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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
Thank you.
I like it.
Well I think everyone should give to the charity of their choice; there are many good ones. But somehow I detect some jealousy of the RC by some in the SA here. Both groups do good for our people.
In Charlotte, in late September of 1989 in the aftermath of Hugo (about 200 miles inland from landfall), many neighborhoods had no power for two weeks or more. It was miserable, to say the least, even if you were so fortunate as to have sustained no falling tree damage. But late September in NC without a/c is one thing; late August in Louisiana and Mississippi is something else.
Two oil rigs set adrift? Also small pic of one that hit bridge.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/29/news/oil_rigs.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest
Maybe after four or five days with no outside assistance that would be justified for survival, but after six hours or less, no. And given the upcoming level of effort to aid people in that city, she should have plenty of diapers to last her many months.
Just heard on the radio--100 homes damaged by a tornado in Carrollton in West Georgia.
1. Exhibitionist with a microphone who doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain.
Put the snakes in the stores and I bet you won't have any looters.
More than one realizes, most steal for the fun
of it & to see if they can get away with it.
One can always use cloth diapers. It was done
for centuries, long before disposablr diapers
were heard of.
I am trying to understand the concept of having a legitimate need to steal.
On the streaming CH. 6 on that link that's been posted so many times here ... I think it's WSDU .. local TV station.
but after six hours or less, no. And given the upcoming level of effort to aid people in that city, she should have plenty of diapers to last her many months.
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I think it's much too easy for us to sit dry and comfy in our arm chairs clicking away on our keyboards assuming everything is really that simple and efficient there right now.
I doubt it.
No one has a "legitimate need" to grab furniture or a television or anything else that doesn't belong to them.
And 30 destroyed.
Carrollton is about 40 miles west of Atlanta.
I am glad you know with such assurance what is possible. In the course of your work did you work out the math of the total force of two such huge buildings falling simulateously? Guess you did that on your lunch period. More to the point, when they were designing those basins and figuring out how strong to make those foundations, did they ever anticipate what did happen on that day? I doubt that the question was ever raised, just as they never expected the building to be hit by airplanes not yet designed.
Could be, I wasn't there. I suspect the Japanese learned alot about evacuations during the air raids and really still take things serious. I am serious about that and bet that has a lot to do with it.
LOL!!
It's a matter of fact, newb.
I think in 8th or 9th grade, in either Amer Hist or Civics, (that would have been 7th grade), I learned how Louisiana had some unique things as a state. Including what we, in Appalachia called counties " - they called them parishes.
I learned that when I was twelve years old. I turned 55 on Saturday.
It is not an insult to point out how dismal the general education of the sheeple is.
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