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

[al baby]

I used something called clorox and now the stains gone but so is the pattern where i spot cleaned it Im in deep do do

[cfo]

NO breaking news blog

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

[Gondring]

Of course, fixing that silt distribution would be very easy---just cut two "east-west" channels well up the isthmus---one from the Missippi towards the east, and one from the Mississippi towards the west.

There you go. We're on the same page now.

The reason New Orleans is below sea level is because the LAND IS SINKING, due to the huge weight of all the buildings (built on Jello), and the pumping out of groundwater. Again--nothing to do with river silt.

You got two of the three parts right. Subsidence is definitely important, but it's not a differential subsidence based on the river water holding up the river or something--water is heavy, too. It is also the silt that builds the elevation of the river up. (Plus, note that the the weight of the thickness of sediments themselves bends the lithosphere regionally, not just weight of buildings.)

Without the river containing silt, it could cut deeper into the channel and carry that load out into the Gulf...making the river lower. However, with the silt load deposited, the elevation of the river increases as the city subsides.

[battlegearboat]

Cat and bird standoff being monitored in Pennslvania.

[ChadGore]

Special thanks are extended to the United States Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter crews stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi

PROPS the the reserve !

[Mr. Jeeves]

The morning after Andrew, all the talk was about how Miami had "dodged a bullet". No one had seen the devastation in Homestead yet.

[LadyBuzz]

you better put your running shoes on now - your ass is grass & your wife is the lawnmower

[bwteim]

Haven't listened to Marcia Ball before. Newman's entire album is great. Would probably be comforting to listen to it when the storm passes, sitting on a second floor balcony somewhere in the Quarter with a bourbon - assuming you sustained no major damage and you had some power or an iPod;)

"Marie
Marie, you looked like a princess
The night we met
With your hair piled up high
I will never forget
I'm drunk right now, baby
But I've got to be
I never could tell you
What you mean to me"

[burzum]

Perhaps it was the anti-theft alarm.

[cfo]

Power outages seem to have have hit almost everyone in the city, even Entergy New Orleans' command center at the Hyatt Regency Hotel next to the Superdome

[jayef]

Hard to get any news out of there right now. They caught a little bit of the NE Quad, but not for very long. I would still expect some heavy damage and flooding in the area.

[SoothingDave]

Second point to consider: All that rain falling NOW right of NO hasn't combined (flowed together yet) into what little flood control drainage paths are available. (Some of which/many of which are going to be clogged with debris.) BUT - all of the remaining rain up the Mississippi Valley/Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley over the next 4 days of continual rainfall WILL eventually flow south into the same Mississippi flood plain. A few days after that, and ALL of that water will going into and through NO through what's left of the dikes.

Don't try to confuse 'em with the facts.

SD

[cajungirl]

Carville isn't a meth head,,he is a bullet head or sort of a pin head. His head is just not right.

[spycatcher]

This thread had far more relevant news details before the hurricane hit land. Seems the kids took over today.

[Lazamataz]

Not pissed off as much as we are tired after supporting our FReepers in harm's way for several days.

Then everyone should get some rest. I've been sent nastygrams for some simple kidding around, and seen the normally staid dirtboy ripping into another poster for emitting some fairly good advice, and so on.

If they aren't in the rain, they should put away their Big Dog teeth, around here.

[Hand em their arse]

I think I just heard Cindy Sheehan has a caravan heading in the direction of Mobile, Alabama....

[dirtboy]

BUT - all of the remaining rain up the Mississippi Valley/Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley over the next 4 days of continual rainfall WILL eventually flow south into the same Mississippi flood plain. A few days after that, and ALL of that water will going into and through NO through what's left of the dikes.

Fortunately ( for NO ) there is a big-time drought further up in the Miss basin and into Ohio - and the river is something like 15 feet below normal. So the river will be able to absorb a lot of water in its current state without signficant flooding.

The State of Mississippi, however, is gonna get clocked - most of the state will be on the dirty side of the storm and over half the state will probably experience hurriance force winds.

[Abigail Adams]

They're saying drinking water has been compromised and there is now a boil order.