Posted on 08/26/2012 11:56:51 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
On August 24th, we warned on Forbes that Tropical Storm Isaac could pose a threat to energy markets and even rival Hurricane Katrina in its destructive power (Could Tropical Storm Isaac Turn Into Another Katrina?). While the computer models are still showing a substantial spread in solutions, it appears more likely that Isaac will make landfall somewhere near the Louisiana, Mississippi Gulf Coast. This track will provide the storm more time to intensify over the very warm water of the Gulf of Mexico.
The entire Gulf Coast from Lake Charles, LA to Panama City, FL should be aware of the latest forecast model guidance. The reason for this large spread is because the computer models are split between whether a trough will capture Isaac or not. As of 8AM Sunday morning, it appears Isaac will not be captured and as a result, a more westward track is most likely.
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I am sure that it has been talked about, but what would happen if we dropped big bombs into it? Could they have any effect in breaking it up? The idea of bombs may be preposterous, but it seems that in this day and age there ought to be things we could do that would at least help.
Has anyone heard about anything, or thought of anything that might work to deflate one of these, at least a bit?
I believe this.
I believe this.
I think the sayings “another Katrina” or “its no Katrina” should be reserved for hurricanes in the path of New Orleans.
Katrina “the hurricane” would not be a household name if it didn’t hit a city below sea-level surrounded by inadequate levies. It wasn’t the storm of all storms.
Could you post a link to that twitter account?
By Ike I assume you mean the 2008 hurricane? If so we in the People’s Republic of Illinois got 9” of rain from it, so it must have been one heck of a storm. That’s Northern Illinois at that.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42003
Water Temperature (WTMP): 85.3 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 85.1 °
My take nowhere near Katrina. Cat. 2 slim Cat. 3!
Not a weather forecaster but stayed last night at a Holi-——
I remember watching cable news in the late afternoon telling everyone New Orleans was spared from Katrina. The next morning another story.
Yep.
On Rebuilding New Orleans:
Turn New Orleans into a giant debris disposal facility.
Because of it's location at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, it is ideally located to accept debris from the entire Mississippi basin and Gulf Coast.
Fill in the entire Crescent City area with enough construction debris, mine tailings, slag, and fly ash to build it up to 30 feet above sea level.
Cover it with 10 feet of dirt, incorporating underground utility grids, a few feet of topsoil, and rebuild on top of that.
Tel New Orleans would become the South's new 'Shining City on a Hill'.
Fund the entire project with fair market rate disposal fees.
“Fortunately, he is sometimes spectacularly wrong...”
He is an alarmist and usually gives the worst possible case. I don’t listen to him here on the Outer Banks of NC. I usually check with the www.skeetobiteweather.com web site. They are usually accurate with HC tracking.
So AGW people, when this explodes coming to the coast to a major, dont try it, dont go there, its was telegraphed way in advance
They have a whole convoy parked at Daytona Beach.My son-in-law is there and he sent a pic.
I remember watching Shep Smith after his night on the French Quarter telling everyone on FOX the storm didn’t do much damage. I literally was yelling at the TV, “but what about the levees?” Then it went downhill after a mild hit from a hurricane met the welfare state.
Hahaha! Love, love, love Looterman.
Yep,New Orleans just declared a State of Emergency.Gotta love Joe.He’s got me biting my nails.
“it did do a job on Mississippi”
And a pretty damned good one on Alabama, too.
Has anyone heard about anything, or thought of anything that might work to deflate one of these, at least a bit?
Not a hurricane expert here, by any stretch.
I'm guessing you're thinking nukes, since a conventional weapon would be as effective as flatulence in a windstorm. My understanding is that the last thing you want to do to a tropical cyclonic storm is add more heat to it. No that's next to last. Injecting radioactive debris into the storm is the last thing you'd want to do.
The scale of these things is such that even one of the old, huge 20MT Soviet weapons designed to overcome inaccuracy of delivery with raw power and destroy whole metropolitan areas would just be a little blip in the face of a major storm.
If you could find a way to chill ocean water in it's path on a grand scale in a short amount of time, you might have something to work with.
I smell $7.50 gas by next Monday.
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