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Posted on 08/27/2005 8:05:55 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I'm praying it doesn't slow down. Andrew moved fast and that saved a lot of people. Hugo sat over St Thomas for hours and hours with 140 mph winds.
Andrew was Cat 4 but was re-categorized 10 yrs later based on new information. It's now officially a Cat 5.
Fox News has weather coverage now. I guess it's too early in the morning as yet.
I f I heard the woman on wdsu right a few minutes ago she was saying that one strengthed to sustained winds of over 200 mph when it made landfall so I'm guessing it's possible.... Specially given the fact that the path it will take brings it over water that just keeps getting hotter...
That's what I'm afraid of.
Well, here's hoping. Entropy is increasing and all that, right? :)
Displacing roughly 1 million people by car in this short a time is logistically impossible. I'm very concerned for people being stuck out on the road when this thing hits.
Camille....
Well they're going to have to DRAG people out of there. I know there are so people who refuse to leave. I just had a thought. All those cemetaries getting flooded with water will create a contaminated situation.
Thank you haven't gotten much sleep yet so I can nap today cause tonight & tomorrow will be a long haul...
It's not as if it starts with a fixed amount of energy and gradually loses it - - - the hot water in the ocean combined with the favorable atmospheric conditions allows it to keep growing and building - - - if the conditions change (cooler water, shearing winds, etc.) it will weaken, but if they don't then it can sustain itself . . .
Local radio is talking about backup in traffic. Everyone is wanting to go West to Texas.
Camille did, in the 60's
Regarding the airlift...keep in mind that it took six months to move 500,000 troops to the Middle East for Gulf War 1. There are not enough military airplanes to even make a dent in the NO evacuation.
Assuming you could scramble 100 C-130s and 50 C-5, C-141, C17 types (a doubtful probability), you could only board about 15,000 people. The airport would be utter chaos, the roads leading to the airport would be too congested, it just couldn't work.
I hope for the best in NO, but an airlift attempt will create more problems than it would solve.
Why only a few lanes open on this highway they keep showing?
Not just the cemetaries. Sewage, chemicals, gas...It'll me a poisonous mixture. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Well they're going to have to DRAG people out of there. I know there are so people who refuse to leave.
You are right! They all say the same thing, "It will turn"....
Damn. Just damn.
You make a great point, the danger doesn't lie strictly with the wind & the rain...The flooding is the biggest danger! Contaminates in the water, bugs, snakes,etc....... I say the biggest because as the storm passes the rain & wind goes away. The flooding stays for days !
I'm not sure why EVERYONE seems to be taking that one way out. Everytime I've seen the Causeway Bridge, it's wide open with traffic flying across it.
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