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

[Calpernia]

Oh. thanks. I have been checking back in vs. following verbatum.

[AmericanMade1776]

cyborg...I doubt he has come to his senses..he probably just lost power or Harrigan has been blown to Hattisburg.

[Termite_Commander]

On a side note, can you imagine what would have happened to the Superdome if the storm had come through at its peak? If pieces tore off the dome when the winds were at 130 MPH... Sheesh!

[jdm]

"It and became an embarassment for Free Republic instead of an example of how great the site is."

I think the balance of news/humor on this thread has been perfect. Some may think "Humor? How dare you speak of humor on a day like this..."

However, please keep in mind that many folks in New Orleans, before going into the Superdome last night, were exhibiting surprisingly high spirits and one woman in particular -- forget her name -- held an attitude towards the impending storm which was to be admired.

Therefore, on one hand you have people who are at risk of losing everything maintaining a sense of humor and high spirits concerning this disaster -- these are the folks LIVING it right now.

And on the other hand you have posters here who are at risk of losing NOTHING -- thousands of miles away from the storm -- blasting others for essentially being guilty of nothing slightly more than that of being human.

[ChadGore]

I'm streaming MSNBC on the net . . . and I am SICK AND TIRED of reporters useing the terms "ground zero".

[BurbankKarl]

last night someone posted that the immediate delivery of gas was up 20 cents in trading...

[andyandval]

check out janetjanet1998's new posting on news/activism!

[Teri0811]

"I've heard flooding to ceilings & rooftops in N.O., seen pics of structural collapse in N.O., heard a levee broke in N.O., it's still raining, still strong winds (per radar), and they're going home? I am very confused."

Well now I'm confused...I thought that was supposed to be a sarcastic joke of some kind or another...people are actually leaving?!

[Coldwater Creek]

As we all are.

[not-alone]

You are not hyping, many people are in danger right now.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Sorry... I am sure you are concerned- but this is not a cable news show- it is a free republic- a political forum!

You can scroll past posts the same as everyone else. There are some people around here who need to seriously grow the heck up. Some people laugh- some people cry- some people act a fool- some people pray- It's a big world out there-deal people.

[cgk]

St Bernard Parish website is down, only available through google cache:

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Yv2Bk9o4uKgJ:www.st-bernard.la.us/+st+bernard+parish&hl=en

I was trying to see some pics to reference "what" exactly was under 25 ft of water.

[Frank_Discussion]

See post #2737 for some bad shinola!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Employee just came in and said gas stations all over town have increased price of gasoline by 20 cents/gallon in the past two hours

Would you happen to know where exactly the prices are rising, or is it being seen pretty much everywhere? I was hoping that prices wouldn't start to rise just yet.

(I still have to fill up my car!)

[antivenom]

FIRE ANTS...and gaters...lots of nasty lil creatures...and ohhh don't ferget the crawfish....

[cyborg]

They say he's still alive.

[conservative in nyc]

The 2004 population estimate for St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana is 65,554. (Census.gov)

[hc87]

Anyone know if this picture is from inside a tunnel?

I don't think so. It looks like the area over by City Hall.

[dread78645]

Hold on, Hold on, Hold on. The name of the Hurricane is Hurricane Ditka.

"Full-size Ditka? or mini tropical storm Ditka?"

[dirtboy]

check out janetjanet1998's new posting on news/activism!

I saw that. I'm hoping we can get some kind of media reports as to any surge topping (or not topping) the levees on the east section of NO.