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Posted on 08/26/2005 10:25:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
still moving almost due west..maybe a tad north at 275-280 degrees..take a look at the vis loop....you can see the "hurricane" within the hurricane..aka the inner core
"why are some voluntary???"
I think it's because our incompetent Gov. Blanco can't make a decision...
Good to see you today. I know the stress of watching and wondering again is awful.
Thank you for THAT clarification. I've been reading his forecast since last yr probably 'cause you posted the link to that board. I have found his hurricane forecast better than most.
You can really see the eye on the latest satellite images.
http://www5.wright-weather.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48399&perpage=25&pagenumber=4
Impressive hurricane.
'cause nobody has the guts to tell Boudreu he has to leave his fishing camp.
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Hoping for that for Blam's well being and NO's also!
I don't know....
It looks like they keep predicting that thing to turn north,
but it keeps going to the west.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's gonna fool everybody and hit US instead...
If I were in NO, I'd evacuate NORTH, and stay away from the coast altogether.
Probably many will stay even in a forced evac because they have grown used to evacuating and nothing happening.
I sure hope I am wrong.
TPC now saying it could hit CAT 5 status at some point.
Airport in New Orleans still running as normal today, tomorrow call the airline for status of flights.
I grew up and still live in Florida. I've watched the storms my whole life and thought I had a "handle" on how they behaved. Last year's storms and this years totally floored me. The usual behavior isnt holding true. I never saw a hurricane go south, go into a loop and hit the same state again, go up the middle of state and maintain hurricane winds once it hit land--but that all happened last year. Made a believer out of me!
I was never afraid of a category 2 or less storm but these recent ones have an unexpected punch when they hit. My daughter lives in the Cutler Ridge/Florida on the Lakes area of Miami and yesterday they sustained ALOT more damage than they should have from a minimal category one.
Wherever it hits--be it NO or Panama City, I would get out NOW. People do weird things when the deadline gets closer. Last year, we had county govts NOT opening shelters here until the last moment--and NOT advertising them as open either--to prevent out-of-town evacuees from filling them (ticked me off, they pay taxes too!). People rode it out in trailers and in parked cars off the interstate exits. Not good. Last year during one storm, part of I-10 west of Panama city just collapsed and it took weeks to repair. If you need to evacuate dont count on optimum conditions to get out.
If you do ride it out, --first put a toe tag on--then get WATER more than anything and batteries for a radio. I didnt want to eat but hearing people on the radio made us feel normal for the weeks we were cut off with no water, no electric, no phone, no ice (and hotter than hell here). I also learned to clean house and do laundry before the storm hits--living in dirt is the pits when you cant run a vacuum, etc. Get an old fashioned can opener, clothes line/pins, and a gallon of bleach. Remember that during the storm, tornadoes are a huge hazard--turn your AM radio to 54. It will squeal loudly if a tornado is in the area. (dont know why, but it did do it last year when one came within a half a mile of us).
Im praying for anyone in the path of the storm. Dont take anything for granted, get out now.
sw
I sometimes listen to Rush on 870 AM over here in Mobile.
I told her when I spoke to her on Wednesday to be aware that they could be on the dirty side ... but they were confident there wouldn't be any problems "'cause most of the storm would be up north."
BIG mistake
As a result of that nonchalance (as she said: "THEY TOLD us there wouldn't be any severe problems down here") they did nothing.
They lost power at 8pm on Thursday, and she didn't even have a few buckets of water for toilet flushing .. so mid-way during it all, she put some buckets outside, and said they filled to the brim in no time.... there was actually a wall of water .. it was such an extreme deluge. Luckily, the next door neighbor has a hand cranked water pump, so they're fine with water.
They have the generator running, so the refrigerator is on, but there's been no service agencies out there yet (as I knew there wouldn't be), they didn't board up, and she said the wind was horrible .... 80-90 mph. They have trees down everywhere in their avocado grove, but they're lucky that the roof survived fine and no fruit was hurled through the windows... they're picking it up off the ground now to take to the packing house.
As I told her and I got a "OH YES!!" -- they had a cheap lesson. She said she'll NEVER be so lax in a hurricane again. They're very very grateful that they got off so light.
Anywhere else is going to be far, far worse. Given the SSTs and lack of shear, Katrina will either be a Cat 4, or depending on ERC timing, a Cat 5 hurricane at landfall.
She certainly has the potential to be the Camille of this generation.
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