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

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I worry for my niece's homes, and the homes of my sil's mother, and sibs. And the home of one of my best friends....She's had a horrid year already, anyway.

[3dognight]

I saw that too, but now its back to Katrina.

[RoseofTexas]

"Best thread tip ever,,I never knew that about the soap.
It's also useful in a spray bottle with a little water to thin it against airborne nasties that get into the house. Whenever a Hornet or a Yellowjacket gets in, I hit them with the dishsoap spray. They instantly fall out of the air and can be stomped with impunity. Soap on the wings prevents them from flying, and soap on the body interferes with their breathing."

LOL! Sorry for laughing but I seeing flash pics of that guy with the Windex bottle on My Fat Greek Wedding movie! Windex was the miracle solution for everything in that movie...funny stuff!

[Cedar]

I'm wondering how Natchez, MS is doing. Hope all of those beautiful antebellum homes are okay.

I was thinking of going to the pilgrimage there in the spring.

[Steve_Seattle]

"John Z of CNN reporting some looters, now."

Last night, I stopped at my mother's house and we were watching all the cars on TV leaving NO, with a few coming INTO town. My mom wondered why a few were coming into town and I said, "Those are probably the burglars and looters coming into ransack all the vacated houses."

[Torie]

As a generalization, the north half of NO near the lake is below sea level. The south part of NO nearer the river is above sea level. So I would assume that about half the city is underwater, with the depth depending on how far below sea level it is.

[Doohickey]

Charleston solved the looting problem by getting the word out that looters would be shot, not arrested.

[rolling_stone]

thanks..they are pretty tough old birds, hopefully ok...

[Johnny Crab]

Phyllis Wagner-Bolger and more than a dozen members of her family spent the night at Ursuline Academy on State Street, where her brother, Steve Wagner, is facility manager.

Monday morning, there was about a foot of water on the streets, she said. “There isn’t one big tree left. All of these cypress and oak trees on the outer perimeter, they’re all down. We lost power at 10 til 5 in the morning, and it was between 3 and 4 a.m. that we started hearing all the trees fall.”

Part of the roof also was blown off, and the skylight in a storage room shattered, Wagner-Bolger said.

“You look out there, and all this stuff is toppled. You know what’s still standing? The statue of Jesus with the outstretched arms. No matter what you believe, it’s pretty amazing, ” said Wagner-Bolger’s sister, Doris Bastiansen.

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

[TomB]

Well, there were posts about 100,000 deaths...I think I'd call that going over the top.

I'm not talking about posts, I'm talking about news reports. If you want to cherry pick individual posts, you can easily complain about ANYTHING.

Do you think the reporting the Weather Channel was doing yesterday was "overhyped"?

[BurbankKarl]

People trapped in a house...guerney road

metraire

3 pumps have failed....jefferson under mandatory boil order.

[bwteim]

Here is 11:40 CST Warning:

* AT 1137 AM CDT...WIDESPREAD FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
PARISHES ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE PONCHARTRAIN IN THE GREATER
NEW ORLEANS AREA...AS WELL AS IN PORTIONS OF PLAQUEMINES PARISH.
THIS CONTINUES TO BE AN EXTREMELY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THOSE
SEEKING REFUGE IN ATTICS AND ROOF-TOPS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO TAKE
THE NECESSARY TOOLS FOR SURVIVAL. FOR EXAMPLE...THOSE GOING INTO
ATTICS SHOULD TRY TO TAKE AN AXE OR HATCHET WITH THEM SO THEY CAN
CUT THEIR WAY ONTO THE ROOF TO AVOID DROWNING SHOULD RISING FLOOD
WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE ATTIC.

RESCUE MAY NOT COME UNTIL THE STRONG WINDS ABATE AS DANGEROUS
HURRICANE KATRINA MOVES NORTHEAST OF THE AREA.

[Marysecretary]

Hubby came home from Germany on a huge battleship and the waves overtook the ship several times. They survived but all 'wished' they were dead during the storm and toilets backed up and people were puking all over the place. He never forgot it. So, ships are made for this kind of thing.

[BurbankKarl]

of course it is overhyped...it is the MSM!

[Dog]

Oh well...you weren't invited to dinner anyway.

[BurbankKarl]

Best Western on Airline Highway (Airport) windows are gone and part of the roof is in the pool.

[Smogger]

Floodwaters surround a car in uptown New Orleans early Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 as high winds and rain batter the Louisiana coast as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall.

Things look dicey uptown.

[Howlin]

No matter what the thread, it's always the same types.

[theartfuldodger]

They didn't expect flooding!

[deport]

New Orleans area
Breaking News:A possible breach in the 17th Street pump was announced by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on WBRZ-Channel 2 around 11:20 a.m. Nagin said he had no confirmation about it and the information he has is sketchy and from police officers on the scene. Water was apparently flowing into both Jefferson and Orleans parishes. More to come.