Posted on 10/04/2005 1:02:35 PM PDT by paradoxical
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - Hurricane Katrina might have battered New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as a considerably weaker system than the Category 4 tempest initially reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
It was those secret explosive dumps drilled into the levees by Karl Rove & Co. If he hadn't lit the fuses himself, NO would be all cleaned up today!
This is even more ammo for Calyso Louie and his secret bomber theory..........
However, the key factor with Katrina, both in NOLA and along the Gulf Coast, was surge. Katrina was a Cat 5 until just before landfall. And a massive Cat 5 at that. It put a tremendous amount of water in motion, and that water was not going to stop immediately from weaker winds.
Rita was the same way, and its surge caught people off guard as well. I'm worried nitwits like the reporter who wrote this article will distract from the fact that both Katrina and Rita were catastrophic surge events.
The Global Warming extortionists are deeply saddened by this news...
Amazing new info ping..
a record surge hit the MS coast and got funneled into the lake..that is what caused the damage not the wind...the surge takes alot longer to die down..but of corse the media will not report it that way
I'm worried nitwits like the reporter who wrote this article will distract from the fact that both Katrina and Rita were catastrophic surge events.
From the article:Powell said the new data show that Katrina packed 95-mph winds over the east end of Lake Pontchartrain and about 65 mph over the west end, enough to cause the levees to fail.
To be series, I agree with you, but was the surge enough to cause NO to flood?
Boy, a Cat 3 wiped out town after town. Not just New Orleans, Mississippi got wiped clean! I mean a Cat 3 pushed CASINOS 200 feet away?
Jeez, that's an awful big Cat 3.
And then angle of approach for Katrina first pushed the water into the lake, and then down towards NOLA as the eye passed to the east.
Of course, none of this addresses the probably substandard construction that cause the failure in the first place.
Thanks
The Casinos were built floating on water. Moving one 200 feet through surge is pretty trivial.
The 1900 Galveston storm put large ships MILES inland.
"Katrina might have further downgraded to a strong Category 1 system with 95-mph winds, when it punched water through New Orleans' levees, "
what BS
Wow, your argument is so compelling and full of technical documentation.
In fact, we didn't even get any rain from Katrina in Pennsylvania, when we normally get a fair amount of rain from hurricanes. So Katrina must not have happened it all. It was all just a bad dream!
/mushrooms that some reporters apparently consume for breakfast...
She's aptly demonstrating what a nitwit this reporter is. A hurricane is not "downgraded" to a strong Category 1 (let alone the fact that 95 mph winds is Cat 2), just because the winds further away from the eyewall are weaker.
also the area it hit was the worst posible place for NO...east winds hours in advance push the huge water rise into the lake right up to landfall and then the winds changed NW pushing all that water southeast...if the storm hit west of the city new orleans would of been on the stornger wind side but the winds would of been south pushing that large water rise onto the northshore
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