Posted on 08/27/2021 9:50:49 PM PDT by Mariner
Hurricane Ida, after making two landfalls over western Cuba later during the day on Friday, was barreling into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters warned that Ida, headed over exceptionally warm waters, was likely to rapidly intensify and approach the U.S. coast as Category 4 hurricane. Meteorologists warned residents along the central Gulf Coast that time is running out to prepare for the storm or evacuate the storm's projected path.
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The latest forecast from AccuWeather meteorologists indicates that the storm will continue to increase in strength and take a path into the central Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters expect Ida to make landfall at Category 4 force, meaning sustained winds of 130-156 mph, but warned that due to the rapid intensification, Ida could become a Category 5 hurricane prior to landfall.
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NOLA will be no place to be.
Did they evacuate the nursing homes and hospitals?
They need to close I-10 West out of NOLA - Houston still has too many of the ferals from Katrina around.
Maybe they can use the school buses this time to help people evacuate instead of leaving them to get flooded in a parking lot.
Wow.
Wasn’t Katrina a category 3?
This could be worse.
I’m thinking Camille.
This will be worse and NOLA will be on the “dirty” side this time - it’s gonna be nasty.
The state and the city had 16 years... to the day... to figure out what went wrong with Katrina and fix it.
They haven’t done sh!t.
This will be another enormous disaster.
Why not use Amtrak as well? There are two lines which run almost due north out of NOLA. You could run those trains nonstop to the next major terminal and once it reached its maximum, move on to the next station and repeat.
Yes, Katrina was Cat 3 and hit to the east of the city, sparing NO the worst.
This could be as high as Cat 5 and will hit just to the west of NO...where the full fury will bear down on the city.
It’s the NE quadrant of hurricanes that are most intense.
Katrina was a Cat 5. I remember thinking “They are so screwed.” when I heard.
Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast got it the worst.
Nay, it was Cat 3.
It was 3 at landfall, but IIRC it was 5 when it was approaching, and that’s when the Storm surge gets generated.
Weakened just before landfall - maybe this one will, too, but it won’t make much difference.
Had it not been for the levees collapsing, the impact on New Orleans would have been much less, the sense was at the time that New Orleans had dodged the bullet on Katrina. Had the levees been properly maintained, then New Orleans pretty much would have been unscathed, certainly compared to Mississippi and Alabama.
Lucky we’ve got Joe Biden at the helm, this go-round.
It’ll get Afghanistan off the front page.
Thanks to the Obama Weather Machine lol
I knew Rove was a turncoat, now he has Obama controlling his weather machine.
I looked it up, because it has been 16 years. Hurricane Katrina rapidly intensified into a Category 5 before weakening to a Category 3. The problem is that even though the storm was now weaker, it still brought a lot of water and energy with it.
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