Posted on 08/25/2012 6:38:11 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Yes this is a vanity and yes everything can change again in 12 hours...HOWEVER...BE REMINDED OF THIS QUOTE FROM TEAM OBAMA!!!
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"
The perfect storm might be developing for Obama as we speak as models for Tropical Storm soon to be Hurricane Isaac have shifted directly towards where?
New Orleans.
Take a moment and think about this scenario.
Team Obama with HHS and FEMA get together and make sure they do everything Team Bush didn't do in the days and hours leading up to Katrina. The week of the hurricane as it ravages the Gulf coast...Obama rides into town and saves the day with his army of loving media scum riding in tow to capture every shot and picture of Obama's government "hard at work" for the American people.
What's next?
A DNC convention to show images and talk up the heroic acts of Team Obama and before you know it...polls swing and shift and Obama is up 10 points in national polls because we know the average American is only interested in their short term memory and who was a hero to them lately and who is taking care of them and saving the day.
Get ready...because if these models indeed keep West into Louisiana....Team Romney has a bigger problem on its hands than a poor speaking Congressman out of Missouri.
Remember...at the end of the day...it is all about the media and all about their control and what they can do with images and words.
FEMA cannot even get water off a truck. Just ask anyone in Houston who went through Ike. If this storm his NOLa, the levees will probably break again, flood the city, and the power will be out for 3 weeks whether or not the levees go. All bad news for Obama.
INIT 26/0300Z 22.1N 77.2W 50 KT 60 MPH
12H 26/1200Z 23.4N 79.4W 55 KT 65 MPH
24H 27/0000Z 24.6N 81.8W 65 KT 75 MPH...NEAR FLORIDA KEYS
36H 27/1200Z 25.8N 83.7W 75 KT 85 MPH
48H 28/0000Z 27.2N 85.2W 85 KT 100 MPH
72H 29/0000Z 29.5N 86.5W 90 KT 105 MPH
96H 30/0000Z 31.5N 86.5W 50 KT 60 MPH...INLAND
120H 31/0000Z 34.0N 86.0W 25 KT 30 MPH...INLAND
Thank You. I was about to post the same thing. Katrina was at that strength (4-5) when she was sitting in the middle of the GOMEX. She bombed out and hit shallow cooler waters during an ERC. She was all surge at that point...I don’t think winds were higher than 130 in Gulfport.
The Economy will come roaring back with Lap Dances and Buffets for everyone. It will be Obama’s greatest triumph!
A good friend had his car stolen about 6-8 mos after Katrina, and the DeKalb Cty. officer who took his statement told him street crime had gone off the charts in the months following.
I think the only people who still care about NO are young white hipster duffuses.
The latest models have moved west. Tonight’s National Weather Service projection does not reflect this.
The latest GFS model (considered the most reliable, and certainly so on storms this year), ran during the last hour and shows a direct hit, right up the river, on NOLA Tuesday night.
If overnight models are in agreement, watch for major warnings from the NHS tomorrow morning, evacuations and panic in Louisiana.
Katrina was a tropical storm until a couple of hours before making Florida landfall as a Cat 1 hurricane. It, like Isaac, did not intensify ujtil it hit hot Gulf waters.
I hope the similarities end there.
People are underestimating this storm right now because the eye is over cool deep waters .This is going to change once it hits the Gulfs 88F+ waters .
It will most likely be a cat 1 over the keys and then build up to at least a cat 2 once it gets between Naples and Tampa (should be offshore in the Tampa Bay area on the low tide so that’s good for the area but they will still see flooding from the surge ).
This storm has not started it’s intensification process yet.
Next model run comes out 4 am EST..that will be the true test to see if these last runs have had a flaw in them or if we are locked in.
Re-posting comment from a few days ago:
In 2005 Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans resulting in the (I believe first-ever) cancellation of the Southern Decadence celebration which is a gay Mardi Gras.
After the city was rebuilt, this event started up again building numbers back to previous 100,000+ levels, but was cancelled again in 2008 due to Hurricane Gustav.
The levels were reduced somewhat in 2011 because Tropical Storm Lee scared off many from outside of New Orleans traveling in for the weekend resulting in about 20% hotel cancellations.
This year’s event is scheduled Wednesday, August 29 through Monday, September 3.
New model run throws a 140kt cane into NOLA.
that's exactly right. There is no where near the energy in the Gulf to fire up this hurricane.
God sending signals...
Maybe O-Bah-Mah will suspend his campaign to deal with the crisis.
Looks like it’s gonna park over Charlotte, NC ... wouldn’t that be a hoot !!!
August 29 is exactly 7 years since Katrina. Look at projected landfall here. The storm is named Isaac. I can’t speak for God, so let’s see what happens. I’ve got a bad feeling, though. And this will really hurt the whole country economically, if it does happen.
FWIW, Katrina actually missed New Orleans.
“FWIW, Katrina actually missed New Orleans.”
Thank YOU, TheRiverNile!
Lordy, y’all! Issac is nowhere near as bad as Katrina!
First, Isaac, no matter where it hits, will be a CAT 1, or 2, and has not been much stronger, if that strong, before now.
Katrina spent most of her life in the Gulf as a CAT 5, and her storm surge, plus the fact that she was a big, fat, slow hurricane, did the damage to MS.
(I have friends on the MS coast who said that living through Katrina was like living through a 24 hour tornado.)
Secondly, Katrina didn’t do the damage to NOLA.
THE LEVEES BROKE SEVERAL DAYS LATER! I blame that on corrupt government, of which NOLA is known to have.
Sheesh...as one who has been through hurricanes, I don’t understand the drama on this thread.
“I hope Isaac is just strong enough to make the Occupy and Code Pink people so miserable they’ll look for another venue to occupy; but not strong enough to do any real damage. I hope and pray it’ll be nothing Obama can use for a crisis to exploit.”
Thank you, Twinkie. I totally concur with your comment.
The current water temps in the GOMEX right now? http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/egof_tmap.html 84,85,and 86 degrees. So...you both were saying?
I lived through Andrew...in deep South Florida...Andrew was like a nuclear bomb that went off in the middle of the night in the middle of a tornado outbreak. Katrina was a weakening storm going through a ERC in colder shallow waters when hitting MS. She was all surge....deadly for sure but Andrew was a compact bomb.
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