Live Thread - Hurricane Katrina, Part IV (Update: Now a Category 5 )

NOAA - NHC ^ | 27 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[jetbanana]

No, I can't get 870am. I can receive stations in TX, but for some reason, no stations east of me. I'll keep trying!

[cyborg]

Folks in mobile homes probably don't want to leave. They probably won't have anything when they come back :(

[cschroe]

You think with 275 miles of water that is 90 degrees plus and minimal shear this could come close?

[mewzilla]

Well, the disaster part I can get a handle on. We had Agnes up here in '72. We lived with the aftereffects of her visit for quite a while. It's physical aspect of the storm itself, the energy it generates, that I can't get a grasp of. How the thing does what it does. It's just horrifically awesome.

[SE Mom]

Sure is beginning to look that way, isn't it?

[Sally'sConcerns]

I think it's already been declared a Cat 5.

[cincinnati65]

Put simply, for New Orleans: This IS the worst case scenario.

[NautiNurse]

This storm is so huge--the tide way over here is about to breech the sea wall.

[Lessismore]

The strike probabilities of the center passing within 65 nautical miles of the following places at 4 am CDT was:

11% Panama City
19  Pensacola
23  Mobile
26  Gulfport
30  Buras, LA
29  New Orleans
24  New Iberia
12  Port Arthur

[Ellesu]

If you have any questions regarding road closures, and evacuations... You can call the State Police hotline number... 1-800-469-4828. If you are wondering about the availability of hotel rooms in other parts of the state not affected by Katrina, you can call 1-800-994-8626. This number is being offered by the Louisiana Department of Tourism.

[newzjunkey]

I just don't have a grasp on what this is like being another southern CA dweller. I've been in tropical storms but no tornadoes or hurricanes.

[NautiNurse]

Great info Ellesu--thank you very much.

[advance_copy]

This could be the end of New Orleans.

[cincinnati65]

And there will be no less than 500 people in the Quarter having "Hurricane parties".

[cschroe]

My sister-in-law bugged out of New Orleans yesterday morning, driving her four kids, four dogs, and two cats up to Baton Rouge where she boarded the animals. Long trek timewise for short distance. Think she's headed west today. Her husband took a much less congested and faster route to definitive safety, flying his Super Hornet up to a base in MD, as his squadron was scrambled out of NO. He's with VFA-204 River Rattlers. He had it easy compared to my sister-in-law Katie! Like they say: "Wife: Toughest Job in Naval Aviation"

[cyborg]

The party will be over when it's too late. They'll try to call the police and of course someone will try to rescue the darwin candidates out of their mess.

[Carolinamom]

In that bumper to bumper traffic leaving NO, there is the real possibility of some cars running out of gas and blocking other cars behind them.

[newzjunkey]

Could be an end to the historical French Quarter.

[NautiNurse]

Heard a report in the wee hours the trip from NO to BR took six hours.

[kingu]

I've been through a weak typhoon on an island. I've seen how far the storm surge can go through. I can't imagine this.