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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
They're screwed.
Folks, I think we really *are* going to lose NO, permanently.
Tulane is downtown near the Super Dome... about 5 miles from the levee break.
Not a good idea if the flooded river is higher than the lake. The flooding in the city shouldn't rise any more than the level of whatever is behind the breach.
hang on one minute...
She said it was already up to their second floor.
Correct - there is no heavy equipment in the area or materials that would be needed to fix a levee break. Maybe they could take a page from a Cussler novel and sink a container ship in the gap - but they'd have to do that NOW.
HEck maybe CNN she send that female reporter and her camerman that had the broken foot and rescuing people all day in the ninth ward. They are the only ones who have done any decent reporting all day
I'm not quite sold on this story yet. Some things are odd.
As soon as it was safe to go there they should have been checking the status of all the levees. You have to stop the city from bleeding to death before you can start to repair it. Alas, not all levee problems are fixable, but emergency repairs as fast and as large as hope permits should have been in their contingency plans.
Why can't they wake up one of their reporters and get some video or live shots of the water coming in.
At this time of the night there may be hundreds of people sleeping and not knowing they are in danger of the rising waters.
I think she said Tulane Medical Center and Memorial Hospital, which are in the University area..
I found that when I was looking for pics of the bridge. Pretty Ironic.
No way to get there in the dark.
The hospital is closer to the Miss. river.. is that where the flooding is coming from? Or is it both the levee break AND the river overflowing - water on both sides? I am confused. (as usual)
Tulane HOSPITAL is downtown in the CBD
Tulane proper is on St. Charles in the Garden District, next to Loyola and just north of the Audubon Park and Zoo.
It is the only way if the water is coming up 1" every 5 minutes and if it threatens the whole "bowl" they have no choice but to make a bigger break in the levee somewhere else. Trust me they did it many times in 1993 on the Mississippi River so that some areas would not get flooded while others areas did.
That's where the University is.
that mayor sounded stoned to me...or under medical something or other
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