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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
Damn...they shut the roads in Texas.
Keep in mind that estimates from FEMA indicated a cat5 near NO could kill 50-60k. Even if evacuations went flawlessly, there were a lot of people in places they shouldn't have stayed.
The images/stories sound an awful lot like the 1900 Galveston Hurricane
http://www.1900storm.com/
Water rising at a hospital in central NOLA that was previously dry, but in the last few hours the water has been rising at a foot an hour.
Flood waters still rising, Red Cross expects "largest recovery operaton" ever
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer
Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Marty Bahamond, stationed at the New Orleans Emergency Operations Center, said a 100-to-200-meter section of levee and wall failed on the eastern side of the 17th Street Canal at the Hammond Highway bridge, which connects Buck Town in Metairie and West Lakeview in New Orleans.
Bahamond said the breach is a major factor in flooding that now covers an area bounded by the 17th Street Canal, the Industrial Canal and Interstate 10, and is spreading.
Areas flooded include the neighborhoods of Gentilly, Lakeview, City Park and Mid City, he said.
Determining exactly where the water from the 17th Street Canal is going is difficult, but its causing floodwaters to rise in that entire area late Monday.
Inspecting by helicopter, it was difficult to make out major city landmarks. “I didn’t know it was the airport,” he said, when his pilot pointed out Lakefront Airport, completely under water.
The Southern Yacht Club in West End Park also has burned down, he said.
Meanwhile, Margaret O’Brien-Molina, a spokesman for the American Red Cross Southwest Service Area office in Houston said national agency executives earlier Monday described Katrina as “the largest recovery operation the Red Cross has ever attempted.”
Red Cross officials are staging volunteers, food, cleaning supplies and other rescue equipment in Texas, Arkansas and Alabama in anticipation of moving it into the New Orleans area over the next few days.
She said there were an estimated 37,400 evacuees in shelters in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as of 3 p.m. Monday and thousands more were expected to join them.
Outside of the devastation in New Orleans, officials still don’t have a handle on the destruction caused on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where news organizations are reporting that the combination of storm surge and reached 33 feet, as high or higher than the surge from Hurricane Camille in 1969.
In Texas, she said, state officials shut off interstate highways re-entering Louisiana to keep people from returning to flooded areas.
“I-10 is completely closed down,” she said. “No one can go back in and we have to find them a place to stay.”
Those who evacuated should expect to stay away for at least two days, O’Brien-Molina said.
Officials are working to identify sites to set up 25 emergency kitchens to be run by Southern Baptist volunteers, which will serve an initial 500,000 meals in coming days, she said. The Spirit of America and Henry’s Kitchen organizations also will set up 18-wheel mobile kitchens.
The volunteer agency has 166 emergency response vehicles and mobile feeding units on the way, and 288,000 “heater” meals, which are chemically heated when opened, are also en route. Another 150,000 will be on their way to Baton Rouge in the next few days.
Thousands of clean-up kits with bleach and mops also are being stationed in Alabama and Houston for shipment to New Orleans when possible, she said.
What????
What?
Is that woman on CNN speaking live?
She said the water around her hospital has been rising an inch ever five minutes and that they had NO water after the storm and now she has six feet around her?
They are contemplating AIRLIFTING 1000 patients out of Tulane Hospital!
Water rising at Tulane Hosp. at an in every 5 min. they may have to evac 1000 patients! On CNN now
A breach in the levee two blocks long?
Howlin, the worst case may have just been delayed by a day. There is a breach in the Lake P. levee.
Was going to bed, but the hospital information is very scary. I think the worst is not over.
They have to evacuate 1000 critically ill people in that hospital by air.
This is a NEW disaster
17th Street Canal -- two block breach.
Sheriff Buford T Justice blockaded the Bandit from returning to La.
Oh. OK. Got it.
OMG.........this is unbelieveable.
And I think you're right.
A two block long breach is HUGE!
Have to. There's no good reason for any residents to return at the moment - you can't get into the city or the other affected areas, and right now I-10 is desperately needed for emergency and relief vehicles.
I suspect that they're going to be using the "inherent runway" capability of the Eisenhower Interstate System designs in the area.
oh this is not good and there will be more breeches
I wonder if that was an "official" call -- or somebody reaching out for help, you know?
I think I understand. There is a shorter one that runs E/W Right?
Google would be more of a help if some of the main websites were not down. I think the host servers were located in NO.
I understood that clearly when he said it; why they ran with it as some sort of total area I have no idea.
Let's hope so. I've got such a bad feeling about this storm that I can't sleep. And the water keeps rising which is completely depressing.
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