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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
that sure does not look like 1/ 12 of the roof
is'nt there a law against shouting "FIRE" in a theater?
Across the river from N.O. ?
Not yet.
Got a link ?
TV..Two sources..upper floor windows.
see post 1063 for source
Thank God for that! NO is still inside the center but now it looks like it is going to be in the north west part of the storm not in the north east part. That is a little bit better.
The LSU engineer who studied and modeled the worst case scenarios said that a Cat 5 passing within 30 miles of the city would cause the catastrophic overtopping and filling of the bowl. Of course that is just a theoretical estimate and an imprecise figure. The storm has weakened just enough and is just far enough to the east as to be right on the edge of that predicted 'line of worst case'. So there is still some hope, but it is very dicey.
Latest BOUY report 42040
Wave Height 51.
http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/buoy/buoy.cgi?8042040
Yes.
Mary Landrieu press conference in a preppy blue tied sweater! (barf alert)
Thank you.
Yep, Harvey is on the West Bank.
Husband (MIT trained architect) is optimoistic about the roof holding structurally as long as the metal doesn't get blown off. The wind can take off the liner and the polystyrene, but roof won't go as long as the steel stays intact.
He is hoping there is only a 5% chance that the roof will go, but says it depends on how everything is attached. Please pray he is right, and wait for the true experts to post, the structural engineers!
Yes, Harvey is right across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
Yeah .. that's what they said.. also a woman trapped in an attic in her apartment house.
You know once the integrity of the roof is broken, it provides a way for more air gust to remove more of the roof.
51 what? Inches? Feet?
Yes.
Map.
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