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

[mfccinsd]

I hope you're wrong, also...because if that's the reason, then there are probably people that could have been warned in time, even if it caused a few to panic. I'm just so afraid that this will be true (the VP hospital lady report) and that all those folks are sleeping and unaware of the new danger.

[Choose Ye This Day]

http://www.southbear.com/New_Orleans/Geography.html

[Diddle E. Squat]

Looks to be only a difference of a few feet.

[stlnative]

are these concrete levee's like flood walls along the lake near the NO area?

[radiohead]

It's about 5 miles from the break

The hospital is 5 miles from the break and the water is already rapidly rising inside it????

[kenth]

Whew... back on the air. We had tornado warnings in the counties to the west, east and south of us tonight. There must have been damage to our west (not very far west either, we saw the storm just slide past us) because our phones went out earlier in the evening and just now got fixed. Bless those lineman to do this at night.

I'm trying to catch up. Is there a new broken levee that's now flooding NO?

[overtaxed_canadian]

"Two men surviving on generator power in the Lake Terrace neighborhood near the Lake Pontchartrain levee still had a dry house, but they were eyeing the rising water in the yard nervously. They were planning to head back out to the levee to retrieve a vast stash of beer, champagne and hard liquor they found washed onto the levee."


Words cannot express my admiration of the courage and selflessness of these stoic individuals. Where do we find such men? Godspeed my brothers. I salute thee.

[BurbankKarl]

1365. Fires...
by nmissios, 8/30/05 3:16 ET
I know this is Orleans, but I'm not getting any responses in the Jefferson board. Has anyone heard anything about the fires in Metairie? They started at N. Arnoult and the Service Road and have spread rapidly. I live at Edenborn and W. Napoleon. Anyone know if it's involved? PLEASE RESPOND!

[Spktyr]

Sunrise in exactly four hours local...

[sheikdetailfeather]

CNN

[King Prout]

they might have been silly enough to breathe a sigh of relief prematurely... just like the rest of us.

IF this is happening... just DAMN.

[bayourant]

This reminds me of the Great River flood where it was consider blowing one of the levees at that time St BErnard parish and sacrificing it. I wonder what community might be sacrificed for NOLA to empty the city. Maybe thats why the Capital been so quiet

[garandgal]

"So they've known for at least 14 hours that the city would flood to the level of the lake."

Guess they've know for longer than that. I was searching "levees" for some photos and found this oddly prescient article from June. Talks about shoring up the levees. I'm sure someone has posted this already, but here it is:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1117780408271270.xml

[STARWISE]

there's not NOW 6 ft. of water

[nwctwx]

Yup. Areas further north must be almost completely under water. This is quite unthinkable, I think thousands will end up dead.

[radiohead]

I listened to the clip. It sounds like there is much more devastation than the media is letting on. 80% of the city under water and now a levee break? Slidell and Metarie under water? Jeez.

[BurbankKarl]

someone is quoting the mayor as saying 80% of New Orleans is under water...

[Thinkin' Gal]

They were planning to head back out to the levee to retrieve a vast stash of beer, champagne and hard liquor they found washed onto the levee."

If you plan to head back out to the levee to retrieve a vast stash of beer, champagne and hard liquor washed onto the levee, you just might be a...

[Spktyr]

Don't think that's likely.... but don't even go there. There won't BE a New Orleans at that point, just a few buildings sticking up out of a big lake.

[bayourant]

I luv it major lives threatened and the Corp going to issue a statement in a hour hell the Corp brass prob just got the news from cnn