Garron Lenaz recovers an American flag from the rubble in front of his home in Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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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
Dog, Tux, RDTF and NautiNurse, I thank you for your welcome and maybe I'll figure out how to post in another few years:)! jennifer
The storm that keeps on giving. That is a remarkably large number of homes damaged from a hurricane spawned tornado.
Louisiana is exceptional in many ways. Some good and some bad. The fishing is good.
Exactly.
"Thou shalt not steal."
NO exceptions stated there.
Not tvs, diapers, or anything else.
No one has a "legitimate need" to grab furniture or a television or anything else that doesn't belong to them.
....
I totally agree about those type of needless "things". I was specific about infant NEEDS, formula, clean diapers. Just where should a mother wash cotton diapers WITH NO CLEAN WATER AVAILABLE?!!
Guess I had better check the local weather.
You're doing fine!
Utilities helping other utilities goes back further than that. Some of my earliest childhood memories go back to Hurricane Carol in 1954 in southern New England. We had no warning, my Dad was at work, the fall school term had not started yet and my Mom gathered us all to the front of the house or cellar away from the tall trees. She was obviously distraught because my Dad did not come home for hours because he couldn't get through on the roads. We were without power for seven days and saw the power and utility companies from Virginia and mid-Atlantic states working on the lines and eventually power came back on.
I was one years old during that storm in CT. My father told the story about how he had not heard about the storm and was traveling with me and couldnt understand how the weather was so rough... took him hours to make it home.
I agree.
belated happy birthday, you old curmudgeon! ;o)
MSNBC: David Vitters said he took a helicopter tour of New Orleans this evening, and the majority of the area is flooded.
I don't really believe that. (or do I mean I don't really want to believe that). jennifer
Somehow I don't think your mother was out stealing diapers for you. Some freepers seem to think it would be okay. It's a legitimate need.
They aren't going to bathe for over 2 months
or so, either? It's easier to rinse out
diapers in a river than to bathe in it.
I don't think they all do. If there was scandal stuff at the S.A. I beieve their many vicious enemies would tell us about it.
The RC operates under the auspices of Congress. That is why they testified to them after 9-11.
IMHO, it's not looting when you are grabbing neccessities, and you aren't causing more damage than the *situation* already made.
A pot, a can of sterno, 5 cans of that nasty stuff they call food, and a pack of diapers... These things don't fall into "shoot on sight" for me. Sounds more like "Thank you GOD" for providing a way for me to care for my own when I can't do it otherwise.
Now, if I'm packing a plasma display and sound system with that, or using tools to help make items accessible, then by all means, put a cap in me.
Sometimes the help you need can't wait for the "organized relief effort". I know I'd do what I had to do if it were my family, and pay the price for it when I could.
stick around here for a few hours, you'll have the posting routine down in no time.
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