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

[WoodstockCat]

listening/watching wjtv.com out of Jackson, MS and the worst straight-line winds are past Hattiesburg.

[Peach]

Mayor says 200 trapped on rooftop and bodies have floated by.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472930/posts

Thunder here...logging off for a while.

[Quick1]

Perhaps you should ask Jesus of Nazareth, who could have saved His life but felt it would have been wrong.

Such a simplistic view. He gave His life so that the rest of us could be saved. He could have saved himself, yes, but he chose to save us, instead.

Is violating the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Steal" lesser in precendence than saving a life?Is it stealing if you take something you need, then offer to pay for it later?

[jveritas]

Who else did it? Who can lessen the fury of a storm and greatly weaken it before it hits land and spare the lives of so many people? Only the Good Lord can do it. Keep your faith my fellow freeper.

[didi]

My hometown. My dad is fom Berry, I grew up in Fayette.

[fooman]

I took your post in context. If anything we have both asserting/playing devils advocate.

I just hate big gov not allowing people to protect their proterty, then wonder why people are reluctant to leave to they can protect their property (when there is no REAL danger in the aftermath)

[LibSnubber]

Okay, enough please. You know who you are. This is a hurricane thread. Please go someplace else to debate the morality of thieves looting on Canal Street, or who (Who) saved New Orleans, etc...

There are people on this thread who have displaced relatives, and people like me who don't even know if they've lost relatives yet.

This is a 4,000 post thread... Please free up some of this it so we can exchange information and learn more about relatives, property, travel conditions, etc.

Thank you.
LS

[Quilla]

Thanks for interjecting that bit of humor (it was hysterical actually). You just made my afternoon.

[AppyPappy]

We were the one who put the city in the path of the storm. That's why I live in the mountains.

[Dog Gone]

Would be nice if the media would get off their fixation with New Orleans.

You've got a point, but New Orleans did look like the major story yesterday and they naturally fixated on it. And they're stuck there until the interstate highways re-open.

Right now, I imagine most of the media wishes it was down at Grand Isle or over in Biloxi, but they can't get there.

[IMRight]

I think a few of the dead and their families might question his "glory" today.

The dead most certainly are NOT. They know for a FACT (one way or the other).

[bkepley]

tuh..tuh..tuh..too much time on my hands..

[oceanview]

not from guys like Bastardi, he said the storm moving east of NO would bring the lake into the city. he repeated it over and over again.

[jveritas]

Take it easy, will you.

[WoodstockCat]

wjtv confirmed fatality in Leake Co. Miss. as a result of a falling tree.

[monday]

"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. ;("

I hate when they do that. Fox reporters have the attention span of a chicken.

[SunnySide]

$26 billion damage estimate

- US Insurance Companies

.....


Which (groan) the national insurers will spread the cost out to the rest of their customers.

[r9etb]

I also think people should be let home, with the usual be safe warnings (dont touch power lines)

There's a cost to that, though. When they're not in the affected areas they're not crowding the infrastructure and requiring additional logistical support (e.g., food, water, emergency services). I'm not sure that normal property-rights considerations necessarily apply at the beginning of a serious crisis management effort.