Posted on 08/26/2020 3:47:14 AM PDT by Libloather
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana gathering wind and water that swirls over much of the Gulf of Mexico.
Satellite images show that Laura has become “a formidable hurricane” in recent hours, threatening to smash homes and sink entire communities. It has undergone a remarkable intensification, “and there are no signs it will stop soon,” the National Hurricane Center said in a briefing early Wednesday.
Laura’s maximum sustained winds have increased to near 110 mph (175 kph) with higher gusts, forecasters said early Wednesday.
“We are expecting widespread power outages, trees down. Homes and businesses will be damaged,” said Donald Jones, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Lake Charles, Louisiana, which is near the bullseye of Laura’s forecast track.
“I’m telling you, this is going to be a very serious situation,” Jones said.
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More than 385,000 residents were told to flee the Texas cities of Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur, and another 200,000 were ordered to leave low-lying Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana, where forecasters said as much as 13 feet (4 meters) of storm surge topped by waves could submerge whole communities.
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I can tell you this: As someone who lived through a natural disaster and its aftermath, I can’t imagine anyone I’d rather have in charge for one than Trump.
It looks like it will hit landfall in the morning hours on Thursday. Doesn’t Trump give his speech on Thursday? Yes, you are correct. Another convention interrupted.
where its fore cast to make landfall, theres really nothing along that coast...a few small towns and a lot of bayous and swamps...Rita hit there in 2005 as a cat 4 i think...and really didnt do much damage..
you’re asking if the group promoting global warming for the passed twenty years might be compromised with rabid leftists??
of course they are
Rita was huge though, you could still clearly see the eye when it passed over Dallas, though its winds were diminished.
Freaking Agnes hit *here* and really hammered my maternal grandparents’ little town.
They should just wrap it up tonight.
Anything done after will be “heartless”, “out of touch”, or “egotistical and sick”.
Good one...it’s early and my brain isn’t too sharp yet.
I was in the Southern Tier of NYS. I have a very healthy respect for water. Especially for water that’s not where its not supposed to be. :-)
Thats also when I learned that waiting for the government to tell you what to do is dumb.
In 2014 we got hammered again really hard.
At the 1:24 mark is the house across the road from where the guy left his dog in a crate in the lower floor and it drowned.
They moved away but I’m still pissed at them.
He had time to get his cat and try to push his car against the waters but didn’t even bother with his dog.
Every day I think of that poor terrified dog, waiting for someone to come for him.
The water started heading up my lane and I had all my critters ready to head for high ground but it stopped 75 feet short of the yard.
Cr**...That means it will probably affect us here in Upstate NY.
That. Was Awesome.
Thanks!!!
Wow. Hope the dog was ok. Good for you for being prepared. Agnes made me a prepper. And taught me never to wait for the government. For advice or for help.
I don’t know about your neck of the NYS woods, but mine could use some nice, gentle, rainfall. It looks like Arizona around here.
“Another convention interrupted” but we have never had someone like Trump before. He is very capable of making last-minute changes and he will
That can’t be true! Nothing like this storm has ever happened before!! This is TRUMPS FAULT!!! SUV’s ARE KILLING GAIA!!!! /s
When you’re 1600 feet above sea level and NOT near anything remotely resembling a river, it’s a shocker, alright.
There’s a natural spring south of me and a dead run across from my house that never has water in it unless it rains like hell.
Well, it did, and my “run” went steroidal and when it and the springs hit each other at the confluence at the culvert under the road, it went apocalyptic.
The culvert couldn’t handle that much water and huge rocks were being washed off the mountain and it all got jammed up.
The waters rose at a terrifying rate.
My neighbor was down in the run trying to clear out the rocks from under the old bridge that led to the one room school at the end of the lane and I was just waiting for him to lose a leg.
We talked him out of it before he got hurt.
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