To: MindBender26
Hurricane Katrina Special Advisory Number 22
Statement as of 7:00 am CDT on August 28, 2005 ...Katrina...now a potentially catastrophic category five hurricane...headed for the northern Gulf Coast... A Maximum sustained winds are near 160 mph...with higher gusts. Katrina is a potentially catastrophic category five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some fluctuations in strength are likely during the next 24 hours.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 85 miles from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 185 miles.
Data from an Air Force hurricane hunter plane indicate that the minimum central pressure has fallen to near 908 mb...26.81 inches.
Coastal storm surge flooding of 15 to 20 feet above normal tide levels...locally as high as 25 feet along with large and dangerous battering waves...can be expected near and to the east of where the center makes landfall.
To: janetjanet998
moving even faster now..no way to get all those people out..not even close
To: janetjanet998
It will be Hell
We will survive.
91 posted on
08/28/2005 5:01:17 AM PDT by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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