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

[LibSnubber]

"Others reported that homes on Campagna Drive were nearly underwater."

Wish I could thank you for this post. It confirms that sil's house (1 block over from Campagna) is underwater.

[kx9088]

How about: Big bore caliber (.375, .416, etc.) but just a flesh wound...like the removal of a limb.

[cyborg]

Well there's the rub. How about being a mom with a baby that needs an organ transplant? Dilemmas dilemmas. I think I'd just pray that it not be as bad it could be for everyone.

[cgk]

They are getting a lot of these reports aren't they? People trapped. Scary.

[Jack Black]

He is our Lord that spared New Orleans and the Gulf cost from the horrible death and destruction and substantially weakened the hurricane before it made landfall. In a siutation like this when all the might and power of man cannot do anything, only our Lord can save us and He did save us. Praise the Lord!

I'm sorry this makes no sense. If he is "lord of all" then he also created the storm that cost 9 lives already and millions of dollars of property damange. You want to priase him for sparing some, why not damn him for condemming others? Seems to me we can't really know much about his reasons or motivations in times like this.

[ElisabethInCincy]

That was so funny.. Its real hard to get my husband to laugh hes the ultra serious type.... He was cracking up watching Steve Harrigan Whoa Whoa Whoa !!!!

[BurbankKarl]

I have been to Chalmette...it rained a little and all the streets are flooded...

Yes, there is a refinery, ExxonMobile

[Uncle Ike]

"CNN is better but now I have a Harrigan 'whoa' sound life for eternal posterity."

Speaking of which, did I miss it, or has there been NO "live" reports from Harrigan since the "Whoa" episode?

The man is a fool, but I'd hate to think that something actually bad happened....

[Trust but Verify]

Well, that's one that is probably down for awhile.

[numberonepal]

Thanks for the Mobile article. I fear that all homes on Bay Front Road are toast, including my own.

[BurbankKarl]

Videos on ABC2....

NO cut off from Metrarie by flood waters....

[aft_lizard]

Yeah there has been reports since the Whoa.

[Types_with_Fist]

there been NO "live" reports from Harrigan since the "Whoa" episode?

Harrigan was in Gulfport, wasn't he? All that juvenile stuff he was doing was before the northeast eye wall hit there. Nothing since.

[TracyPA]

I love that Mississippi accent too! It reminds me of the writer Shelby Foote.

[cgk]

FL death toll is at 11 from 9. 3 evacuees died last night outside Baton Rouge (nursing home -dehydration?). I am afraid for the numbers from LA/MS with the flooding.

[SoothingDave]

If you somehow forgot or lost your prescription meds, there are hospitals where these types of things are available.

I can think of ways to have people seperated from their medicine when people are being forced to climb onto their roofs to escape. Such people may not be in a position to trek to the nearest hospital. It is not a violation of the natural law to obtain necessary supplies during an emergency.

I'm sure that if you find looters in a pharmacy, they ain't walking off with a vial of insulin and a couple of needles.

I'm sure "looters" are uninterested in such things. I was responsding to your absolute statement that it is always wrong to take without permission. That statement is false. If someone was having an anaphylatic shock in your presence, would you "steal" some epihephrine in order to prevent them from dying, or would you simply tell them "sorry, it's wrong, try to walk to the nearest hospital"?

SD

[maineman]

Tried calling the HS...cannot get thru.

[rwfromkansas]

God is God, and we are not. That is really all you can say. We can't praise him or bash him for these cases....his wisdom is just better than ours.

[MamaB]

Yeah, I tried to go to the Mobile paper but did not want to register so I went to the B'ham paper. It said that power was out as far north as Tuscaloosa. It looks like the worse part will be in the NW part of the state although we will get some rain and winds. I can see the top of the tree across the street and it is really blowing. If you learn anything else let me know.