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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: Diddle E. Squat

That's very sad. I hope it's not too many people.


3,741 posted on 08/29/2005 12:31:37 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Hurricane casualties, or from the cemetaries?


3,742 posted on 08/29/2005 12:31:42 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: carl in alaska

And file the sights off your small-caliber guns if using them for bear.


3,743 posted on 08/29/2005 12:31:45 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Abigail Adams

Take your pick:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=++slidell++map&btnG=Search


3,744 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:01 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Probably from the mausoleums.


3,745 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:21 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Johnny Crab

Thanks!


3,746 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:40 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: 1Old Pro

Now that the storm is starting to move away, we'll start to see the cost. Granted, New Orleans isn't under twenty feet of toxic water with fifty thousand dead, like some were predicting...but "dodging a bullet" may not be the right term. Looks more like she dodged the first two rounds of the burst, but the third got her.

}:-)4


3,747 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:47 PM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Oh no.


3,748 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:48 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Good Lord. That's sad news.


3,749 posted on 08/29/2005 12:32:48 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Galveston)
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To: Jack Black
God knows what he is doing. He takes, he gives, he teaches. I never question his motives, unless I need to learn something from it.

sw

3,750 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:00 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Saved New Orleans)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Thanks too!


3,751 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:17 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Moose4

"Gut Shot" perhaps?


3,752 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:39 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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Any truth to the rumor Walter Matthau is alive and well and sitting on a bar stool at Pat O'Briens? Wearing a funny hat.


3,753 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:45 PM PDT by kinghorse
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To: Abigail Adams
here
3,754 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:53 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Moose4

No doubt, it's gonna be ugly.


3,755 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:58 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Did you not get enough coverage with all media focused on the hurricane for 24 hours?

What about the news in Europe, other nations, Iraq, Texas, Oklahoma, New York - are all to bow down to the hurricane and just stack up the news?

So, you will go on record as not wanting to have the news reported whenever it occurs. You wish for the media to determine when and what news you are allowed to hear?

I have not noticed that all local news and all national news stopped because we are at war in Iraq and people there too are dying. I have not noticed that only one news event at a time can be mentioned.

You have been propagrandized into accepting that the media will determine what you will hear - as in the round the clock coverage of Aruba, the ignoring of any good news from Iraq, and the power of the media to determine what you think.

I do not agree. You see - I am able to hear of more than one thing at a time. Maybe we should just have one channel and only the most "important" story that meets with the media approval be aired.


3,756 posted on 08/29/2005 12:33:58 PM PDT by ClancyJ (Life is a God-given inalienable right to all Americans - not just the chosen ones.)
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To: Moose4

I'm also sure the people that were directly in the path and have lost everything are not feeling like they dodged a bullet.


3,757 posted on 08/29/2005 12:34:06 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: YaYa123

Me too :)

Send Shep in over any of them. Although I still like Harrigan and Leventhal AND Greg Kelly from the Iraq war days.


3,758 posted on 08/29/2005 12:34:28 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: CindyDawg
Would I do it? To save a life ,yes. Would it be wrong? Definitely.

That's one confused moral system you have there. How can it be "wrong" to save a life?

It's a civil disobedience and someone doing this should be willing to accept the consequences which might include jail or getting shot.

Possibly so, but it's not morally wrong. Human lives take precedence over property. Especially in an emergency situation.

Man's laws may say it is wrong, but God's law supercedes man's law.

Your post is nobel but the thief stealing a TV probably feels like morally he is right too. In this scenario, all would probably understand but it's still wrong.

We can examine the morality of the action objectively. We don't need to compare it to a criminal's self-delusion. Helping someone to remain living by obtaining medicine for them is not wrong. It may be technically illegal, but it is not wrong. Maybe you think "illegal" and "wrong" are the same thing?

SD

3,759 posted on 08/29/2005 12:34:34 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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