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILLPERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILLONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEWORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTSAROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saintjohn Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 From the October 2001 issue of Scientific American:DROWNING NEW ORLEANSTHE BOXES are stacked eight feet high and line the walls of the large, windowless room. Inside them are new body bags, 10,000 in all. If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under 20 feet of water. "As the water recedes," says Walter Maestri, a local emergency management director, "we expect to find a lot of dead bodies."New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen. The city lies below sea level, in a bowl bordered by levees that fend off Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River to the south and west. And because of a damning confluence of factors, the city is sinking further, putting it at increasing flood risk after even minor storms. The low-lying Mississippi Delta, which buffers the city from the gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh-an area the size of Manhattan-will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million people inside and another million in surrounding communities. Extensive evacuation would be impossible because the surging water would cut off the few escape routes. Scientists at Louisiana State University (L.S.U.), who have modeled hundreds of possible storm tracks on advanced computers, predict that more than 100,000 people could die. The body bags wouldn't go very far.http://www.sciamdigital.com/browse.cfm?ITEMIDCHAR=D58B96E1-60BC-4C0F-BCE2-8C9B8A05275&methodnameCHAR=&interfacenameCHAR=browse.cfm&ISSUEID_CHAR=1353CDCA-AF4D-4B1D-85F4-5B68F2A7E17&ArticleTypeSubInclude_BIT=0&sequencenameCHAR=itemP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DaGoose Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 I hope everyone is ok. Be safe people!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jbit Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 This disaster in NO has been in the making for quite some time and it has been well documented in advance (as shown in saintjohns link).Louisiana is not the wealthiest state in the country, many below the poverty level that will be hit the hardest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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