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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
well, that is less than 100,000. the mayor must have already seen a lot of floaters...
its disgraceful how they have kept info from the Slidell residents...
Indeed..she and nearly all Mississippi freepers are in it.
Howlin posted pics from Jackson showing serious damage,
I can't reach anyone there...cellular or otherwise
She getting bad storms, but she's not in the worst of it; she's on the west side of the storm, pretty far out.
CNN showing another boat coming in with rescued people
I think the number will be in the multiple thousands... I hope I'm wrong.
Federal Aid available in MS today....per Trent Lott.
It's not a dumb question. I don't know the answer, but suspect it depends on how badly water damaged the house is. Streets in some parts of Queens flood when it rains too much and I don't think those houses are always torn down.
A couple of dozen boats are out there rescuing .. God bless them.
???
(as evidenced by the pictures on the picture thread.)
Hopefully I can get back to that soon... I'm stuck in the intro PhD classes right now. They seem boring, but intense! :<
Oh good .. when I saw the weather map with the tornado warnings .. it kinda looked like the upper part of MS was going to get some scary weather.
that boat is packed!!!!
As I understand it, the term 'causualties' usually refers to victims, or injured, or a combined number of injured and dead. Are you talking about the cameraman on CNN? If so, I am pretty sure he was talking about persons needing to be rescued.
Remember yesterday when one of the reports advised people that stay to have pick axes? I wonder how many happened to have them handy. I am afriad the death toll here is going to be way more than we imagine tonight.
Per George Bush you mean...........LOL.
I just realized I didn't answer your question very well. The VHP to 123 rule only applies for the difference accounted for by head loss. You are right that the part of the pump head that accounts for the difference in height to be pumped is unaffected.
I think it is unlikely that the pumping to Lake Pontchartrain is going to need much head to account for a large difference in height. I would assume that the designers would would go for the most efficient design for draining rainwater. This means that they would never be pumping higher than a ~10 ft difference in height. I would assume that the largest fraction of the pump head is going to be for head loss.
that is what I meant!
That has to be 2 boats side by side - no way they would that many people in one boat.
It always seems to be busy, in some regard. I gotta make a new TM soon... No sleep, ever.
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