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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
LOL!
We'll find out who won and who stayed at Holiday Inn last night in about a half-hour. Full update from the NHC is scheduled for 4 pm CDT.
They are probably stuck in a traffic jam.
This looks like a good place for a
PLACEMARK.
How long until it stops reporting?
Most of the rest in that area all seem to be GONE..
The hurricane.
The London papers with a guy on the scene blogging now say 17 hour drive to Dallas from Houston.
Meanwhile in Port Arthur, a two day old post.
http://www.panews.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/03news.txt
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A seawall built to protect city in Category 3 conditions
By Marilyn Tennissen-The News staff writer
Posted: 09/20/05 - 10:36:23 pm CDT
If Port Arthur were to sustain a direct hit by a hurricane, officials are confident in the city's seawall and drainage system.
"The Port Arthur seawall was built and designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers against a Category 3 hurricane," Doug Wright, administrative supervisor of Drainage District 7, said. "It offers protection against a 14-foot storm surge and accompanying waves."
Wright said that although Port Arthur is not assuming a direct hit, DD7 is making all preparations as if the city were in the eye of the hurricane.
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Agreed
PLACEMARK
I think OR did lose his temper with the smarmy worm, but when he started calling OR Billy I had to laugh my butt off!
FOX news still hyping the demise of Houston. The storm is obviously not going to hit them as a Cat 4 or 5. Storm track is now much further away from them.
Some of the models are predicting the storm will stall over west-central Louisiana and then get pushed to the southwest by a building high-pressure ridge - in other words, back towards Houston.
Which could set up some Alison-style flooding.
Or maybe not.
Which is how the forecasting for this particular storm has gone.
Yep!
Right behind you.
The Friday morning before landfall, Bastardi had it hitting Florida, as did NHC. That was when the 12Z models all shifted radically west, when they came out about noon to 2PM (which I was posting on as it happened.)
Then Bastardi put out a special afternoon column because of the model shift calling for a NO hit, at 4PM I believe. At 5PM NHC shifted the track west, to MS I believe; and then finally to the vicnitiy of NO at 11PM.
Bastardi demonstrated no special skill or insight and wasn't particularly ahead of NHC. He was simply following the models around, which he does most of the time, despite his model-bashing and shtick that he's got some sort of special pattern recognition insight.
It's going into Texas, but a high in Oklahoma may push it back into Texas.
That's 112 MPH Waves at 34 feet, IN THE GULF!
That will put them close to swamping many of the rigs, won't it?
cnn is blaming Bush. This is all due to NOLA experiences and what we all saw on t.v. The hype is from people who know what they have been hearing on ALL t.v. staions and radio for over a week. Would you not be fearful??????????
last wave and solar radiation data at 3 pm cdt, 2000 gmt
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