Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V

NHC - NOAA ^ | 28 August 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[steveegg]

The major news sites will have helicopters on charter for stuff like this

They'll need to hustle out; helicopters and hurricane-force winds don't mix too well.

[oceanview]

Shep interviewing another guy on bourbon street now - saying the media is hyping this.

[bikepacker67]

These knuckleheads on Bourbon street better just keep drinking - for many of them - unfortunately - it's their last hurrah.

[hole_n_one]

Shep Smith: Residents here are treating this storm as nothing but media hype.

[RDTF]

Can you imagine having that last name all your life?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Boyfriend of mine worked there at Cafe Du Monde in 1975. Oh, I miss that place, and the thick hot coffee...sigh.

[spectre]

Shep is ALWAYS on FOX :)

[Howlin]

Oh, geez, now I'm depressed........LOL.

[Bahbah]

our Canadian brethren offered up their site. Don't know if that offer was a one time event.

No, they are always there for us.

[John W]

Got me talking to the tv."Look at a satellite image this time, buddy!"

[Cementjungle]

Shep is talking about the fact that people don't believe the media on storms anymore because it's all hype.

Those ppl are all potential Darwin Award winners, IMO.

[steveegg]

Shep is talking about the fact that people don't believe the media on storms anymore because it's all hype.

Hey Shep! Get out of the way and maybe they'll believe you when you tell them to get out of the way.

[flutters]

lol

[cschroe]

Lowest recorded pressure in the US was something like 857, in a hurricane that passed over the kesy in the 30's, I think.

[sassbox]

my husband and I just went out and filled up our tank. $2.53 in New Jersey - pretty steep but I think it will look like a bargain in a few days. Thank God Mr sassbox has only a 10 minute commute to work and I can walk to a bus stop for my university.

[DocRock]

Shep Smith: Residents here are treating this storm as nothing but media hype.

...that runs off all the tourist and they lose a lot of money...

[GOP_Proud]

Per Shep's report, the people in the bar think it's a "cry wolf" scenario. I wouldn't bet MY life on it.

[Tarpon]

North to the piney woods, go north. In the south, the tall pine trees are your friends.

[Altamira]

"Sounds like the foriegn vacationers who are stranded there. Poor folks."

If that's the case, I guess I'd drink, too. Poor folks.

[MplsSteve]

I saw that too.

Bastardi seems to think that NO will get a double whammy from Katrina, one from the initial storm surge and then the overflow of Lake Pontchartrain right into NO.

Ouch.