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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:
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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
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Montgomery AL Long Range Radar
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Birmingham AL Weather
Meridian MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
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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
My personal gripe is how they handled their blood supplies...More than one person ended up with HIV because of their attitude...
And, they also were snooty and unhelpful to people who I know who needed help after Hurricane Betsy....While the Salvation army was right there.
Carroll Co. It's northeast of Carrollton.
I would bet the farm that the Salvation Army does not pay their head people six figure salaries, and that the money for the most part goes straight to the needy.
If 10% of the tornados they're warning about touch down, the counties around Atlanta are going to be almost or AS devestated in areas that took a direct hit.
Just went under another Tornado warning here in Montgomery County. This one is close to my house -- EEK. Gotta go.
"Is a don't-drink order different from a boil-water order?"
Don't-drink means contaminants (chemicals, gasoline, etcetera) that render the water unsafe for consumption, period. They're under orders to boil water, as far as I know, which would mean the typical concerns about floodwater contamination... microorganisms and parasites.
Check in when you can. Stay safe!
Did anyone just see the banner on FNC that the firechief in Gulfport says that 75% of the houses have lost their roofs.
Watching channel 12 news...We had a tornado touch down here in Tallassee--about 2 miles from my house. Tore thru the woods for several miles and the only property damage was it squashed a boat. That is the best thing about livin' in the middle of no where, not enough porperty to damage or lives to lose. Anyway, I didn't even know it until I turned on the news. Didn't hear a freight train or anything, LOL!
FNC: Steve Harrigan - "the first 1/4 mile inland from the coast at Gulfport is flattened, wiped out. Even the casinos."
One teaspoon per gallon and boiling is still reccomended if possible for at least 12 minutes.
They should construct lamp posts out of the same material as the post holding up the Golden Arches. That thing takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Same with my Dad (WWII, career Navy)- he was angry that the RC charged servicemen for coffee.
New warning for S. DeKalb County, moving north.
"And, they also were snooty and unhelpful to people who I know who needed help after Hurricane Betsy....While the Salvation army was right there."
The Salvation Army is concerned with helping those in need, regardless of perceived circumstance. The Red Cross has fallen prey (and not recently) to the "progressive" notion of oppressed and oppressor, and so their concept of need is skewed accordingly; they're highly politicized in a PC sort of way.
They burnt a bridge with me too.
A few years ago I walked out of my flooded apartment with nothing but the wet clothes on my back. A Red Cross vehicle on higher ground said that to recieve help I had to report to an office downtown, via what form of transportation who knows, and fill out paperwork, then I'd recieve a voucher in the mail some weeks later...(I wanted a pair of dry shoes at the time or at least some plastic trash bags to carry personal effects out of the apartment) a policeman, not the Red Cross, later allowed me to call someone on his cell who was able to drive over an hour away to get me. I was still barefoot. A resident at the complex later told me that the apartment owner rather than the residents was the one who eventually got the vouchers.
The local hospital, James Archer Smith, sustained too much damage to be open .. so medical tents were sprinkled throughout the main areas, and one doctor's office in Homestead was able to be taken over by health care workers for medical help. I went there for my sheet metal run-in tetanus shot. The next open hospital, if it was able to be opened, would've been Coral Reef Hospital in Perrine; then Baptist in Kendall. But I was in too much chaos to even know what their status was.
The focus in all storm areas was on medical emergencies, minor and major. The undocumented alien residents probably ran into the thousands, between Homestead and Florida City, so I'm not sure that a hospital out of the Princeton-Naranja-Homestead-Florida City areas would even have gotten word of the thousands of details from the daily issues .. medical, health, death ... that were occurring in deep South Dade for months. Days and nights ran together, residents, military, relief and emergency crews alike were in shock and pushed to the limits of fatigue, and the crises, devastation and critical issues were mammouth down south ... every day for months.
was he talking about Gulfport loosing 75% of their roofs??????
Anybody hear anything about Grande Isle?
I heard only 3 things: that the 7 people who chose to weather it out were missing. That at 3:30, the water was almost as high at City Hall as it was during Betsy, and the storm hadn't come in yet, and that Local station in NOLA just said a report said Grand Isle is nearly completely destroyed.
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