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Posted on 08/27/2005 8:05:55 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I feel sorry for all the innocent animals too.
The Houston area is very flat. There are lots of deep drainage ditches to help prevent flooding.
It's a natural tendency I suppose, but in this situation it will be deadly - to procrastinate making the decision to evacuate, or to be cavalier about not leaving - and then, when it gets really bad, change your mind and jump in the car and try to flee.
Me too, me too. :(
So true. I do hope folks use some common sense and get out safely while they can.
Seems we do like to hang onto the last minute and it's not wise.
Hurricane Andrew of 1992 made landfall over southern Miami-Dade County, Florida causing 26.5 billion dollars in losses--the costliest hurricane on record.
Records are made to be broken. Compared to Katrina, Andrew will seem like just another tropical storm.
I thought that's what I remembered about the ditches. I've tried to google about Houston being either above or below sea level by a few feet but am having no luck yet in finding any info. I know when I was growing up we were taught Houston was a little below sea level. Of course, with new and improved ways of measuring, the maps may have changed.
The Tree and the Reed
“WELL, little one,” said a Tree to a Reed that was growing at its foot, “why do you not plant your feet deeply in the ground, and raise your head boldly in the air as I do?”
“I am contented with my lot,” said the Reed. “I may not be so grand, but I think I am safer.”
“Safe!” sneered the Tree. “Who shall pluck me up by the roots or bow my head to the ground?” But it soon had to repent of its boasting, for a hurricane arose which tore it up from its roots, and cast it a useless log on the ground, while the little Reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesops Fables
I think Houston's about fifty feet above sea level.
Morning all...Questionfor the group...I recall last year, on one of the many hurricane threads, somebody posted an article about a plan to build a huge 40' high wall around several square blocks of NO... a last-stand refuge for those trapped by flood waters. Anyone recall this, or have a link?
They live next to the Brazos River south of Houston. It is a little bigger than a ditch..
If this is accurate....
440
URNT12 KNHC 280951
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 28/09:21:10Z
B. 25 deg 32 min N
087 deg 20 min W
C. 700 mb 2381 m
D. NA kt
E. NA deg 000 nm
F. 054 deg 144 kt
G. 326 deg 016 nm
H. EXTRAP 915 mb
I. 8 C/ 3052 m
J. 20 C/ 3055 m
K. 13 C/ NA
L. CLOSED WALL
M. E04/30/25
N. 12345/ 7
O. 1 / 1 nm
P. AF302 1712A KATRINA OB 04
MAX FL WIND 144 KT NW QUAD 09:16:00 Z
MAX FL TEMP 21 C, 331 / 11NM
SLP EXTRAPOLATED FROM 700MB.
Holy bleep. Look at that pressure. 915 mb. Yikes.
I knew that! ;^)
I was referencing more about Houston proper than I was outlying areas.
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Open letter to FEMA and Bush..declare a NATIONAL emergency
I don't recall that.
Frightening........ with so much time to travel over water near 90 degrees.
That makes it a Cat 5. At least by that standard.
Although I believe it also needs to have substained winds of 155 as well to be officially a Cat 5. But seems highly likely it will make that at this point.
You're right. I heard a meteorologist say that when they get that big they are their own "weather system," and they make the weather, other systems do not have an effect on them.
Earlier it was reported that the winds are already 145 to 150.
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