Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

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

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

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:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

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 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

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

[jeffers]

Somebody mentioned earlier that there may be a secondary line of defense, a levee seperating NE New Orleans from the rest of the city.

Anyone have maps of the levee system or more information on their location?

[kenth]

I'm not watching, but listening. I thought I heard them say feet.

[Republic]

Even yesterday, Landrieu obviously had worries about the strength and landfall of this storm, so did she warn the people of her state? No, she took it as an opportunity to bash the Bush administration. No doubt that she was hoping for death and destruction as it would play better for her politics. She's despicable.

In fact, I don't recall hearing ANY Louisiana officials willing to step up to the plate and tell people to evacuate. It finally took the President to lean on the mayor and governor to do something. Even then, they still had a wishy-washy attitude.

That is beyond outrageous.

She is a failure as a senator...she has NO vision for the SAFETY or the WELFARE of those who live in her state. SHE IS, as a US senator, part of the Federal Government. Blaming the Federal Government is REALLY factually, blaming HERSELF.

She has been WHINEING when she has the power and the position to have DONE EXACTLY what she waited for the President to do...as HE is the one who made the move to provide for the SAFETY of the people in HER STATE.

This INFURIATES ME.

She is lazy. And she is inept. And she should be ASHAMED that she waited, along with NO mayor, the govenor and others LOUISIANA officials, to protect their people and by doing so forced the PRESIDENT to become Daddy and order evacuations.

She is so afraid of making folks mad by forcing them to evacuate...that she forced the President to provide for their safety. She cares MORE about her re-election standing than the SAFTEY of her people. Heinous.

She is not a leader...she is a whinely petulant child who showed no vision or concern for the welfare of her people and depended upon the President to do HER JOB.

I hope NO along with the entire state throws this insidious, media pimp out.

She is NOT a grown up.

[Sonar5]

Temecula, California. The Red part of the state, big time...

You?

[benjaminjjones]

Win98SE? You're kidding, right?
and
XP is good. Get XP Pro.

I know, I know, I'm a computer consultant and work with XP and just about all the other MS workstation and server OS's.

I think I've said it before on FR, it's like my carpenter brother not having a banister on his dangerous staircase for years before he got around to installing one.

Plus, I've got years of crap loaded on my main workstation and dread upgrading it all.

[Peach]

FNC Alert: Steve Harrigan back outside.

[CindyDawg]

I'm not trying to be insensative but this was what I was talking about last night. If you stay, at one point you are on your own to survive. Rescue can't get to you to help. Praying for these people, esp the babies.

[steveegg]

Where is Laz when we need him?

Paging Laz. Paging Laz. Please pick up the white courtesy thread.

[Gondring]

Inches of rain sounds right.

[Boundless]

> ... an engineer in the dome specifically to monitor
> and assess any such problems such as this. He was
> quite confident that this is fairly superficial
> damage(roof fabric) not structural damage.

But that's almost an oxymoron. Based on the pre-storm
forecasts, the only engineers willing to be inside
during the storm would be the confident ones. The
skeptical engineers would have declined the honor.

[cyborg]

Hey! :D

[eyespysomething]

Winds at 135 mph at eyewall, surge 20+ feet

[cfo]

Terry Ebbert, New Orleans director of homeland security, said more than 4,000 National Guardsmen were mobilizing in Memphis and would help police New Orleans streets.

[gopwinsin04]

Water now flooding up to the attics in the areas where the levy was breached by Betsy before.

[Constitution Day]

I'm sorry to hear that.

My best friend from childhood lives NNE of New Orleans, in Ponchatoula.
He is in the Poconos on business but his wife & kids have evacuated to a co-worker's house in Opelousas.

[ChadGore]

Winds . .135 along the eyewall, storm surge . . 20+ feet

[jacquej]

I am hoping he is right. I listened to him as best I could. I have so many memories of unexpected strucutral failures that I tend to over-worry about the "best laid plans"...

and I care about the people in there. I hope they all remain calm, and do not panic.

[TheForceOfOne]

The roof structure is intact but huge layers of the roof have peeled off or flapping in the wind..

[fhlh]

New Orleans as in NOLA....
geesh...