I guess the best we can hope for now is for it to pass west of NO far enough to avoid the eye. Looks too far gone to curve east enough to avoid pushing the lake into the city and over the levees.
It is like knowing the World Trade Center is going to collapse in 24 hours, but many wouldn't or couldn't leave, and there is nothing we can do.
"I guess the best we can hope for now is for it to pass west of NO far enough to avoid the eye. Looks too
far gone to curve east enough to avoid pushing the lake into the city and over the levees. "
Agreed. The course it is on now is the best we could hope for. Close to half the storm would be over land for a couple hours or more, bleeding off energy, before the eyewall ever made it ashore.
The supercomp models have been wrong before. The future of New Orleans hangs on them being wrong now. The next update will tell much of the tale.