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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Katrina made landfall today at 6:10AM CDT, and she continues to drive northward into Mississippi and Alabama. Several local radar sites are down. Tornado and flash flood watches and warnings are widespread.
President Bush has declared major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid.
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
Images:
Montgomery AL Long Range Radar
Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop
Other Resources:
Birmingham AL Weather
Meridian MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Jackson MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
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
REPOST FROM STORM CHASERS
Jeff Gammons reports that the areas of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi that
he and Chris Collura have observed this evening are "unrecognizable." Jeff
described the damage as catastrophic.
The Weathervine crew, including Jim Edds, stationed themselves late last
night between Biloxi and Gulfport at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum and
Convention Center. Their location on a sort of barrier island was within
one mile of the shore. The convention center included a steel-reinforced
parking garage several stories high, and a larger, fully enclosed coliseum
structure as well as a hotel. Many other people also rode out the storm in
this facility.
Jeff said that he witnessed storm surge more than thirty feet high, water
that included debris such as cars, boats, yachts, gasoline, oil, debris from
the casinos (including poker chips) and other material. Jeff said the surge
arrived slowly at first, built gradually, and then, with the arrival of the
eastern eyewall, increased dramatically with crashing walls of water and
debris. The crew was forced to relocate their vehicles to higher ground
several times. Many of the hotel guests pointed out their own cars floating
in the water below, along with the seacraft.
I asked Jeff about the relative lack of video coming from that area and he
said, "That's because it's completely catastrophic." Jeff and Chris are
attempting to locate an area with power and food. They are currently
eastbound on Interstate 10 approaching Pensacola. Jim Edds remained in
Mississippi.
Scratch the last comment. They just showed the looting video.
And I hope these people will be sought out and not treated Well.
I could go for some A-10 gun camera footage of looters.
Sorry for the late reply.
Ran out to pick up dtr #2 from volleyball practice.
I see you started the images thread. Thank you so much. I think it will be important to have this documented. The full scope of the devastation won't be known for days or more.
"They were interviewing a representative from State Farm (may they burn in Hell) , that's what he said this morning; flood insurance is run by the federal government."
Maybe some area rule...or regional for the Mississippi valley?
What or who oversees the financial part of the SA? We know the RC answers to Congress, which makes it very public. How does one find the financial info on the Army? Who do they answer to?
Nagin needs his noggin examined .. but he's breathing a BIG sigh of relief... he really lucked out. Awaiting news from the "inside" of the last resort. I will still wonder if more would've been convinced to leave NO or go to the Dome and escape the floods (and possible death), had he been appropriately responsive to the crisis at hand and on the tube on Wednesday or Thursday with his evacuation order, instead of waiting til Saturday.
(But I ended up in the military anyway!)
Did they show the video with a street full of people walking away with anything and everything they could get their hands on? Made me sick.
I saw a clip on CNN where they had arrested a woman and her buggy was full of diapers.
Night all. I have had it for a while. Looks like the storm is going to go east of us and we will only get rain.
As some one who watched the Trade Center go up and worked in and around those buildings for almost twenty years, I don't have to look at the footprint. Between the Trade Center and the Hudson River are a couple of hundred yards of earth upon which is built the World Financial Center. As for your comment that Lower Manhattan would have been washed away, your ignorance of the geology of the area is astounding.
"Are we prepared for what we're going to see in the media tomorrow?"
I am not sure. I kind of feel like what I see in the MSM is like 1 minute of substance to 15 minutes of blab. They usually just pick 4 or five pictures and just keep showing them over and over again. We will see what they do.
Take care! I'm going to bed too, but I'll be back if things start to "go bump in the night"
Each time FOX runs that "This is Bob" Enyte commercial (twice in a row), I switch channels!
sw
When my mother had heart surgery, if she
needed blood, they were charging over
$250.00 PER PINT!
And my mother had HEAPS of insurance.
It is by far the most efficient charity out there, depending largely on volunteers rather than paid staff.
(btw, in what way is the RC accountable to Congress, other than how they distribute blood, since they are a charitable organization? Do you know?)
Guess so. I didn't know learn that Lousiana had a different word for 'county' in american history either. That knowledge came sometime later. Guess some of us just aren't as all knowing as others.
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