Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part IX

NOAA - NHC and Various ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[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

Wind Speed Data

Images:

Birmingham AL Radar

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

Memphis Radar

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 NOLA Photos

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

[STARWISE]

Oh no .. was she saying it was that bad in Houma? My friend's cousin .. a priest .. was going to be riding out the storm there. Dear Lord .. the death toll will be horrific .. I'm convinced. May God give them peace and amnesia from their last night on earth.

[Cedar]

Thanks so much for posting that video link.

Poor Gulfport -- unbelievable pictures. Hope everyone had evacuated.

[Howlin]

I was just thinking that Aaron Brown, drab as his is, was more fitting for the story tonight, at least IMO.

He's bland style set the right mood for these horrible details.

[NautiNurse]

Very similar to Andrew destruction - but a much, much larger scale.

[buickmackane]

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question "Who wrote that?"

[bannie]

So...with these small boats, will johnkerry be commanding any of them?

...snicker...

[McGavin999]

That video is horrifying. I hope all those good people got to dry land. How long will it take them to set up tents and get food services going?

[STARWISE]

Houma is SW of NO.

[Howlin]

Oh I imagine George W. Bush is going to make sure the first things working are those oil rigs.

[PAR35]

all this rain/water that is going north now, isn't it just going to come right back down the Mississippi?

It depends. The bulk of it will not. In Central Mississippi and most of Alabama, the water will drain to the Gulf through the Pearl, the Tombigbee, etc. The Mississippi drainage generally runs between along a line between I - 55 and the Mississippi River - the area of Mississippi getting the least rain. Jackson, Hattisburg, Meridian all do NOT drain to the Mississippi.

Farther north in Alabama, and for all of Tennessee to be hit, the water will drain into the Mississipp via the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers via the Ohio, so it will be a long time before that water gets back down to the lower Mississippi. Most of the Georgia rain will flow south through that state via the Chattahoochie and Flint. Only the extreme NW corner drains into the Tennessee River and thus the Mississippi. A small portion, given the footprint of the storm, will drain into the Atlantic rather than the Gulf.

In Louisiana itself, much of the drainage will be into Lake Ponchitrain or the Pearl. Just west of Baton Rouge, for example, the drainage is into the Amite River, not the Missisippi.

[LikeLight]

Yes, but other reporters are managing to get on rescue boats with fire-rescue squads, up in helicopters, driving through neighborhoods, etc. - can't Fox spring for some form of transportation for their crews?

[Admin Moderator]

Are you sure? You don't even know if I'm a male or female. But then again, I have connections.....

[Admin Moderator]

Permission granted.

[Howlin]

Tell me about that bridge.

And are you all still listening to WDSU live?

[Gabz]

OUCH...........

[bannie]

(smacks revel, and admires her handywork.)

:-D

[milagro]

Thank you! Whoa--that is NOT good!

[Ramius]

300 airboats can be cool, they are maneuverable, but probably too dang loud to be very useful for searching for survivors.

I don't agree at all... the airboat might be the perfect rescue boat. If you're worried about noise, and outboard motor makes noise too. But for pulling people off of rooftops or quickly transiting shallow floods, an airboat can't be beat.

I'd get as many of them as I could.

[Revel]

"But then again, I have connections....."

Exactly.

If you were a wonderful single female though it would not hurt. :)


I might even buy you Dinner :)

[supercat]

Well, if I figure my units right, such a fireboat would drain one hectare at a rate of 40cm/hour. If you only need to drain one hectare (e.g. because you put in a cofferdam around some particular area you need to drain) that may be a useful speed. But for dealing with the flood as a whole, quite useless.