Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI

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

[NautiNurse]

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. Thousands of people did not evacuate New Orleans. Outer bands of Katrina are reaching the Louisiana coast.

Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be in their safe locations.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi
Buoy Data Florida

Images:

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:

Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:

WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[Kozak]

Last time I was on Catalina Island (1983)they were battery powered.

[LadyBuzz]

I can't really - been watching Fox all day - but now Bill Hemmer is on & I'm not a fan of his

[Nita Nupress]

http://64.233.187.104/custom?q=cache:IzLg6XyU4O0J:txconstruction.com
/features/archive/0309_TCspecial1.asp+superdome+%22hunt+
construction%22+roof+design&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

McLain, who participated in construction of the Louisiana Superdome in the mid-1970s for Hunt Construction, said the supertrusses and design of the roof system are unique. "It's a much more lightweight structure for a roof system than you would typically see on an arena like this," he added. "In many ways, this structure resembles the Superdome and, even before that, the Astrodome.

"And even though the roof structures for those facilities are obviously much larger than this arena - I can still remember the area of the Superdome roof covers nine acres - the similarities are there. The major difference here is the weight. With Walter P. Moore's design, those steel supercolumns and supertrusses allow for a much more lightweight roof, which translates into many things, including reduced construction costs."

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http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:8X0cY7_2Mx8J:basketball.
ballparks.com/NBA/NewOrleansHornets/+superdome+roof+design+
steel+trusses+%22new+orleans%22&hl=en

(This is talking about the nearby basketball arena, but gives info on the Superdome wall pressures):

The nearby Superdome (approximately 68.58 m northeast of the new arena) had a significant effect on the wind pressure patterns for the new arena. The flow over the curved Superdome surface resulted in a strong downward, rather than horizontal, flow toward the new arena from winds coming from the northwest. This created positive (downward) roof pressures where there would normally be roof uplift. This load case had a significant effect on joist and joist-girder design for the roof.

The Superdome also affected arena wall pressures. If the arena were isolated, a northerly wind would create positive pressures on the arena's north face and negative pressures on its south face. However, as the winds come off the Superdome they cause a negative pressure in the space between the two structures, generating a negative north wall pressure. In southerly winds the Superdome causes a back pressure between the two buildings, creating a positive north wall pressure instead of a negative pressure. These results were somewhat startling at first and could only have been predicted using a wind-tunnel study.

[Pirogue Captain]

"I thought it was , pumped a lot of "PAIN.
ie;drugs"



It does sound exactly like pain or pane, doesn't it? I'm not sure how pain stands for drugs. Now 'cain could be for cocaine, but 'cain doesn't sound quite right either. There HAS to be some official lyrics online somewhere, but I haven't been able to find them yet... lol

[meyer]

Boy friend maybe

I'm not in a position to assess Shep's preferences. :)

[TomGuy]

Tom how old is that photo?

It was posted on another website around 6 pm Central, but it didn't have a timestamp, so I don't know exactly how old it is.

I just thought it an eerie view.

[IndyTiger]

CNN showing a long line of cars on the interstate moving slowly away from NO. Right now Katrina is moving faster than the vehicles are.

[mercy]

Wow. Hellstorm.

[gopwinsin04]

Sugar Bowl capacity is around 79,000 for the dome according to Wikipedia.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Something he said was very telling, "Just because a structure is large and heavy does not make it safe-sometimes, the bigger they are the harder they fall. Nature is stronger than the ideas and buildings of men".

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Not an engineer, evidently.

[proud American in Canada]

Hershey kisses and potato chips....yummy, try them together..

mmmm... sweet and salty together... brings back fond childhood memories of popcorn and chocolate in movie theaters. :)

[mjtobias]

Scary!

Looks like a black hole.

[Age of Reason]

Like that movie - what was it with gene Hackman and Shelly Winters - oh 'The Poseiden Adventure'

We used to call it the 'Upside-down Adventure'

[al baby]

Sorry about your Business man and a seaplane to boot thats one of the greatest thrills to land and take off from the water I love it

[solitas]

<ceaseless campainging>
Awww - just give his studio job to Dari!

[ken5050]

The FOX weather girl, Janice Dean..looks/sounds like she's having an on/air depression. It's affecting her...

[cgk]

Is that what happened in the movie? I saw about 15 minutes of it and didn't finish. I wanted to, but didn't have the space. I only remembered storms disrupting supplies + terror attacks.

[Halls]

When did Bill make his way onto Foxnews?

[gopwinsin04]

[Clemenza]

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad When you're tryin' to find your way home, You don't know which way to go? If you're goin' down South They got no work to do, If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home. Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you... Going down... going down now... going down....