To: CommandoFrank
Very little warning this time Frank. This went from a measly tropical storm to a ferocious monster all teeth and claws in the relative blink of an eye.
1,586 posted on
08/31/2005 9:35:45 AM PDT by
johnb838
(Pray for Gods Grace to be manifest on the Gulf Coast especially in New Orleans.)
To: johnb838
There was plenty of warning time... indications were that it would be a MONSTER as soon as it was off the FL coast. The main problem IMO is that the NWS focused too much on winds. When it was 902mb with 175mph winds... the scenarios were all talking about the terrible wind damage, or flooding of NO. Surge was mentioned at the end, and not much was explained to the general public what storm surge can do.
That part of the GOM is the most susceptible to this kind of terrible event, and it hasn't happened in recorded history to this degree as far as I know. This is about as bad as it gets.
1,595 posted on
08/31/2005 9:40:00 AM PDT by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: johnb838
This went from a measly tropical storm to a ferocious monster all teeth and claws in the relative blink of an eye.I wouldn't call days a 'blink of an eye'. I think the big problem is that those who stayed had a false sense of securtiy because of the past hurricane warning predictions that proved to be over rated.
One must not try to outguess Mother Nature...
1,647 posted on
08/31/2005 9:56:50 AM PDT by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and you will find the face of Islam...)
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