Wait a minute -- is the causeway still OPEN?!
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Posted on 08/28/2005 8:10:23 PM PDT by NautiNurse
You guys are on a roll tonight!
Westward to Texas is I-10, I-12, depending on whether you go north or south of Lake Pontchartrain. They hook up together in Baton Rouge and merge as I-10.
I would guess that as soon as you get as far away as Sorrento or Ponchatoula you are pretty much OK. Slidell is toast. Covington is OK. Mandeville probably toast. Laplace could go either way.
My son-in-law had never seen Geraldo in his purple prose mode, as he was during his two-hour block tonight. The kids won't get cable, so they had NO idea how Geraldo talks when he is wound up! I swear, my son-in-law kept staring at the TV with his mouth open, and saying things like "I have never heard a news anchor talk like that!"
Yes. Very much a nail biter.
Glad to assist. Was on the phone earlier this evening helping to coordinate evac route with a LA FReeper.
I think I heard that the Dome can "hold" 30,000, but I haven't heard how many are there now. God speed!
We stay here at FR because somehow we feel connected....ALone we can do nothing, but connected through the most common need..food (recipes) to our spiritual needs (prayers), we feel stronger and coping is easier.
I just feel so very sad. Sad for those with families and their potential loses....Sadder for those without families who will just become numbers in the history books.
Blessings for your family. Get some rest. Congratulations on the new life in your family.
Around here , with storms or bad weather ,it has always been that no one goes home until all of the next shift arrives. No one. It wouldn't keep people from walking out though.
Well, there's been a couple of swarm varieties.
And, don'tcha know, our signon dates are not always accurate...lol.
"Looks to me like there's almost no way New Orleans misses the eyewall. Worst possible outcome for the
city."
Well yes, but....see how the 2200 +12/24 plot is drifting east of the 1600 one?
Fingers crossed, hoping the trend continues.
Max surge seems to take place from 355 to 015 degrees relative to the forward motion of the storm. As big as this one is, that swath will be pretty wide. I hate playing god, but I think fewer will die if the surge comes ashore someplace where the population center isn't largely below sea level.
The further east this storm drifts, the less the westward wind at the head of the eyewall will drive it into Lake P.
Note though, that she's slowing down, and that none of the actual data shows any eastward drift at all, not yet. The longer the winds have to drive the surf ashore, the worse the surge, no matter where it strikes.
I think the reality is probably lack of planning.
Cannot imagine being on the causeway with this bearing down. That would be terrible.
I don't do well driving over water either. I remember driving I-10 over miles of water it seemed like with signs saying to watch for the gators. I wouldn't have gotten out of the car if you paid me.
According to AM 870 down there. I forgot the number of the interstate, but it extends well into TX. 20MPH.
I'm off to bed for a while, a few hours anyway.
If someone can take over and report the BOUY's and BURL1, and ping me if you can.
Take care all, praying for those in the path.
BOUY's
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?lat1=27.6N&lon1=89.4W&dist=250&time=3
BURL1 (Land)
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=burl1
Regards,
Joe
Oh, my !
WWL-TV just noted that the SuperDome's single primary generator is underground... No word on any secondary generators.
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