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Posted on 08/28/2005 9:35:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Everything else was pretty much untouched. If you were in a single family home of any description the odds were about one in a million against problems.
From what I can see, this disaster's about to wipe out a city. I'll take earthquakes any day.
Yup. I was telling another poster I've been in Southern California my entire life, and never sustained any earthquake damage, nor have any of my other family members living here.
It could be thousands, not hundreds.
Katrina is a thing of beauty
Yes, parishes are counties. However, parishes are also for the Catholic reference, as well.
In this case, the parish refers to the county, not the Catholic reference.
FGS, catch up.
It's 902 mb and 179 mph sustained winds, gusts to 210.
Skip to the end.........LOL.
Laurie broke into the "conversation" with Bastardi and Shep. I wish all these folks would stop shouting. They are beginning to sound hysterical. I know this is a deadly serious matter, but these guys are supposed to be professionals.
Knock it off.
A good friend of mine was a Navy Sea Bee in Gulfport during Camille (decorated for saving 19 people). Told me some dummies chained themselves to a bridge so they could watch the hurricane come in.
Camille washed a bunch of people out of a third story apartment during their "huricane party". Needless to say, the dummies on the bridge were 20 to 30 feet underwater "watching" the huricane arrive.
but how far west would it have to hit to lessen the effects? Bastardi saying his prediction is 30 miles east of New Orleans for landfall. So if the choice is 30 miles to the east with 100MPH winds with the flooding from the lake, or a dead on hit, which is better?
Shep: The time to get out has passed.
in your opinion, any chance this monster could wobble and veer away from a direct hit on new orleans, or does it look like it's on a pretty straight-and-narrow path toward NO?
this storm is more imposing than Andrew (i was living in Palm Beach County back then). it makes Ivan look like a child.
These idiots hanging out in downtown New Orleans are going to be bloated corpses in the sun Tuesday spreading typhus. They should send in the natl. guard and drag these fools outa there.
They need to get Hysterical if it gets these folks out.
This will be the worst storm to ever hit our nation. Ever...
Think about that.
"first thing in the morning and last thing at night cafe au lait and bignets at Cafe du Monde" -no place better for either. Used to visit NO often. Once my wife and I took 2 friends who had never been there. We both had kids in college. We loved to call them to tell them that we ate at Cafe Du Monde for dinner (of course we had had a huge lunch), but it still was fun to call them.
The ONLY plus here imo is that MSM will disconnect themselves from camp cindy.
He is irritating, but his forceful style is what is called for here. His perpendicular comment I was not familiar with. That maximizes the strength of the storm when it hits land, because the land's impact on disrupting the storm is minimized. The only thing that might help slightly, is I'm am under the impression that the eye tends to form, and then degrade and then reform in a cycle, and it may reach its max formation before it hits land, and be weakening a little bit. It depends on the speed of the storm to know what the exact timing is. I may have this form, unform, reform thing completely wrong. If I do, I hope someone who knows corrects me.
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"Someone should tell these people that the storm going down to 902 millibars does not mean that many establishments are still open..."
I can just imagine the conversation...
"Hey, do you think the grocery store is closed? I gotta go make some groceries before the storm hits."
"Well, I heard the A&P was closed, but the millibar was still open as of 9:02 this morning."
"Great, let's go get a 'Bita."
Sheesh!
1988. It hit Jamaica and then went on to hit the Yucatan and northern Mexico.
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