[ncalburt]

Katrina made landfall in Waveland Miss .
A 20 foot wall of water hit parts of the Miss coast
It never hit New Orleans.
I know .
I was sent there right after it happen.
You are so clueless on this subject its best best you move on .
Your ignorance is sad.

[eyedigress]

Shut up. I’m that airman that cleaned up after Elana hit Gulfport. Your just somebody that likes to tell people what to do.

[eyedigress]

It never hit New Orleans. I know.

Of course you do.

[Simon Green]

Katrina made landfall in Waveland Miss . It never hit New Orleans.

Of course it didn’t....

[gbunch]

You are exactly right. Katrina’s center passed over Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in Louisiana on a northward track, officially making landfall in Waveland, MS just east of the state line. Technically speaking, the storm did not hit New Orleans, but brushed it with the western (weaker) edge of the eyewall. Even this was enough to cause the infamous catastrophe which resulted. I’ve been through hurricanes in the NOLA area going back to Betsy in 1965. On my own “damage to New Orleans” scale of 1-10, I put Katrina at about a 6. A more powerful storm, moving NW on a path just west of the city, would flood New Orleans completely, along with much of the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain. That’s why I moved about 100 miles inland. (And have still lost power from hurricanes since then!)

Katrina’s surge along the MS coast, on the strong side of the storm, was officially 27+ feet. The woman in this article lives in Carolina Beach, which lies on a barrier island just north of the projected path of the storm center. Ground elevations there range from 3-13’, with the average given as 7’. If the projected path holds, this area will likely experience worst-case surge conditions, as winds in the storm’s NE quadrant drive the water ahead of them with maximum force. Staying there is utterly foolish.