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

[monday]

"You don't think they rationalize to justify they are stealing? Interesting. I never thought of a looter have a conscience."

The don't have a conscience. Thats why they don't have to rationalize. Thieves are amoral.

[Cedar]

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

Yes, we were sorry to lose Shelby Foote this year. His straight-forward comments will be missed in this PC-crazy world.

[Romish_Papist]

Another "we" here.

[Hildy]

I told her to get off the cell phone and conserve the battery in case she really needs it later. She said she kept hearing these noises and she couldn't figure out what it was...and then realized that it was branches snapping off the trees and flying around. OY VAY!

[r9etb]

They may have a BBQ, but do they have fuel for a month?

[conservative in nyc]

They'll be letting people back into Houma at 4PM, so things can't be that bad there. Thibodaux is further inland, so things are probably relatively good.

From Houma's newspaper, The Courier:

CURFEW ENDS AT 4 P.M.
Residents can drive Terrebonne Parish roads
Kimberly Solet

Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter will allow motorists back home beginning at 4 p.m. today. Shelters will allow evacuees to head home. Clean-up work from Hurricane Katrina has been taking place all morning, including picking up downed trees, cable and telephone lines. The work is expected to finish by 4 p.m.
Evacuees are urged to wait until 4 p.m. to head home, as all the clean-up work is not yet completed.

[CindyDawg]

I realize that many are poor and can't afford some of the stuff we have been talking about but I've always been amazed about how Americans pull together in emergencies. Whether neighbors,charities or other cities and states, they will get fresh water. We tend to take care of our own. Finding the one's that need help the priority now.

[silentknight]

Is everyone tired of hearing about the stupid dome in New Orleans?

Would be nice if the media would get off their fixation with New Orleans. Hundreds of other communities have been hit as well.

[owl37]

Indeed, as long as the rich people from out of town see that their playgrounds haven't been ruined, i.e. French Quarter and Biloxi casinos, that's all they care about.

If it were possible I'd reach into my tv screen and throttle the next reporter that says something along the lines of "looks like things didn't turn out so bad after all."

[Howlin]

Here is the link to Spiff's latest graphic with the locations of all the Freepers and/or their families that we know about!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472358/posts?page=337#337

[NautiNurse]

Indeed, radar is down for that location. Here is the NWS website for Columbus AFB MS

[Hildy]

She said she'd take an earthquake ANYTIME!

[RobFromGa]

I only meant to comment on the fact that N'Awlins was spared the worst case scenario of Lake P levees being breached and a filling up of the entire bowl.

I did not mean to belittle the massive damage that was done, nor to say that a complete and total evacuation was warranted-- it was, and if there is ever a similar situation they should act sooner than they did.

NOLA is uniquely vulnerable to a wind, water and flooding event due to its topography, coupled with its difficulty in evacuation, as everyone is aware. For that reason they should be more careful than other locales.

Sorry if my post was too short to convey my entire thought.

[oceanview]

I agree with you, all these models we saw about how NO can be flooded (the Atlantis type flooding we were hearing about in the runup to this) - they need reworking, because I think they make some assumptions which are very unlikely. it seems like to take out NO, the hurricane would have to be moving northwest, riding right up the mouth of the river into Ponchitrain.

[tiredoflaundry]

This is true.

[Howlin]

I tried to prepare her for it, but, of course, you just cannot tell somebody what it's like.

She was SUPPOSE to go out and buy a car charger this morning (which I TOLD her to do yesterday) but I guess she didn't.

Has she lost power?

[fooman]

I am begining to think that too.


But those outer pennisulas are gettting more eroded with each storm as the river rises. So they may not always be this lucky. But there many people who stayed with their businesses in the FR . Cant fault them, since the city has different sections and elevations. I thought kenner and meterie would be toast. Looks like kenner did get some flooding from the canals.

The levees should be improved to not shut off when the power goes out.

One final point. Fox had a slow old man who was explaining the sections and canals of the city, but noOOOOOOO!,

schung! they had to cut away for one of their stupid fox alerts, rather than letting us in on how the levee system REALLY works. ;(

[lysie]

Please, when you do call...ask her about gulfcoast6 ,Toby. He left last night to a Sheriff's building about 20 minutes north ( I believe) of his home (Saucier). She might be able to ease our concerns over at ATRW.

Thank you.