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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Excuse me, but what do you think "Mississippi river silt" has to do with breaching levees?? The levees that might be breached are on Lake Ponchartrain---not the Mississippi, and the silt load of the Mississippi is dropped WAY out in the Gulf (which is why the swamplands are eroding---LACK of silt, not too much).
That's typical Art Bell type nit wittery.
Right on, Mewzilla. I do not consider any of the efforts to predict what this storm might do as "hyping".
The reason is that while the weather people can pretty reliably predict the direction that a storm will move, and where it might hit, they do not have the ability to predict the intensity at all. The storms are just too unpredictable.
The key, from what I read is the eyewall replacement cycle, and this particular storm was looking like an "annular" hurricane, rather than a tropical hurricane, so whether the eyewall would replace was uncertain.
I am hoping and praying that it falls apart at the moment. But we will not know for a few hours yet, I fear.
Well you can bet more MSM outlets will pimp Sharpton's and Martin Sheen's visits to kook Sheehan's camp from Sunday.
The dear boy dropped his Bloody Mary
;-)
I am still worried about the storm surge. Reading about the hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938, that swept through Long Island, and the New England area, the storm surge was absolutely devastating.
I pray that isn't the case today.
Right, that is what he said.
That was a Fox reporter so they moved off to the W Hotel. Later, I saw shots from MSNBC inside the Superdome so I don't understand why Fox was kept out.
Is that a current pic?
pressure now 918 mb
Actually, no. Most rainfall on south Louisiana drains away via the swamps and smaller rivers---not the Mississippi. Add to that that the Mississippi levees are designed to handle 3X the 1927 flood--an amount of water that is vastly larger than it is possible for any hurricane to "dump".
Sustained winds of 60 MPH within the city of New Orleans right now.
There was a real interesting video last year from the strong Hurricane that ended up traveling over Orlando Florida from the south east. Video was from close to shore, and you could tell a strong wind gust >130 mph was coming, because you could see the things traveling in it.
Superdome power now out, no heat.
It's Bush's fault!
Only the center of the storm has made landfall. The back half of the storm is still coming. Hurricane force winds for another 3-4 hours. It ain't over.
Heat isn't a problem...
Just the opposite...
If the hurricane doesn't destroy the city of New Orleans, and make the city permanently unihabitable, then some people are going to be disappointed. We will see the finger-pointing and accusations of hype, even though everyone could see a massive and well-organized system barreling into the LA coast just to start to fall apart right before landfall.
Whether this is due to water temps and depths along the coast, or interference of the ground on rotation, or whatever, maybe it is part of the reason that there has not been a Big One hit the Big Easy in a long long time.
For those who are disappointed that they don't get to see mass destruction (the city of New Orleans could still flood), just remember that this storm could have killed hundreds maybe even thousands of fellow Americans, caused tens of billions in damage, and destroyed irreplaceable historical buildings and artifacts.
And with this in mind, we should rejoice in the fact that the worst of this might still be avoided.
When I went to bed last night, it looked worst-case, now it looks somewhat better. Prayers from Georgia that it continues to fall apart over land, and continues to move forward faster.
Absolutely. All you have to do is look at the size of that storm yesterday afternoon, the massive red spot with a huge eye that had kept on its predicted track headed straight for a city that is already under sea level.
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