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

[bayourant]

go to above post about discussion at www.tigerdroppings.com its serious but the guy there is right and the guys on cnn are misunderstanding some classic new orleans speak being local lingo the local think you understand when dealing with locations

[John Jamieson]

Depends on how big hole is and how big pumps are.

[stlnative]

Welcome to atlantis new orleans!!! (good night all if I can fall asleep)

[KillBill]

Say what you want about CNN, but situations like this show that CNN is apparently the only real 24-hour news source in America - Fox and MSNBC haven't bothered to even discuss the levee situation yet, as far as I see. The guy on CNN seems to be a bit of a dumb bulb, but he's better than nothing.

[bayourant]

Well u can control the pressure a little esier their a huge break in the actual levee would be almost impossible to stop i think a break there could be thats why they delayed evacuating the hospitals

[sheikdetailfeather]

hahahaha! I agree. When there is an emergency I want news ASAP. Not when it is too late to act. I don't care if it comes from BOZO.

[flaglady47]

MS coastline, just east of Biloxi.

Thanks. Now I've got a bead on it.

[spunkets]

"She said the only thing left of hers that she could find was a shoe. "

The whole city's gone, but this woman's shoe was left? How big is this woman?

[John Jamieson]

Sink a 400 foot ship along the break? Is the lake big enough for a 400 foot ship? How about 8, 50 footers?

[bayourant]

Evidentaly wafb(baton rouge) that has a live feed is reporting on the breech

[STARWISE]

Mayor Ray Nagin called the storm “pretty awesome"

“FEMA said give us a list of your needs,” said Nagin, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “And let me tell you, we’re giving them a hell of a list."

“I think this is a wake-up call for the city and country,” he said."

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This man is a first-class imbecile .. I pity the poor survivors of New Orleans, having this loser as their mayor. He's gonna tell US that we need to wake up and he's gonna give US a hell of a list??

Just wait and see the entitlement spew that flows out of his big mouth. Unbelievable. Expect Al and Jesse at his side ..heck, Cindy may come by to give him emotional support ... Liberal tools .. I just can't stand it.

[stlnative]

oh stop it - it was Joran's shoe she found! (you know Joran van der Sloot's)

[Cedar]

Must have had a pair of flats.

[bayourant]

I really wonder if Bush is going to suspend habeous corpus in nola and have the army take direct contol at this rate

[flaglady47]

Ocean Springs, MS population around 17,300.

Hope 17,300 people evacuated before the hurricane hit.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good point. But I'm going to guess that they delayed the hospital evac because the emergency generators they feared would flood are on the 2nd floor, and that is higher than the level of the lake.

But breaches want to get larger, and I wonder about if there are other weak spots in the levees.

BTW, do you think it is the downtown bridges that the mayor refered to as the 'Twin Bridges' that are 'gone'? Just wondering why this wasn't noticed and filmed during the day, because isn't it visible from the Superdome (and the TV crews there?)

[djreece]

I've been having the same thoughts.

[Cedar]

Yes, his attitude seemed totally out of place for the situation.

Wonder how he got elected?

[flaglady47]

But breaches want to get larger, and I wonder about if there are other weak spots in the levees.

Well, this is the exact opposite of drove my Chevy to the levee and the levee was dry.

[STARWISE]

That's a HUGE hole in the dike holding a HUGE lakefull of jillions of cu. yards of water, which is above the city. The water is continuously flowing out now and has been since late this morning. There's 6 ft. of water in downtown NO now, and more constantly pouring in. The gal at Tulane Hosp. said the water was rising an inch every 5 mins., I believe, and we've heard nothing about repairing the breach or even any official announcement of this dangerous problem.

The place and the surrounding areas are already flooded .. where will all the water go?